I'll let the images do the talking this time!
Client loved the images so much they ran a 2-page spread!
woweeeee!!
on seeing colours when there's none
i took this image with the help of my youngest brother.
longing
he was quite a trooper. lets just say the original pic was not too far from sewage lines, so flies, smell, fast light and 5 am.. not a good combination.
i showed him this image after, and he said this is probably one of the worst images i have ever done.
i kinda have to agree with him. except, for the fact that i have been meaning to take this picture for 6 months now. and i spent so much time ( scouting, visualizing, planning) some money (easel, paints.. dammit jim, i'm a photographer, not a painter!) and sleepless nights on it (many 5 ams slept sleeping through it).
BUT because i spent so much of my emotional time on it, i like it.
i guess its all about perspectives.... or changing perspectives.
i like it not because what's depicted, but because i like the idea behind it. having lived in dubai for a while now, i've realized that beauty IS what you make of it.
or in my case, what you want it to be.
i think beauty, like art, is happiness.
some of my pictures have been the dark sombre kind, and contrary to popular belief, i am not sad. i am have good and bad days like everyone else, and sometimes its a challenge to show both sides. sometimes i want to take the not so perfect road, and see what pans out. cuz i'm an idiot that way! BUT mostly because it's fresh, exciting, challenging, and a learning experience.
so even if this picture sucks, i'm totally okay to embrace the newness of it!
of winners and losers
ive been hell bent on mood swings lately.
that's gotta change. i can't live like this.
i'm becoming a tortured artist, and i'm not even trying!
at the rate that my melancholia comes and goes, i should be exhibiting in NY or something, geez!
right now, Dubai will have to do!
I took part in a group exhibition, and one of my images got selected.
Specifically, this one:
on a high
The online gallery can be viewed here.
Congratulations have been in order, but I still feel I have such a long long way to go. But the best part is, thank goodness I get joy out of this. Otherwise I'd be a tad screwed!
I've also decided that I need to actually execute the images that are eating away at my head.. and let them eat other people instead!! I need to stop keeping all these things inside me bottled up, for fear of people reading that I'm a few lettuces short of a picnic and sending over the men in the white coats.
It's time.
I made this picture a while back.
a beautiful struggle
It's also how I was feeling for a long time, before the exhibition. Like a rat in a sinking ship, struggling to keep afloat. Either with photography or just struggling with my demons silently. I wanted to put a little robot man, because that is how society ingrains it in you.. you must conform, you must do this, this is how we do things around here in Dubai, this is how you're supposed to act, just like a robot.. Nobody just gets the fact that I don't want to be like everyone else here in Dubai! I don't care about super expensive clothes or super fancy cars or partying and drinking all night. Yes I look like crap and yes I dress like shit. Been there, done that, didn't make me miserable, but didn't elevate my life either! So, DONT CARE, thank you very much! Just like me for me, or leave!
The help and support is also represented here.. but, stubborn, proud me.. I refuse to take it. I know I can get by on my own. There's also the little fact that I tend to have high expectations from myself and others, which eventually turns out to be a VERY bad idea. So this has sort of done a 180 on me, in that I just refuse to accept help. Which maybe is also a VERY bad idea as I'm pretty sure I'll never get anywhere in life if I keep up with that attitude.
I initially had plans to do a grandoise attempt of this picture, but after a few failures, I decided to take a different attempt at this, so I decided to do it with some of my miniatures collection.
I LOVE miniatures, this project already has me super excited. :)