When did you start exploring photography?

After insistently babbling about wanting to shoot short films, my beautiful late mama surprised me with a DSLR camera in 2017 (my last year of high school), since this wasn’t an available curriculum. From then, I decided to focus on creating stills instead and felt content just practising portrait/street photography during my spare time. I’ve always been a bit of a perfectionist so it just made sense to focus on whether I could coherently convey a message or just provoke emotion through imagery before recording anything first; but I haven’t had much desire outside of photography since.

What inspires you?

The diversity in my friendships - how their backgrounds and unique upbringings have shaped who they are today. From the way they dress, talk, walk - it has always been a beautiful subject to me since it’s something which only belongs to this person and a topic that cannot truly be plagiarised.

How much do you value your creative practice?

It’s an accomplishing feeling being able to have abstract thoughts translated into a medium others can see and feel something from. I highly value and am grateful I get to partake in a craft that other artists helped me feel connection and belonging to as well.

What advice would you give them?

Don’t overthink anything and just do it. Stay authentic to your craft and what you want to represent. Do not follow trends or push out work purely for followers. I think sticking to what feels true to you is how you will work to the best of your creative ability and remain passionate about it.

What’s next?

I’ve been pretty inconsistent with uploads for the past two years, but have a bunch of film roles throughout that time span which still haven’t been developed that I look forward to potentially sharing. I enjoy painting and writing also and want to incorporate this into my imagery sometime soon.