It gives me great pleasure to introduce the extension of our department’s outreach for the community through the web space, the www.PhotoFSSR.com.

Alongside, the photography department of UiTM (FSSR) plays as an integral part of the Art & Design Faculty, for the undergraduate degree and diploma programme by which the students undertake their studies on lifestyle and the arts of distinctive communities in Malaysia with the goal of placing art and creativity within context, intrinsic towards the harmony of socio-economic cultural lifestyle and belief systems through photographic imageries.

While the results of these will necessarily take some years to be known as the fast changing pace of digital era within the their practice, this will require the urgent need of updating those new and innovative knowledge to document without sacrificing their own of artistic manifestation, with a sensitive perceptive eye before distinctive identities of communities. Cinematography and photography plays as significant methods of doing this. This department has initiated the degree program through projects and activity involvements with full strength assisted by innovative staffs and other lecturers that made this department alive.

By having at a constant enraptured by the quality of the photographs through the sensitivity of the eye, the sympathy of the heart, that runs and captured through the lens, the strength and joys would be endless with photography. For me, photography forms as a great quality and also as art, in which, respectively stands on its own. The art of judging human characters, the physiognomy of the faces, the freshness and vitality of youth and, the tensionless wrinkles from the old ripening age reflects an inner harmony which will, no doubt, be lost without a represented idea of that image.

It is hoped that the www.PhotoFSSR.com is an extension outreach to serve, educate and delight our readers. I would like to express my gratitude to our lecturers, supporting staff, and gracious gesture of our students, and not-forgotten Alumnis whom made this place an avenue of imaging creativity.

Nik Ridzuan Nik Yusoff,
Head of Programme,
Department of Photography
& Creative Imaging,
UiTM, Shah Alam.