We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Nightmanyagami a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Nightmanyagami, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

I’ve watched a ton of YouTube videos, read a lot of books, and magazines on how to become a great photographer but the best way I’ve learned was to just go out and shoot. Just by going out and taking pictures of the city, friends, and even food improves your experience. The skills I think that are most essential is to be aware of your surroundings, even when I don’t have my camera on me I like to just look around and say “that would be a nice spot for a picture” or “the lighting looks cool in that spot”. As far as any obstacles that stood in my way I would have to say just trying to do something that I haven’t shot before would be an obstacle but it’s always good to brainstorm new ideas before doing a shoot or taking a photo of anything.

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?

My name is Nightmanyagami, I am a photographer based in Greenville, SC. I started doing photography around 2018 and my main focus/vision is to try to translate what looks “beautiful” or “aesthetically pleasing” in my eyes through my camera to your eyes. This vision can be translated through different genres of photography whether that being portraits, city, nature, and even food. What you think might look “normal” might look fascinating to me and my mission is to show you why that is through photography. I offer photography for businesses, restaurants, and people who want portraits taken. What I think sets me apart from others is I like to clash colors and tones with one another when it comes to taking a photo.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

For me the most rewarding aspect of being and artist or creative is just getting your ideas out of your head and actually seeing them. I think it’s incredible to be able to physically see the final result of an idea that just popped into your head while you making toast or something. The creative process of turning an idea into reality is inspiring to me and I’m always interested in other creatives’s processes, I find it intriguing.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I think one of my missions (I have many) is to show how cool and unique my hometown (Greenville, SC) looks through the lens of my camera and then applying that same vision whenever I photograph the rest of the world.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nightmanyagami/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nightmanyagami

Image Credits
@nicolestansell @tawnyyyy @Ricefrisky Jasmine