VALIDA Babayeva

PHOTOGRAPHY

My name is Valida Babayeva and I consider myself a self-taught photographer who is in the process of constant learning. Before exploring photography, I have been studying at Azerbaijan State Economical University and graduated with a BS in Business Administration in 2010. I have been volunteering for several years in different fields trying to find my voice, besides my “official” profession. So I think photography is the field where I felt more comfortable and interested in. To me photography is a pleasing challenge that motivates me the most. I was fond of photography from my early ages, but I never had a chance to explore it until the day when I bought my first professional camera. Currently my primary interests are documentary and portrait photog-raphy. Streets are the main source of my photographs. I en-joy taking pictures of people that I don’t know most of the times, yet I feel like I remember them for good. Sometimes I will meet them in the streets again and it feels as if I know them for so long, even though they don’t recall me. I believe that those ordinary people will continue to live in my photographs forever. The process of taking pictures some-times involves small conversations with my subjects, and I see in their eyes the courage and desire to be the “famous star” even for a split of a moment and be remembered by a complete stranger, like myself. Besides that document-ing events is another of my interest areas. Below are some photography projects that I was involved in and you will be able to see the samples within the pages of my portfolio.

ARTIST STATEMENT

PROJECTS• Project “ Memories of Memories” (Vospominaniya o vospominaniyax)• Project celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens:

“We marked the advance of civilization, and beheld it with a sigh”• Independent project that I conducted at summer camp for special needs children at Camp Huntington, High

Falls, NY, USA• Online donation programe for water and sanitarisation under the project “ Strengthening the local self-gov-

ernance in effective water supply management in the rural areas of Central Azerbaijan” co-funded by Oxfam International and European Commission

• Master Class by Tine Harden (http://bit.ly/MVjsXl)• Master Class by Sue Parkhill (http://sueparkhill.com/)

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CONTACT INFORMATIONe-mail: Valida.Babayeva@gmail.comcell: 1 (994) 50.552.5562

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DESIGN BY GULNAR BABAYEVA ART & DESIGN STUDIO 2012

VALIDA Babayeva