My name is Cheryl Atkins and I am a street photographer who lives in Baltimore, Maryland in the US. I attended art school for awhile after graduating from high school. There I had my first encounter with a camera and shot and developed film as part of the curriculum in my lead up to becoming a painting major. My parents “encouraged” me to leave art school and go to a college that would provide me with a degree with which I could get a job. So, I left art school and traveled for a year in an old Volvo with two cats and a ne’er do well boyfriend. After several years of working I went back to school and got my degree in Mass Communications. I didn’t use it. I missed the creative outlet of painting and photography. Fast forward another decade or so and I began to enjoy the process of designing the renovations my husband and I did in our real estate business. Then I bought a Kodak EasyShare for a trip we were taking to Canada. That did the trick and I have been shooting ever since. I quickly graduated to the Canon system with a Rebel xsi and moved through to full frame not too long after that. I still have my Canon gear but switched to Fuji for its smaller size and unobtrusiveness. I got into shooting street about twelve years ago. For the first five years I shot exclusively from a moving car driven by my husband because of the crime in my city. Once in awhile if I  find myself getting repetitive I will take a break from shooting street for a week but I always go back. I am constantly amazed at how different the same area of a town can be on different days or even at different hours on the same day; the change of weather, the available light and the people there. I love it and never tire of it.I would like to thank Joe for offering this wonderful opportunity to me. I hope all of you will enjoy my work.You can follow me on Instagram – here
Or on Flickr – here