Windee Winata

As a visual artist I am interested in the unseen. It’s not the looks, but the usually unclear, yet deep feel that attracts me.
I think of my works as poetry. Motion & focus blurs with lens tilt & shift used in reverie leads to vague images, allowing viewers to dream their own interpretations of my works.

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I was living in Berlin back in 1996 when I bought my first SLR camera for trips to Egypt, Greece and Turkey. Over the moon with 3 photos out of 14 rolls of films, I was hooked with photography, and decided to make the camera a permanent necklace.

I neglected my automotive engineering study for two and a half years, but eventually finished it and worked as a passenger car development engineer at The Mercedes-Benz Technology Center in Sindelfingen.

Moving back to Bali in 2004 with my wife to raise our baby daughter, I turned my hobby into a profession and setup PhotoFactory with her. Ten years later, I started doing fine art photography.

Connection is my favourite subject. It could be anything, to which I feel a connection. I don’t see the final image in front of me nor in my head when I start clicking, but instead let the universe take over. With the techniques of long exposure with camera shake, lens tilting ...

Automotive engineering, masters degree - Technical University of Berlin, Germany

2017: Four Seasons Resort, Jimbaran - Bali
2018: Living Food Lab, Canggu - Bali
2018: Food-Art pairing at Living Food Lab, Canggu - Bali
2018: The Oberoi, Seminyak - Bali
2018: CushCush Gallery, Denpasar - Bali (Group Exhibition)