Los Angeles-based graphic designer and photographer Helena Grigorian launched her artistic career when she began capturing images of the life around her on her small 110 pocket camera and creating her own construction paper magazines. Her passion for the arts has led to a recognized career in photography as well as in graphic design.

With a graphic arts degree from CSUN and more than 15 years of professional experience, Helena has designed for corporate, entertainment, financial, and nonprofit organizations.  She served for seven years as the creative director for the National Association for Television Program Executives, the trade association for the television industry, before starting her own creative firm, Circles Six.

Her passion for design is matched by her love of photography. While photographing for local papers and organizations, Helena has also been a featured artist in several group shows in the Los Angeles area.

Her work, heavily influenced by her graphic design background, she’s photographed discarded furniture as objects of beauty and glamour shots of children’s dolls—her take on portraiture. Her aesthetics focus on the abstract and offbeat.  Helena tries to follow two key principles of photography: frame it first and always take a photo that hasn’t been taken before.