Photo Slaves

Denis Olivier was born 1969, Royan, France. Currently live in Bordeaux, France. Use Canon digital, Hasselblad or Holga cameras and develop film. At the age of 17 He began to take some photographs and was especially fascinated by mineralogical micro mounts. Denis started studying biochemistry, but after 3 years He changed to Poitiers school of fine-arts, and took an interest in computer graphics and generated imagery.  While He was there meet Alain Fleig who introduced him to art photography. Denis also felt a need to practise photography, and with a friend they spent a lot of time learning how to develop films and photographs. They did sessions with models, scenery, and discovered France.

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Dina Oganova’s photos are very honest and truthful. Sometimes seems that they are too true, and shows the viewer something that should not be shown. Dina is representative of a young Georgian photographers. Works in the styles of the portrait and reportage, sometimes documentalistic.  Here photos without color cause she prefere work with black & white that make photos more dramatic and emotive. Helps audience concentrate on main subject and shows the real life as it see Dina Oganova.

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Henry Horenstein has worked as a photographer, teacher, and author since the early 1970s. He is author of over 30 books, including many monographs (HONKY TONK, HUMANS, CREATURES, AQUATICS, CANINE, RACING DAYS). His newest book CLOSE RELATIONS was recently published by powerHouse Books; it’s a collection of photographs he made as a student of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind’s at RISD in the early 1970s. He is also author of the widely used textbook Black and White Photography. Henry’s textbooks have been widely used by hundreds of thousands of photography students over past 30 years. He lives in Boston where he continues to photography, exhibit, publish, and teach at RISD, where he is professor of photography. His photographs are in the collections of numerous museums, including Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.

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Sergey Maximishin was born in 1964. Spent his childhood in Kerch, the Crimea (Ukraine). Moved to Leningrad in 1982. Served in the Soviet army as a photographer the Soviet Military Force Group on Cuba from 1985 to 1987. Graduated from Leningrad Politechnical Inctitute in 1991 with a B.A. in physics. Worked in the laboratory of scientific and technical expertise in the Hermitage Museum. Graduated from St-Petersburg Faculty of photojournalism in 1998. In 1999-2003 was a staff photographer for the “Izvestia” newspaper. Since 2003 Sergey works with a German agency “Focus”.

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The inspiration for Thomas Barbey work comes from many years of traveling all over the world, everyday life, and from some of his favorite artists, such as Rene Magritte, M.C. Escher or Roger Dean. Thomas bring his Mamiya RB 67 or several old Canon AE-1s wherever they go to shoot his photographs. The process of his montage starts with concept. It is then followed by the exposure and selection of the negatives. The design is then created by carefully choosing printing procedures as combination printing; sandwiching negatives together; thereby printing them simultaneously; pre-planned double exposure in the camera; the re-photographing of collaged photographs; and/or a combination of the above. He sometimes retouch and/or airbrush the collages before re-photographing them from above with a special contraption to hold the camera in place. Thomas then make a master negative to make a limited edition of prints. Although constantly asked about how He do them, Thomas would like to think that the pictures can be appreciated without any real knowledge of their technical virtuosity. The visionary inspiration and imagination is not a technical skill learned in school but rather to his personal belief, a gift from God. This is the only way Thomas Barbey can explain the source of any idea He may have during the creation process.

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Five years ago Dave Nitsche picked up a camera. What started off as a simple means of taking some fun pictures quickly turned into an obsession and a way for him to tell his viewers how He feel. Dave try to show people what’s going on in his world through his pictures. If you look at them long enohiugh you will understand every facet his life. His wants, needs, desires, failures, joys and pains are all there. He has been blessed with photography and lucky enough to have images and features published in Digital Photo (UK), Popular Photography (US), Unique Image (Taiwan), Digi Photo (Romania), Shutterbug (US), Popular Photography (China), Australian Photographer (AU), Digital Photographer (UA) magazines to mention just a few. All in all his work has been published in over 100 magazines (15 covers, 5 features), private and public gallery shows on 4 continents and images included in 2 books.

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When Joanna Drazek was younger She was proposed to have a photo session for a teen magazine. She didn’t like the photos, which were taken then by the photographer. It all took a lot of time and the final effect was unsatisfactory. It came to here, that She could make better ones. Joanna was very discontented, disillusioned and young. Probably that was his first step of photography adventure. It began uninteresting, but the passion evolved soon.

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Today Photo Slaves represent You amazing insects’ portraits by Thomas Shahan or better knowen in on-line as Opo Terser. After experimenting around with various ways of taking high magnification macros, Thomas realized that nothing man-made is really all that exciting up close. He realized pretty quickly that bugs were one of the only things worth the effort. Nothing compares to the complexity, color, and intricate detail of arthropods up-close. Also, there is a seemingly infinite number of subjects when it comes to bugs.

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Award-wining photographer Fan Ho has won 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956. Ho has been elected Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England; Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and etc, and was honored with One-Man-Shows in the above countries. Ho’s works can be seen and have been published in many International Photographic Annuals all over the world.

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