We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Debora Amiliay. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Debora below.

Debora, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

In 2024 I quit my job and left Switzerland to go to New York for 3 months. On the second day of my trip, I met my now Boyfriend. He left Ghana to become a Model in South Africa and furthermore left that place too, to grow even more In New York.
When he told me, that he left everything familiar behind him, not knowing anyone or anything in the city, I just felt so understood because me too, I left home to challenge myself somewhere new..

That connection and his beautiful story let me to organize a photoshoot and curate an exhibition about it. In summary, this visual storytelling let me to host my first ever solo exhibition in New York City!
Who would have thought!

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am a self-taught Art Director / Photographer / Visual Storyteller from Switzerland!
Growing up as a teenager, wanting to travel with every Penny I earned, made me realize, how interesting and unique other countries and their people were. I started taking pictures with my little 2000s digital cam even before I started traveling so while now exploring new cities and landscapes, I always carried the cam with me.
Now I have bigger and better cameras, but I still carry this little old camera around everywhere I go.

With that being said, I love capturing people in a natural way. I feel like every being has a story to tell and a lot of time we only see them for how they look like but not actually who they are. So I want to change that perspective.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

I have this enormous passion for story telling and photography it honestly is what I like to do most in life. So I just keep doing it,
I keep creating, keep telling stories and hope that someone will get inspired too, that someone is looking at a picture I took and feels something familiar from within. Something they can resonate to.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

When someone you never spoke to or saw, comes up to you and lets you know what they felt while seeing your work. Just seeing my passion and energy level I had while doing the project, coming back alive in the viewers eyes while telling me about it is amazing.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: amiliayy