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Keegan shares ‘life.love.beauty’ with new photo book

The Columbian
Published: February 15, 2015, 12:00am

NEW YORK — Keegan Allen spends much of his life on camera on the ABC Family series “Pretty Little Liars,” but he spends his free time behind the lens, taking photos.

His love of photography was born at age 10, when his father (the late actor Phillip R. Allen) let him borrow a Leica M6, a range finder camera.

“I was very introverted and that was my way of sharing my life with people. … I wanted people to relate to the images that impacted me,” Allen, 25, said in a recent interview.

His new photography book, “life.love.beauty,” was recently published by St. Martin’s Press. Allen talked about photography in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

FILM VS. DIGITAL.

I feel like something has been lost with digital (photography). There was something about shooting film that was romantic with time spent waiting to see what the image was. It was a lot more thoughtful. There was a process to it. Not to say it was better, but it was more thoughtful. Also my parents would be like, ‘Every time you click that shutter it’s $1.75’ because you’d have to go and get it developed.

ON BEING A PHOTOGRAPHER FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

I’ve been getting calls from my friends being like, ‘Hey, we’ve hired a wedding photographer but …’ and I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. I see where this is going.’ But I always bring my camera so it’s like they know if I come, they’re gonna have some sort of pictures.

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