Portrait - NOMINEE: jessica candradi

My photography artwork doubles as a platform for wild unbridled imagination. It’s dramatically glossed with cinematic fantasies and polished with a sense of nostalgia — an implicit vessel for unspeakable feelings and emotions. Within, it carries the multifaceted yet oft-contradictory emotions that we humans, regardless of age, are prone to experience. Even as full-grown adults, we still have a hard time putting a finger on them, not quite knowing how to label these fluid enigmas. Hence the title, “Untitled Movie Stills”.

These series invite you down a rabbit hole through the transcending of images, from one dimension to another. Every image encapsulates a scene that toes the line between fantasy and realism; here, every image tells a journey of its own. 

About author:
I’m a former pastry chef who happens to be a self-taught photographer. I first discovered my passion for photography during my study in Melbourne, Australia in 2012. I was studying pastry and culinary at the time, however, I found myself drawn to photography and when I graduated from culinary school, I decided to be a fashion photographer — and I have been ever since. I enjoy traveling the world, and it has been very inspiring to discover new and different cultures.