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Colors & Lines is inspired by the primary colors - Red, Yellow, Blue which used to appear in painting and design. It is a collection that blur between painting and photography, transcending the ordinary between the state of dream and reality. The strong colors visual moves the vision of the world to colors, lines, contrast, geometry and abstraction, seeing the ordinary in extraordinary.
Continue readingDigital photographs created by stitching up to a hundred individual exposures together. Post-production using Adobe Photoshop gives the images a painterly, artistic feel. The detail and clarity of a photograph yet the feel of an old master painting gives the photographs an artistic conflict: a conflict between looking at a real subject with all the detail and clarity of a photograph, but the artistic treatment removes the literal feel to give an unreality to the scene. Printed 60 x 90 inches or larger reminds us of the grand scale of old master paintings, not photography.
Continue readingThis is a photographic documentary of Wugang, the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company. Supported by the Russian and built in 1958, the state-owned Wugang is one of the biggest steel factories in China and once signified the industrialization and modernization of the country. However, such industry causes severe environmental pollution. Through capturing the heavily polluted Wugang campus with somber images, this project reveals the price paid and the consequence behind the glory of modernization and economic prosperity, provoking the viewers into the search of a clean and healthy environment.
Continue readingTakeo Hirose was born in Kyoto, 1962. He started studying photography in earnest in 2011 when Japan suffered from the huge earthquake disaster. Through the earthquake he understood that the beautiful sceneries are not eternal but actually very fragile, and noticed the importance of taking photos of the Japanese beauty. His production concept is to express the world of traditional Japanese paintings and ink paintings with modern Japanese sensibility and the photo technology. For the past few years he has produced the works with a motif of bamboo, which can be associated with Japan.
Continue readingThe old story of a message in a bottle is once again presented in this photographic series. The photographer uses words as symbols, in an aesthetic that simultaneously applies image and text, to awaken people and call them to this troubled, polluted and unfair world. This seems to be the demand for these images. Hope, fraternity, faith, are some of the words chosen, Eduardo Dulla believes that this planet can be a better place and uses his work to share this message.
Continue readingIn Japan, Coming of Age is celebrated when girls and boys turn twenty years old. It is an important occasion when they leave their teens and become adults with rights, responsibilities and liberties. It is a formal once in a lifetime event. The girls customarily wear kimono and the boys kimono or Western suit. Every year the occasion is marked on the second Monday of January.
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