Loreal Prystaj

Someday when you open a fashion magazine-----don't be surprised if a hometown photographer is responsible for the cover. Loreal Prystaj is a star photographer at Fairport High School----and her work is turning heads.

Loreal Prystaj dreams of becoming a professional photographer.

"Hopefully I'll be traveling the world taking photographs everywhere."

Her portfolio is a treasure chest of her talent and her skill. She focuses on people...with an eye toward shadow and light.

"I love capturing their beauty, sometimes like I said I don't think people realize how beautiful they are, and I want to show then, that they're wonderful."

"I'm always looking at shadows and contrast; I love it when I have a lot of backs and whites and very little grey in my pictures."

"I like that kind of feeling, when you walk into a gallery and you see your photo, so I'm just going to keep going."

Wherever she's going....she's getting their fast. Loreal took all the photo classes Fairport High School had to offer....so this year---she spends half days in photography at BOCES.  Next year...she heads to New York City to study photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

"I just say Annie Leibowitz it's time to retire!  Because Loreal is going to take over where she left off!" said Cynthia Danker photography teacher, Fairport H.S.

"I don't want to become a fashion photographer, a journalist or a fine arts photographer, I just want to stick the name photographer and do it all," said Prystaj.