Tag: photography

  • Asking for Help…

    …is not an easy thing to do, especially when it involves money.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BFCnqwgiBrG/?taken-by=ek13_photos

     

    My decision to start a GoFundMe campaign was not an easy one, but I knew it had to be done. I really want to exhibit my work with my peers and a girl has got to do what a girl has got to do…or so I think the saying goes.

    I created the campaign page a while back, but decided not to act on it until earlier this month, when I realised that I just won’t have enough money to produce my work to be exhibited in June. I really want taking part in the exhibition to be the pinnacle of my four years in University and I want it to be special. I also know, by exhibiting, I will get to network with a lot of people during the private view of our Degree Show and to me that would be a great opportunity to potentially get ‘seen’ with my work in full view of the public 😬.

    So, this is just a quick blog post to ask for your help. Click on the GoFundMe button on the right hand side of my blog for more details – DONATE & SHARE. Your support will be highly appreciated. 🙏🏾  👍🏾

    In the meantime, please check our Instagram feed to see previews of work by other students taking part in the University of Westminster Degree Show at Free Range this year.

    Thank you for time and God bless you!

  • Participants Found…

    …to take part in my photography project.

    It wasn’t easy as I have a very weird nervous way of talking to strangers and asking if they would like to take part in my project. I soon realised how important it is to have someone in the sidelines to help you with certain things. Keep you in check and all that.

    For the most part, this involved them having bare shoulders and we know how that goes in autumn and you are all layered up. Good thing, the studio I had booked for the shoot was kind of private.

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    Setting up the H3D Hasselblad

    Anyway, I used whatever resources I had at my disposal and went for it. Approached willing participants from around campus. I got quiet a few weird stares, but I managed to get at least 10 students willing to take part. Even I was shocked.

    The rest were some of my colleagues.

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    Rosario sitting for me for lighting test shot

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    Nicole sitting for me and final set-up for images

    I am still shooting the project in the hope to be finished by the end of this month. My determination is fuelled by words I keep uttering to my son, “Please finish it, as you have already started.”

    This particular assignment is making me approach total strangers, ask them for something and build some sort of relationship.

    After all, if I am to be portrait photographer, I have to keep practising how to talk to people from all walks of life – family and friends excluded – as it is the most daunting thing I would ever do.

    This is for the COURAGE & CONFIDENCE to see this project through.

     

  • Documentary Project on Display

    I am so glad to see my documentary project on display in the Faculty Hub at University.

    https://instagram.com/p/8lZhXJiBuw/

    I took this shot through a glass panel showing my images on display in one of the rooms where lecturers/tutors hold one-on-one tutorials with students.

    I am not sure how long they will be up for, but I am happy to see my work printed and displayed in a ‘public’ space.

    Project: Ngara ’97 (renamed to ‘Abstracts’)

     

  • All in Good Time

    If there is anything I am learning as I study photography, it needs patience and with time, you know your work will be recognised.

    Case in point:

    This tweet I made in September 2013:

    Lupita Tweet

    Then I spot this double page spread in the Evening Standard (the very same paper from the tweet above) dated 17th Jan 2014.

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    I rest my case as I continue working hard.

  • Portrait: Kiboko HachiYon

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    Kiboko and Khai

    Gallery Access

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