Artists Describing Their Art:
Mark Charles Fox - Photography has often had an identity problem. Over its nearly 200 years, it has won sometimes grudging and other times enthusiastic cultural acceptance. Today, everyone is a photographer. In my view, what I am is an image manipulator. Image manipulating is a daily yoga, I do it for the intrinsically meditative state it induces. In college, oops too late, at the end of my thesis preparation I realized what I should have been doing all along, studying iconography, how we might share wonder and convey the ineffable. This is part of my motivation and a hoped-for result of these externalized meditations. During the past decade or more, IaEURtmve engaged in image manipulating in a dedicated way and have created thousands of them. Each one starts with a photo I have taken and IaEURtmll begin to imagine transforming its shapes and colors. There are just a few rules for instance, never cut and paste, nor combine source images into one, work with one at a time. My preferences extend to the most spaced-out looking images, but I also do ones that might be called aEURoecontemporarily traditionalaEUR. Earlier on, it was all about experimentation, working an image until ...
Sayuri Yubari - Out of the ordinary Coming-outs of the Ordinary by Sayuri Yubari. In photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary (David Bailey). Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them (Elliott Erwitt). ...
Bruno Paolo Benedetti - Bruno Paolo Benedetti, born in the year 1954, began to take pictures, studying perspective and photo techniques, in the year 1968. Since the begin he was concerned with black and white photography, observing the contrast s of the nature, the lights and interpreting the reality around him. When he was 25 he began to work in the dark room, enhancing his technique using filters, high contrast films for making his first pictures of surreal and abstract photography. At the same time he began journeying around Europe and the world: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Southern America, South Africa, Egypt, Comoros islands are some of the most visited places. The study of the religions, the mysticism in all of them, inspired his artistic production, especially his surreal photography, where cultural and religious archetypes are depicted. The abstract non objective photography is the other branch of his work. It starts from the observation of the nature in all its manifestations: water, lights, colors, shores, flowers, ice All the colors are not elaborated and strictly natural, highlighting hidden particulars and changing the images into fluid shapes, where each watcher can see new images created by his emotions and fantasy. In both styles of pictures the ...
Mariano Von Plocki - ABOUT ME I was born in a difficult political and social period of the Argentine Republic, in the year 1969 and the city of CA3rdoba. At that time we lived in a small tourist town 30 km away from the city. I studied primary school in a local school and then, when I finished primary school, already 12 years old, I changed my residence and went to live in Cordoba, where I could continue my secondary studies in a technical school. Thats how I discovered my taste, although as time went by, that taste was not exploited, it remained hidden for a long time. In 1990, in the city of Cordoba, I began to study advertising graphic design and publicity in an academy called Mariano Moreno, this was what opened the doors for me and the possibility of working in it, creatively, and to know the use of typography and advertising ideas, marketing strategy, etc. In 1992, I had the opportunity to visit Germany and after some time, I decided to settle down in Munich to start again there with other types of initiatives, and to study something about the language, its culture and its way of life. I ...
Mariano Von Plocki -