Even though I spent most of my time in Florence using my 35mm film camera, here's one of the rare image that I captured using my DSLR. My visit to Florence was early October 2 years ago. I've had always wanted to visit Florence. The culture, food and architecture intrigued me. Any time that I [...]
“The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem" _ Harry Callahan Harry Morey Callahan was an American photographer, who is considered to be one of the great innovators of modern American photography. He was born in Detroit, Michigan [...]
The more I get restless, the more I day dream, the more I dream of discovering new places, meeting new faces. The more I yearn for the next step in this adventure we call life. The more I get restless, the more I realise that time is passing me by. While I am dreaming and [...]
“What can be said in New Year rhymes, That’s not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it [...]
This quote has stuck with me for the longest time and it's also in repeat in my head. "I'd rather die of passion than of boredom" - Vincent Van Gogh It took me a while to truly understand the meaning but I believe that I am close. It is clear that photography is my passion. [...]
"Without music life would be a mistake" - German philosopher, poet, composer and writer Nietzsche "God has given us Music so that above all it can lead us upwards. Music unites all qualities. It can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up or break the hardest of hearts with the softest of its melancholy tones. [...]
As a child, I was encouraged to read and explore. So I frequent museums quite often. However, not all museums are built the same. Case in point, the National History Museum right here in London. Not only is it a fascinating place to visit, the architecture is what draws me there all the time. It is [...]
To some degree, I've always found some comfort in inspirational quotes. Not necessarily by artists, photographers or famous personalities but simple sentences found in books, articles etc.... It is surprising the amount of these quotes I have written in notebooks, pieces of papers or on my phone. Here are a few favourites: "People think dreams [...]
Minor White was an American photographer and is one of the masters of photographic modernism. his first creative efforts were in poetry and he took took 5 years to complete a sequence of a hundred sonnets while working as a waiter and bartender. It is after moving to Portland in 1938 that his photography career began. First, [...]
It is really strange how we get attached to our work. I have finished this images for a while but have been pretty attached to them. This is a series of work called Dark Hope. This is my first series of work that it is about Hope. Contrary to the title, the collection is about finding [...]
