"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
The Cheshire Cat

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."
John Cage

Maoya Bassiouni was born in Switzerland 1986. She has 3 nationalities: Swiss, American and Egyptian. She has been studying environmental engineering at the Polytechnic School in Lausanne (EPFL) since 2005.

I discovered the miraculous world of photography at the age of six with my father. He brought me every Saturday to the black and white lab where he used to work. I spent hours there destroying films and wasting paper.
Today, I am experimenting. I play with everyday lines and shapes. I do not look for sense or emotion in my subjects. I want my photographs to be free to simply exist as lines and figures detached from what they represent. I hope not to guide individuals that contemplate theses photographs towards a predefined emotion, nor share my likes and dislikes but rather invite them to forget what they know to discover and imagine again.

Activities

Maoya provides stock images for Farmboy Fine Arts, a design agency based in Vancouver, Canada.
Maoya photographs concerts and bands for:
- Le Romandie rock club in Lausanne.
- Balelec festival 2008 at the EPFL
- For Noise Festival 2008 in Pully
- Berles Rock Festival 2008 in Denens

Exhibits

Lofty-Green, Lausanne, 18-19 March 2008. Presenting the series "Snowflakes", "Rorschach Revisited", a Preview of "Stop" and "Naughty Chairs".
See a couple images of the exhibition

Prizes and publications

JPGmag issue 14 (February-March 2008): The serie "Snowflakes"
See the issue
Just see the article

JPGmag issue 12 (October-November 2007): "Naughty Chairs" in the theme Creative License
See the issue

Creative License prize by Adobe for "Naughty Chairs"
See the Adobe page

Equipment

Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm 1:2.8
Software: Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop

Contact:

maoya@eye-ris.net
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