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My Scholarship entry - The Other Side of Recovery

Japan | Monday, November 24, 2014 | flickr photos

Three years ago, I fell in love with photography.

As a child, I loved to write stories of faraway worlds. Now, my characters are the faces in my photos and, instead of crafting their stories, I unearth them. Photography feeds my gypsy heart and has granted me the courage to stop living on the sidelines. It inspires me to dream big and cling to the belief that is possible to make careers out of dreams.

Yet, the road between ambition and realisation cannot be paved alone. My desire to pursue the extraordinary is buoyed by an incessant hunger to learn and an intrinsic motivation to be more than I was yesterday. Nonetheless, I’m simply a normal person in pursuit of a dream that dwarfs me. I need the World Nomads Scholarship to help me build the foundations of a career platform. Brick by brick, I will climb towards that pinnacle and I want to prove to others that transforming fantasies into reality is not a fairy-tale.

In any story, it is vital to always ‘show’ and never ‘tell.’ A picture may be worth a 1000 words but I want to take photos that immerse people in whole stories. I want them to marvel, think and get lost. To me, that is the true art of photographic storytelling.