FROM DESIGN SCENE 004: With his showstopping portfolio MAZEN ABUSROUR reshaped the way eastern market consumes fashion photography, showstopping and glamorous are only a few sentiments easy to describe his work. His work took the campaigns and advertorials for fahion’s power houses such as Dior, Gucci, Chanel and Kenzo to name a few while at the same time he’s a regular contributor to prestige titles such as VOGUE, L’Officiel and ELLE among other.
With his DESIGN SCENE shoot in Dubai captured for our March 2016 issue it was a perfect moment for us to talk with Mazen about photography, inspiration and the fashion industry itself.
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Is photography something that you always knew you wanted to do straight from school? What did the beginning of Mazen Abusrour the photographer look like?
I was always fascinated with women and the way they carry themselves and how they want the public to perceive them. At the same time I had a big interest in visual art, hence why I was a motion graphics artist. i never thought i would become a fashion photographer, but one day I felt that I had reached the ceiling in my field and I needed a bigger challenge, delivering a statement through a still image rather than a video. This became my new challenge. This is where women came into the picture, and more precisely my frame, and this is where it all started to evolve into what it is today. It took a lot of guts to take this step, basically going back to ground zero in my career. I went from being an award-wining motion graphics artist to starting off as an amateur photographer, but I knew that my passion for fashion photography wouldn’t fail me.(...)
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