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Hello And Welcome! My name is RJ Dawani and I am an artist and photographer based in New York City. I specialize in travel & fine art photography, but am infatuated with capturing the night fall most.
Fine art photography is first and foremost about the artist. It is not about capturing what the camera sees – it is about capturing what the artist sees. the artist uses the camera as one more tool to create a work of art. The camera is used to make an art piece that reveals the vision of the artist and makes a statement of that vision rather than documenting the subject before the lens.
a fine art photograph must go beyond the literal representation of a scene or subject. It must deeply express the feelings and vision of the photographer and clearly reveal that it was created by an artist and not by just the camera. It must be clear that it involved an original, deliberate creation and that every aspect of making the photograph in the field and in the photographer’s post-processing digital studio, including the printing, are an individual expression from within the artist.
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No Painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in a way that a photograph does." - John Berger