About Q
I’m oddly shy and quiet in real life, but once I know you’re safe, I’m Chatty Qathi. I want to talk about vocabulary and Chinese literature and x-rays and weapons detection and how much I hate math (except the golden rule) and how I never get tired of kitty pictures and light blue eyes give me the creeps.
I started making photos when I was 14 or so, none of them ever came out. Ever. I have bad eyesight, and couldn’t get a handle on manual focus. But I remember each and every composition vividly, so much so that I would say, the act of making the picture is as important as the picture itself. I went onto drawing and painting, murals and furniture and ceramics, soft sculpture and eventually visual communications, but have come back to photos. I like photos for photos. I devour them =)
I’ve learned to make pictures so I can look at things up close on my own time. I have and use film slr and dslr, Polaroid and a tlr. I kinda know what to expect when I twiddle knobs and push buttons, occasionally get decent results, really I don’t know jack about photography.
I loath and despise other peoples photos of me. I hate to have my picture taken, especially snapshots, portraits I can handle in extremely controlled situations. Very few photographers have made what I’d consider a good portrait of me. I have a short list of photographers I’d like to sit for.
