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Photography and creativity have always been part of
my life. Working with young children, I use creativity to
develop knowledge of themselves, their environment
and the curriculum. Creativity is part of all our lives for
a greater or lesser part. Taking photographs helps me
explore and record the world around me, looking for
images makes you look at things from a different
perspective. I look for pattern, colour and shape more
than anything.
My images are made by combining my skills to make
an image in my style. Many of the them are still life,
using objects that are around me to make pictures,
others are environmental, if I can't put part of me into
an image then it's not as enjoyable. I find natural
history and record photography more difficult as they
have definite boundaries. I prefer to push boundaries
to make something different.
I'm an active member of Southport Photographic Society & West Lancs AV Group both in the UK. These clubs help develop photography in many ways, you get to share your passion for photography with other like minded people. I also enter national & international competitions. Sharing this art form with others is a very important, we all look at an subject from different angles. I am now starting to give something back by giving lectures at camera clubs and judging club competitions. Having the exhibition has given me the chance to use images that I wouldn't put in Club Competitions and expand my own boundaries toward the more artistic image. The Gormley men inspired me to make several images, some of which you can see in the exhibition. The Head images in all their forms, started by a simple reflection that I had accepted in Southport Open Exhibition I used these to explore emotions. I rearly plan an image, they have a starting point and eventually an endouse. Each one takes it's own path as the inspiration for that image takes me. Once an image is complete I rarely change it. I hope some of the images here bring back a memory or make you consider their meaning, it's important to me that the work here makes people think. |
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When I was twelve years old, I knew I wanted to share
the way I saw the world, and I decided that
photography was the best medium for sharing it.
Since I can remember, I have been struck by the way
light fell on a street sign as I walked home in the
evening, or how a wave looked in the sun. Drawing or
painting simply would not capture the reality I saw -
that would be an interpretation, a translation.
Photography would let me say "look at this," and
people could see the things they saw every day the
way I saw them.
That year, I asked my parents for a camera as a Christmas gift. The model I received was a Kodak Instamatic, along with a single roll of film. To this day, I remember my family's requests to take some holiday snapshots, but having only one precious roll of film, I took to the streets. Some of my first shots are still my favorites, including that street sign in the rain. Over the years, I have continued to capture my
perceptions in still photographs. For many years, I
owned a production and animation company and
received industry recognition for my work. Currently,
all of my creative efforts are spent on still
photography.
Digital photography has allowed me the freedom to capture many more images to get the one that conveys what I see. Almost every day, I get up, head out, and take photographs in the stillness and the light that only occurs in the morning, in the same spots I have been a thousand times before. I walk the same paths on different days and at different times, often photographing the same tree or scene, but hoping to capture the vision that caught my attention the first time. It is my privilege to have my photographs displayed in private collections and used in commercial applications. I hope that you find my work interesting and enjoyable. |
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Born and raised in southern California, I have been an
artist all of my life. Introduced to photography while
attending high school, I fell in love with how I could
use it as another extension of my art. I have explored
all mediums of art from sketch to sculpture. In
photography I found I could channel all of my artistic
energies into one creation. Through using Photoshop,
In 1998, I obtained my degree in illustration and
advertising photography from Brooks Institute of
Photography in Santa Barbara. I will be returning to
Brooks in the fall of 2002, to begin work on obtaining
my masters degree. I am currently working as an
advertising photographer and photo illustrator in Los
Angeles, California.
I have won numerous awards for my photography and
other artistic creations. They have been displayed at
galleries and exhibits. I am always looking for new
ways to further my artistic style and broaden the
spectrum of ideas that I put into my art. I do extensive
research into the various subjects that I bring to life in
my work.
Throughout my work, I try to deliver more than a picture
to my viewers, but rather an invitation to enter the
world of my perception. Each picture works as a portal
into a different realm of the human psyche. These
works illustrate my interests and fears decorated with
the bewilderment and awe for the beauty and intrigue
hidden within the images of everyday life. The viewer
is best able to embrace the true essence of my work
once they allow themselves to dwell in it, exploring the
sharp contrasts of life, death, hope and despair that
are tailored into the emotions of human experience.
Using a collection of different abstracted photographs,
I illustrate stories of mythical fantasy combined with
gut reaching reality. Through this combination of
reality and fantasy, I try to create little surreal worlds for
the viewer's imagination to dance in.
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Digital art has become my second nature, it's something that brings me forward fresh frames of mind as every new artwork that I produce seems to me like a further step to a better picture where people and things are born anew. Transpersonal worlds are a part of my inspiration, I always try to be on the cutting edge both personally and artistically without losing sight of the past. Basically I want to express with my art an inner world full of pent-up stamina that society commonly represses...let's say that I try to make the viewer think and feel transported to a better world far from the inherited neuroses of mankind... Atmán Victor |
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Deadline: 11/30/07.
It's Photography III, a National Juried Exhibition, presented by Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. Open to all United States artists 18 and over. You are invited to submit up to six digital images of your original photographic works done in the past four years, using traditional, digital or mixed media, and not previously entered into a Marin MOCA or Art League of Northern California show. Juror: Will Mosgrove. Please download Prospectus
and Entry Form at: www.marinmoca.org or email
info@artleagueofcalifornia.org Phone: 415-506-0137
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Call for Entries - Fellowship 2007: Eighth Annual
Fellowship Competition for for Award & Exhibition and
New Works Galleries Exhibitions
Silver Eye Center for Photography, the oldest non- profit organization in Western Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the understanding and appreciation of photography as an art form, invites photographers to submit entries for our juried Fellowship Competition and our New Works Galleries. Juror for Fellowship 2007: Katherine Ware, Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Alfred Stieglitz Center for Photography in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. One photographer will be selected to receive a $5000 Fellowship and have a one-person exhibition in the Main Gallery of Silver Eye. Ten photographers will be recognized with the distinction of Honorable Mention. They will receive a $100 honorarium and will be invited to exhibit one photograph each. Exhibition: December 5, 2007- February 2, 2008. This competition is open to photographers who join Silver Eye at the $70 level or for students who join at the $35 level. Go to www.silvereye.org to download an application or
send a SASE for prospectus to Silver Eye Center for
Photography, Exhibition Opportunities, 1015 East
Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, 412/431-1810.
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Enjoy the Journey!
Sincerely,
Helyn Broadhurst
Pixiport Fine Art Photography
email:
helyn@pixiport.com
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