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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived...Passion is all that is other from self...unbearable does life seem without it.

My philosophy on photography...

Photography, for me, is not about copying the world. I’m not really interested in making an accurate copy of what I see out there. I think one of photography’s strongest elements is its ability to record a part of the world, but also to integrate with the individual photographer’s aesthetic sense.

The combined result is an interpretation – and the interpretation, I think, is what is interesting – when the subject goes through the filter of an individual human mind and emerges in a changed state – not the duplication or the recording of something. That’s the spirit of the artist, the spirit of the painter. - Micheal Kenna

My intentions

Seeking the connection between the meaning of life and photography. The essence of photography is not about f-stops or shutter speeds, but rather a connective visual rhythm flowing through all human beings, like a heartbeat.

Awards

1st & 2nd place Kew Junction Photographic Competiton (2005), Melbourne

1st place, Flicky Award Excellence in Photography from Oceania/Australasia, 2005


Exhibitions

Elements, Sept 9 2008, Maremagnum Shopping Center, Barcelona, Spain

From Web to Wall, 69Smith Street Gallery , Collingwood, 24 May to 11 June 2006, Australia

Kodak Salon 2006, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 19 May to 24 June 2006, Melbourne Australia


Works featured and clients

Afar Travel Magazine (USA)
Bauer Media Group (Germany)
Sonus Faber (Italy)
Adrienne DeLoe | Web & Graphic Design (USA)
Overseas Singaporean Unit , Prime Minister’s Office, (Singapore)
IMES Management AG (Zurich)
Four-Letter Word Design Consultants (UK)
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid)
Schmap.com
Australian Geographic
Friends of World Heritage, United Nations Foundation
NowPublic.com
TheAge.com.au
The British Journal of Photography
PictureAustralia
Jumper.it (Italy)
WorldPictureNetwork
Bending Light Magazine
Australian Digital Photography
Music video of Sydney songwriter, Peter Stein
&SMITH (UK)

Sale Inquries

For purchase of prints or other license inquiries, please email me at simonmj@gmail.com

Getty Stock Images
Some of my pictures are available through Getty Images

Artistic Collaboration

Producers, poets, writers, singers, artists, musicians, photographers, please feel free to contact me at simonmj@hotmail.com if you wish to collaborate on any projects.

Copyrights
Unless otherwise stated, I am the owner of the copyrights of the images

Flickr groups

I'm a big fan of Haruki Murakami. If you like his books too, you're most welcomed to join a group I co-admin - Chasing Murakami Worlds





As featured in Jumper.it, an Italian digital web portal:



"He's Australian, is an economist, has a master in Computer Science. Except his origin (Australia is a very lively and creative country in photography, music, art), nothing makes us think about photography, but Simon Wong - Eyecatcher's his name as an artist - is one of the most beautiful discoveries of our research done through our Flickr Group. In his life he met the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson and this definitely hit him and deeply influenced him: it made him understand that photography is not about technique, but instinct. We see with the eyes, but take photos with the heart.

A reflection, a shape, a colour, a perspective: Eyecatcher's images are pure intuition, often brilliant in their originality. His favourite subjects are nature and reflections... and in these reflections we've looked in like in a mirror: magic instants made of bright coincidences. Reflections, thoughts, emotions. To see, to touch. Life, light that make a detail alive and able to explode and reach everybody, able to escape from the sad and grey everyday life. And to stay as a strong and intense trace also when we turn the page, when we go further.

Eyecather catches the sun (the light) where nobody else find it, where nobody else see it. A precious quality, expecially when we're used to live in the dark, as it often happens." - www.jumper.it/simonwong/index.php?lang=ita