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Abraham is a 29 year old photographer based in Philadelphia who offers his services towards agencies and brands. With experience shooting portraiture, candid moments and city life - Abraham consistently creates content tailored to inspire artistic imagery from a perspective of inherent connection to his surroundings.
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“For those of you who don’t know me or who aren’t familiar with my work, my name is Abraham Morales and I am a photographer from Philadelphia. I guess you could say “I’m a bit of an odd case” because I picked up my first real camera about 8 years ago... Not back then when I was a toddler in my parents’ backyard, like so many “I found my life’s purpose” stories tend to go.
The moment I picked up my first camera, since then I’ve spent the last 5 years crafting a unique vision for my work. Now of course, I started shooting photos using the city of brotherly love as my canvas and searching through the streets for places that I felt were worthy of capturing... Homes that I found charming throughout the seasons and even the narrow brick-paved streets that still gives Philadelphia its old-world allure.
I’ve learned most of what I know about life and photography through trial and error; discovering angles, lighting, perspectives and being adventurous by shooting at different times of the day. However, being as passionate as I am in this representation of art, my job is to capture images that can spark feeling in people - which isn’t always easy to do.
These last few years of experimenting really shaped my personal philosophy as a photographer. In fact, artists all have their own form of the word “perfecting”. For musicians, we call it “tuning” and for dance we call it “timing”, to name a few examples. However, the interesting thing about the visual arts, like painting or photography,
is that unlike music or dance, our work doesn’t span time. We don’t have time to tune, or time to recover our rhythm. (Although, I am not saying these forms of art are easier than photography, because if you saw me dance or heard me sing, you would quickly realize why I’d have no business suggesting that. Therefore, I really respect these forms of art)… What I am trying to convey is that photography is the exact opposite of something that can span across time. I essentially have approximately 1 out of a 2000th of a second to capture exactly the image that I envision. I have to be quick and precise to reflect the art I have going on in my mind when I come across something I feel is worth capturing.
Yet, what is worth capturing? We live in a time where with social media and sophisticated smart phones, any person with an eye for lighting and a good angle can generate a beautiful photograph. I don’t talk about this like I disrespect it either. Most of my earliest photos were, in fact, shot on an iPhone. But what makes my artistry unique is that I am less interested in what is “superficially” pretty. Society really likes to focus on the appearance of people, places and things. But I specifically try to tell a story with my work. When I capture a photo and I immortalize my vision with a perspective - that split second in time and space - I don’t do so because I found my subject to be “pretty" or "trendy”, but because I am expressing an emotion a way that no one else can.”