Photomanipulation nominee

I created the montage of seascape by combining a few age-worn, old, and tattered items which I photographed in a famous tourist site – the 120-year-old Concubine Lanes – in my country, Malaysia. The image is an abstract of a seascape, but the boat is actually a digitally modified, tatty, age-blackened brick, and the brick is made about a hundred years ago. The sea is a very old piece of a historical wall in the Concubine Lane, and the paints upon the wall are horribly peeling. The frame of the image is the texture I found upon a door in the Concubine Lane, and I created such wonderful fusion to produce a seascape in an artistic and aesthetic way. I want the viewers to see the eloquent beauty of art when age-worn things coalesce creatively. When I clicked the shutter button, I could imagine its marvel if I digitally enhance those items, subtracting other distractions, and producing an all the more seamless and abstract seascape image, like a sailor traversing the beautiful sea.

I am an international multiaward-winning, news-featured photographer who engages in both personal and commercial photography. I have won the Gold Award and the Gallery Award in San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards 2020 in the USA, an Honorable Mention (Conceptual Category) in Minimalist Photography Awards 2020 in Germany, 3rd-Place (Special Effects Category), an Honorable Mention (Fine Art/Abstract Category), and an Honorable Mention (Fine Art/Landscape Category) in International Photography Awards (IPA) 2020 in the USA, Best Altered Photo (Altered Category) in Still Awards 2020 in Ireland, an Honorable Mention (Photomanipulation Category), an Honorable Mention (Abstract Category), and an Honorable Mention (Conceptual Category) in Neutral Density (ND) Awards 2020 in the Europe, an Honorable Mention (Abstract Category), and another Honorable Mention (Abstract Category) in Chromatic Photography Awards 2020 in the United Kingdom, an Honorable Mention (Photomanipulation Category), an Honorable Mention (Conceptual Category, and 2 Honorable Mentions (Abstract Category) in Monochrome Photography Awards 2020 in the United Kingdom, and an Honorable Mention (Abstract Category) and an Honorable Mention (Fine Art Category) in APA Annual Photography Awards 2020 in the United Kingdom. I have also been featured in Guang Ming Daily Newspaper (in Malaysia). Too, I have been a wedding photographer in my country.