My Photo scholarship 2011 entry
Worldwide | Monday, August 29, 2011 | 5 photos
I am an Australian born aspiring travel photographer. After finished my degree in commercial photography in Melbourne, I’ve recently relocated to London to widen my photographic career opportunities.
As a child my natural curiosity about the spaces around us always lead me wandering around the next corner. As an adult, I’ve discovered my affinity for exploring new areas is best satisfied with camera in hand. The resulting photographs often suggest something about the nature of the people within a place; telling more of their impact and interaction with their environment as a whole rather than individual stories.
Through photography I strive to communicate the subtle and unspoken enigmas of a new area. To me, this style of photographic language lends itself to reaching a broad audience. The most satisfying moments photography offers me is to look at a picture and really understand what it felt like to be there; in that place, at that time.
I would love to be awarded the scholarship for two reasons. Firstly, working on such an exciting assignment with someone so experienced in both craft and industry would afford me an unprecedented opportunity to learn the values and discipline required to convert these ventures into great imagery. Secondly,
South Africa has always appealed to me conceptually. The complex and gruelling history seems ill-fitting in such an ecologically diverse landscape. For me it’s this burning desire to visit and understand places like this that has so sternly determined my future; travel to photograph, through whatever means possible.
The story I have submitted, photographed in Sri Lanka, is a centred around a nonfigurative response to the impenetrable tension and apprehension experienced there as a result of the recently ended war.
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