Artists Describing Their Art:
Alessandro Zanazzo - Alessandro Zanazzo was born in Rome. He is Professor of Photography at Temple University and John Cabot University in Rome. He has been working at several Art projects concerning the interaction between different artistic languages photography, video, installations, performances, music. He spent many years abroad, living in in Bergen Norway and in Paris France and has participated to the French Biennial of Photography i?1/2Le Mois de la Photoi?1/2 where he showed his artworks inspired by two classic latin writers i?1/2The Metamorphosisi?1/2 by Ovidio and i?1/2The Rerum Naturai?1/2 by Lucrezio. His pictures habe been exhibited in European Art Galleries and Museums and in places like the deconsacrated church of S. Peter at Melle France or the S. Angel Castle in Rome. Beside his artistic researches, Alessandro Zanazzo is a professional free lance photographer available for assignments worldwide. In June 2007 he has been invited as Media Photographer by Zimbabwe Tourism Authority and the Embassy of Zimbabwe to take pictures in Africa. In April 2007 he has been the official photographer for the Embassy of Belgium during the visit of her Majesty the Queen Paola of Belgio,in Italy. His works incklude Advertising campaigns, Editorial Photography, PortraitPeople , Fashion , Architecture and Interiors, Landscape, ...
Renu Parkhi - "Me "Renu" artist from India, through photography and paintings would like to display the artistic existing elements in this world through my lens and brush which captures beautiful and ugly both and as my name "renu" which means though I am a small minute particle, element on this earth and I am existing in each and every element on this earth. This makes a concept in itself. So through my small little creative efforts would like to present me, my self, and my soul through these art pieces." ...
Khiang Hei - My documentary photographic work is primarily concerned with contemporary social, cultural and political matters relating to Southeast Asia and how this intersects with my own personal history and experiences. In 1989, in China as part of a student exchange program with Beijing TeacheraEURtms College, I documented the Tian An Men Square uprising. In 1992-1993, I retraced my steps as a refugee in Cambodia. In 1994, an Arts International/National Endowment for the Arts grant supported a second Cambodia project in landmines. And in 1995-1997, I returned to Southeast Asia to document various aspects of Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian social, economic, and cultural recovery from the effects of war. ...
William Bernard Brooks - The photographer William Bernard Brooks creates images of shamanic interludes. Meditations in the forests and near hidden lakes in the Rocky Mountains in Montana provide an opportunity to align with energies that are still communicating with us. In those moments, when form and intent, desire and surrender, knowledge and manifestation coalesce into joyful bliss, we find that gratitude is the noblest of expressions. The artist creates a variety of motives in a series of eight signed and numbered carbon pigment prints. Printed on famed Hahnemuehle Fine Art Paper: German Etching 310 gsm approx . 13 x 19 inches Price: 1,200.00 US dollars per print The book "SOUL CALLER" with images and instructions for meditations will was published in 2007. William Bernard Brooks is an artist whose work is shown in Europe and the United States in various galleries and publications. He lives in Montana and dedicates his attention to the harmonious interaction of indigenous cultures, nature and the resulting applications in modern life. ...
David Garcia Fonseca - Possible Worlds An essentially human activity is the construction of worlds, realities, truths and lies, like the culture, science, mythology, etc The only way to notice that a world is unreal is to compare it with the description of the real world, but reality is not defined, the reality was constructed by others, by us, our nervous system cannot differentiate between a stimulate and a hallucination, since both are single nervous excitations. For that reason, usually we resort to the notion of reality more extended, the rationalist and empiricist one of science, the mercantile one, of modern capitalism, and the bourgeois of the mental habits of the normal users of literature. The reality is only an axis of reference to evaluate fictitious worlds, the reality is, according to Rorty a successful narrative. Leibniz represented God like contemplating to logics combinations from different individuals and choosing this world, like the set more coarsely compatible (thus inviting Voltaire to comment out satirical of which this one is the best possible worlds); and Aristotle who inaugurates this type of investigations through question the ontological statute of the future contingents. The following series of Possible Worlds is an invitation to think about alternative universes ...
Henning Von Berg - "Provocative photos for people who understand the fine difference between sex and sensuality!" (r) IN-Magazine, Hollywood: Noted photographer Henning von Berg is the guy whose photos of 6 nude men in the German parliament'Reichstag' made the front pages of 46 international newspapers. Famous for bizarre group shoots in unique locations, the former architect likes to combine all kinds of bodies & buildings. Henning von Berg is the last male descendent of a traditional German family (477 years old). He took his first nude photos at the tender age of 12, and today the 6'5" tall giant has earned world wide recognition as a trend setter and a fearless lensman. He is willing to break all the rules to achieve startling photos of women and men in great settings, public and private. To date, the work of'HvB' is known on all five continents. His material has been published in a variety of high-profile periodicals, on greeting cards, calendars and lithograph posters, as well as all kinds of art books. Von Berg lives and creates in Amsterdam, Hollywood and Berlin. His artistic motto (r) is: "Provocative photos for people who understand the fine difference between sex and sensuality!"(r)...