Being creative has just become a way of life.
I don't think it begins with a desire to wake up in the morning and say, 'Today, I'm creative.'
It just comes down to, 'Today, I want to live, I want to do what I love, I'm going to go
out and I'm going to do that.'
My name is Benjamin Von Wong, and I'm an artist.
I like to think of my photography as something epic, something larger than life.
It takes a vision, and it exaggerates it so that you can't tell the difference between
what's real and what's fake.
I take a concept and I transform it into reality.
I mean I don't just take the pictures, I conceptualize, I design them, I create them, I build them
up.
It starts off with a base concept, it starts with an idea, and it slowly builds up based
on the constraints that we have available.
It's all about finding solutions to make something that is seemingly impossible, and making it
into something that is better than reality.
I think that people see photography as clicking a button, getting the lighting right, getting
composition right, but it is so much more than that.
Being able to connect with people is so important, and it shows in the final results that if
they understand the story that you are trying to tell then suddenly they can translate that
emotion and make the image so much more powerful.
I think that photos can transport people into another universe and into another world, and
it becomes a story, and people try to figure it out.
They want to understand what's going on, and that just makes it magical.
I think that if you start doing the things that you love, and you start sharing the things
that you love, then sooner or later, people start hiring you to do the things that you
love; for your passion, your vision, for what makes you unique, and because you're the only
person that can do whatever that thing is because you love it so much.
My name is Benjamin Von Wong, and I am a creative.