South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Nate Billings

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 1:00pm, Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Classroom A

“Making it!”: Oklahoma City Based Professional Photographers Discuss their Careers and Current Trends Today

Nate Billings never planned to become a photojournalist. He took pictures as a hobby growing up and worked as an assistant for his father, a commercial still and video photographer, but chose to study English Literature in college. Billings didn't consider photography as a career until he was offered a summer internship at The Oklahoman in 2000 while working as the photo editor at Oklahoma State University's student newspaper. He stayed on at The Oklahoman as a staff photographer that fall, saying he would keep working in photojournalism as long as he was having fun. And, he still is. Billings graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Okla., and earned his bachelor's degree from OSU and his master's in English from the University of Central Oklahoma.