Interpreting the beauty of the Human Race through Photography: Brinsly Ewang
By Brinsly Ewang
How I fell in love with photography?! It began on a rather unusual note; more as a way to balance my professional life with something different – something which was going to expose me to the more thriving side of life.
As a Diagnostic Computed Tomographer, my daily routine involves acquiring high resolution cross-sectional photographs – in this context, radio-graphs of the internal human anatomy. The images I acquire each day eventually serve as vital tools in finding answers, leading to a medical diagnosis for the many patients I come in contact with every day. It is this experience of caring for the critically ill that led me to want to explore a brighter side of life – of people in happier settings.
Not realizing that I already had a subtle obsession for photography, it took the intervention of my wife to recognize that I had in fact been our little boy’s photographer since he arrived into our family in 2005. I had bought a little point-and-shoot camera just before his birth with this wired but ambitious goal as a new parent to capture every second from the moment he arrived.
Proving that I was actually on track to accomplishing my mission, my wife had to remind me that I had already filled the hard drive of our home PC with our son’s photos. Only then did I realize that photography was actually that opportunity I have been looking for – the opportunity to connect with people in a more lively and celebratory setting.
Presented with a brand new SLR camera as a birthday present, I have not been able to disconnect from my new found PASSION.
To learn the tricks of the art, I aggressively began pursuing the science behind acquiring great photos. The quality of my work today has been the product of a few things, including a robust photography training program at the Prince Georges Community College’s School of Photography, the purchase of top of the line equipment and the drive to continue pushing my boundaries.
At PGCC, I was fortunate to have been trained by one of the finest – Mr. Robin Wright; a 35 year veteran in the field , who is also Donald Trump’s official photographer of the Miss. USA Pageant for the East Coast.
Today, I see each assignment as a new opportunity to help someone express themselves in a way that not only tells a story but preserves their history. At every event, my approach is photojournalistic – unobstructively freezing each moment as it unfolds in high resolution photos. Acquiring the images is just the first phase; with an arsenal of photo editing software, every photo is perfected for those very rich and deep colors all presented in an artistic layout.
I see the camera now as an extension of my soul – it’s how I interpret the beauty of the Human Race. Moreover, it provides me that fine BALANCE between WORK and LEISURE!
BRINSIMAGE PHOTOS
Website: BrinsImage Photography
