THE COMPANY
Refractive Shadows is a Saudi based production house operating across numerous media channels and categories. Beginning 2015, Refractive Shadows expanded its clients reach by establishing Beirut, Lebanon branch offering the same passion at a larger scale.
We create dynamic stills, and motion pictures for more than ten years to some of the world’s most admired companies. Our staff and third party of writers, directors, and editors draw on their diverse expertise to handle projects of nearly every scale, from simple single camera for a studio interview setup, to complex multi camera commercial shoots at multiple locations around the region.
SECRETS IN A PHOTO, THE MORE IT TELLS, THE MORE YOU KNOW!
THE FOUNDER
Director & Photographer Issam Kanafani was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1971. In 1995, he earned his bachelor degree in Management Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University. He’s always been involved in the sales and marketing services in the field of IT until he suddenly became addicted to the shutter release sound that triggered his love affair with digital photography, which transformed his passion into a professional career.
Inspired by life and the complexities that define us as individuals, Issam enjoys a shallow depth of field and artificial lighting to capture beauty, as much as a natural sunlight while composing outdoor scenes through his camera lens. His talent is diversified into different motion pictures & photographic techniques that makes his work recognized by his clients.
“If your pictures are not good enough you are not close enough.”
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away”
“Each year I’m determined to make better photographs than the previous year – I’m constantly trying to be the best”
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”
“I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.”
“Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
