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John Sharian on being efficient – The Creative Independent

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You do a lot—a day job designing body armor, acting, photography, you’re a personal trainer outside the 9-5 work, and you’re a husband with a young daughter. How do you maintain the desire to be creative with all your commitments?. My main creative outlet is photography; I take pictures on film. I always liken it to a net: you throw it in and you pull it out, you put the catch from it in the hull of the boat, and it’s not until you develop the film that you find out what you actually have. It’s a good way to store things, and then to be surprised by them: “Oh, that’s what I got on that thing.” I came to photography because I was an actor for a long time. Then I became a film director when I was living in the UK and got fed up with the monetary aspect of things. Everything was down to the money, and you had to carry all these people around with you. I found out what I really wanted to do was look for the image on film. With the camera, I’m super efficient. I can take the camera, go out

John Sharian on being efficient Prelude Photo: Jane Lea " href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/tci-assets/uploads/IMG_5631.JPG"> John Sharian Photographer, Actor, Physical Trainer, Production Manager John Sharian is a photographer , actor, voice artist, and physical trainer. He played Ivan in The Machinist and has appeared in a number of films (including The Fifth Element , Lost in Space , Saving Private Ryan , and Chicken Run ), in over 50 stage plays in the US and in the UK, on television (including Law & Order and CSI: Miami ,) and on the web (Louis C.K.’s Horace and Pete ). Conversation March 22

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