Last year I shot some editorial photos for one of Columbia College Chicago’s departmental magazines called Fictionary. The story was called Five Years of Ink, about the magazine’s fifth year of publication.
When the editor told me the name of the article, he mentioned an idea he had involving a tattoo. I took the idea a little further and worked the metaphor a bit. What I ended up with was a play on ink for tattoos and ink from the pen. Since it was for the writing program and all.
Not long after that article ran, the fiction writing department contacted me and asked if they could use the image in an ad for their fiction writing program. It would appear in an internationally published writing magazine/journal called Granta. We worked out the details, and like that, my work is internationally published.
Congratulations, Ryan! Where is Granta based? It sounds Italian.
Hi Donna! Granta is a UK based writing journal. This issue focused on Chicago, so all stories—fiction and nonfiction—had something to do with Chicago. Thanks for the congrats!
Ryan, Your creativity constantly amazes me! Proud Mom
I remember the day you took that picture
That’s right, Mike. You were there!