• Life,  Photojournalism

    Fikir Dahulu Sebelum Bercita-Cita Untuk Menjadi Seorang Photojournalist

    Sebelum saya mengarut panjang dalam tulisan saya kali ini, ingin saya bertanya kepada anda semua, kenal tak dengan photographer Mat Salleh sebelah kanan gambar di atas yang menggalas dua buah kamera jenama Canon tanpa Flash? Sekiranya anda boleh menjawab tanpa membuat carian menggunakan Google Image Search, anda mungkin seorang peminat fotografi yang meminati aliran Photojournalism tetapi kalau anda tidak kenal pun tidak mengapa, bukan ada hadiah pun yang hendak direbutkan. Actually selain daripada photographer Mat Salleh tersebut, kedua-dua photographer di sebelah kanan beliau iaitu seorang jurufoto lelaki dan seorang jurufoto wanita yang bertudung, juga merupakan antara photographer terpenting di Malaysia ini. Walaupun wajah jurufoto lelaki tersebut terlindung di sebalik kamera, namun…

  • Art,  Assignment,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Historical Moment,  History,  Photojournalism,  Politic,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Sejarah

    Photographer | The Unsung Hero

    His photographs had been and will be published more than a thousand times. Every time we celebrate the Independence Day, the media will publish all these pictures again and again. Business enterprises, large-format picture printers, photo treatment companies will repeatedly claim credits as well as reaping cash of the pictures they use but the original artist remains uncredited. ( Shutter2History ) I was very lucky to have met Malaysia great photographer Wong Swee Lin at his house, not many people here in Malaysia knew or have heard about him but to those who were born after our Independence Day 1957 sure enough have seen historical photograph taken by him, he…