Allen - Life.Love.Beauty

life.love.beautyKEEGAN ALLEN ST. MARTINS PRESS NEW YORK Thank you for buying thisSt. Martins Press ebook. To receive special offers, bonus content, and info on new releases and other great reads, sign up for our newsletters. Or visit us online at us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup For email updates on the author, click here. The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. Copyright infringement is against the law. Copyright infringement is against the law.

If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the authors copyright, please notify the publisher at: http://us.macmillanusa.com/piracy. For my Mom and Dad,You gave me the world to play inand my lens to capture it.Love,Keegan

I would like to acknowledge: My mother and my father, Joan and Phillip. Without my mother constantly at my side, supporting my every artistic thought and whim, I would not have been able to create this art book. I love you, Mom. Thank you. My father gave me tremendous love and support and the tools and emotions to collect these images.

Thank you, Dad. I love you and miss you every day. My book agent, Todd Shuster of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. Todd believed in this book and my photography from the beginning. George Witte, Sara Thwaite, Steve Snider, Steven Seighman, David Lott, Vincent Stanley, Joanie Martinez, Nick Small, Laura Clark, and everyone on my team at St. Martins Press for your energy and focus bringing this book to life and shaping it into something special.

Jeffrey Craig Miller of Miller Korzenik Sommers LLP. Nanci Ryder and my entire team at BWR. My entire APA team, led by Jeff Witjas, Tyler Grasham, Barry McPherson, and Paul Santana your commitment to my work is respected. Thank you to the mother of my career, Marlene King, her partner Shari Rosenthal, and their beautiful children, Emerson and Atticus. Thank you to Lisa Cochran, Oliver Goldstick, Joseph Dougherty, Leslie Morgenstein, Bob Levy, Gayle Pillsbury, and Bonnie Zane (who I auditioned for in a hat for the role of Toby), Josh Bank, Peter Roth, and my dear friends and colleagues Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, and Shay Mitchell. Supporting each of you is an honor.

Thank you to Ian Harding, Tyler Blackburn, Janel Parrish, Sasha Pieterse, Nolan North, Drew Van Acker, Julian Morris, Norman Buckley, Ron Lagomarsino, Chad Lowe, Lesli Glatter, Bryan Holdman, Maya Goldsmith, Hynndie Wali, Jonell Lennon, Kyle Bown, and everyone else in my ABC Family/Warner Bros. family. Thank you to my attorney, Karl Austin, and the entire legal team at JTWAMM. To Mike Rose and Debbi Fields for sharing your supportive love and family in so many magnificent ways. Thank you so much; I love you. Thank you, B., for taking your time with me and helping me grow in photography, art, and the love of the subtle imperfections that make life beautiful.

Without you, I would not have come to New York. Thank you from the deepest part of my heart, for everything you taught me while igniting my relentless inspiration. I cherish it and I love you. Thank you to Eric Farnell for always being an outstanding friend and helping me shoot last-minute insane adventures. Thank you, Keith Calkins, for always helping me create, write, and chase my art. Thank you, Lindsey Mejia, for helping go through the monstrous pile of film negatives and scanning them while moving mountains to get it done in time.

Tibor, thank you for always being a great Leica friend over the years. Thank you, Liz Goldwyn, Gia Coppola, Jacqui Getty, Lana Del Rey, Emmy Rossum, and James Franco, for fueling my art and including my camera and me on so many projects. Special thank you to Rainey Qualley, Remington Nelson, Adam Secore, Zelda Williams, Sophie Hart, Diego Boneta, Brett Dier, Barbara and Lloyd Thaxton, and Erik and Nanette Estrada. Thank you to my Leica family: Samys Camera, Icon Photo Lab, and Color Resource Center NYC. Thank you to John Pollono, James Badge Dale and James Ransone, Bernie Telsey, Will Cantler, Bob Lupone, Jessica Chase, Megan Ringeling, and my MCC family. Thank you to the Chateau Marmont, Andr Balazs, and Alessandra Balazs.

Thank you to my manager/mentor, Konrad Leh at Creative Talent Group, who takes my art and ideas and brings them to life in my career each day with honesty and integrity. Finally, I thank God and all of the people that appreciate my art in its different forms.

Thank you all so much for joining me on this photographic journey. Some of you know me from the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars and may be familiar with my work as an actor. Long before I ever began my theatrical training, I fell in love with photography, sharing my life and love through my camera lens. Working in Hollywood has given me the freedom to photograph many candid, behind-the-scenes moments from that world.

I have also captured a myriad of my passions, including nature, architecture, theater, filmmaking, traveling, portraiture, family, and some fans, and this book takes you through a photographic voyage of my life so far. I have included stories, poems, random observations, and musings with many of these images and also indicated the technical details of the camera and film Ive used to create them. I hope you enjoy life.love.beauty as much as I did living and capturing it. At a very early age, I became obsessed with cameras. I shot this image with the help of my father out of our dining room window. It is my first memory of using a camera: Los Angeles burning in the 1992 riots; a cacophony of yelling and crackles at all hours.

The smell of tear gas would burst in and out of the windows and everywhere was the middle of the fray. I remember the concerned looks on my parents faces as we watched live coverage on the news and locked our doors and windows. Sublime later put out an anthem to the moment, the song April 29, 1992 (Miami). I was too young to realize the danger, but I remember it vividly because it was the first time I had a burning need to capture a moment on film. During the final days of being a nine-year-old, I gave in to the overwhelming desire to start capturing my life as I saw it. This is the first photo I shot on my dads camera all by myself. I remember thinking up a composition and waiting for a long time while our neighbor took all of his pigeons out one by one and started to exercise them.

He pulled out his white flag, but not to surrender it was to train them for racing at dusk after a heat-wave summer day in Pittsburgh. Tons of fireflies were out, hovering around, landing on my hands and on the camera lens, throwing off the light meter, and drawing my attention to them. It had been such a humid day and I was soaked from head to toe, as I would take a quick cold shower with all my clothes on and then go back outside to keep from overheating. I had wiped the lens with my wet shirt, which gave the final image a soft effect. All of these elements compose what you see. It was so many years ago, yet so vivid in my mind.

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