Photoshoot Tuesday (Part II)

I've always thought photographers are stuck up peeps. But after meeting and talking to Edmund, my perception of all photographers changed.

Edmund Tham is an international award winning photographer that is not only dedicated in what he does, he is also humble and real. Easily, Edmund could have just rejected to sponsor his service for Project O&O. We started off with nothing but he was still more than willing to provide his professional service.

Just last week, Edmund was featured on Utusan Malaysia and Sin Chew Daily and like I said, he must be that good to be put under the spotlight. He was also featured on Prestige Malaysia, The Star, Tatler Malaysia, and TV3 previously for his excellence at photography.

One of his photography concepts - Wet Market

If you were to go to his blog, you would notice that Edmund is not your usual photographer but he brings a very different flavour to the table. Talk about flavour! (Referring to the picture above) Just in case you're still in the dark, Edmund made history by being the first Malaysian in WPJA (The Wedding Photojournalist Association) history to achieve the rank of World's Top 9 Photographers.

Even before the photoshoot, I realised Edmund is not having the mindset that since it's just an event handled by a handful of undergraduates he could just slack on the creativity side but he surprised me by suggesting that the photoshoot will take place in a construction site at Cheras that is way far from his office at Damansara Perdana. Make no mistake about it, we are going in to this place with no permission at all ! We could have been put to jail for trespassing! That's how much Edmund is risking for the love for photography.

Would you now give a virtual salute to Edmund already?

During the photoshoot, Edmund brought along a friend to help out with the videography and his assistant for additional side snaps. And just when you think that this place is just rocks, it's tougher than you thought! It's the Sun!!! It was like Sahara! The Sun and the rocks! Crazy hot and we were all sweating like pigs.

There were times when Edmund would walk around just for a minute or two in silence to think about the next best spot to continue with the shoot or the next best pose for the finalists. He is only human lah, c'mon!

As for the shoot, it was a totally new experience for me and for the finalists as well. Overall my finalists mentioned that it was fun and they never expecting any photoshoot to be as such. That sentence alone made me realized that I made the right choice by approaching Edmund to be the sponsor for the photoshoot.

By tomorrow we should be able to upload all the pictures onto the Project O&O Facebook page and they will be up for voting. As the founder of Project O&O and after meeting the finalists face to face, I'm still unable to tell who's going to emerge as the winners of Project O&O. So it's up to you my friends!

Who is going to win this competition?

Do you prefer our macho and sexy male finalist - Kenny Mah?

Or do you like our 19-year-old Korean pretty boy - Andrew Fong better?

Is it going to be our sweet and innocent UTAR's model search winner - Josheen Ma?

Or would it be our beautiful and intellectual lawyer-to-be - Qwen Ong?

For the guys, we kind of came up with two teams for them - Team Jacob and Team Edward. If you're a Twilight fan, you would notice that Jacob is this macho werewolf and we would like to label Kenny as that. While for pretty boy Andrew, we've coined him as Edward. It does make a bit of sense, right? So which team are you?!

Jacob & Edward

Remember, your every vote counts!

Click here to start voting for them from tomorrow onwards.

Not to forget, I'm also doing a poll at the sidebar to find out whether we should still do Project O&O II. No obligations! :)

p/s: Go Spain!