Well I thought I would kick off the amateur profile posts with a look at my photography. I am probably not the best person to be starting the theme in that I haven't really been taking photographs seriously for more than six or seven months but here goes. They say the camera never lies, well I think that is why I started taking photographs as it pretty clear to me that this … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Yasir Qureshi
I was born and brought up in riyadh, saudi arabia. Being a shy little kid, I never knew that I'll end up being such a naughty soul. I used to do a lot of stuff, such as filming myself, my sister and brother. Dressing them up as characters from movie and re-inacting the movie (on a handy cam). Later on taking pictures from my dads good ol' Yashica Film camera and making … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : AbdulRahman Bader
I never thought that photography was in me. And I don’t know how to write about it. But I had an eye for artistic stuff. I think it started with me having my 1st mobile camera phone, or so I think. I remember buying a Sony Eriksson mobile only because it had a 3.2MPixel cyber shot camera back in 2006. And I didn’t have a point & shoot. I just moved to DSLR directly after … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Anna Lucylle
Photography came almost as a second thought to me: my job as an art director saw me lurking in studios, watching the work of still life and fashion professionals, getting more and more fascinated by the medium.... approximately six years ago, I realised that photography had the potential to be a creative outlet, something where I could let off steam untempered by the guidelines … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Brian Carey
We are all potential artisans. I use the word artisan rather than artist because I am a blue collar, nuts and bolts kind of guy and I think artisan is best suited to me! Being an photographer has different artistic possibilities. We could use photography to create “our” reflection of our environment, our life, a visual expression of the world around us. Or we could use it as … [Read more...]