Meet Valheria Rocha (valheria123), the 24-year-old photographer behind the pictures for taylorswift13's Lover
It's a late Friday afternoon and artist-photographer Valheria Rocha is sitting on a fuzzy rug in her Atlanta studio musing about her initial creative memories. "Well, it's hard to think of my very first memory since we were always a very art-focused family," says Rocha, referring to her late artist grandparents. "There's a picture of me with my grandpa where I'm in little tangerine-colored shorts and I remember that day. We were painting or drawing.
"I remember going to Times Square when I was in college and seeing all the ads, never imagining that I would ever have one," Rocha explains, who recently revisited the New York landmark see her own work among the bright lights. "I thought I only had one billboard, but my dad was like, 'Turn around. There's four!' To be someone, from where I came from and having lived the life of being a child of immigrants and being an immigrant myself...
On the verge of quitting, she remembers a moment with her mother, Nancy. "I was crying with my mom in my bed and said, 'I think need to work in a company in a suit.' She was like, 'What are you talking about? What even is a real job? You've never even owned a suit. This is not how we raised you or what we taught you.'" Her mom outlined a plan: wait three months and put everything into her art.
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