Digital Photo Media Week 10: Alexandra Sophie

Photographer: Alexandra Sophie

Type of Photography: Fine Art/Fashion

Alexandra Sophie is photographer based in Paris. Her photos are used in magazines such as Vogue and Elle and her style is very natural and light and it gives me the feeling of youth and freedom. I love the way she captures ambient light in most of her photos, and how her photos are more about nature and whenever I see her photos, it gives me a feeling of serenity and peace. I absolutely adore and fell in love with one of her projects named 'Jardin Fleuri', it is a series representing different ages of woman(last picture). This project was inspired by her motherhood when she gave birth to her son Marin in 2011. If you look at each picture, it tells a story about how girls got their first period and how we blossom - growing and becoming a woman and creating their very own seed/life. After looking at her project, I showed it to my mom and we had a good talk about my birth and how it went(even though I've heard it a million times), but this work really made me think about my mother and how she carried me in her womb for 9 months and went through excruciating pain just for me. I love it when photographs can make me think about my own personal life or the people I love.

Digital Photo Media Week 9: Kurt Arrigo

Photographer: Kurt Arrigo

Type of Photography: Nature/Sports/Underwater

Kurt Arrigo is from an island called Malta. He have been shooting for more than 20 years, he does a lot of swimming and sailing activities and normally gets inspired when he's doing his activities and travelling. All of his photos captures the perfect and iconic moments like the horse in the sea and the sailboat right in the middle of the rocks and I love that all his photos are very vibrant. He plays with a lot of natural light in his photos and the rays of light reflecting on the sea is stunning. It's also nice to read about how he mixed both his passion for sailing and photography into his professional career.

Digital Photo Media Week 8: Liat Aharoni

Photographer: Liat Aharoni

Type of Photography: Conceptual/Fine Art

Liat Aharoni is a photographer based in Toronto, Canada. She's been teaching herself photography through the internet since April 2012. She always has a reason behind why she is shooting something. In every image of hers, there's a colour of purple in different tones and hues. I didn't notice it at first but after taking a closer look, there really is the colour purple in every of her photos. I find it interesting how she uses different elements in her photos and being a female photographer is an advantage because the model will definitely be more comfortable and vulnerable infront of her.

Digital Photo Media Week 7: Brandon Woelfel

Photographer: Brandon Woelfel

Type of Photography: Freelance

Brandon Woelfel is a photographer based in New York and began his photography journey at the age of 19 after he got his first dslr camera. He is a full time freelance photographer and shoots & collaborate with clothing brands like Aeropostale and Urban Outfitters. His works are very vintage and tumblr-ish which appeals to most of the young generation now and his following have still been growing fast and bigger. The way he experiments with different things like fairy lights, prism and led lights; he brings the photos to life in a different way. He is definitely one of my inspiration for project 2: light as subject.

Digital Photo Media Week 6: Robert Zhao

Photographer: Robert Zhao

Type of Photography: Documentry

Robert Zhao is a renowned photographer and artist from Singapore. I went to National Museum a few days back to look at the different exhibitions and I came across his installation, photographs of trees. In his work 'Singapore, Very Old Tree', is an impersonal image of anonymous trees and gardeners in Singapore. The first five pictures were taken at the exhibition and unfortunately, those were the only few pictures that I took. 

I love how his works are all almost desaturated or in black and white in most parts of the picture while the tree is the brightest and greenest. It almost looks like the trees are glowing. I would recommend people to go and see his artwork because there's a huge difference between what you see online and when you're there at the exhibit. When I look at all the pictures, it gives me a sense of home, a sense of Singapore and how we should appreciate nature more. What's special about his work is that in almost every photo, there's a person standing infront of the tree. One of my favourites is the durian tree in bukit panjang forest, I hate durians but the story behind it is interesting, there's a regular forager, Mr Teo Teah On(66 years old) who has been returning to this tree for the past seven years as it produces the sweetest fruit. 

Digital Photo Media Week 5: Silas Lee (@bludshot)

Photographer: Silas Lee

Type of Photography: Portraits/Cityscapes

Born and raised in London, Silas began shooting sneakers, men's fashion and cityscapes in Hong Kong for Hypebeast, then Highsnobiety. He is now one of the founders of Team Cozy, which is an expression of the world's leading youth talent in photography and film. I only know about him after watching my favorite YouTuber, Sophia Chang because they've been together for quite a long time now. I love how his photos are all perfectly timed, the sunset, the birds, and the people. He maintains that moody and gritty feel for most of his shots. I don't usually gravitate towards portrait shots when it comes to scenery or sunset but his photos are stunning and it attracts my attention.

Digital Photo Media Week 4: Lee Aik Soon

Photographer: Lee Aik Soon

Type of Photography: Street Photography

Aik Soon is a photographer based in Singapore and he does street photography. But he recently changed his style to more of architecture shots. These are only a few out of all of his street photography, and he captures the emotions and story of the people. I really hope that he goes back to doing street photography again. His photos look mostly desaturated but to me, there's also a bit of colour in the picture where he wants us to focus on. I don't personally know him, we only follow each other on Instagram but looking at the behind the scenes snapchat videos of his shots, it seems like he really took a lot of time and effort to wait and capture all his shots. Patience is definitely the key when it comes to photography.

Digital Photo Media Week 3: Jessica Kobeissi

Photographer: Jessica Kobeissi

Type of Photography: Fashion and Portrait

One of my favorite photographers of all time. I got hooked onto watching her YouTube videos on how she shoot through one of my friends back in my ite days. I love the way she plays with sunlight and shadows in her photos, she prefers shooting in natural light and in her videos, she shows her before and after edit pictures. Her photos have the vintagey feel to it, she experiments with different shots and every time I watch her videos and look at how her photographs come to live, it inspires me to pick up my camera and create amazing photographs like her. I've also put in a video of her doing smoke bomb photoshoot which I really want to try but I think it's illegal in Singapore. All her shoots in her youtube videos, they look like they're having fun. Behind every photo of hers, there's a model who is 100% comfortable with her. As a photographer, you must make your model feel comfortable so the model won't look awkward and you can capture the best pictures of him/her. That is one of the important things to me when I'm shooting with my model.