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ABOUT

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I am a photographer and stop-motion animator.

My professional and creative goal is to produce impactful and appealing photographs and stop-motion videos as promotional material for dynamic.

A mentor and teacher at the photgraphy school,  likes to say that serious photographers can be divided into two groups: boxers and dancers. Boxers are most in their element in the studio, carefully controlling every aspect of a shoot – lighting, positioning, composition –, whereas dancers are best exemplified in the photojournalist on the street, always on the lookout for candid scenes of daily life, yet receptive to the surprising sights that the city offers to the attentive eye.

According to this definition, the best way I can think of to describe my work is to say that I am doing capoeira. My drive to capture the fleeting gives me the passion and patience to spend hours studying just the right angle or arrangement of light and shadow, or a curtain blowing in the wind, but my active curiosity often suddenly draws my attention away from a window to a pile of colorful dishrags whose arrangement I find uniquely expressive. My work is never strictly boxing or strictly dancing, but always playful and always serious. 

Through my stop-motion work, I seek to express intimate moods and states of mind while also telling stories about the people that are inevitably drawn into the scope of my lens as subjects and temporary collaborators. I prefer to conduct my work in dynamic spaces in which people, animals, the wind and the sun and the shadows it casts are constantly changing and creating the environment.

 

 

 

Much of my work involves staging inanimate objects in order to communicate human stories, which I’ve found to be a very effective way to imbue a product or brand image with identity and storytelling.

 

I was born in Nigeria but live at early age and have lived most of my life in Switzerland. In addition to English, I speak French and basic Portuguese. I have a degree in  from Photography school -Ecole de Photographie de Vevey CEPV and at STRATES Agency photography  completed in 2015. 

 

I can provide references and sample work upon request. 

© text edit Graham Trim

© Photo; ©Veronika Gorianska

©Interview, vidéo Pishdaad Modaressi

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