‘I HAVE A DREAM’. This statement by Martin Luther King was enough to motivate the world. The same statement, ‘I have a dream’, this time around uttered by Martin Abela only motivated me. I dreamed in becoming a photographer at the tender age of seven. I was simply awed and mesmerized in seeing a Polaroid image instantly developed. I struggled in finding a way into the photographic field, since none of my family members owned a camera. My first shot was done with a camera distributed free of charge with a large bag of washing powder, when I was 16 years of age. That sound of that click, which I can still hear, was enough to instigate me to follow my childhood dream. I wanted to explore photography to have fun and enjoy life, and to my surprise, I had as a bonus additional to that, I managed to find myself. Today I am sharing my passion and enthusiasm with friends and photographers from all over the world, because photography is not just a mean to maintain my family, but it is a mean to get me closer to true friends. I want to share the knowledge I have learnt throughout my 28 years of photographic passion, but the most important of all, is that I am still following my DREAM.

Martin Abela has an Exhibition here.

Martin's Programme

The Artist in You (Masterclass)

The SWPP 2008 Convention was an outstanding success,
we have 242 days to get ready for the 2009 convention - which starts on January 14, 2009

Photo Quote: The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself. Daniel J. Boorstin