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Catalog May June 2015
Susan de Witt
Ana Pečar
Reza Kathir
Marius Budu
Wilco Dragt
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Featured Artists: Susan de Witt, Ana Pecar.
Reza Khatir, Marius Budu and Wilco Dragt
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Marius Budu
Marius Budu is a visual artist working with photography and digital art. He is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His stunning way of expressing
the essence of the human condition has captured the
attention of art lovers worldwide. This has ensured
him exhibitions at galleries in countries like The United States, Canada, Denmark, Sweden and Romania
as well as earning him praise from cultural publications and art communities alike.
Marius Budu’s photographs are strong and focused,
with few details supporting the clear impression of
one thought or emotion. Through his unique use of
light and shading, the pieces create structure and emphasize the sparse, yet vivid colors. The photographs
are driven by his fascination with the human body
as a raw material for art: Sculptured, twisted and
focused on the minute details, revealing its inherent
individuality. The photography plays with the viewer’s
expectations of composition and motif – often portraying only ambiguous parts of the body, letting the
viewer wonder or simply absorb.
Susan de Witt
Susan’s interest in photography started in the year
2000. After a number of years perfecting her darkroom printing skills, she decided to take a course in
Lith printing and has stayed with that medium ever
since. She found that Lith provides her with an ethereal and gauzy outcome that she had been unable
to achieve using traditional darkroom techniques.
With the decline in lithable papers now on the market, she has begun printing her original prints no
larger than 8X10, so as to not,waste what valuable
papers she has left. For larger prints, she scans the
original to make differing sizes of archival inkjet images.
“Susan de Witt uses photography, not as many do to
record and reproduce what the camera sees, but to
produce very personal images from her imagination.
Her photographic prints may be built up from more
than one view of the same object or by combining
different subject matter to produce a final result that
is greater than its constituent parts. The surreal overtones in her images play both to the subconscious
and to the imagination, telling us not what to see but
inviting us to see in them what we find. Her choice of
the lith printing process to produce her multiple images presents her both with real technical challenges
due to the nature of the process and significant aesthetic advantages as the distinctive visual properties
of the lith prints produced in this way further removes
her imagery from the realism of conventional photographic reproduction.”
Tim Rudman, Photographer, author and the world’s leading
authority on lith printing.
Ana Pečar is video and intermedia artist.
She achieved formal education on Corcoran School
of art and University of Maribor and gained additional skills on numerous workshops and residencies.
Ana Pečar
Her work was exhibited through the US, Europe and
Asia, most notably at Ars Electronica Linz, NAO
- Nuovi autori oggi / New artist today Milano, Singapore International Photography Festival, India Art
Consult New Delhi, Gallery Apart Rome, Franklin
Street works Stamford CT.
She initiated Coexamination group that was engaged
in social criticism through artistic performances, public interventions and open debates.
Reflecting on noise pollution, a performance was held
in a steel factory where the anvil was used as a main
rhythmical instrument. The group’s work was presented at Ars electronica in Linz.
Through 2006-07 Ana Pečar collaborated with Berlin based group BBM (=observers of operators of
machines) in the project »technologies of political
control«. From 2013 onwards she cooperates with
Oliver Ressler. They create platforms for exposing
unsolved questions of protagonists that open into universal issues.
Ana Pečar received Government of Styria Stipend,
Leon Levy foundation grant, Roberto Cimetta grant,
Leonardo da Vinci grant and a full year
stipend (2012) from the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia.
Reza Kathir
Reza Khatir was born in July 1951 in Tehran. In 1968
he moved to England to continue his studies, in 1976
he interrupted his studies of food science at the Polytechnic to devote himself entirely to photography. In
1977, after a stay in Paris, he moved to Locarno and
then attended a photography school in Milan. He
began his professional career as a photojournalist
working on various assignments in the Middle East
for major agencies and magazines. Between 1981
and 1992 he worked exclusively with Polaroid film
in all formats, and very often with the giant Polaroid
20x24” (50x60cm).
In 1985 he was selected by a panel of curators and
art historians as one of the 12 “The New Swiss Photographers” for the magazine DU. In 1991 took part
in the official exhibition entitled “Voir La Suisse Autrement” to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Confederation Helvetica. He has also been selected for 3
of the 5 Polaroid volumes “Selections” Polaroid International Collection. In 2001 the work of Reza Khatir
was published in the volume Photography 7th Edition,
published by Pearson Education, Prentice Hall.
Currently, in addition to his work as a photographer,
he is the Photo-Editor for the Swiss weekly “ticinosette” and he is a professor of photography and
visual communication at SUPSI (University of Applied
Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)
Wilco Dragt
Wilco Dragt (the Netherlands, 1960) is an award
winning fine art landscape photographer. In the
1980’s Wilco studied industrial engineering and business administration at the Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Wilco took up photography
in his late forties. As a photographer and artist
he is completely self-taught. Nowadays he works full
time as a photographer. In his fine art images, Wilco
is often searching for atmosphere and simplicity, with
an eye for detail and a sense of beauty. His aesthetic
images are not representations of the reality, but his
own interpretations, with a feeling of serenity and
beauty.
His photos are build on strong compositions. To obtain a specific feeling in his artworks, he often uses
long exposure techniques, allowing him to create
empty space and quietness. In numerous international photo competitions photos of Wilco have been
awarded. In 2014 Wilco was included in New Dutch
Photography Talents 2014, a book presenting 100
Dutch photography talents.
Akira Asakura
Alberto Bregani
Anne Berry
Alberto Bregani is one of the best
known, most appreciated
italian mountain and landscape
photographer.
Anne Berry grew up in Atlanta,
spending vacations and summers
at Lake Burton in Rabun Co., on
the Flint River in Sumter Co., and
on the Georgia and South Carolina barrier islands. The appreciation for places unspoiled by
development is central
to the artist’s vision. Also essential to Anne Berry is an appreciationfor animals.
Akira is a nocturnal photographer
on Okinawa Japan. His work
comes straight out of the camera
on film and is not altered digitally.
The deep and strange colors are
the result of long exposure.
Alek Lindus
Ana Pečar (Slovenia) is video
and intermedia artist.
She achieved formal education
on Corcoran School of art and
University of Maribor and gained
additional skills on numerous
workshops and residencies.
Baris & Elif
Arthur Meehan
Alex Boyd was born in Germany
in 1984, and grew up on the West
Coast of Scotland. Educated at
the University of Glasgow, his
work has been widely exhibited
with solo exhibitions at the Scottish Parliament, and at prestigious
venues such as the Royal Scottish
Academy.
Ana Pecar
Aurelio Bormioli was born in
Savona in 1969.
Since he was a child, he was interested in photography thanks to
his father who was an amateur
photographer.
Alex Boyd
Alek Lindus was born in Paris
(1965), educated in the UK (fine
art) and now she works and lives
on Samos Greece.
Ana Tornel
Ana is born in Madrid and and
after completing a degree in Photography in Paris she pursued her
professional career as a freelance
photographer.
Aurelio Bormioli
Arthur Meehan was born in New
Jersey in 1968 and studied at the
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in
Manhattan, New York City widely considered to be one of the
leading art schools in the United
States. His artistic heroes are the
sculptor Rodin and photographer
Edward Weston. Arthur is inspired by natural beauty - pure
and unadorned as nature intended
and this informs his beautiful
studies.
Barış Aras & Elif Çakırlar from
Istanbul, Turkey are conceptual
photographers working as a team.
Focusing on conceptual dimensions of photography art, they
established a partnership called
“flufoto” while studying Photography at Mimar Sinan Academy
of Fine Arts in Istanbul in 2003.
Barry van Leeuwen
Barry van Leeuwen is a photographer, born and raised in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and specialized in historical photographic
processes.
Benjamin Goss
Caroline Fraser
Bev Pettit
Born in 1977 in Houston (USA)
Benjamin started his career in the
Film and Television industry in
New York. In 2004 he moved to
Sweden were he now lives and
works as a Fine art photographer.
Some of his work is part of the
Värmlands Museum and Alma
Löv Museum collection among
others.
Bev Pettit is an award winning
Fine Art Photographer
specializing in equine, landscape
and western cowboy
photography. She is currently
based in Arizona, USA,
where she lives on a small remote ranch surrounded by
millions of acres of national
forest.
Damir Matijevic
Damir Matijevic is born in 1970
in Offenbach (Germany).He is
Croatian, and lives in Zagreb,
Croatia, since 1975. Damir
always had a passion for art, especially for photography. He is a
member of The Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU)
Christian Baron
A 1971 vintage, self-taught
photographer. “Addicted to light,
lines, symmetries, structures,
simplicity, complexity, minimalism, faces, moods…” (Germany)
Claude Peschel
Dutombe
Deborah Parkin
Deborah Parkin (UK) is a photographer exploring memories
and emotions. She spends a lot of
time with her subject to capture
more “depht”. My passion for
photography started in earnest
with the birth of my son. I had
always enjoyed the photograph
as an object but with his arrival came the need to record our
lives.
Claudio
Santambrogio
Claudio is a self-taught photographer, working almost exclusively with analogue film cameras, primarily with large format
4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 cameras. He
prefers to work with historical
lenses, mounted in barrels without a shutter. This allows for the
flexibility of manual exposure
with the help of lens caps. He
develops and processes the negatives and prints with traditional
photographic craft and chemicals.A photograph is more than
just an image. (Italy)
I gained the Associateship of
the Royal Photographic Society
in 2011 with abstract images of
sand and water from Harris in the
Outer Hebrides. In 2011 I studied
for a postgraduate certificate in
photography at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in
London.
Claude grew up behind the cold
war iron curtain, specifically East
Berlin.He left his enclosed home
country at an early age of 19 and
has been roaming the world ever
since He now lives and works in
South East Asia for more than 15
years.
Denis Grzetic
Denis Grzetic, Croatia
David Baker
David Baker is a seascape and
forest photographer based in
Southampton and has exhibited
around the UK.
Frank Machalowski
Federica Corbelli
Federica Corbelli is an Italian
photographer of abandoned
buildings , who was born 1972
in Genoa and lives and works
in Milan. Her photos appears
as a dreamlike images in which
fiction and reality meet, wellknown tropes merge, meanings
shift, past and present fuse.
Eric Kellerman
Eric Kellerman is a Briton who
has lived near Nijmegen in the
Netherlands for a very long time.
In 2008, he retired from academic life to spend more time on
photography. Specialising in the
nude, he works almost entirely
in the studio with a regular team
of female collaborators, many
of whom have a serious interest
in movement (dance, acrobatics,
yoga, martial arts).
Francesco Brivio
I was born in Milan in 1963 ,
my father was an architect, my
mother a theatrical set designer ,
my sister is a painter and I have
been myself a photographer for a
long time.
Graham Vasey
Frank Machalowski is a German
award winning photographic
artist and photographer, who was
born 1971 and lives and works in
Berlin. After studying economic
studies in Berlin and applying
himself to various trades he
works today as a freelance
photographer and artist.
Glyn Davies
Gregor Borwig
Gregor is a Hamburg (Germany)
based photographer, who creates
minimalist landscapes in black
and white.
Frans Peter
Verheyen
Frans Peter Verheyen is a very
active photographer, designer
and filmmaker. He lives and
works in The Netherlands.
Håkan Strand
Holden Richards
A native North Carolinian currently residing in Hillsborough,
he is inspired by walking the
creeks and rivers of Orange,
Durham and Alamance Counties.
Håkan Strand is an award winning Fine Art Photographer
based in Stockholm, Sweden. He
brings his Scandinavian influences into his photography to create
a style which is characterized by
sophisticated simplicity lines.
Growing up in the North East
of England in County Durham,
Graham Vasey was surrounded
by the high windswept fells of
the Pennines and the Yorkshire
Dales. Childhood trips with his
family took him out in these
beautiful dramatic places, which
in the end had a profound effect
on Vasey. Over the years as he
developed as an artist and photographer it was only natural that
he should turn to these places for
inspiration for his pictures.
From a fine art family background of artists and artist-lecturers. Glyn used to love drawing
and painting and took a Fine-art
Foundation course at the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall,
before attaining an Honours Degree in Photography Film & TV
at Harrow in London.
Holly Northrop
Holly Northrop is a talented and
driven street photographer with
the majority of her time spent
documenting and capturing the
life and light in New York City.
Isa Marcelli
Iwona
Aleksandrowicz
Jacqueline Roberts
Jacqueline Roberts (Spanish)
was born in Paris in 1969. Her
award-winning photographs have
featured on the covers of photography magazines, books and
music albums.
Iwona is born in 1971. She studied Germanic. Since 2009 fascinated by portrait photography.
and fine art nude.
Jacobien de Korte
Jacobien de Korte was born in
1969. She studied graphic design
at the Willem de Kooning Academy of Arts in Rotterdam.
Isa Marcelli is born in 1958 in
Algeria, she lives and works in
France. Selftaught, she developped a strong interest for old
and alternative processes such as
low-fi cameras, polaroids, pinhole and recently collodion wet
plates.
James Wigger
Jesús Joglar
Jacqueline Walters
Jacqueline Walters is a black and
white fine art photographer
based in San Francisco.
Josiane Keller
Jeanne Wells
James Wigger was born in 1957
in the US. He lives and works in
Portland, Oregon. After a career
in graphic design, James Wigger has now turned his attention
full-time to his first love, photography.
Photographer Jeanne Wells was
born and raised on the Maine
coast, where she has lived most
of her life. Using medium and
large format cameras, she employs a range of antiquarian and
alternative printing techniques
such as wet plate collodion, photogravure, platinum, liquid silver
emulsion and lith printing.
Jesús Joglar (Spain) He started to make photographs in the
“analog era” using his father’s
Contax II camera and, since
then, he has been faithfull to this
way of making photographs. He
discovered pinhole photography
by chance.
Karmen Orlic
Leon Leijdekkers
Leon Leijdekkers was born in
1962, Zierikzee, The Netherlands. Leon won several awards
for Fine Art photography.
Josiane Keller (Austrian), studied ceramics (Germany, Thailand, Japan) and contemporary
studio arts with focus painting
(Holland, UK, US and Japan).
She is currently sharing her time
between US, Europe and Japan.
Juergen Lechner
Juergen Lechner is a member of
the Federal Association of Artists
of the Fine Arts in Germany. He
is based in Germany and has
exhibited around the world.
Karmen Orlic (1966) is for
over 25 years a photographer.
She uses analog and digital
cameras. she is a member of
ULUPUH(Croatian Association
of artist of aplied arts) since
2009. Karmen works and lives in
Porec, Croatia.
Louise Daddona
Marcin Jastrzębski
Marcin Jastrzębski, born in 1974
in Lublin, Poland, studied
philosophy at Marie Curie Sklodowska University. He is a
member of Association of Polish
Art Photographers.
Marius Budu
Marcin Górski
She is a self-taught artist working with film and traditional wet
darkroom. Her work has been
shown in Fl., CA., and NYC. She
is currently affiliated with, Porter
Contemporary Gallery, NYC.
Self-didacted in photography,
keen on analogue medium and
large format photography.
Participated in over 40 individual
and collective exhibitions in
France, Portugal, Sweden, Poland, UK, USA, Italy and Japan.
Marius Budu is a visual artist
working with photography
and digital art. He is currently
based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Through his unique use of light
and shading, the pieces create
structure and emphasize the
sparse, yet vivid colors.
Michael Jackson
Matt Toynbee
Matt Toynbee is a landscape photographer. He started with film
at a very young age, switched to
digital camera’s and moved back
to film to gain a better understanding of photography, thus
getting better results.
Olga Vazquez
Emerging artist born in Lugo
(Spain) in 1979.
Olga Vázquez studied interior
design. She is specialized
in urbex photography and abandoned places, also loves
classical and modern architecture.
Michelle Rogers
Pritzl
Michelle Rogers Pritzl was born
and raised in Washington DC,
where she fell in love with photography in a high school darkroom.
Works with cameras and experimental darkroom equipment in
his studio based in Wales, UK.
His work has been exhibited
internationally and critically
acclaimed.
Nicole Hagesteijn
“At my tenth birthday my mother gave me a Brownie camera.
Holding an image, a moment in
time, in my hands and sharing it
with someone else, long after it
happened, was magic to me.”
Milosz
Wozaczynski
Self-thought photographer. In
his work he mainly engages in
portraits and creative photography. He usually uses large format
camera with classic photosensitive materials but also x-ray
films.
Otakar Hevler
Paula Goddard
Otakar is a traditional black and
white photographer from Switzerland. He has won numerous
awards and had exhibitions in
Europe.
Pavel Rehurek,
After graduating with a Master’s
degree in English Literature in
her native Hungary, Paula Goddard ran an independent book
shop that regularly hosted established and up-coming writers and
poets from across the country. A
year of self-portraits and abstractions of the foreign city lead to
a formal offer of a place on the
photography course of the London School of Printing.
Olga Rook
Olga Rook is a photographer
based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her artistic approach
can be characterized as poetic
conceptualism, grounded in ideas
but flavored with poetry.
Pawel Smialek
Canadian artist of Czech origin,
Pavel Rehurek, is currently
living and working in Vancouver.
He combines skill in both
photography and photoshop to
create colourful abstract forms
that can sometimes be traced
back to a representational reality.
Reza Khatir
Ralph Graef
Ralph Graef is born in southern
Bavaria and spent most of his
life in Munich. Photography excites me since my boyhood and I
have tried various photographic
genres.
Reinier Treur
I’m a freelance photographer living actually near from Lausanne
in Switzerland.
Lighting producer and selfthought portrait photographer
based in Warsaw Poland.
Currently addicted to wet plate
collodion photography.
Rafa Rodriguez
Rafa Rodriguez was born in
1975 in Barcelona, from
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the age
of six living in Ibiza, from where
does his work as a freelance
photographer. He combines his
work as a reportage
photographer with his passion:
autonomous photography
Philippe Mougin
Reinier Treur (1961) is a photographer/editor based in the north
of The Netherlands. Influenced
and inspired by the New Topographic photographers, he focusses on the relation between
mankind and the landscape.
Robert Hutinski
Robert Hutinski lives and works
in Celje, Slovenia. Robert
Hutinski says that what is in his
photos is what he thinks he sees.
Reza Khatir was born in July
1951 in Tehran. In 1968 he
moved to England to continue
his studies. Between 1981 and
1992 he worked exclusively with
Polaroid film in all formats, and
very often with the giant Polaroid 20x24” (50x60cm). Reza
has exhibited in galleries and
museums around the world
Rommel Pecson
Robert Kalman
Silke Seybold
Rommel Pecson received his
B.A Degree in Photography at
City College of New York. For
several years he has worked as a
freelance photojournalist in and
around New York, as well as in
California.
Robert Kalman was born in New
York City in 1949. He lives in
Brewster, 50 miles north of New
York. ”For me, it is the essence
of photography: placing a moment’s intimacy on film allows
that moment to exist forever.”
Santiago Vanegas
Santiago brings an interesting
set of aesthetics to his work. He
has navigated in and out of two
cultures throughout his life. Born
in Philadelphia and then moving
back and forth between the
United States and his native
country of Colombia
Tabea Simple
Tabea is a self taught photographer based in Nürnberg, Germany.She was born on 22nd
October in Bucharest, Romania.
“The limits of your world are the
limits of your fantasy”
Thorn Back
Thornback studied photography
at Bristol University
Annex England in the early
1990’s, undertaking courses
in portraiture, landscape and
darkroom techniques.
Susan de Witt
Trevor E. R. Yerbury
Susan’s interest in photography
started in the year 2000.
After a number of years perfecting her darkroom printing skills,
she decided to take a course in
Lith printing and has stayed
with that medium ever since.
”Susan’s images are photo graphic in the way that light
leaves its mark upon the mind’s
eye.”
Thierry Magniez
Thierry Magniez, french photographer, discovers black and white
world that surrounds it.
Urs Bernhard
Tim Pearse
Tre­vor Yer­bury is a 4th gen­er­a­
tion pho­to­grapher the busi­ness
foun­ded by his great grand­father
in Edin­burgh in 1864. Tre­vor
is pas­sion­ate that his work is
simple and eleg­ant with a clas­sic,
soph­ist­ic­ated look.
Silke Seybold was born in 1972
in Brackenheim, Germany.
At age 28 she moved to Detroit,
Michigan. Silke attended the
analog photography program at
OCC Oakland Community College. I often wandered, strolled
and roamed around in disused
places, fascinated by these massive structures left behind with
an almost indescribable atmosphere.
Timothy Pearse is a practising
fine art and portrait photographer
based in Devon, UK. The synthesis of fine art photography and
craftsmanship is the central creative methodology present
in the making of his work, all
else branching from this tactile
method to produce unique, one
of a kind art objects.
Urs Bernhard (*1949 in Switzerland, lives on Öland/Sweden) ”I
can‘t remember a time not working and playing with images and
words, with stories and emotions
– as a photographer, as a writer
and as a filmmaker.”
Vernon Trent
Vernon Trent was born in Romania in 1967. He currently resides
in Düsseldorf, Germany. His
exhibitions include European
as well as United States venues.
Emotional power, as much as
his tchnical tour de force, makes
him one of the most fascinating
photographers working today.
Valda Bailey
Yoshio Inoue
Vicki Reed
Vicki Reed is a former newspaper photographer and magazine
art editor who specializes in limited edition fine art photographs.
She uses vintage, pinhole and
plastic toy cameras to capture her
images and custom prints them
in her wet darkroom. She loves
exploring alternative processes,
including lith, hand coloring, and
encaustic as well as numerous
cameraless techniques such as
lumen and cyanotype.
Valda is a Sussex-based photographer who enjoys trying to push
the boundaries of what photography can be. She used to paint,
and as a consequence of this, she
is drawn towards flat, abstract
renditions.
Yoshio is born in 1966. As
a child he was fascinated by
beautiful B&W images in Time
Life magazine. This was his first
inspiration.After graduation at
the Tokyo Polytechnic Institute,
he worked in commercial photographic studios. In 2010 he
started as a professional photographer.
Yuji Iwasaki
Wilco Dragt
Willi Morali
Born in 1949 in Menden / Sauerland living since 1978. with his
family in Velbert / Rheinland.
”My landscape photographs are a
tribute to nature, whose beauty
and uniqueness, all their variety
and their changing mood,
fascinates me over and over
again”
Xavier Blondeau
Wilco Dragt (the Netherlands,
1960) is an award winning
fine art landscape photographer.
Blondeau learned to use the capacity of photography to remove
our shortcomings that block the
expression of
the urgent imagination by realizing his vision and ideas into the
form of powerful artworks.
Lucy Telford
British photographer (b. 1969)
living in the north east of Scotland. Lucy uses a variety of
mediums from pinhole cameras
to wet platecollodion, anything
which enables her to dig into my
imaginative reality.
Yuji Iwasaki is born in 1977,
Shizuoka, Japan. He is a
graduate of Byam Shaw School
of Art in London. He was one
of six finalists for the DLA Art
Award. “I began my career as a
painter, which is very important
for me. I use the medium of
photography based on the matters of painting.”