About renette
Rastafarian girl in Francshhoek. Very underdeveloped semi-city community.
As a young lady and already an ex-social worker, I am a creative enthusiast who takes on anything I put my mind to, which is usually short spurts of learning a new language, drawing, painting, decor-maikomg, recently wood-working and the list goes on.
Photography has been the 'family trade' in the generations before me, and from about age 14 I dove into experimenting with a point and shoot, and at age 17 I got my first DSLR, which was a more rapid learning school, as film cost were eliminated! I loved shooting in Manual only, which taught me a lot through all the mistakes and errors.
Now my aim is to make a living from my portrait photography with my business, Studio Double-Louw, which is also a platform to sell other creations to come. I enjoy wokring with families and couples, but my favourite will always include the shooting of children.
I love to see and enjoy different peoples. Capturing a moment where a new friend is entwined with his/her environment, gives me hope that there is peace somewhere in every person's world. Meeting someone of another language, class, religion, and lifestyle, loving them for that brief moment and receiving their welcome into their life for that moment, gives me hope that the peoples of our country (and for that matter, the world) can live in harmony.
Our minds may never encompass how different others' worlds are, but an image of someone's eyes, face and hands tell stories no words can formulate. This is the passion that motivates every picture I take. Yes I want to be a technically good photographer, but if the image I take can bring my emotions of the meeting with my subject to my audience, I have succeeded.
I am an educated but humble person wanting to learn from every opportunity and wanting to teach to others. But I love what I do when I do it. And I grab every chance I get to excel.
