Art and photography

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Application essay for photography course

I have always been in pursuit of art as a medium for expression, I have experimented and worked with almost every art form in my personal life, school, university and work as an artist, graphic designer and photographer. In the recent years after finishing university, photography has become more and more my preferred medium for communication. I have come to realise images are wordless expressions, because I feel that so much of the human experience is intangible and so much of what we perceive cannot be expressed through verbal language. It's simply unspeakable. Yet, when we have communicated with one another and we feel that we have connected, I believe we have a feeling of spiritual communion. Photography has given me the language to achieve that.

Perhaps what appeals to me most is the photographic process of capturing a single moment in time. The creative act only lasts a moment, then the place will change, the people will grow old, all will be subject to the elements of age except that one single frozen moment that lives on indefinitely.

In the beginning I was turned off by photography because I found the medium restricting that lacked diversity. But now, I have found that it is just as flexible as painting, sculpture or any other visual art form, if not more. Photography as a concept is greater than I or perhaps anyone can comprehend and I hope to send the rest of my life exploring it.

4. Explain the type or genre of photography that interests you and why. Identify some particular images or photographers as examples. (Please limit your response to 250 words.)

I am particularly attracted to fashion and art photography. Fashion has given photography a practical context to explore the connection between art and culture. It seems that the boundaries are limitless in this field for the stream of free

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