THREE years ago when I decided to turn my passion for photo-journalism into something with it's own identity, I never factored in how the world would receive me. I often reflect back to my childhood growing up in a Southern Baptist Church, focusing on the things that we were required to know. I had to learn hymns because my mom was the choir director, a ton of black history and the other was a scripture. For some reason out of the three the scripture is what I held onto. Don't ask me how because most of the time I was day dreaming about scoring touchdowns. The scripture that I was most fond of was from the book of Proverbs 18:16; It read, "A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men". The translation for me as a kid was if I had a good job I'd get paid and meet famous people. Needless to say that my childhood interpretation wasn't to far off the mark. More importantly the one thing that I've grown to learn about that part...