Results of EXPOSED 2010
Posted by Photo Slaves in News, SalonsDec 29th, 2010 | No Comments
Finnaly judges selected the best photos of 2010 that was send to EXPOSED International Salon of Photography whick takes place in Slovenia under the patronage of FIAP, PSA, UPI and FZS. Overall was sent more than 11,000 photos from 1162 authors from 63 countries. Was accepted 2398 photographs and awarded 68 of them. (more…)
Understanding Joshua by Charlie White
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersDec 27th, 2010 | 7 Comments
Charlie White exploring male self-loathing through photographic puppetry. Using a humanoid puppet he calls “complete fragility manifest in a body”. White presents human frailty through a fictional character, much as a novelist might. As Charlie White tells, his puppet, called Joshua, helps him to explore the themes of male self-image and self-loathing. White places Joshua in a series of vulnerable situations – at a cocktail party or a lover’s house – and photographs the scene. (more…)
Schilte & Portielje
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersDec 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
Dutch couple Schilte & Portielje create a surrealist world inhabited by solitary, mysterious and audacious figures. Jacqueline Portielje (’58), who studied painting, and Huub Schilte (’53), an architect by training, met in 1975 and have inspired each other and were closely involved in each other’s work ever since. They started to collaborate under the name Schilte & Portielje in 1997, three years before they had started to explore computers as a resource for artistic expression, using it as a photography dark room and a drawing/painting tool. Their ideas about art were so complementary that creating works of art together became the rule rather than the exception. The results are digital collages starting with a selection of scraps from a large image bank. During the process of drawing, painting, of adding and subtracting, new possibilities and ideas are generated. Still, the work is mainly based on the intuitive qualities the two artists have honed over the years. There are no rules. Located in the area of tension between photography, drawing and painting, the figures play the lead role in the duo’s photographic works: they are characterised by the mystery that surrounds them; a sort of impenetrability, elegance and power. (more…)
Faces of life – Pedro Luis Raota
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersDec 14th, 2010 | No Comments
Pedro Luis Raota (April 26, 1934 – March 4, 1986) is famouse and world wide known photographer from Argentina, ranked as one of the leading exponents of American photography and the Argentine photographer who has received the most awards in contests and photographic halls all around the world. In some publications it is indicated that throughout his 52 years of life Raota obtained more than 3,000 gold medals. Pedro Luis Raota passed away in 1986 and we can say that His photography showed, sometimes, the dramatic side of the life, but always dealing the subjects with irony and humor. Sometimes he was criticized because some of his photographs were previously set up, but he always responded: “A Photographer imagines a picture, and if that picture he imagines doesn’t exist, he will create it just like a Film Director does”. (more…)
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