- 31-year-old crowdfunded $40,000 to open one of few Black-owned camera stores in NYC—it brought in over $1 million last year
- 31-year-old raised $40,000 on GoFundMe to open one of few Black-owned camera stores in NYC—it brought in over $1 million last year
As a student at Drexel University, Dominick Lewis thought he would graduate from the school’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program and become an officer in the Navy.
“I didn’t know what role I wanted to do in the Navy but I knew I wanted to serve this country,” Lewis tells CNBC Make It. “Upon entering the NROTC program, I quickly realized that it wasn’t for me, but I stuck through it for two years before I decided to leave.”
Around the same time Lewis started college, he discovered photography. While in Philadelphia for school, he’d explore the city and take pictures in his free time…