Jim Joel Nyakaana
Travel & Documentary Photographer / Based in Uganda
Two of my great passions in life are travel and photography. I believe that travel broadens one's view of the world. Starting out as a wedding photographer in 2006, my travels to many parts of Uganda to photograph traditional...
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Focus:
Travel, Architecture, Photography, Conceptual, Art, Blogger, Explorer, Storyteller
Skills:
Research, Image Archiving, Digital Printing, Historical Processing, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Exhibition Design, Photojournalism, Film Photography
About
Available in: Uganda
Focused on:
Travel, Architecture, Photography, Conceptual, Art, Blogger, Explorer, Storyteller
Skilled at:
Research, Image Archiving, Digital Printing, Historical Processing, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Exhibition Design, Photojournalism, Film Photography
Coverage Regions:
Africa Europe
Languages Spoken: English
Years of experience: More than 10
Two of my great passions in life are travel and photography. I believe that
travel broadens one's view of the world. Starting out as a wedding
photographer in 2006, my travels to many parts of Uganda to photograph
traditional weddings, made me experience other cultures, meet people from
other communities and other countries.
Making pictures is for me, an aesthetic reaction to being a historian, an artist, and a storyteller
living in the city. Using the Light, shadow, geometry, and human presence of a single moment, I create an image that captures time, and archives the present for the future.
I seek to explore reality as it appears to the eyes of the passerby. I present places where there is real life going on, where there are people, and where there are themes of everyday life.
I see cities as places of passage for cultures and people, a concept of heritage and urban living.
I always explore places beyond just the maps and names to places. In a way, maps shape our understanding of reality, but they are also just images. If you’re looking at a landscape or a map, but you don’t have all the information, the captions, how do you read it?
My work is majorly conceptual and always begins with an interrogation of a place and the fraught relationship between humans and the land that we inhabit.
Though professionally trained as an accountant, I taught myself most of the
basics of photography. Through workshops and practice, I continue to learn,
to document my own personal experiences, to capture scenes, places, and
events as I see them, and to share with others the beauty and diversity of the
world I've seen.
As the images of other photographers have inspired me to explore the world, I
hope my own contributions will inspire others to do the same.
travel broadens one's view of the world. Starting out as a wedding
photographer in 2006, my travels to many parts of Uganda to photograph
traditional weddings, made me experience other cultures, meet people from
other communities and other countries.
Making pictures is for me, an aesthetic reaction to being a historian, an artist, and a storyteller
living in the city. Using the Light, shadow, geometry, and human presence of a single moment, I create an image that captures time, and archives the present for the future.
I seek to explore reality as it appears to the eyes of the passerby. I present places where there is real life going on, where there are people, and where there are themes of everyday life.
I see cities as places of passage for cultures and people, a concept of heritage and urban living.
I always explore places beyond just the maps and names to places. In a way, maps shape our understanding of reality, but they are also just images. If you’re looking at a landscape or a map, but you don’t have all the information, the captions, how do you read it?
My work is majorly conceptual and always begins with an interrogation of a place and the fraught relationship between humans and the land that we inhabit.
Though professionally trained as an accountant, I taught myself most of the
basics of photography. Through workshops and practice, I continue to learn,
to document my own personal experiences, to capture scenes, places, and
events as I see them, and to share with others the beauty and diversity of the
world I've seen.
As the images of other photographers have inspired me to explore the world, I
hope my own contributions will inspire others to do the same.