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  • Being creative has just become a way of life. I don't think it begins with a desire to wake

  • up in the morning and say, 'Today, I'm creative.' It just comes down to, 'Today, I want to live,

  • I want to do what I love, I'm going to go out and I'm going to do that.'

  • My name is Benjamin Von Wong, and I'm an artist.

  • I like to think of my photography as something epic, something larger than life. It takes

  • a vision, and it exaggerates it so that you can't tell the difference between what's real

  • and what's fake.

  • I take a concept and I transform it into reality. I mean I don't just take the pictures, I conceptualize,

  • I design them, I create them, I build them up. It starts off with a base concept, it

  • starts with an idea, and it slowly builds up based on the constraints that we have available.

  • It's all about finding solutions to make something that is seemingly impossible, and making it

  • into something that is better than reality.

  • I think that people see photography as clicking a button, getting the lighting right, getting

  • composition right, but it is so much more than that.

  • Being able to connect with people is so important, and it shows in the final results that if

  • they understand the story that you are trying to tell then suddenly they can translate that

  • emotion and make the image so much more powerful.

  • I think that photos can transport people into another universe and into another world, and

  • it becomes a story, and people try to figure it out. They want to understand what's going

  • on, and that just makes it magical.

  • I think that if you start doing the things that you love, and you start sharing the things

  • that you love, then sooner or later, people start hiring you to do the things that you

  • love; for your passion, your vision, for what makes you unique, and because you're the only

  • person that can do whatever that thing is because you love it so much.

  • My name is Benjamin Von Wong, and I am a creative.

Being creative has just become a way of life. I don't think it begins with a desire to wake

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