Pure Peru

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

South Africa | Friday, July 5, 2013 | 5 photos

Photography is heart and soul work - work that nourishes a deep aspect within (me, at least): it feeds a deeper yearning. It is the ephemeral present moment, distilled, stored, for just a little bit longer (before hard-drives melt or film fades) - it gives the moment a moment more. It has been a lifelong dream to work as a photographer (I make my trade as an artist - close enough, some suppose) - to be witness to the world's underbelly, it's sunny demeanour, it's harsh realities - to be witness to it all is a privilege few are able (or willing) to document.

For the pure and simple love of *doing* photography. That should be all one needs! Philosophy can follow - but when my heart swells at the capture of a great frame, that is something that an explanation can do little to elucidate (describe a rollercoaster to someone who has never seen one. Describe that experience. It's never as good as the real thing - it is a box in which the experience itself is limited and contained. That image is worth a thousand words).

I love photography.
It brings me joy.
I want to work for national geographic.