JUMIS
(pronounced /iumɪs/)
I am a wandering photographer with a wide variety of interests, but I am particularly drawn to street- and reportage-style genres. My love for Black & White photography came from working as a professional photographic printer - back in the days before digital photography was a thing.
I have a number of projects I am eternally working on that might (hopefully) be described as Helmut Newton meets David Lynch. That would be the effect I am trying to achieve, anyway. I intend to showcase these here, when completed
I am currently using Fujifilm X-Series cameras (X-Pro3 and X-T2), and more recently the GFX 50R.
Who is ‘Jumis’?
Jumis is the Latvian pagan deity of the harvest, fertility, and wealth. He is symbolised by crossed stalks of grain. He is also a dualistic god and, when inverted Jumis symbolises death, destruction, and decay.
So why Jumis?
We are all burdened with the weight of history and the sins of the fathers are visited upon their sons.