I’ve learned photography through traditional B&W film darkroom process. I have seen all the magic happened, all in the dimmed darkroom. I still carry all those values and what I've learned back then even when I started using digital capture.

To me, it's the vision that matters; it’s how I, as a photographer look at things, see things, like beauty, mood, feeling, love, passion and most of all ... life itself. All of them folded into one. Those are things that molded together and slowly find their way into my photographs ...

I shoot portraits, figure studies and classic nudes. My palette is always Black and White. Most of the time, I try to use simple natural light with artificials here and there. And in a good day, I might play around with different stuff. To me, all shapes and sizes of bodies are radiant and reflect beauty, emotion and feeling in their own. I grow fond of something that's ordinary, imperfections and taboos.  I also like some sort of spontaneity and weird angle when looking through the camera at the human body…

Alfred H. Laij

website : AlienLiFephotographs.com

(will be up on November 2008)