I started taking photos about 10 years ago, I guess because I simply liked capturing moments between friends, but i’m slowly figuring out that I’ve always felt the insignificant moments we’re important. I was always looking to create something and i’m still figuring out what it is.
Have you had schooling for photography or are you self-taught?
I’m mainly self taught, though in recent years I have taken extra photography classes at college. That mainly taught me the way I do things is often technically wrong, and that i’m too stubborn to change.
Where do you find inspiration?
I’m inspired by people. If I love them, something about them, or a moment between people I want it recorded, I want people to see them. I want to make them important. I am inspired by good cinematography, films like ‘where the wild things are’, and ‘the million dollar hotel’ are really beautifully shot, I film/edit a bit of video too so it inspires me for both.
What is your shooting and editing process?
I take my camera everywhere, partly in case the event is boring and I need to entertain myself and partly because I feel like something is lost if the moment isn’t recorded… Always having it with me has allowed it to be ignored more by the people in my life which is important to me, I like things to be real and i’ve been working on being invisible. I like colour correcting on public transport. haha. I spent a lot of time on buses last year so I did a lot of editing on bus rides to the city.
What is your photography style?
I don’t know how I would describe my style, maybe instinctive; I am really particular about a certain kind of asymmetrical balance, not as a rule but just in a way that I like to see things, i’m a little OCD about it. On a more personal level, I would like to think it is honest and real.
Favorite Cameras?
I usually have a digital and film camera on me, my Digital SLR is a canon 40D and I use a Holga with 35mm adapter, a lomo fish-eye and a cardboard pinhole camera.
Favorite Photographers?
I don’t really have a favourite photographer, I’ve never hugely payed much attention to other peoples work, I will appreciate it but I am more inspired by life than other peoples work.
Where can people find your photos? or contact you?
The photo-shoot below, “People call us renegades…” what is it about?
It is meant to remind people of possibility. It’s like we get older and we think we are expected to act a certain way. We start taking everything so seriously and maybe leave our hearts behind in the process. Someone I know recently wrote in a letter to another friend that he’d been asking God for foolishness, that he might believe anything was possible again. I loved it so much because he was tired of growing up and losing heart, so often we mistaken abandoning our hearts desires for maturity, I guess this was an attempt at immaturity in rebellion of that. We are alive in the letting go, and there is always hope to be found in the smallest of things. This kind of sums up why I bother sharing the photos I take, one of the only motivations anymore is that what I create might remind people there are beautiful things to be found, I think sometimes it’s so easy to forget – but there are things worth fighting for.
Hallo! My name is Fonda LaShay, i am a graphic and web designer. This blog is where I share things that inspire me. Focusing on all things design, architecture and interior, with the occasional side note of fashion and photography.
Originally an Okie (US), I moved to Norway in 2008 with my lovely boyfriend Ole-Richard.
