Journeying space

My Scholarship entry - Nature's gifts

India | Saturday, November 22, 2014 | 5 photos

Since purchasing my first DSLR just over a year ago, I have yet to find a moment when I have not thought about how I could capture not what I see, but what I feel. For me, the camera is not there as a medium through which to simply 'snap' what appears in front of me, but a device I can create images through, imbued with emotion and representations beyond that which is presented. Before shooting in a situation, I will always absorb the environment around me, and I will try to reflect the emotion given by the surroundings or the subject should timings allow. I am in my final year of study at the University of Bristol, studying Geographical Sciences. The courses I have studied have extended through philosophy and social theory to the degradation of environments, ecosystems and habitats on a global scale. When out with my camera I find it difficult to separate the knowledge I have gained on theories and environments and the surroundings I am in, and as such the way in which I see things has changed, along with the intentions of what I capture. Finding something meaningful to myself, and presentable and accessible to others, is really what I aim to achieve when I go out and photograph.