I am primarily interested in the metaphysics of space and light in a fraction of time and try to approach documentary and street photography froma completely artistic angle. I succeed when I find subtlety in geometry and visual beauty of a moment. My photographs are characterized by bold formsand shapes often contrasting with or hiding the actual subject of the picture. Nevertheless, they almost always express more than just a graphical abstraction and invite viewer to explore them and to find these hidden items. I also experiment with wide-angle object distortions in still life compositions either constructed or found. I work exclusively with 35 mmblack and white film and hand-print archival quality fiber basedphotographs.
Julia Tikhomirova ( www.inflammablematerial.net )
I was born and grown up in Saint Petersburg, the city which I love and hate at the same time, the city, which size and beauty, cold wind and dark water leave you without words and make you feel even smaller then you are… Now I live in Bologna, small, nice place, that can be so open and so traditional, so welcoming and so unfriendly, so different anyway.. Alfred Stieglitz once said that photography for him is the way to build relationships with the ambient where he lives in order not to feel so much stranger in his own city.. I could say the same. Taking photos helps me to accept what I see and to make the space around a little bit mine…
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Carlos Chávez ( http://photo.net/photos/Sideris )
"Me, a photographer? No." I cannot describethe delight that comes over me when I hide inside the viewfinder and explore tha world through that magic Cyclops that is my camera, a misture of accomplice and reguge. You will see that I don't understand the thousand and one secrets of technique, and I doubt that I will some day, but I console myself prioritizing interpretation and the emotional impact of an image, over academic purity. And my instinct tells me that I must capture and translate into printed light the human sense of what I see through the lens. Y fail most of the times, and the few times in which I get it right, I never cease to be amazed at the possibilities of this mean of expression.
However I must
tread carefully, as the implacable analogy of Dorian Gray: sometimes the camera gives me something that frightens me, sometimes it makes me sad, and others plesure lifts me from the ground."
Jaroslav Kocian ( www.jaroslavkocian.com )
For me photography will always be some kind of congnition. In my photographs you can see people with some stories. I always want to show these stories in their faces, stories in my photographs..