Today we’d like to introduce you to Hasan El-Amin.
Hi Hasan, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
My name is Hasan El-Amin, also known as Elaminnn. I’m a twenty-one-year-old multimedium artist from Saint Louis Missouri. I’ve been involved in the arts since my youth, playing in jazz bands, “attempting” to produce, paint and draw. Visual arts is my love and specialty. I got into photography and digital art around 2016 during my sophomore year of high school. I began to take the school’s camera home and experiment with photography and photoshop. My love for the vaporwave sound and art style planted the seeds for my digital art and style today. Years ago I began experimenting with that style and getting comfortable with digital art.
2019, in My freshman year of college I attended Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia, and that’s when I found my love for the arts and decided to commit to the craft and lifestyle. Atlanta was eclectic, colorful, and fast-paced; I was in the epicenter of black youth culture and arts so I got in stride creatively. I began filming videos and doing portrait and fashion photoshoots. I returned to Saint Louis once covid broke out and began to find my niche with analog photography. A challenge at first, I was thrilled by the early surprises not knowing what would come when processing the film. The value, care, and focus on artistry magnified when I switched to analog photography.
I transferred to the University of Houston in 2020, early 2021 is when I began to get in creative stride with graphic art, going to UH’s library every day and manipulating my own images or stock images to make abstract compositions, I would categorize it as psychedelic/glitch art following in love with distortion and color. The music I listened to served as the most important tool for creation, and storytelling. I left Houston and lived in New York for three months. I was the most creatively active in New York living with two other artists and exploring all the time. I began to explore other mediums like music and painting; labeling myself as a multi-medium artist and becoming comfortable with all my lanes of creation. I recently returned to Houston in January of 2022 and have put big focus into collaboration with other artists and storytelling with my mediums.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Definitely not a smooth road. Most of my struggles have been business-related and knowing my worth. I’ve struggled with artistic integrity ever since I began to create. I’m a man of ideas and there are so many I haven’t pulled the trigger on because of full artistic queue; I always feel like there is a million tabs open in my mind.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a multi-medium artist. I specialize in film photography and graphic art. I believe that I’m known for my colorful images and manipulation of images to create eye candy. I am most proud of the work that I’ve done with and for others within my art, getting in sync with other creatives to share and create probably more proud of the network that I’m continuously building and the art and creatives gifts shared with me by others. What sets me apart I believe is my process of creation, its details, and the focus on stimulation and connection between the viewer and my work; I believe my style is always changing and surprising to some.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Inquiringness/curiosity especially in relation to failure, colors, and myself.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.hite-pb.space/
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/elam1nnn
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/chefsanthedon1
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bakepineapples/circles?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
