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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited - Riga

Latvia | Monday, January 14, 2013 | 5 photos

Photography is one of my main inspirations as a painter and illustrator - (though still a student) I have been studying in these areas for 10 years. My high painting skills help to quickly asses light, colour and composition. I prefer to paint from life. I am currently in my final year of Visual Communication in Art Academy of Latvia. I have taken many short courses in photography over the years, but I have always been denied the professional task of being a photographer; here in Latvia it is seen more as a man's job, which is something I wish to change.
I love the camera, I love the shiny glass lens, the metal body. I love holding the thing. I love the game of seeing, guessing, calculating and trying again and again.
I am quick, I tend to plan short shots and quick images. A decided shot is dependant of the sensitivity, colour, perception of each camera. It's a guessing game, based on trust.
Animate time in my mind.
Feel the speed of the click.
Growing up my friends and I (one is now studying film directing) often made shoots in costumes and harsh weather - in snow, in swamp, in sea.
Doing illustration, I tell stories in comics, which I publish in different local magazines.