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live/work/home studio. Both women are creative artists and entrepreneurs,
operating their businesses in the Carolina Place historic overlay
district.
Holloman cultivated her passion into a profession by starting small.
She grew her business before buying the bungalow in August 2009.
“I’ve never had debt in my business. Even when I bought my
cameras — I only bought my cameras and my lenses when I had
cash,” she says.
Not wanting to rent a space and have a lot of overhead, that business
model has served her well. “I didn’t want to make my business
decisions based on fear. I wanted to make them based on what I really
wanted,” she says.
She began in the bedroom of her parents’ home, dating back to
her high school years, shooting portraits of family friends, and then
it just snowballed as friends of those friends started to request her.
When one asked her to shoot her wedding, Holloman said no. “And
then she told me she was going to do it with disposable cameras. That
takes all the pressure off. People saw those images and started asking
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The Murphy bed, opposite and above, was created by Susan Covington, who designed and
fabricated many of the custom furnishings, like the distressed chest of drawers, left, found inside
Millie Holloman’s live/work/home bungalow/studio, below, located on a quiet side street in
Wilmington’s historic Carolina Place.