Voice From...

...The My Past

I have a few rituals in the morning and one of them is to look at the news on google and read my RSS feed or at least have a first quick scan. For some reason I clicked on this one particular feed first and was surprised to have my photography teacher from Beijing talking to me featured in an article about a project he has in Afghanistan.

Lukas who’s from Austria was the one who taught me the creative side of photography: being patient (!), zooming with my feet (he strongly suggested I invest in the nifty fifty lenses -50mm- and I thank him for introducing me to prime lenses!), light painting, etc, etc...

Other classes I took, also in Beijing, were with Benj who is from Australia. Benj taught me more about the technical aspect of photography: Aperture, Shutter speed,  Lighting, Composition, etc…

Both of them were not the kind to take candid, portrait pictures but more creative one:  One of Lukas’ projects was “tourism in conflict zones around Pakistan and Afghanistan”(!) but my favorite was “a moments departure” and Benj worked on a documentary about Mongolian’s hip hop.   I have already mentioned Benj in the first two post of this blog because he strongly encouraged me to write about our new adventures on another blog and he’s not the last one to encourage me with my pictures.

So here’s Luka’s project about camera box in Afghanistan: :

Kickstarter.com

And this is the article I read.

And here are two posts from my previous blog I wrote about Photography and Art in China... one of Lukas' exhibit and DaShanZi