Andrea LaBarge chooses GCMF as beneficiary

Photographer Andrea LaBarge has selected the Guitar Center Music Foundation as the beneficiary for a contest she has entered called “Name Your Dream Assignment.” Contestants were give the opportunity to pitch their most creative and inspiring photo shoot ideas in hopes of winning $50,000 to live out that dream. Andrea has proposed the idea of taking a road trip with her father Dennis LaBarge, who served as her photographic and musical inspiration growing up, on the historic Route 66, documenting the music along the way, from the anonymous to the famous, from the historic to the trendy. While on the trip, she plans to record her status in a blog that will contain photos and videos from her trip across the United States. After her trip, she plans to publish a coffee-table book containing the images from the trip and produce a gallery show of prints from the trip as well. All proceeds from the book and prints are to benefit the Guitar Center Music Foundation. Visit the link below, and vote for her idea to win! She must secure a spot in the top 20 by April 3, 2009, in order to move on in the competition.

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/LaBargex2/the-musical-culture-of-route-66/

Andrea LaBarge Mills is a freelance photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA. She has been working in the photo industry for more than 10 years with experience in a major photo agency, a small design studio, and a gallery before entering the editorial world in 2005. She has worked with the music industry both as a photographer and as Photo Editor at Filter Magazine, a position she held for three years. Other music clients have included Interscope, Polyvinyl, and Domino Records, Spin, and Death+Taxes Magazine. Prior to embarking on her career, she earned degrees in Visual Media at American University – with a semester at FAMU, Prague’s famed film academy – and in Photography at Art Center College of Design.

Dennis LaBarge is a physics teacher at Gateway High School in Kissimmee, FL. His 35 years of photography experience, and even more experience playing guitar and bass, are frequently incorporated in his science lectures and assignments. Dennis has attended several photo workshops, including the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and the Mentor Series, and his work has been published in the Texas Department of Tourism magazine.

Photo cred. Dennis LaBarge

Copyright © 2004 Andrea R. LaBarge