Windee Winata

Windee Winata

Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

About Windee Winata

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. It’s not the looks, but the (usually unclear, yet deep) feel that interests me. 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 and shifting, I sort of give up control when an image is being created. I find that my works are more like poetry, as opposed to news or stories. They are simple and vague, but as we look at them, we discover more and more, visually and emotionally. It keeps them interesting for a long time, and we can always come back and be with them.

Education:

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

Events:

March 2018: Food-Art pairing at Living Food Lab, Canggu - Bali

Exhibitions:

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