Swept by YasMoosa

Light Chaser by YasMoosa

As a South African who is now based in Brisbane and currently studying architecture, the lovely Yaseera Moosa explains that she shoots on her Nikon D600 (and occasionally her iPhone), and that her technical process is spontaneous and experimental. She tells us, ‘I try not to overthink what my ‘style’ is because it’s pretty irrelevant to me. As a natural light photographer, my conditions are dictated by my environment, and as an impulsive person, my processing is dictated by how I feel. I struggle to describe my work in terms of its aesthetic character because I don’t really know what it is. I’m by no means a master of my craft and I have light years of learning ahead of me (which excites me to no end).’

Yaseera divulges that she doesn’t photograph to make a statement, but rather to feed her sentimentalism, ‘The fleeting nature of time and my constant fear of its insufficiency has left me with a desperate need to preserve it, so I do. I try to preserve the bane, the banal and the beautiful, so that I have something tangible (albeit occasionally abstract) to account for what I encounter.’

Her shoots, especially her portraiture shoots such as the ones featured below, are conceptualized by the people she shoots. Yaseera tells us that expression and disposition is usually a huge contributing factor to how she photographs her subjects, and that the same goes for place. ‘Rooms and fields have a lot of personality. So I always try to seek inspiration directly from my subjects. This always helps me when I’m trying to focus on doing something new, rather than latching onto an old technique or another photographer’s inspiration.’

If you like Yaseera’s work, keep an eye out for her regular work on her Facebook page and check out the gallery below for more of her images.

Sunkissed by YasMoosa

Suv by YasMoosa

Untitled by YasMoosa

Stephanie by YasMoosa

What Defines Art by YasMoosa

Autumn Air by YasMoosa