Abstract nominee

Sometimes as a photographer, I feel lucky with the results I achieve. While I am playing with my camera or in post-production, the results of the work can be impressive and I am sometimes pleasantly surprised when I am not expecting any particular outcome. But this should not always be the approach going in; having a clever idea and knowing how to achieve that idea is the mark of a good photographer. With this particular series before I started shooting, I knew exactly what I wanted to achieve; I knew what kind of post-production techniques I was going to apply and I already had the final vision in my mind. I wanted to isolate everything from each frame replacing them with the black background and highlighting the lines and colours.

Roland Shainidze is an amateur photographer in Toronto. He is a graduate student in humanities at York University and his photography is focused primarily on architecture, both interiors and exteriors. He has taken photographs in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, London England as well as his native Georgia.

Roland uses digital camera tools to transform the presentation of the imagery of architectural elements. Self-taught, he takes every opportunity to take pictures and experiment with them; playing with lines, patterns, light and selective colour.

Roland's interest in photography started when he started using his brother's film camera; but there were no opportunities to pursue photography in Georgia. It was not until he came to Canada in 2009 that he was able to renew his interest in photography. Since then he has devoted all his spare time to his passion for photography.