I was an editorial fashion and portrait photographer in NYC and London for 18 years before turning to painting as my best love. I photographed on assignment some very interesting people, including Sinead O’Connor, Kevin Bacon, Lenny Kravitz, Kate Moss, Morgan Freeman, Captain Beefheart, and other actors, artists, and musicians. Some amazing and some equally talented but not (yet) so famous ones, too. It was mostly very fun, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes difficult. My work was featured in Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, Vogue, British Elle, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Bomb, and many album covers. I was the rare woman in a very patriarchal and intense world smack in the middle of crazy, grim, and fascinating NYC - before the mall stores took over. I wanted to capture female attitude in the form of a beguiling or weird narrative, but often I was assigned boys to photograph because I was the rare “girl” photographer as well as the rare nice photographer (Lenny Kravitz and Moby were my favorites because of their charm). All this eventually mushed up, mixing, evolving and expanding into my work as a painter today.  Paula Bullwinkel Photography 1979-2016 is my book, available to preview or purchase at Blurb.