Artists Describing Their Art:

John Neville Cohen - PAINTING WITH LIGHT 'Painting with light' is all about photographing projected images that surprisingly are not often projected on to a screen. John discovered the projector really is a magical magic lantern! Computers and digital images were unknown at the time when some of his finest pictures were created (some of them nearly 50 years ago). Yet they have stood up to the test of time and are still considered exceptional, making quite a statement! It was by chance, seeing an image projected, partly on the curtains and wallpaper that started this unique art form. By moving the projector and focusing on to other objects, noting how they distorted the image and influenced the texture and shape, led to the idea of photographing what could be seen. Then by adding more projectors he was also able to blend different images too and so 'painting with light' began. John started with an idea and experimented with various images, but he explained that sometimes something unforeseen happened, that sent him down a totally fresh route to create a very different picture than was originally planned, it is these 'inspired accidents' that have since turned out to be his very best works. The ...

Irene Caesar - 2011 STATEMENT: Irene Caesar, Ph.D. is a conceptual artist-provocateur who creates ideological and aesthetic subversions via absurd performances documented by photography to put to the test major concepts of human civilization. She bases her aesthetics upon staging role-games, which express some concept in a metaphorical, symbolic or aphoristic way via making participants interact with some symbolic object or prop, with themselves, or between each other in some very intense or boundary situations - all thoroughly absurd and pushing participants out of the ordinary or acceptable way of behavior toward revelatory experience. This makes her staged photography very different from the other staged photography, even the one, which is dynamic, rather than static. Role-games she produces always engage herself into close interaction with the participants of her performances - via verbal and energy-field communication, as if she stands not behind the camera, but in front of the camera. Her recent projects include "A New History of Ideas in Pictures," "Counter Portraits," "People of Art as Objects of Art," and "Dissent." "Dissent" represents portraits of dissidents in the style of dissent, including such renowned Soviet-era dissidents as Elena Bonner, Pavel Litvinov, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Andrey Grigorenko, Father Michael...

Markus Kruse - In Washington, Trump is mostly seen only when he chooses. At a lectern in the Rose Garden. Saluting as he boards Marine One. Behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office signing jumbo-sized executive orders, pushing his red button to summon a butler with Diet Coke or flashing a thumbs up from his high-backed cherry leather chair. But a nine-day, marathon foreign trip that concluded Saturday here in Sicily has offered the first extended aEUR" and often unfiltered, thanks to the steady stream of raw camera footage provided by his host countries aEUR" look at Trump on the world stage. In Washington, Trump is mostly seen only when he chooses. At a lectern in the Rose Garden. Saluting as he boards Marine One. Behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office signing jumbo-sized executive orders, pushing his red button to summon a butler with Diet Coke or flashing a thumbs up from his high-backed cherry leather chair. But a nine-day, marathon foreign trip that concluded Saturday here in Sicily has offered the first extended aEUR" and often unfiltered, thanks to the steady stream of raw camera footage provided by his host countries aEUR" look at Trump on the ...

Tiger Lily Jones - I create and offer my artwork to help bring nature indoors with a purpose to elevate and inspire the viewer. Nature is so creative and has the power of beauty and the power of transformation be it to calm or to excite. The effect nature has on us humans is so profound, even a photograph or painting of nature holds that power and I desire that my artwork expresses nature's beauty and power and that it will inspire emotion and renew the viewer's energy and purpose and good health. I believe my artwork will transform the space in which it hangs to benefit the viewer - to elevate your spirit, please your senses, renew your purpose, and support your soul. Nature inspires me. Color inspires me as it easily helps to express our emotional tones and dreams and is inseparable from nature. Color is nature's expression of infinite possibility and ingenuity. My photographs are not meant to be realistic.. They represent my memories of experiencing a particular natural place and have a dreamlike quality that tells the story of that experience; how the place affected me, transformed me, inspired me and I hope in turn, does the same ...

Wayne Quilliam - Adjunct Professor Wayne Quilliam is a professional Australian Aboriginal Photographic artist/film maker/cultural advisor working on the international stage. With more than 20 years experience working in all areas of photography including social documentary, sport, tourism, fashion,weddings, movies, event documentation and exhibitions, Wayne is recognised as a leading contemporary in his field. His work is a fusion of traditional spirituality and contemporary photographic processes,each image represents an interpretation of culture in the modern world. His dream is to work with all races of the world and conduct exhibitions in every country....

Engel Corinna - HEROIN KIDS by CORINNA ENGEL & CHRISTIAN KAISER "...extraordinary and emotional stirring..." "...sexist, misanthropic and obscene..." "...a continuing reflection about beauty and yearning..." "...drug-glamourizing, pornografic and violence-glorifying..." "...socio-ethically disorientating..." "...art for perverts and pedophiles..." "...perverted, simply abnormal, something that should be forbidden immediately..." "...an art project about wild yearning..." HEROIN KIDS is an art project about the seldom and incomparable beauyt of getting lost and about wild seeming. The young artists photos and videoclips are showing young women in the thrall of neglect, violence, sex, drugs, and prostitution. HEROIN KIDS is considered an extract from a wild and free way of life that is lived on the edge of self-destruction and that is devoid of any rules or set values. The performers and their misery are portrayed in an exaggerated manner. Heroin Kids will be released by INDEX VERLAG as a photo book and DVD in the near future....