ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This image was taken at Nizwa fort in Oman. I used a medium format film camera. I was visiting friends in Oman and I was very curious to know life as a woman in a muslim culture. Living in Japan and Australia gives me so much freedom and make it hard to imagine life without much freedom. I had a chance to meet young girls who study at a college. Most of them have never met people from overseas apart from their English teachers. Some of them accept their life as it is but many of them feel that their freedom is very limited because they are women. Covering themselves in black Abaya may give them safety but also taking their identity away. I had never been in a situation feeling like that and the experience made me think about women's right and freedom much more. I particularly choose the fort to take this image as I thought bing in the middle of the fort represents a feeling of solitude and hope for the future.
AUTHOR
I started photography influenced by my friend in 2008. My first camera was Pentax, 35mm film camera. I am a self taught photo enthusiasm from Japan. My main interests are portrait and street photography in black and white. I must admit that I am impressed with what digital cameras can do but I still enjoy taking images with my film camera in black and white. I appreciate colour images but I always come back to the monochrome world. A real life is not in black and white and expressing a world in black and white makes you pay more attention to details gives more impact on images. I specially like images from late 20's and early 30's and I think they have a strong influence on me. I like taking images only with natural light and try to avoid to much manipulation or editing on photoshop.....I love simplicity and show a life as it is in my images. Travelling is my another passion and taking images on a street in different countries is such a life learning experience and I feel privileged.
Photography is my passion in life and I would like to keep the passion and do not want to stop improving myself as a person and as a photographer.
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