Dean Raphael Australian Photographer & Filmmaker

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Celebrating nine years of creating in Bali.

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I’m not against the use of AI, but I am against giving up the journey for the destination.

Solstice for InBluem 🌞❤️&zwj;🔥

Here I felt the split between our ancient past and our distant future. Knowing the state of the world today, I feel absolutely heart broken, that humans have such a heavy consequence on our Earth.

Here however, in the middle of the Arabian desert,

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Building a universe. Test shoot for a concept shoot.

I haven’t experimented for a long time. I haven’t tested anything other than client briefs. I became stuck, too critical of my past, too worried about the future - but creativity only

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Without too many plans, I ended up in Slovenia with @lilly.moerz
Shot in Soča Valley, somewhere close to where Narnia was filmed.

Circa 2015/2016 - I was really starting to find my voice in portraiture. I was deeply inspired by David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, the depression of Melbourne winters, and the feeling of being lost in city life. I was out to prove myself to the world.

There comes a point where reality has already delivered its answer, and the struggle is no longer with the situation itself, but with our refusal to hear it.

@mirrosslavaa in Ubud, Bali.

Location transparency: this is one of the dirtiest rivers in

One of the harder life lessons is knowing when to gracefully be humbled. Knowing when to retreat, redirect, ask for help, or destroy the foundations of what wasn’t working in order to start again.

These words are easy. Allowing humility to sit

It’s not beyond us to create a world where we slow down enough to remember what actually matters - we just choose not to.

A special moment with @dushspeaksyoga @ Rumi ❤️&zwj;🔥

Creatively, I’ve been taking some time to figure out who that part of me is. It didn’t die, my life just changed, slowly - and what inspired me to create no longer pulls me.

While I take the time to figure it out, I’m trying a lot

You can hear exactly how I direct in these clips. Most photographers are taught cameras, lenses, and lighting - but almost nobody is taught how to guide the person in front of the lens.

The way someone moves, breathes, settles, and trusts the moment

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