User:Karcrush

In the early 80s, I received a camera as a birthday present from my uncle. I had always been interested in art, but my uncle wanted me to be a Computer Professional. So at university I specialized in Computer science. But when I got the camera, all of a sudden my artistic background came to the fore. I couldn’t draw to my own satisfaction, but I could handle a camera.

So I started doing more personal photography to build up my portfolio. Because I’d had no format training, I had to figure out a lot of the tricks myself. For example, many times I would have an object that looked like it was floating in the sky. I used to do all the set constructions myself. Then I realized that my time and carpentry skills were limited.

Well, I’ve looked at lots of photography over the years, but my influences are primarily painters. I’ve read the biographies of many kinds of artistic people. I also listen to a lot of music. Ideas come to me when I’m listening to music. I also believe in philosophy.

I think of the work as surrealism…but a better way to describe it would be super-realism.

Somewhere I read “When we finally have all the knowledge, we will realize that. We just don’t know all the answers yet.”

So that’s the reason I look on my work, not as supernaturalism but super-realism. In other words, I am taking reality and magnifying it in a poetic way to make a statement.

As Picasso said: “Art is a lie that reveals the truth.” I didn’t like that statement when I first heard it because disagreed with the word “Lie.” What the artists are doing is exaggerating, but to such an extent that people know that you don’t mean it literally. You are not lying, but exaggerating the point so that they will understand. That’s why I see my work as super-reality. I’m using real skies, real trees and so on. I’m not making fantasy worlds like certain science fiction illustrators do.

That idealism carries over into my work. For example, I was asked to do a cigarette and campaign. Well, I used to smoke, but now I’ve quit. So I don’t think it’s right to encourage other people to smoke. I turned down tens of thousands of dollars because I would not feel right about using my art to promote cigarettes. What I’m saying is that if you have a talent, you should use it for the good and not the bad.

Finally, I bought a digital Sony camera DSC-P32, it is not good for a professional photographer due to auto ness, and in future I’m planning to purchase fully Professional Digital Camera with highest level of Mega Pixel, Highest Digital and Optical Zoom, with Digital Zoom Viewfinder.

dotPix Khursheed Alam May 2009 Karachi-Pakistan http://www.facebook.com/DOTDezineStudio

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