Voyage avec l'amour

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

France | Tuesday, November 8, 2011 | 5 photos

In a world where technology is growing at an ever increasing rate and high-tech cameras are the norm, anybody can take the ‘perfect picture’ without much experience. It is becoming exceedingly difficult to showcase a place or setting in a new and innovative way. This has, in turn, resulted in many people watering down the art of photography to simply “taking a picture”, stealing the romance and adventure we all once aspired to.

I enjoy taking pictures that portray novel situations with classical undertones. I feel that this allows viewers to rethink all the conventional ideas that they have about a place or situation, granting them the power to find new meaning and beauty within. This transports the viewers beyond the obvious, making them a part of the scene, giving them the freedom to shape their own stories about the journeys that lie in wait.
My time in fashion revealed to me that everything contains beauty, but that not everybody sees it - that magic is not solely in the whole, but also in the detail.

It is this emotion and ideal that I tried to “bottle” in Paris – a place typified by love, lights and leisure. I tried to find the uncommon in the common.

I view this scholarship as not only as a chance to develop my skills and photographer’s eye, but also as a sturdy rock from which I can reach for my aspirations – to reinstill the faith and fantasy people once had in photography.

There is no telling me “It can’t be done”. I am very driven and passionate, keen to listen, learn and question every experience. As Eartha Kitt put it, “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”