Flanegan Bainon

Saturday 4 April 2009 | |

Flanegan Bainon, a Murut native from Petagas, Penampang currently pursuing Photography at Melbourne, Australia. Uses Photography as his medium to tell a story of an image and his personal way to explore.

from The Forgotten Town series

Recently got chosen as one of the finalist for 2009 KL Photo Awards Contemporary Portrait Competition. His images are based on a Singular Documentary which every image have a narrative and hidden story on it. He loves to add curiosity in every of his images so that it let people think more rather than just looking at the picture with no reason beside searching for inspiration.

from Midnight Series


His Big Influence are not necessary come from a Photographer. All his works are usually inspired from what he sees in front of him and begin to conceptualize it. He recommend to all the Enthusiast Photographer to check out photography website such as Foto8, Art+Commerce and Lens Culture where you can see the contrasts of Photographer all around the world.



Some of his images from Anima Series.

He currently have 3 on-going project series and currently in his final year to complete his B.A Photography. He already have a few project series in visual book and can't wait to start it in the future.

"The amateurs worry about equipment, the pros worry about money...the masters worry about light"
- unknown europe photographer.
You can visit his website at http://www.flaneganb.net. Or just add him as your contact on his Flickr where he usually update his personal photos or bookmark his PhotoBlog where he post an image where he capture using his phone camera or compact camera.

Flanegan is also the founder of BorneoShutter and KKPhoto88. :P