Last Friday, I did the biggest shoot I’ve ever done. I worked with a model called Natalia Wiechowski and a makeup artist called Heba El Kaissy Abd and we shot from 12PM till 7PM. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? Here’s the backstory: During GPP2015, Natalia was one of the models for the workshops and she was photographed…
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” – Mark Twain During GPP2015, I met Nitin, a member of EPyC (one of the biggest photography clubs in Dubai) through a mutual friend. Nitin saw my work and invited me to give a talk during one of the club’s Creative Sparks…
I promise this isn’t new age hippie talk XD Just bear with me. Lemme start from the beginning: The last two weeks have been.. odd, to say the least. Almost every single shoot I’ve done this month failed. This is one of the times where I have a bunch of ideas that I want to try…
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During the Restart The Art exhibition a couple of weeks ago, I got to chat with the lovely Fiona Hepher, who’s a part of The Sameness Project team (if you guys are interested in seeing pictures from the exhibition, check out my Facebook page). I decided to ask her if she’d be interested in modeling…
Back in February, I got to meet an incredible photographer I’ve been following for a while on Instagram on Facebook and eventually became friends with. Mila came to Dubai for a couple of days on vacation and I was super excited when she told me! I knew we had to go shoot together. We had…
“We all have monsters. If you ignore them, they get bigger. You have to tame them and make them your bitches.” – Sara Lando The very first blog post I ever posted was about GPP2014, and it’s crazy to think that it’s been a year already. So much has happened in that one year. Some…
About time, right? I’ve apologized before for taking so long with it and I apologize again. These past two weeks felt like a blur and I’m more than ready to get back into shooting regularly and working on more projects. So anyway, lets get into it. I want to thank everyone who sent in a…
I initially wanted to write a blog post only about a project I’m involved in, called Restart The Art, but I just finished working on my new picture for the 52 Week Project and I felt like the picture works well with the idea of the project. Restart The Art is an amazing idea by…
I loooove photography contests, so I thought I’d have one! A while back a friend of mine wanted to experiment with compositing and asked me to send him some stock images he could use. That got me thinking that it would be so awesome to see how people edit my pictures. So this is how it’s…
Well, not really. I’m 23. But exactly one year ago, I attended Brooke Shaden’s workshop, Story-telling & Compositing, at Gulf Photo Plus. It was my very first photography workshop. And it was the day I decided that I want to be a Fine Art Photographer. One of the exercises Brooke made us do was to…
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