My boss babe tab is officially open! Nobody has the honor of being my first BB other than my Babe in crime, Denisse Benitez knowns as Thugnanny. Flipping through my Instagram all I could remember is how my eyes slowly started lusting over a photo well composed with a girl in a red cloak in the dead of winter. Who is this amazing photographer? Blushing at every compliment, humble and as grounded as Earth itself, I thought it would be a great idea to work with The Thugnanny. And there it was, a perfect shot. I was right to work with her. Every frame is perfection. Perfect enough that Vogue Italia picks her work to publish a few times a year. Is she a live nanny? Is she just a photographer? What about her that truly grabs by the heart? It’s time I sat with her, no shoots, no work, no meetings, just a sit down to finally dig beneath her grounds to share the girl behind the hustle. PS: we tried to be really serious through this amidst our A.D.D. JG: How old were you when you first held a camera? What inspired you to coninue from there? DB: I honestly don’t remember how old I was. I got a camera for christmas for a couple years in a row (I kept losing it). What really inspired me was being able to create. Till this day that’s my favorite part. JG: That’s amazing. It must be the most rewarding part! You’re climbing your way to the top and a lot of bloggers and models inquire to want to work with your talent! Tell me about your humble beginning. DB: Thank you! It’s continuously an amazing and pleasantly surprising experience. I started shadowing one of my mentors Mario Peña back in like 2010. He’d let me go to photo sessions with him. He’d take me to art galleries all over the city. That exposure really set the foundation for me to do my own thing. I started out by begging my friends to let me take terrible, over filtered photos of them.. Years later.. well here we are JG: That’s great! I think a lot of other aspiring photographers look up to you because of your humility as well! I know I do. Tell us a little bit about your 9-5! DB: Thank you! That’s so kind of you to say. Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inquires…

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