#Portraiture

I was having a photo session with Viola, the daughter of Simona and Roberto, she is one little crazy person! And super confident in front of the camera. She was clearly enjoying to be photographed and was playing with her plastic creatures and “Dracula denti”… We made some rather unusual portraits of her but Simona and Roberto approved them… The boys joined in too, they were wearing “A clockwork orange” t-shirts and we had a good session together. [Read More]

Tibet – known as the roof of the world. A world out of balance for the last 60 years, imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). HH the Dalai Lama’s non-violent path to come to an agreement with the CCP has been widely covered. But who is the other Tibetan trying to find a way for a better future for Tibet? This project is about the Tibetan community based in London, their journeys and their effort to keep the Tibetan culture alive. [Read More]

Today is the day (or night) I am finally starting to blog for our Re-think assignment. As I have been going to a Tibetan Buddhist Center for a while to study Buddhist philosophy I decided to make a work about the Tibetan community based in London. I got to know Tibetans via Spirituality; therefore, one aspect of my motivation for the project is, to find out who the “other” Tibetans are. [Read More]

For this assignment we were asked to step away from the observer position and to actually take control of the situation. Portraiture is a fascinating subject - I really like to put the people in the “right light”, by that I mean to use available light correctly, play & experiment with it. We were also asked to experiment with Portraiture as such and create a ‘quirky’ version of our sitters. [Read More]