About my work

During the early stages of my photography career, I had been concentrating on still life photography. The process involved starting from the genesis of an idea to the intense attention and concentration required before pressing the shutter followed by the eager anticipation of the final print, truly fascinates me. It is a challenge to the photographer’s creativity and technical skills.

Still life photography gave me a solid foundation about the choice of lighting, composition, juxtaposition of the subjects, and most of all, injecting a message into an otherwise dull composition. In simple terms, it had helped me build the skills needed for the craft.

I then moved on to conceptual photography. It came to me naturally when I often saw images in my head when I closed my eyes, or when I was driving, reading, taking a shower, even while I was sleeping; the images were like spilling out from a full bucket, uncontrollably taking over. At times, I felt like a messenger bringing images from the surrealistic world into reality. Other times I was astounded at how I could have conceptualized the images. On some occasions I even had difficulties comprehending the motive behind the images. I realized perhaps the images were coming from a darker area of my soul. However, I felt energetic, excited, anxious, and enigmatic when this occurred. It felt incredible to have this mixture of feelings.

When I was not doing conceptual photography, I turned to landscape photography; it was done to procure a positive feeling both for my viewers and for me. I find my audience were divided into two groups, the first who always wanted something out of the norm, something that would challenge their sub-consciousness, something that would not provide them with an answer but a question, or series of questions. The other group simply wanted something to comfort them; something that could give them peace, simplicity, and joy.

These two streams of photography, which appear not associated in any way but were subtly connected, have become the two major parts of my photography, and they have helped to make my life.