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FAIRY OF MAURITIUS
News On Sunday
http://www.defimedia.info/articles/5017/1/Fairy-of-Mauritius/Page1.html
May 27 2011
Mauritius
Emma Grigoryan comes from a far away country situated between Turkey
and Azerbaijan named Armenia. Two and a half years ago, our small
island was unknown to her and she would never have thought of coming
to the Indian Ocean where she would discover her true talent for
photography. Her first sight of Mauritius was a magical moment and her
discovery of the ethnic diversity of the island very much surprised
her. It was actually by "pure coincidence" that Emma came to live in
Mauritius. "One day my husband was checking his spam mail, which he
actually never does, and found that he had a job offer in Mauritius.
We immediately started to search information on the island and were
delighted with what we saw. We decided to come as we are young and
want to experience new things," she says.
Emma worked as a graphic designer in her native country. Photography
was a hobby to her at the beginning. However, she "always had a liking
for it" and was inspired by the very old pictures she had at home
which were taken by her father, also a keen photographer. In fact,
Emma's grandfather was a professional photographer. At the age of 17,
Emma decided to buy her own camera. "It came naturally and I started to
take my camera everywhere with me," says Emma. She entered the world of
photography with photojournalism as she started to help and work with
her sister who is a journalist. With this, Emma explains her "talent
developed" and "discovered that I had potential and I was maybe made
for that job." Emma Grigoryan is now more into concept and portrait
photography and has her own style whereby she "shoots with sunlight."
Emma has to connect with the people she is photographing. Her goal
through her photos is to make her subjects "see them and like them."
Choosing Mauritian women to represent her personal vision of the island
was not that difficult. "Woman is the start of everything," she truly
believes. Emma wanted to add a fairy touch to the landscape of the
island and considered that she "made a very good choice in choosing
them to represent the island." Emma also argues that her objective is
to make Mauritian women realise "how beautiful they are and that they
can move forward in life and profession. When you are confident you
can do anything. A woman who is confident shines." Emma confides that
she worked on every aspect of the photo shoots, from make-up to art
direction, together with the help of Kunal Jankee. The appreciation
she received for the photo exhibition gave her "more confidence that
I could move forward."
In fact Emma gets the motivation to move forward from the support
of her family especially her mum and people around her. She is also
very thankful to Kunal Jankee who gave her huge support as well as
all the staff, whom she describes as "family", who worked to put
up the exhibition. Emma Grigoryan says that women have to "accept
the way they are as they are unique." The key to success is to "do
something you like and love because you feel happy and at peace." She
would like to stay in our island for as long as possible. Living in
Mauritius inspires Emma and she feels in harmony with us and most
importantly she feels that she "can produce more beautiful work" here.
News On Sunday
http://www.defimedia.info/articles/5017/1/Fairy-of-Mauritius/Page1.html
May 27 2011
Mauritius
Emma Grigoryan comes from a far away country situated between Turkey
and Azerbaijan named Armenia. Two and a half years ago, our small
island was unknown to her and she would never have thought of coming
to the Indian Ocean where she would discover her true talent for
photography. Her first sight of Mauritius was a magical moment and her
discovery of the ethnic diversity of the island very much surprised
her. It was actually by "pure coincidence" that Emma came to live in
Mauritius. "One day my husband was checking his spam mail, which he
actually never does, and found that he had a job offer in Mauritius.
We immediately started to search information on the island and were
delighted with what we saw. We decided to come as we are young and
want to experience new things," she says.
Emma worked as a graphic designer in her native country. Photography
was a hobby to her at the beginning. However, she "always had a liking
for it" and was inspired by the very old pictures she had at home
which were taken by her father, also a keen photographer. In fact,
Emma's grandfather was a professional photographer. At the age of 17,
Emma decided to buy her own camera. "It came naturally and I started to
take my camera everywhere with me," says Emma. She entered the world of
photography with photojournalism as she started to help and work with
her sister who is a journalist. With this, Emma explains her "talent
developed" and "discovered that I had potential and I was maybe made
for that job." Emma Grigoryan is now more into concept and portrait
photography and has her own style whereby she "shoots with sunlight."
Emma has to connect with the people she is photographing. Her goal
through her photos is to make her subjects "see them and like them."
Choosing Mauritian women to represent her personal vision of the island
was not that difficult. "Woman is the start of everything," she truly
believes. Emma wanted to add a fairy touch to the landscape of the
island and considered that she "made a very good choice in choosing
them to represent the island." Emma also argues that her objective is
to make Mauritian women realise "how beautiful they are and that they
can move forward in life and profession. When you are confident you
can do anything. A woman who is confident shines." Emma confides that
she worked on every aspect of the photo shoots, from make-up to art
direction, together with the help of Kunal Jankee. The appreciation
she received for the photo exhibition gave her "more confidence that
I could move forward."
In fact Emma gets the motivation to move forward from the support
of her family especially her mum and people around her. She is also
very thankful to Kunal Jankee who gave her huge support as well as
all the staff, whom she describes as "family", who worked to put
up the exhibition. Emma Grigoryan says that women have to "accept
the way they are as they are unique." The key to success is to "do
something you like and love because you feel happy and at peace." She
would like to stay in our island for as long as possible. Living in
Mauritius inspires Emma and she feels in harmony with us and most
importantly she feels that she "can produce more beautiful work" here.