Ajaye

To my camera, a body is a series of shapes on a flat plane. So, honestly, that is my mode of adjusted thinking when I'm shooting. As your eyes perceive (on the street, wherever...) you might see slender or curvy, muscular or weedy — but the camera just sees a series of inter-joined basic shapes that make up your body. Real life is three dimensional, but a photograph is only two dimensional. I know that is a "no shit, Sherlock!" kind of statement, but taking an interesting photograph is all about using that fact to an advantage. I'm not always interested in flattering — ultimately I'm interested in creating something visually compelling, but most might notice that I'm prone to flatter those that I photograph. I tend to think of a body as a combination of shapes, and the way that I arrange these shapes determines how someone looks in my images. For instance, the apparent size and shape of a body (or facial features, for that matter) will always depend on the angle presented to the camera. I call them universally flattering angles! Patent pending, patent pending...