Photography has been a passion of mine from an early age when my granddad showed me his film cameras, but during my teen years I lost my interest in photography. About 10 years ago, however, I decided I would rekindle it and this year I plan to push my work out to a wider audience. My first camera buy was a Fuji bridge camera with which I quickly realised its limitation. … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: Giovanni Savino
I am a well-traveled renaissance man, who was born in Florence, Italy and calls New York City home. I worked covering hard news worldwide for the past thirty years, collaborating with the greatest names in journalism from whom I learned many technical and editorial skills that help me tell visual stories today. I discovered photography not through a brownie camera … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: CJ5ive
For me, when somebody photographs something, they are allowing you to view the world through their eyes and that is exactly what I try and do. I believe anything can be used as a subject as the deeper meaning is to give people permission to see what you see, if only for 1000th of a second. My introduction to photography just sort of happened. There wasn't a conscious … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: Hugo Jacquet
My relationship with visual art started when I studied computer graphics. It opened my mind to the different ways that images can make us feel something, which sometimes can be very deep and strong within us. But I came to photography very recently by myself, attracted by technical and optics stuff and how to use it as an expression way, combined with … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: Michelle Garthe
I don't see myself as a technical photographer. But I do believe that I was gifted with the eyes to capture my subjects using the style that is mine alone. I was a singer and actress for nearly 20 years, performing in Asia, Europe and the US. But my life was changed when I discovered photography in 2007 when my husband and I visited Queenstown, New Zealand. Armed with … [Read more...]