There was a particular episode of the BBC show “Our World” then fronted by David Attenborough when I was a kid that really got me thinking. He’d managed to capture, in slow motion, this cheetah turning at full speed to try and ankle tap the Gazelle it was chasing. I remember him saying that “in slow motion we can see into the moment of the kill or the moment of escape”. Life … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Andrew Nim
Capturing a photograph was never really my interest when I started. I was always interested in the process of the darkroom. More in particular it was how light shined onto a piece of paper could transform it to an image using chemicals. I have always been a visual person; I’m horrible with names but things I see I always remember. I never even picked up a camera until I was … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Emelie Ollila
I have been taking pictures for several years, but I would never have called myself a photographer until about a year and a half ago. I can almost pinpoint the exact moment when my camera went from being something that was lazily used to capture such things as pretty flowers, to something that is necessary to help me sustain my sanity. I was having a very emotional reaction … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: Rosalba Berardi
As a little girl running around with pig tails Rosalba used to tip toe through her mother's garden with a Polaroid camera in hand that was given to her by her father. She has been capturing images since that very day. She thanks her dad for nurturing her gift of photography at such an early age. Soon after her children were born she turned her passion of photography into a … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Alexandra Nunes
When I was thirteen or fourteen, I proudly declared to my father that I wanted to be a photographer. He laughed in my face and told me that I could be anything I wanted, and that he would even buy me a twenty-thousand dollar camera. However, his last words still ring in my head to this day: "Don't come to me when you can't feed yourself." Since then, I have been struggling … [Read more...]