Djimi Williams is a French photographer who just moved to London to fully live his passion. His work mixes beautifulness, character and sexuality in an artistic, though natural way. Made in Shoreditch talks to him…
Tell us a bit about you and your background
Well, I’m a French photographer who just moved to The Big Smoke. I lived in the south of France for a while and this is where I first got my hands on a camera. I started doing little things, you know, taking pictures of my friends, my family and the more I experienced, the bigger my passion grew. Then one day, I guess I needed to be somewhere bigger, with more opportunities, booked a flight to London and, well, here I am.
Why and when did you start photographing? 
I started shooting about a year ago, I woke up one day and told myself I was going to give it a try, bought a camera and started experiencing. I still have a lot of other passions, but photography is the main one really.
Where or from who did you get your inspiration?
Actually, it all comes from my busy imagination. I think too much and keep on picturing things on my mind. When I was younger, my heroes were mostly Walt Disney’s characters; Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and so on… I’ve always lived in some sort of imaginative dimension and this is what I am trying to communicate through my pictures.
How did you get your first work published?
The editor-in-chief of Pause Magazine contacted me and asked me to shoot fashions models for his upcoming publication. Such a great feeling to see yourself published for the first time!
We’ve noticed most of the models you photograph are men, is there a reason behind that?
Ha, well… One day, the creator of WAD magazine asked me to come to his office and to bring my portfolio. He told me that despite my limited experience, I had so much talent and that I could potentially have a 20 years career ahead of me. Then he advised me to stop photographing girls for now and that I should focus my work on men. It might have gotten me thinking and maybe indirectly influenced my choices.
Is there a specific message you want to communicate through your pictures? 
No particular message I guess, I just want people to be drawn to my photos. I’d like them to imagine a story, a meaning behind them. My pictures are like torn pages taken from a book, we don’t know the beginning, nor the end, the only thing we can do is imagine a surrounding story.
How would you see yourself in 10 years?
Ideally, I’d be working for the amazing Vogue Magazine. I just love everything about it.
For more photos and contact: http://djimi-williams.portfoliobox.me/
