Friday, March 26, 2010

remembering moments

Remembering late Maizan Hassan Maniku
The final presentation of the photojournalism workshop organised by him in 2002.
Three prints of all participants were on open display in the final presentation day.

I chose these three (faces in the studio portrait category):

1 - The changing little girl (Aimi). She is changing clothes to pose for us. I deliberately did not want to display a neatly posed photo and instead chose to tell the story of the moments in between the shoots which was the live event. And  it was the movement that i captured and not the sharp detail of the face.










2 - White moment. A high key portrait of one of the participants. I wanted to present the blankness of a moment and the thinking mind at the same time and shot in high key to eliminate all around the subject. After shooting i realized that the stand of a light is visible but i liked the accent of the studio quality and kept without cropping.













3 - Relaxing. Maizan Hassanbe relaxing in between shoots. Yes he posed on one session and it was fun too. I had very sharp shots too but again did not want to show precision of photography but instead wanted to be in the moment and present the in between shot of a relaxed moment. I also liked the blur on this picture because he was constantly moving and talking at the same time.

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