Simple And Clear

Max Juhasz

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Max Juhasz (Croatia) – Contemporary Photographer – www.maxjuhasz.com

 

I often feel like a collector of magic photographic fluids and metaphysical moments in eternal quest for the simple and clear pictures of the universal memory.

 

Max Juhasz. Born in 1967 in Vukovar, Max Juhasz is a contemporary photographer who currently lives in Zagreb (Croatia). When it comes to photography he’s self-taught. He’s represented by the collective “Contemporary Croatian Photography”.

Artist statement: “After the loss of the family photos during the war, I decided to fill the black hole of introspection, which had gotten deeper and deeper as time had passed, with new photos, filtered through the prism of my own microcosm and my personal vision of the world around me. Photography is my passion, which constantly makes me accumulate, like a collector, the pictures I am missing, and new pictures which deserve to be preserved.” Full article…

Tickling The Eye

Gregor Servais

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Portrait and Travel Photographer – www.gregorservais.nl

 

Photography for me means to be able to live a life that I really like, going places meeting people, and giving me the opportunity to make something that remains, hopefully.

 

Gregor Servais. Born in 1972, Gregor Servais is a Dutch portrait and travel photographer currently living in The Hague (The Netherlands). He studied photography at Royal Art Academy, The Hague.

Artist statement: “Most of my portraits are improvised there and then on the spot. Although it makes me nervous each time again I like it. My travel photography is a bit melancholic.” Full article…

Curious About Human Nature

Alison McCauley

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Alison McCauley (England) – Street and Documentary Photographer – www.amccauley.ch

 

Photography is vital to me. It’s become my connection to the rest of the world, the driving force behind my desire to try to understand people and places. It’s through photography that I explain the world to myself.

 

Alison McCauley. Born in 1961, she currently lives in Geneva. Alison McCauley studied visual art at Winchester School of Art (UK) and at the Haute École d’Art et de Design in Geneva. Later on she studied photography with the Open College of the Arts. She’s not represented by an agent. Alison McCauley is a member of the collective “Street Photographers”. A selection of her prints is available for sale through Photo Democracy.

Artist statement: “I tend to save statements for series of photos. A personal statement that doesn’t accompany a specific series of photographs just seems limiting to me. I like to feel unencumbered by expectations or declarations.” Full article…

Celebrating The Moment

Katja Sonnewend

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Contemporary Photographer – www.sonnewend.com

 

I always wanted to visualize my dreams and fantasies. Photography is the best way to make dreams come true, even if it’s far away from reality and logic.

 

Katja Sonnewend. Born 1977 in Poznan (Poland), she currently lives in Berlin (Germany). She studied photography at AKI, Dutch Art Institute (The Netherlands) and is represented by Plainpicture/Hamburg.

Artist statement: “In my mind Polaroid photography is a sort of ritual. I think that our society celebrates the moment less and less.” Full article…

Exploration Of Identity

Jana Maré

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Jana Maré (Australia) – Contemporary Photographer – www.janamare.com

 

For me, it is not a choice. I see photographs wherever I look. I take photographs in my mind even when I don’t have a camera – I am click, click, clicking away in my head. I see photo opportunities everywhere. I did not choose to be this way, this is just who I am, it is natural to me.

 

Jana Maré. Born in 1978, Jana Maré is a contemporary photographer currently based in Melbourne, Australia. At the moment she is undertaking a Masters of Fine Art (Photography) at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia. The first place she studied at was PIC (Photographic Imaging College). Jana Maré went there for a year to build up a portfolio to get into university. She then completed a Bachelor of Media Arts (Fine Art Imaging) and then a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) being awarded First Class Honours at RMIT.

Artist statement: In her new series of photographs called “Around The House”, Jana Maré explores performance in front of the camera using the artist’s body.

Using the artist’s body in open natural light, the work exhibited explores interior spaces, the psychology of the home left empty and forgotten. The body emerges as furniture, or a part of the architecture, lending to the space an exposed human presence, camouflaged and yet part of the urban interior landscape. Full article…