Azmira Szandala is a Creative Practitioner student, who explores concepts of form, space, and atmosphere, through expressive, experimental, and found unique photographic visions. By way of landscape, abstract, the banal or the conceptual, her practice exemplifies a boldness reflective of the versatility within these Contemporary times.
Living in Lennox Head, and having spent most of her life in Byron Bay, she draws inspiration from the natural, and constructed environments, aspiring to seek a composite that resonates, the atmospheric essence of the moment, while revealing meaning through the finer details of photo-imaging.
Her value in, bold, solidarity, and stillness that emulates from a photographic frame, informs her work, in the hope of reminding the viewer, how connection and reflection, evoke a sense of mindfulness towards the surrounding environment, ourselves and the imagination.
“I value, photography’s ability to speak without language, be heard without sound, felt without touch, and its capacity to evoke a sense of shared, human emotions.
Through both, the practice, and experience of photography, the imagination is ignited, and curiosity is awakened, in the eyes of all who see. This engagement of the senses experienced from the creative arts, brings us to contemplate our own identities, and how we make understanding of the world around us. Reality is forever changing around us, and moments dissipate with the wind. Photography enables moments in time to circulate, resonate, articulate, and evoke an atmosphere of captured emotion, reflective of the human experience, in a collective contribution that is now a global, visual language.
In appreciation of photography’s historical contributions, innovations, and diversity, I believe it has the potential to open the eyes to the language unspoken, the sounds unheard, and an emotive response that is experienced beyond the realm of our perceptions”.
