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Renee Ing Akana
www.28moons.com
28moons@gmail.com
Renee Ing Akana is a Los Angeles based location photographer with a background in fine art, specifically free hand airbrushing and surrealism. Adopting a natural approach to photo capture her technique shows her sensitivity to shade and color layering, texture, hard and soft edges. Renee makes every effort to get it right in the box then takes artistic license to bring the capture into an altered or affected state.
The photographs shown on this page are examples from a large portfolio of work accumulated over the years. Details about prints and prices are available by contacting Renee directly. Please contact her if you would like to discuss commissions.
“I am strict on my technique and strive for technical accuracy before I depart from it. Influenced by my training in film photography, I still want a clear negative. As the world comes to photography and everyone picks up a dSLR with the hope that a good or better camera will give them the perfect shot, I believe that a good photographer should look to the camera as an extension of intent. I shoot with a Canon 5dm2 and a 10mp Canon Rebel Xti which travels lighter and handles big files like panoramas much better. Recently, I added a Canon G12 to my arsenal - fun, but frustrating because it's too easy to use. I yell at it, "more, more," and it says, "I'm done."
“I have lived in Los Angeles for over 40 years and currently divide my time between L.A. and Central New York. I live two blocks south of Route 66, four miles back from the place where the trail drops into the sea. Because there is diversity in landscape and culture in my region, I do not have to travel too far off of the map to be in an entirely different world and yet, some of the places I've visited have been very much "off of the map." I dream about all of it, wondering when I will revisit those places that I have connected to. i wonder if I will be able to find lost things again, such as the mobile home that was blown over by the gusting wind of the desert. When I come in off the road, I am so affected that I actually dream about the places I've been, continuing to travel through the night. My images represent frozen and endearing moments which tell a little story and then there was the rest of it which plays out in my sleep. I always want to go back because there was more to discover.
I have formal photographic education, but my best lessons have been learned in the streets or from being pushed by a Pro photographer/mentor who stays on my case. My work has included studio portraiture and fine art which has hung in several juried shows.”
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist