ABOUT ME |
I'm Josh, and I love photography.
Before I was a photographer, my passion for art manifested in my appreciation for film. Since an early age (specifically when I saw James Cameron’s Avatar in 2009), I have been obsessed with the ways in which filmmakers use visual effects and cinematography to manipulate their audiences’ emotions. In Avatar especially, this aspect of film was very meaningful to me. The movie used narrative, accompanied with some of the best visual effects I have ever seen, to show the audience the importance of the conservation of nature.
My photography is also heavily inspired by the work of the photographers I see in National Geographic. Their images of nature are some of the most impressive examples of photography I have ever seen, and those pictures prove how artful the natural world is. These photographers are often using their photography to draw attentions to global issues that affect humans and the national world. Conservation and Preservation of our natural world has always been important to me. And while I didn’t have the resources to make big budget films with grand visuals when I was 9 years old, I did have my family’s digital camera. I started off taking pictures of birds I saw, and moved on to now, when the common subject of my photography tends to be the most beautiful thing in existence: nature itself. In a world full of apathy for the destruction we are causing to our home and our planet, I strive to show that nature is beautiful and something worth saving through my work. |