Artist Information:
Slava Deryuga
New York, NY
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
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Artist Statement:
My aim is to put down on paper
what I see and what I feel in
the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
Someone once said that
creating a sculpture is easy:
just take a piece of marble
and cut away all the parts you
don’t want. I could say the
same about photography: take a
hundred shots, throw away the
ones you don’t want and crop
out the parts you don’t want
from the few shots that are
left. It sounds simple, and
anyone could do this, but not
everyone would get good
results. The key to success is
having artistic vision or
taste. That is what makes a
photographer able to choose
one subject over another and
select which shots to keep.
My vision is the result of
more than thirty years of
observing nature and great
works of art, reading and
thinking about art, painting,
as well as taking and
analyzing photographs.
My photographs are generally
unposed and unstaged and make
use of natural lighting. In
taking them I follow my
vision, my instincts – I go by
what feels right.
In image processing, on the
other hand, I am strictly
rational. I contemplate every
...
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Slava Deryuga's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Slava Deryuga's Portfolio.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
Someone once said that creating a sculpture is easy: just take a piece of marble and cut away all the parts you don’t want. I could say the same about photography: take a hundred shots, throw away the ones you don’t want and crop out the parts you don’t want from the few shots that are left. It sounds simple, and anyone could do this, but not everyone would get good results. The key to success is having artistic vision or taste. That is what makes a photographer able to choose one subject over another and select which shots to keep.
My vision is the result of more than thirty years of observing nature and great works of art, reading and thinking about art, painting, as well as taking and analyzing photographs.
My photographs are generally unposed and unstaged and make use of natural lighting. In taking them I follow my vision, my instincts – I go by what feels right.
In image processing, on the other hand, I am strictly rational. I contemplate every ... |
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