November 30, 2019

BODY VECTOR


Exploring the human body as a form (object) to create visual harmony on the image plane, many authors will sooner or later come to the point where the question arises Which direction to take? Most of them choose the path of improving their methods and techniques which have been tried and tested before. They are just complicating their composite solutions, using exotic ways of lighting, experimenting with semantic load.
Anyway, a body remains an easily recognizable object — just a human body. Finally, they achieve the most successful interpretation of what has been done before many times.
Creating this series, I tried to move away from conventional patterns that most photographers use when shooting nude. 
After careful consideration of a human body shapes, my attention was drawn to the contact area of the curves where they interact with each other and create the illusion of a line. 
In my view, these lines are as perfect in their harmony as body parts that produce them. The harmony of the lines is as complete and complex as usual well-known human body shapes. Then a new idea started up in my mind — the correlation with the abstract notion of a vector characterizing the direction of movement in general. 
Taking this idea as a basis, I created a series of works where the effect of interplay of curves and shapes in the contact zones associates with the movement in different directions, on the one hand, and living matter of a moving human body, on the other. This is the idea — the starting point to tune a viewer's mind to pure contemplation and my attempt to show well-known women body shapes from a different shooting angle. 
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November 20, 2019

ANTIQUE AVIARY

acorn woodpecker

As a very young girl my fondest memory was sitting on my grandmother’s porch while she showed me tintypes of my great grandmother and other loved ones.
Holding these tintypes in my hand and gazing into the eyes of my ancestors while hearing stories of my grandmother’s childhood was an experience I hold dear to my heart.
Those tintypes were my first exposure to the art of photography.
My series Antique Aviary is a melding of my lifelong passion for birds, my wildlife photography and my deep appreciation of the tintype image.
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chipping sparrows

great blue heron

heerman's gull

great horned owl

mallards

chilean flamingos

black mandibled toucan

indian peacock

starlings

snowy egret

mockingbird

wallrapp ibis

sulfer crested cockatoo

wild turkeys

mourning doves

east african crowned cranes

canadian goose

south american macaw

ruby throated hummingbird

November 10, 2019

NEŽNÁ/SAMETOVÁ

foto: Jan Šibík

foto: Vladimír Benko

foto: Radovan Boček

foto: Jan Šibík

foto: Jan Šibík

foto: Jan Šibík

foto: Karel Bucháček

foto: Peter Turnley

foto: Ján Lörincz

foto: Ján Lörincz

foto: Peter Brenkus

foto: Alexander Buzinkay

foto: Vladimír Benko

foto: Vladimír Benko

foto: Karel Bucháček

foto: Petr Zatloukal

foto: Václav Hůrka

foto: Vladimír Andor

foto: Ivan Rychlo

foto: Jaroslav Kučera

foto: Petr Josek

foto: Vladimír Benko

foto: Ján Lörincz

foto: Karel Cudlín

foto: Jaroslav Kučera

foto: Vladimír Benko

foto: John Vink

foto: Peter Brenkus

foto: Svätopluk Písecký

foto: Peter Brenkus

foto: Peter Turnley

foto: Ján Lörincz

foto: Boris Strečnanský

foto: Jaroslav Kučera

foto: John Vink

foto: Ján Lörincz

foto: Peter Brenkus