About Joe Taylor-Amica

I was born on July 27, 1996 in Livingston, New Jersey. Growing up, I emulated my older sisters artistic interest in music, art, and photography. As I grew older, my admiration for her grew into my own artistic desire to create and recreate through photography, art, and poetry. I sang in my Church Choir and excelled in Art and English classes in school. 

In 2006, I attended Washington Academy of Music. There, my love for art was exacerbated. I learned to play the clarinet and was trained vigorously in the art of argumentative writing and harnessed my love for musical theory. After that, I attended Cicely L. Tyson Community School for Performing and Fine Arts where vocal music peaked my interest. My Music Teacher at the time, Mrs. Hughes, nurtured my abilities in classical music and urged me to further peruse it in college. Around the same time, I ran track for Campus Highschool and also saw a very promising future. My track coach also urged me, with the same conviction as my music teacher, to peruse it after high school. 

This created conflict within me. I had no Idea where to go. I also remember spending hours on Tumblr in High school, looking at fashion editorials and listening to the Weeknd, salivating with desire to immolate the photographers in which their works I’d admired. 

My track coach urged me to choose a major, should I peruse a collegiate level track career but all before I’d pulled my hamstring my senior year just before qualifying for nationals. This was a sign for me. Maybe I wasn’t supposed to pursue a track career? 

I chose journalism because I wanted to write for Men’s Health and minister to men on their desires for a healthier more nutritious lifestyle. That desire turned into GQ and then Kinfolk magazine; a quarterly issue’d magazine dedicated to academic and cultural analysis and now VICE.  

Due to an error in judgment, I attended a community college for some time before transferring to Rutgers University - Newark in pursuit of a career in the field of Psychiatry, on account of my desire to converse and help people see within the depths of themselves. After some time, I realized my desires were misplaced. No, I didn’t want to go to Medical School. No I didn’t want to sit in classes and think about mathematical equations. My mind was too philosophical. 

I then returned to my initial appetite for journalism. 

Today, I am 22 years old. I write for my own blog (as you can tell), applying for internships and photograph for Billionaire Boys Club in my spare time. I couldn’t ask for a better history, for I wouldn’t ask to be anyone else and I am grateful for my chances to become a better person. Every single day.

I am Joseph Taylor-Amica. 

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