I am a Jordanian-Lebanese digital photographer based in the middle-east. Commercially, I enjoy the genres of food and cuisine mostly; working for restaurants and hotels. I enjoy the detail and meticulousness of an indoor studio-environment. Personally and in my spare time, I try to travel as much as time permits around the middle-east region capturing the beauty in the landscapes and sunsets, also its culture and street.
I do volunteer work often with refugee camps and orphanages so the travelling helps me improve my documentary-style photography. I started off 10yrs ago with a small pocket 2mp camera for a photography course during my university years and now I found and run a full-fledged photography and video/design house called ‘Adasat’ (which means ‘lenses’ in Arabic) based in Amman, Jordan; with operations between Beirut, Lebanon and Dubai, UAE.
A lot of people have described my work as minimal, crisp and vivid, which is apparently an “extension of my personality”. I believe, and this tip I give to photographers starting their career, that eventually when you’ve photographed a lot of genres and have experienced all sorts of styles, you slowly start to realize what you love photographing most and thus it becomes your own style which is, in some way, a part of your character as a person. However, photography in the Arab world forces you to be multi-faceted, because it’s still young, you have to be a lot of roles in one. The production manager, the stylist, the photographer and fixing the lights, it’s tough but its a sure fast way to learn the ropes working with clients and being efficient.
My influences come from many places. I spend a lot of my ‘research’ time on sites like Tumblr, Pinterest, 1x, 500px and Google+ commenting and reading the critique posts. Probably the top names I usually follow on a regular basis would be Zack Arias, Jeremy Cowart, Chase Jarvis and Ken Kaminsky among a few others as well. Some of my goals include publishing my own photo-book one day, having a solo-exhibition displaying my fine-art photographs and hopefully maybe a photography-educational center that helps young children express themselves in a visual manner.
Links:
http://adasat.co/
https://www.facebook.com/AdasatStudios
https://twitter.com/BAlaeddin
http://500px.com/balaeddin
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