“Balancing” (self-portrait)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
AZ: Your photography has a very distinct style. Can you tell us about the fantasy world you\u2019ve created?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nBS:<\/strong> Ever since I can remember, even as a child, I wanted to create the worlds that I imagined in my mind. I wrote short stories – dark and creepy but beautiful. I made short films that felt the same as my stories. And when I picked up a camera, my images became much the same. It is a visual style that has always emerged and continues to fulfill me. I see the world the same way I make my images – dark, more sinister and mysterious – dim but yellow light – etc. I love using square format since I never loved photography as a medium, particularly. Squares let me see a window to another realm rather than a photograph.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
AZ: What are your sources of inspiration?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nBS:<\/strong> First and foremost, my daydreams. Secondly, symbolism. I love to see symbols in anything and everything I come across, from an umbrella to the forest and everything in between. I love the Pre-Raphaelite painters for visual cues, surrealism for permission to distort reality, and fairytales, of course!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n