Maria Wurtz On The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
One of the most important things I’ve learned from Steve, aside from animal conservation, is to follow your passion and dreams.
My goal for 2024 is to expand Movie Mondays with Gina since it’s been a year since I started my newsletter. I’m subscribed to many newsletters that offer a paid option while also giving out free content, and this felt like a perfect way to bring more to my newsletter. At first, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to offer for a paid monthly newsletter until I realized I could utilize my interview skills and experience by talking to creatives about movies that I’d covered the month prior.
I recently published an article with Rolling Stone where I interviewed several creative associated with Degrassi: The Next Generation, and in the past, I’ve interviewed Reality TV stars like Love Island narrator Iain Stirling, Dancing With The Stars’ Val Chmerkovskiy, and Siesta Key’s Juliette Porter. However, for my newsletter, I will be interviewing friends, family, and other creatives I’ve met to get their perspectives on various films.
For the first Movie Mondays monthly newsletter, I interviewed Maria Wurtz on the fourth movie I covered in January, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. Below, Maria tells us all about her career, her passions, and why she loves The Crocodile Hunter and the entire Irwin family.
Hi Maria, tell Movie Mondays with Gina subscribers about yourself, your career, and your passions.
I’m Maria Wurtz, a New York-based photographer, and Gina’s beautiful, talented, creative, brilliant, older sister. I was born a creative but became serious about photography in high school, where I fell in love with self-portraiture and began to focus on what photography means to me. I always have to credit Mark Booth, the greatest teacher anyone could ask for, because he encouraged me to pursue photography as my career. After graduating high school, I went on to community college and fell in love with the photography program there before ending up at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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