photo credit: Kira Derryberry
“I made my living trying to be interesting.”
Booray Perry is an excellent photographer/podcaster/educator from Tampa, FL with a broad skillset and a tender heart.
“I am putting up walls hoping you will break through them.”
2:52 - No Perspective
11:38 - The Fear of Fading
20:12 - Stage Three and Four
22:34 - The Unknown
26:29 - Tender
33:47 - Million Dollar Question
44:14 - This Conversation
47:58 - The Levels
53:12 - What is Jed Afraid of?
1:00:00 - Stage Four’s Arrival
1:06:50 - Finding Booray
“I am a guy who wants to be loved, but doesn’t want to ask for it.”
Booray Perry wasn’t always a professional photographer. He spent 20 years as a radio personality, entertaining people worldwide on satellite radio while performing weekends as a comedian in Dallas, TX. After retiring from radio, he launched Booray Perry Photography (he had a darkroom when he was 14 years old). Now he lives and works in Tampa, FL shooting everything under the sun from headshots to weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.
In addition to being a full-time portrait and event photographer, Booray also travels and teaches at workshops and conventions every year like Imaging USA and WPPI. He hosts “Imaging USA LIVE” during Imaging USA and was host of “ICP LIVE” during the International Photographic Competition for 4 years. He is co-host of a popular photography podcast, “Photobomb,” available wherever podcasts are found.
He is a Certified Professional Photographer (CPP), Photography Craftsman, Master Photographer, PPA Councilor, husband and father of two wonderful girls.