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Michael Drysdale

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> QUICK FACTS
BIRTHPLACE:  
South Africa
BIRTH YEAR:  
1962
LIVES IN:  
Richmond in The Great Karoo
WORKS IN:  
Richmond in The Great Karoo
ADDRESS:  
P.O. Box 1148, Bromhof, 2154 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
PHONE:  
+27 (0) 73-476-1746
WEBSITE:  
http://www.pakedi.co.za
REPRESENTING GALLERIES:  
working hard and still hoping to be discovered, Flat Stanley's
TAGS:  
gallery, graffiti/street-art, digital, non-profit, photography, landscape, realism, arts-education
> STATEMENT

I'm a bit of a maverick, I truly believe that nothing is impossible, I know that everything has a solution, so I will go out to find the solution, and make things work. I started my creative career at the tender age of thirteen, making those awful macrame', I then went on to do sculpture, and also did the impossible I trained and performed in an equestrian display team, teaching and doing the voltige (gymnastics on horseback) At 22 I packed up everything and went to Europe, ended up in Iceland where I started my career in Fashion.

Started photography 8 years ago, and as I'm getting older I'm not only discovering more about myself, but I'm starting to push the limits with my own creativity, trying very hard to get right out of the box and do things which most professional photographers would probably shy away from, but, I've decided that I want to be an art photographer and not a technical photoghrapher, did all the courses and training on the technichal aspects of photography only to find that I was shooting technically perfect pictures, but they had no artistic value at all, so I took the advice of a friend and colleague and went back to capturing the images that i saw in my head and my eye.

I am a grandfather, raising my grandson who turned five this year, hard being a single grandparent, but such a joy seeing the world through the eyes of an innocent, having a lot of fun stimulating his creativity, he loves the camera, and I always hold my breath when he gets his hands on my camera and starts taking pictures, (petrified that he'll drop it) I think I have some serious competition, as he takes some fabulous photographs, maybe I'll start a page for him one of these days!

I am also living with stage 3 AIDS (Full blown) For me it was a life changing experience in that I am doing more and I am busier now than I ever was before, but it also has it's challenges in raising a grandson who is HIV negative.

I have started writing my first novel, although unless I can find 48 hours in a day, I'm not sure when I'll get to finish it.

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