This month, triplew.me's Featured Photographer is Beirut-based Tanya Traboulsi. Tanya is an accomplished photographer with a portfolio as diverse as they can get. She draws her inspiration from other creative mediums such as music. Her images are striking and raw, but also technically interesting. We have caught up with Tanya recently - so read below for an inside look at what she does and how she does it.
I actually got my first camera when I was a child, I think at the age of 4 or 5. It was (and still is, I still have it and just tried it out again a few days ago) a kind of instamatic camera - a very tiny one that uses 110 films.
Later on, throughout my childhood and teenage years, I always carried a camera with me. I have tons of photos from that time.
For the past few years it’s been mostly music, concerts, festivals, interesting people and places I traveled to...
I have always been drawn to photographs of the past, that document a specific period of time, a specific movement in art or music. Even though everything is so easy to document nowadays, I always wonder if maybe one day someone will look at my photos and imagine the circumstances and period of the time they were taken in.
I am very influenced by music, films - also concerts that I attend. Nature inspires me a lot too. And silence!
If I had to name a few specific artists that inspire me it would be: Boards of Canada, Demdike Stare, Maya Deren, The Velvet Underground, Sarah Moon, Sally Mann and John Galliano...
A great photograph for me is one that tells more than it shows. Meaning, I could look at it for more than just a few seconds, and drift away in my thoughts - imagining something like a continuation of the initial image. Like a story. A good photograph for me is an image that transfers its mood onto you, an image that you will remember later on, that inspires you and that carries more than what you can see when you look at it.
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