Today we’d like to introduce you to Tahara Gooden.
Tahara, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.Hi, So just briefly of what I do, I’m a 26-year-old YouTuber, Videographer, and Photographer. My YouTube is Taharaslounge where I shoot personal videos of myself and sometimes, friends and family for seven years. I run my photography business Tahara Gooden Photography, also I run my videography business TGFilmz, #youseeit! A little bit about my story is I was born in Charleston Sc, moved to New Orleans La, where I lived off and on till 2005. After Katrina in 2005, I moved to Dallas Fort Worth area. That’s when I started looking at YouTube and falling in love with the fact of being able to portray yourself in video and being able to edit it anyway, is the part I love the most! I discovered my love for cameras in 2009 when I got my first pink camera just to take pictures. Then later discovered, I could make videos as well using the same camera. I always had a passion for cameras but never knew it could be a real profession until I started making YouTube videos in 2011 @Taharaslounge and seen other YouTubers that had the same interest and making a living in that field, I thought it was just a hobby, lol!
Has it been a smooth road?
No, I’m still on that road! It definitely takes patience and discipline. It will come, with a great deal of consistency. That was my biggest roadblock! I would do a little and expect the big payback, but that is not how this market works. You have to build with it and make genuine connections and have faith that you will get where you trying to be. And Never Ever Give Up, Push Thru as I say!!
Please tell us more about your work, what you are currently focused on and most proud of.
The thing I’m most proud of is running my videography business TGFilmz where I shoot music videos for music artist like AD Grand and visuals for events and campaigns coming up! I am equally proud of all, I am happy I took the leap to start shooting for others and not just my YouTube! Best decision I made, thus far!
Do you have a lesson or advice you’d like to share with young women just starting out?
Keep going. Don’t give up no matter what! Just because you don’t have the best now, don’t mean the best is not yet to come! Never give up even if family and friends don’t support, it’s just the wrong market, find your target market and build!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://taharagoodenphotography.shootproof.com
- Phone: 469-657-3659
- Email: taharagphotography@gmail.com
- Instagram: taharagphotography
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taharagphotography/
- Other: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCii_qGrHTeJmkQnWwFb6qCw?view_as=subscriber
Image Credit:
The Black Ivy
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