Crystallize

Another FAUVE editorial for August's issue! This one's my fave so far. As you can see I've put it all over my banners and such. Its also on August's issue cover! BOOYAH

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I'm blessed with an awesome team :)

Photo & Graphics > Rachel mantiri

Art Direction >FAUVE

Styling > MCYO

Model > Dominique for Fauve Agency

Naufragee (Shipwreck)

Editorial spread for Issue 12 of FAUVE Magazine

No idea what possessed me to try and "flood" an entire room, probably because of the challenge involved, I find it hard to appreciate my works unless it took a great deal of difficulty to create. This series took me an entire month of post production! But for what it's worth, I believe I've just shot one of my favourite editorial so far.

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Photography: Rachel Mantiri

Art Direction: Rachel Mantiri & Fauve

Hair & Make-up: Yeanne & Team

Styling: Fauve
Model: Yulia for FAUVE Agency

Sombre Romantic

Here's an old photoshoot I did, altered with new editing! I did these series up for my book which I have yet to print :/ Its so costly I've been contemplating doing a smaller series of books or even a set of postcards & posters instead... *sigh* budget

Photography & Digital Imaging: Rachel Mantiri
Styling: Josiah Chua
Model: Elycia Lim
Outfits: Mae Pang, Stylist's own

MOODSCAPE

A while back I had an offer to print an artbook in order to promote a newly opened printing service. They requested 152 pages of artworks, which is pretty much gave me a heart-breaking revelation: That I dont have 152 pages worth of artworks!!!!

What the heck was I doing all these years? Have I been slaving to clients that I dont even have enough artworks I could proudly present as "my own"?

Tragic.

So I ended up in a situation where I will do nothing else but create! My deadline to submit "152" pages was in 3 days since my offer... Sounds impossible but It had to be done for my sanity's sake.

Fortunately for me I got another 2 days extension to work things out... I had to keep churning out new artworks and expanding on some old ones within the short timeframe. 3/5 days I kept wanting to give up, but thankfully I've gotten a lotta push and support from the people around me.

In the end, having to create 20 new pieces in 5 days is ridiculous... So eventually I negotiated to reduce my page count to around 96.

Voila! I have my very own artbook! with plenty of new works to upload on this blog :)

here's the cover artwork

Love is The New Black

Booyah! another FAUVE Shoot. I gotta admit the conditions were less-than-perfect, My strobe lights mysteriously stopped working and i forgot my cables, therefore leaving me with an external flash unit. Which is not a problem except that the batteries were running out. It's almost like I had to make every shot count, which in turn slowed down this photoshoot! To top it all off it was scorching hot!

Well nature is nature, in the end I got some shots :D add a bit of re-touching and VOILA here's the results from "Love Is The New Black"

Photography: Rachel Mantiri
Art Direction & Make-Up: Juhenry
Styling: Ozlem Esen
Hair: Tini for Yeanne & Team
Model: Ozlem & Aby
Poem by Mark Stephen O’Neill

Cosmic Twins

To celebrate the fact that this blog managed to last over 10 posts, I present to you 'The Cosmic Twins'!

Gotta keep them posts coming. Not sure if anyone even reads this blog, but I believe its a good way of monitoring my creative progress.

Photography: Iksan Wahyudi
Model: Thalia Garingging
Digital Imaging: Rachel Mantiri

Hello again!

Look who's back! after a year of not posting anything... I told you I had pathetic blogging habits! None of my previous blogs have made it beyond 10 posts. So lets see if I can break that little record here ;)

Anyhoo here's a random photoshop collage-thingy. This is one of the things I do in my time of stress... or if some one pays me to do so.

TADA! There will be more posts later. I promise!