Small Milk Pots and 3 Hands, PHOTOGRAPHS OF PEOPLE Collection

September 10, 2021

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Title: “Small Milk Pots and 3 Hands”.
This Edition: Copyright 2021 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved.
Penang, Malaysia
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About this Photograph:
Three hands guide and attach small metal milk pots to the back of a Hindu devotee. The milk pots have fish hook-like needles that are pierced into the skin so that the pots can hang from the devotee’s skin — each one an added weight to their physical pain of burden. This exercise of faith is considered a sort of physical trial in the pursuit of atonement. This ritual is performed during the Hindu celebration of Thaipusam.
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION:
PHOTOGRAPHS OF PEOPLE
(2000 to Present)
Photography of People and Cultural Subjects of Malaysia.

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Tags:

Cultural, photography, art, Malaysia, Penang, Asian, Asia, Hindu, Religious, People, Portraiture, B&W, Celebration, Formalities, Ceremony, devotee, Kavadi, Thaipusam, Sacrifice, Torture, Suffering, Perseverance, Chinese, Buddhist, Taoism, old, Indian,

CONTRASTY – BURMESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE, B&W ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY

August 26, 2021

CONTRASTY Interpretation of the roof of the Burmese Buddhist Temple, Penang, Malaysia: See & Purchase my Fine Art Photography @ https://nawfalnur.ImageKind.com/

Title: “CONTRASTY – BURMESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE”.

Location: Penang, Malaysia
Series: BLACK & WHITE ARCHITECTURE
Copyright 2021 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved
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“But photography is not all seeing in the sense that the eyes see. Our vision, a binocular one, is in a continuous state of flux, while the camera captures and fixes forever (unless the damn prints fade !) a single, isolated condition of the moment. Besides, we use lenses of various focal lengths to purposely exaggerate actual seeing, and we often “overcorrect” color for the same reason. In printing we carry on our willful distortion of fact by using contrasty papers which give results quite different from the sense or object as it was in nature.”
Edward Weston, January 28, 1932

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I’m in a NEW Art Photography Group Exhibition at ARTDOC Photography Magazine

August 20, 2021

I did have some good news: I’m in a Group Exhibition in ARTDOC Photography Magazine, titled, EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY, which opened on 19 August 2021.

I have two artworks in the exhibition: “DARTH PLAGUEIS”, and, “HECATOMB TO THE ALIEN OVERLORDS”. Both images are from my ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS (ALS) Photography Series, which now has 482 pieces in it, and spans a period from 2015 to the Present.

Here’s the Link to the Exhibition at ARTDOC Magazine:

https://www.artdoc.photo/online-exhibition/experimental-photography

My Images are at the end of the exhibition page, and close out the exhibition of very interesting, and inspiring images. I’m very grateful to have been chosen to be in this exhibition, as my photography style is nearly 100% Experimental and Abstract.

Another reason I’m very thankful to be exhibited and published in ARTDOC Photography Magazine is because some photographer legends, and major photography inspirations and masters of the craft, such as Sabastiao Salgado, have their portfolios published in this magazine.

“HECATOMB TO THE ALIEN OVERLORDS, ALS #428”, (2021), from the Abstract Light Streaks Photography Series.

Quasar TON 618, aka, ALS #467

June 29, 2021

Abstract Light Streaks Photography Series.

TITLE: Quasar TON 618, aka, ALS #467.

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Art, Photography, ABSTRACT, LightStreaks, NawfalJohnson, RORSCHACHART, Quasar, #Imagekind,

Quasar CTA-102, aka, ALS #466

June 29, 2021

TITLE: Quasar CTA-102, aka, ALS #466.

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MENTAL NOTE #142, SIMPLIFY YOUR COMPOSITIONS, SOMETIMES TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH!

April 26, 2021

MENTAL NOTE #142: SIMPLIFY YOUR COMPOSITIONS — SOMETIMES TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH!

“All good drawing or painting is compositional.
Better see what you can do on your canvas with these simple notes and for the time being let all details go.
It is useless to keep on adding things to a canvas.
Some painters put thousands of big and little features into a face, colors and more colors.
All day long they keep adding more and more.
They are like whales in a sea with their mouths wide open swallowing everything that comes along.
Much can be done with little.” ~ ROBERT HENRI ~ Henri, Robert, and Margery A. Ryerson. The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students … Westview Press, 1984.

This is Great advice from Sage-Master Painter, ROBERT HENRI. I WISH I could say that I follow his advice all of the time, but I fail, often. I have quoted Robert Henri, more than any other artist. His advice for Art, and Life, is profound. If I could go back in time and apprentice, or study with any artist in history, I think I would travel back in time and study with Robert Henri — VERY CLOSE ALTERNATIVE CHOICES would be Whistler, Klimt, or Kandinsky.

The advice from Henri also works for PHOTOGRAPHY! Don’t clutter your photographs up with unnecessary items. Compose on your main topic of focus, and crop in-frame. Leave unnecessary items out or the frame that add nothing to your photo-story.

MENTAL NOTE #140, What You Want At What Cost

April 19, 2021

MENTAL NOTE #140: “You can get whatever you want in life, but at what cost? That’s been the story of my life”. ~ Jamie Thomas ~

Jamie Thomas : He is a Professional Skateboarder and Entrepreneur, but it didn’t come easily — Never does, usually. He and two friends went to California to become Pro Skateboarders, but he took hard knocks all the way to get to that dream. At one point early on, they were so broke, they were panhandling for change in San Francisco, and eating scraps of leftovers from a pizza joint. And at night, they would often sleep outside, sometimes in the bowl, at the skateboard park. I won’t go into his full story here, but the sacrifices he made for a long time, to first just get off the streets, and after time, to get skateboard sponsorships, and then starting businesses, was a journey of unending perseverance, total dedication, never giving up, and taking risks. This same core life philosophy can also be applied to whatever you are driven by in life.

https://wearelookingsideways.com/podcasts/079-jamie-thomas

HONG SAN SI TEMPLE #2

April 16, 2021

Title: HONG SAN SI TEMPLE #2.

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PENANG-360-DEGREES SERIES
Series Years: 2021.
The meaning of the series name, is simply, recording places in Penang (Malaysia), all over, and anywhere, which interest me.
This is a Monochrome — Sepia-Toned Fine Art Photography Series.
This is also my 100th Photography Series.

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TAGS:
Penang, Malaysia, Black&White, Photography, FineArt, PhotoEssay, AsianCulture, ReligiousStructures, AsianHeritage, SouthEastAsia, TaoistTemple, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, Monochrome, NawfalJohnson, Sepia,

TWISTED SUFFOCATION

April 9, 2021

THE INFLUENCE FOR THIS WORK:

“UNSEEN” ~ By THE GHOST INSIDE.

Here are the first two verses of this song: These words hit me kind of hard, as I recently lost someone close to me.

“Unseen”: ~”One foot in the grave and one hand in the sky
Heaven comes with a price
If all I know is Hell
How will I ever find paradise?
Rabid are the wolves within
That hunt with a vengeful sickness
When the innocent lose their innocence
How can they find forgiveness? ~ It took everything
To find a shred of hope in only shadows of me
So am I guilty for trying to put my mind at ease?
This pain is unseen.” ~
THE GHOST INSIDE

ARTWORK Title & SERIES DESCRIPTION :

“TWISTED SUFFOCATION, Edit E”.

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“MIRRORED ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY” (aka “RORSCHACH ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY”) Series Years: 2007 to Present (On-Going). These pieces are colour and Black & White, abstract images that are designed with a mirrored effect, also known as Rorschach Art. Sometimes the mirrored image is an exact opposite-duplicate for both sides. However, in some cases, one half is ALMOST a mirrored duplicate, but with a few compositional differences. Some pieces are urban, others rural…some have a mechanical or structural-chaotic focus. At times, the formations you can see in the artworks may appear ominous, even scary, or evil. Nevertheless, the viewer of my portfolio can decide for themselves what they see in these MIRRORED ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY images.

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Mirrored, RORSCHACH, NawfalJohnson, Art, Photography, ABSTRACT, Complex, Psychological, Twisted, weeds, UNSEEN,

MENTAL NOTE #139, YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HABIT TO ABIDE BY IN LIFE!

April 1, 2021

ALL RIGHT! LISTEN UP! MENTAL NOTE #139: YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HABIT TO ABIDE BY IN LIFE!

Repeat after Me, and KEEP REPEATING THIS MANTRA UNTIL….FOREVER!

“THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS! THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS! THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS…!”
I suggest the repeating of this mantra until you die…basically.

Repeat because — You are bound to Fûučķ this one up over-and-over in your life.

ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS #449, Edit E

February 14, 2021

Title: “ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS #449, Edit E”.

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Art, Photography, Inspirational, LightStreaks, Abstract, Active, Chaos, Order, NawfalJohnson, SmokeArt, Complex,

Behind the Lens

PHOTOGRAPHY & MENTAL NOTES by Nawfal Johnson Nur

Category: #Integrity

Small Milk Pots and 3 Hands, PHOTOGRAPHS OF PEOPLE Collection

CONTRASTY – BURMESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE, B&W ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY

Title: “CONTRASTY – BURMESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE”.

Location: Penang, Malaysia
Series: BLACK & WHITE ARCHITECTURE
Copyright 2021 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved
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I’m in a NEW Art Photography Group Exhibition at ARTDOC Photography Magazine

I did have some good news: I’m in a Group Exhibition in ARTDOC Photography Magazine, titled, EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY, which opened on 19 August 2021.

Here’s the Link to the Exhibition at ARTDOC Magazine:

“HECATOMB TO THE ALIEN OVERLORDS, ALS #428”, (2021), from the Abstract Light Streaks Photography Series.

Quasar TON 618, aka, ALS #467

TITLE: Quasar TON 618, aka, ALS #467.

☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this Photography Series at the following Link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/ABSTRACT_LIGHT_STREAKS/fine-art-prints

Quasar CTA-102, aka, ALS #466

TITLE: Quasar CTA-102, aka, ALS #466.

☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this Photography Series at the following Link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/ABSTRACT_LIGHT_STREAKS/fine-art-prints

MENTAL NOTE #142, SIMPLIFY YOUR COMPOSITIONS, SOMETIMES TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH!

MENTAL NOTE #142: SIMPLIFY YOUR COMPOSITIONS — SOMETIMES TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH!

The advice from Henri also works for PHOTOGRAPHY! Don’t clutter your photographs up with unnecessary items. Compose on your main topic of focus, and crop in-frame. Leave unnecessary items out or the frame that add nothing to your photo-story.

MENTAL NOTE #140, What You Want At What Cost

MENTAL NOTE #140: “You can get whatever you want in life, but at what cost? That’s been the story of my life”. ~ Jamie Thomas ~

HONG SAN SI TEMPLE #2

Title: HONG SAN SI TEMPLE #2.

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TWISTED SUFFOCATION

THE INFLUENCE FOR THIS WORK:

“UNSEEN” ~ By THE GHOST INSIDE.

ARTWORK Title & SERIES DESCRIPTION :

“TWISTED SUFFOCATION, Edit E”.

☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of my Artwork, TWISTED SUFFOCATION, at this Link:

MENTAL NOTE #139, YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HABIT TO ABIDE BY IN LIFE!

ALL RIGHT! LISTEN UP! MENTAL NOTE #139: YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HABIT TO ABIDE BY IN LIFE!

Repeat after Me, and KEEP REPEATING THIS MANTRA UNTIL….FOREVER!

ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS #449, Edit E

Title: “ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS #449, Edit E”.

☆ You Can Buy High Quality Prints and Museum Quality Canvas at this Link!

☆☆ You can see ALL of my ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS Series at this Link:

PHOTOGRAPHY & MENTAL NOTES by Nawfal Johnson Nur

Title: “CONTRASTY – BURMESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE”.

Location: Penang, MalaysiaSeries: BLACK & WHITE ARCHITECTURECopyright 2021 Nawfal JohnsonAll Rights Reserved—————

☆ Purchase Fine Art Photography Prints of this Image, at this Link:

I did have some good news: I’m in a Group Exhibition in ARTDOC Photography Magazine, titled, EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY, which opened on 19 August 2021.

Here’s the Link to the Exhibition at ARTDOC Magazine:

“HECATOMB TO THE ALIEN OVERLORDS, ALS #428”, (2021), from the Abstract Light Streaks Photography Series.

TITLE: Quasar TON 618, aka, ALS #467.

☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this Photography Series at the following Link:https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/ABSTRACT_LIGHT_STREAKS/fine-art-prints

TITLE: Quasar CTA-102, aka, ALS #466.

☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this Photography Series at the following Link:https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/ABSTRACT_LIGHT_STREAKS/fine-art-prints

MENTAL NOTE #142: SIMPLIFY YOUR COMPOSITIONS — SOMETIMES TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH!

The advice from Henri also works for PHOTOGRAPHY! Don’t clutter your photographs up with unnecessary items. Compose on your main topic of focus, and crop in-frame. Leave unnecessary items out or the frame that add nothing to your photo-story.

MENTAL NOTE #140: “You can get whatever you want in life, but at what cost? That’s been the story of my life”. ~ Jamie Thomas ~

Title: HONG SAN SI TEMPLE #2.

—————☆ Buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this, and ALL Photographs in this Series, at this Imagekind Gallery Link:

THE INFLUENCE FOR THIS WORK:

“UNSEEN” ~ By THE GHOST INSIDE.

ARTWORK Title & SERIES DESCRIPTION :

“TWISTED SUFFOCATION, Edit E”.

☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of my Artwork, TWISTED SUFFOCATION, at this Link:

ALL RIGHT! LISTEN UP! MENTAL NOTE #139: YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HABIT TO ABIDE BY IN LIFE!

Repeat after Me, and KEEP REPEATING THIS MANTRA UNTIL….FOREVER!

Title: “ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS #449, Edit E”.

☆ You Can Buy High Quality Prints and Museum Quality Canvas at this Link!

☆☆ You can see ALL of my ABSTRACT LIGHT STREAKS Series at this Link:

Location: Penang, Malaysia
Series: BLACK & WHITE ARCHITECTURE
Copyright 2021 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved
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☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this Photography Series at the following Link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/ABSTRACT_LIGHT_STREAKS/fine-art-prints

☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this Photography Series at the following Link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/ABSTRACT_LIGHT_STREAKS/fine-art-prints

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