My appreciation for art, generally speaking, has been more advanced compared to other kids since I was about two years old. While they enjoyed children's songs, I preferred Elton John, Ney Matogrosso, S.w.a.t., and the Rolling Stones. This aspect of myself reflected the same nontraditional approach to fashion.
My mum used to go to a shoe store, and I always wanted to find high heels for myself, even though I was only 4 years old. She usually blink at the seller, and the seller would say, " Oh, it will arrive; I'll let you know! "
Later on, I began to play the piano and joined Silvia Alves Atelier. My primary focus became reproducing Rodin sculptures through my drawings, capturing the beauty of their contours, shadows, and highlights that flowed along the muscles. At the atelier, we learned to study these elements to make our drawings more precise, vivid, and realistic.
Klimt's art also left a strong impression on me because of the colours and combinations he employed, full of details yet not overly busy.
In 1993, I obtained my degree in Psychology and worked with middle-aged individuals. I launched my own brand, Safih Quelbert (my maiden name), offering women's shoes and clothing. I was responsible for all aspects of my web store, including photos, advertisements, and everything else.
Listening to my customer's yearnings for almost 15 years working with that, also using my psychological mind, I went deeper, understanding the rules of society, which says what is beautiful and what is not, versus the known that in fact an accessory has always been a kind of catharsis for their needs. At that time, I became a good photographer doing my ads, I decided to do something different in parallel...Being a model of my shots, editing all, showing the other side of beauty that society doesn't reinforce, joining some contests worldwide.
And here I am.
I won several contests worldwide, I was one of few photographers that posed, edited and launched their own photography, all by myself, from this I met my husband, who loves art and photography too, we did some shots together, when we were invited to exhibit our photos, in a great project in Brazil, where many designers decorate environments to show their style, and we contributed to Julio Dante's project with our photos, called "Embracing true love". Talita Ferreira Gallery was who produced all frames, and after that, I started to offer exclusively to her, different styles of photography taken in the UK to be sold in Brazil
Later on I was invited to launch a book on the UK: “Naked Truth”, sharing my trajectory, story and photos, our story also, when once again, I was responsible for all process, from the cover art, content & editing. You can read it entirely here.
With my work, as psychologist, musician, artist, photographer, I try to give a touch of beauty, promoting other angles or perspective even from the same landscape, people themselves, Then from this it opens horizons, treating, awakening them, letting them become more fulfilled in terms of soul, existence.
My goal is to promote a different perspective on life, inspiring you to reflect on yourself and fulfilling my audience's needs in terms of soul and existence.
Safih Choat, (maiden name Quelbert), is married, 2 sons, Designer, and Photographer of her own photos, since 2020, having had more than 45 exhibitions throughout Europe, UK, India, Greece, Spain, USA, Portugal, Vietnam, Australia.
All her photos can be purchased exclusively at Talita Ferreira Galeria (Brazil) Zeitgeist Galleri (Sweden), and Singulart (UK)
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