I've been involved in beauty pageant scene since 2017 accidently while taking a photography course for 2 years. One of the task that were given to us is to shoot for the local traditional beauty contest called Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan that held annually during Kaamatan festive. A festive that celebrate and honouring the spirit of the paddy for giving a bountiful harvest in the month of May yearly. Since then, I've been shooting beauty pageant event until these last two year where I decided to take a rest from this scene for awhile.
The modern beauty pageant now is slightly different with the traditional Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan pageant where participant will have an advocacy that they want to recommend of a particular cause or policy for public support. This particular photo in these post shows the advocacy for Miss Grand in Stopping war and violence. Sara, the winner of Miss Grand Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu advocate for stopping the violence and child abuse as picture in this photo. A conceptual photo that we came up with to show the message of her advocacy.
A portraiture session organized under the Anavau Events last 2 years. The event industry were hit hard during these 2 years of pandemic since there's no public activities due to the lockdown. These pageant events has been postponed for a year and half if I'm not mistaken after this portraiture session that we have. So, I'll be sharing my portraiture journey with them for these next few days. I already posted an entry of her casual photo wear in this post Here.
Here's a couple of her head shoot in monochrome. Culling and choosing her photo between the hundreds of snap I've taken is very hard as all of them looks great. These couple of photo I've posted seems like not doing her justice.
Until the next post everyone and have a great day.