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| Photo © Maika Elan-All Rights Reserved |
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| Photo © Maika Elan-All Rights Reserved |
I really can not describe Maika Elan’s current photography style with certitude, and do not know if it genuinely fits neatly in a category…but what I do know is that it really is ingeniously imaginative.
Very first off, Maika‘s birth name is Nguyen Thanh Hai, and is a freelance photographer from Hanoi. Her photography was recognized with a number of awards, and she’s at the moment operating hard on finishing her lengthy term project…The Pink Decision, in which she documents gay daily life in Vietnam and elsewhere.
Maika attended the Thaipusam festival held at the Batu Caves, close to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and made the decision that, instead than documenting this festival in a conventional editorial style, she would try out to fuse the festival‘s ancient rituals and tradition with modern day photos of Western culture. She did so by photographing popular culture magazines, and then double exposed these with her photos created during the Thaipusam festival.
The result is an intriguing collection of photos which, if you peer at them closely adequate, will reveal faint images of Western models superimposed on Maika’s photographs of Thaipusam scenes.
You may favor to view her gallery on Invisible Photographer Asia.
When I heard she was on her way to photograph the festival, I was specific she’d come up with an unorthodox way of documenting it her way…a la Maika. Yes, that’s what I ought to get in touch with her style…the Maika design.
