I read a beautiful quote the other day, but I can’t seem to find it. I’m paraphrasing but it was something like “if we weren’t cracked or broken, the light wouldn’t be able to shine through”. I think that we all have a light inside of us, and it shines so bright but there are times…
A little late to the game, but better late than never right? God, I’ve missed blogging. I’ve been jumping from one project to the other, one shoot to the next, that I seem to have neglected my blog yet again. I need something or someone to hold me accountable for blogging weekly, any volunteers? 😀…
A few days ago, I turned 2. And by that I mean: I started doing fine art photography exactly two years ago. It was because of the first photography workshop I ever attended, and it was the first workshop by Brooke that I’ve attended. So I thought it would be a good time to reflect on…
Lately I’ve been revisiting old files and going through photoshoots that, I thought, failed. Oftentimes, I would give up on an image way too soon. Sometimes, I know for sure that it’s just not going to work (like when I do an entire shoot completely out of focus >_<), and sometimes it doesn’t turn out…
I always have a bunch of ideas written down for pictures that I want to do, but there are days when I feel like I desperately need to go shoot something and all my ideas either need too much preparation or I’m just not excited about them. I stopped doing spontaneous shoots a long time…
“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…
Sometimes it feels like there are two sides of us, constantly at war. One wants to be saved and is fighting for freedom and release, and one wants to stay down, and drag everything with it. Because it’s easy, because it’s safe, because the pain is familiar. Because it’s constant. That dark, self-deprecating, self-loathing side…
A few days ago I watching one of Brooke Shaden’s promoting passion videos where she took a bunch of studio lights out into the forest for a shoot. She talked about trying out different and new things, and failing. It made me realize that there’s no shame in failing and it’s one of the best…
How often do we start down a path only to turn around out of fear? How often do we have a dream and then fail to live it? There are so many wasted moments, so many pieces of time that are lost because of fear. There are moments that could be, and moments that will…
The 52 Week Project is back! I know I haven’t been consistent with it so it kinda defeats the whole purpose. Traveling made it hard to keep up with it, and when I got back I just couldn’t get myself into that rhythm I was into, of shooting regularly. I justified it in my head by…
Amani AlShaali 