SERIOUSLY. Ten years ago, Minesh was working at Los Alamos in nuclear forensics and non-proliferation, analyzing atomic nuclei light to determine if countries were disguising weapons. “It was similar to photography,” he explains, “just light of a different color.” When he was five, his dad gave him a classic Olympus half-frame, and he was hooked. So, when he decided to leave science, he knew where he was going. “To me, photography is about meeting interesting people and telling cool stories,” he says. “I love people, which I guess is weird for a scientist.”
His work has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Sierra magazine, and many other publications. He lives in the mountains west of Santa Fe with his son, Drew, who is becoming a capable assistant. “Sometimes he gets to skip school to come on a shoot with me,” Minesh says. “He knows the lights, and is a pretty good photographer himself.”
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