Here's the story:
Sometime ago I decided to buy a camera as a complement of my design. I needed it to take my own shots when the photographer wasn't that necessary, besides I love photography since I was a kid.
There was a click in me since the first day I had my camera, something between an obsessive compulsion and passion, something I cannot describe and it just fills me.
As Bresson said:
"Shooting a picture is holding your breath as all your faculties focus on capturing fleeting reality; then taking a picture becomes a moment of great physical and intellectual delight.
It is a matter of putting your brain, your eye and your heart in the same line of sight.
It is a way of life."(
After that I became a designer...of course, no art on that, just business. I enyoyed it though, I still do. But I started having dilemmas about it. I felt I was heading to a superficial life working for people and communicating things I didn't agree with.
So here's where photography kicks in.
You know...I am changing. Photography changed my life.
It gave me the opportunity to connect my ideals with something I can do for a living.
But not just that...it's like a breath of fresh air in my life too. It's amazing how I am discovering things that were just there, in my daily life but I didn't pay attention to them. I can see the same reality from different angles now.
It renewed me.
I'm at the beggining of this journey, I know I am the 0.1% of the photographer I want to be, but I assure you... I'm loving the process of building the rest.
"For those who are fed up of believing,
for those that got tired of waiting,
for them..." - Pablo Huascar
My gallery at Lightstalkers
Hasta la Victoria, siempre!
(courtesy of Tareq Ibraheem Abu Rahmeh )