Tag: portraiture

Portraits: Saba

You don’t have to live the life of a tortured artist

We don’t have to be in a negative state of mind to be able to create. Over the past few weeks, I struggled so much with that. I didn’t want to create something that doesn’t feel genuine or isn’t a part of me, but at the same time I was dying to create. I used…

Broken is Beautiful

For Sara Kintsugi – (noun) To repair with gold; The art of repairing metal with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. We are all imperfect. We are all flawed. We are, or were, broken in one way or another. Being human, we strive to live up…

On shooting Natalia: Portraits

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…