Ilan Wittenberg

Ilan Wittenberg

Ilan Wittenberg is a free lance photographer. He was born in Israel and studied Engineering at university. He then graduated and work as a Engineer until he was made redundant in a few of his jobs as a engineer in Israel and when he moved from Israel here to New Zealand before he decided that he wanted to be a photographer.

We had the opportunity to have Ilan come into class and talk with us about his experiences as a free lance photographer. Ilan had no experiences in photography, it was just a hobby to him. He then thought that Photography was going to be his new career path. With support from his wife, he slowly began his journey into becoming the successful award winning photographer that he is today.

One thing that I learnt from his talk was that, if Photography is something you want to do for a living, with support from loved one's you'll achieve that goal and be successful. The beginning is always the hardest and there's always point where you'll fail, don't stop there, get back up and keep trying until you get there.