Kacey Musgraves has a new passion project … but it has nothing to do with her Grammy winning music. The big-hearted star helping an old-school shop owner in Los Angeles revive his struggling film and photo business.
Explaining in a lengthy social media post that she and her sister needed to get some film developed in L.A., and stumbled across Tom’s One Hour Photo and Lab, Musgraves says she’s fallen in love with the store’s owner and his work. He started his shop way back in 1991, she says, and hasn’t changed much since … he doesn’t even have internet access and only accepts payment in cash. But even so, his high-school yearbook style portraits are beginning to come back into soft-focused fashion, and Tom’s a master of the art form.
After posing for her own session, Musgraves decided to start an Instragram page for the shop and drum up some business — even sharing the story onstage in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wednesday night (August 28), and it seems like Tom’s world has changed overnight.
In just a few days since then the Instagram account was opened, Tom’s One Hour Photo and Lab now has almost 25,000 followers, and the Musgraves clan has continued to sing his praises in detailed posts.
The Golden Hour star’s sister (and official photographer) says she spoke with Tom recently and business has indeed picked way up. “He sounded very happy,” she wrote. What a feel good story. In related news, Musgraves is up for Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2019 CMA Awards.
