Born in Brooklyn and raised in Jamaica, Shay Waugh is a photographer and designer who treats her artistry the way she does her love of culture: she can’t help but be what runs in her blood. From an early age, she was influenced by her medium from a fascination of her parents' frequent photographing habits. It wasn’t long after she could hold conversations that, likewise, she held her first disposable camera and began shooting like wildfire. Surely, she then found her own sentimentality to assign her photographs: they became a method of commemoration for memories, moreover allowing her to preserve joys as anodynes in times of darkness. No matter the camera, Waugh has always found a way to communicate her message incorrigibly, and believes that it is never the camera that makes the photo great, but rather the photographer. Altogether, she believes a photograph helps us to see life with a brighter eye—an eye that allows us to pocket memories and correct the psychological flaw of forgetfulness.