JEFFREY TAUTRIM

left Huntington Beach for Santa Barbara. Lived and worked on our Family's ranch and took a few years off to save money for school. Mike Peters also lived on the ranch for about a year before moving into Santa Barbara and did really well for himself and our family is very proud of him! I Graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography and 2 days later moved to New York City. I lived in the city for a few years and hated it till we moved across the river to New Jersey. Such a better life!! Bought a house 5 years ago in the country out in Milford Pennsylvania and We (myself and Diana my girlfriend of 11 years and our 14 year old boxer Bozzy) go out there a lot to escape the crap of the east coast. We have lots of deer, bears and just plain great air!!! We still have our apartment-office in Weehawken, New Jersey and I work with fashion photographer Bruce Weber who shoots all the Abercrombie and Fitch ads, Vanity Fair, GQ, and all the different Vogues. The hard thing is that I am on the road 9 months of the year and working just about 28 days a month (12-15 hour work days) which makes it hard to plan any trips..... hopefully soon!!!

My senior year I had a stock full of beer in the darkroom refridgerator. During 5th and 6th period people would come by to hang out and hide from there teachers, and one time Mike Peters, Ruben Rivera, Jason Blakesly, and I think Lara Crowley was there, not all drinking though, and a bunch more were all hanging out and my yearbook teacher came in unannounced and almost caught us. The problem was that once you entered the darkroom, your eyes had to adjust and you couldn't see a thing and everyone froze. She called my name and asked who else was there and I said I was alone knowing she couldn't see anyone. Little did she know that the others were standing not 2 feet from her face!!!! True story..... She left and we kept partying......