SZYMON ROGINSKI

SZYMON ROGINSKI has many interesting series. The pictures up here are from different ones. Yet I am pasting here a copy of what he wrote about his Poland Synthesis series. Why? Just cause I liked what he was saying...

BEFORE SHOWING SERIES FROM POLAND, FEW WORDS ON HOW IT STARTED:
IN DETROIT, I BOUGHT MY MOST IMPORTANT CAMERA - THE MAMIYA 7.

“AND THEN WE HIT THE ROAD.”

THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPES GREATLY IMPRESSED ME – I WOULD CONSTANTLY SEE THE TRACES OF FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS SUCH AS
ANSEL ADAMS OR WILLIAM EGGLESTON. HOWEVER, THROUGHOUT MY JOURNEY I FELT THAT NOWADAYS, AFTER THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN
THERE, IT IS REALLY DIFFICULT TO PHOTOGRAPH SOMETHING NEW THERE.

WHEN I RETURNED TO POLAND I FELT REALLY TEMPTED TO CONTINUE THIS SERIES. I REALIZED THAT ALL AROUND ME THERE IS AN UNSURVEYED
AREA THAT HAD NOT BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED IN MODERN TIMES. I STARTED WORKING ON IT IN EXTREMELY HARSH CONDITIONS - AUTUMN WAS
TURNING INTO WINTER, SO POLAND WAS MONOCHROMATIC, DEPRESSING, DIRTY AND COLD.

MY EXPEDITIONS WOULD LAST UP TO A WEEK EACH. MY ASSISTANT WOULD DRIVE SO THAT I COULD LOOK THROUGH THE WINDOW
DURING THE JOURNEY. WE TRAVELLED AT NIGHT. WE WOULD GO TO SLEEP AT 8 A.M., STILL A WINTER DAWN, AND GET UP AROUND 2 P.M.
ALREADY AT DUSK.


PHOTOGRAPHING POLAND DURING THE DAY IS A VERY CHALLENGING TASK. I THINK THE ONLY TIME IT MAKES SENSE IS AT DAWN.


DAWN AFTER A SLEEPLESS NIGHT ALWAYS IMPRESSES ME.

SZYMON ROGINSKI
BORN 1975, Gdansk, Poland
Current residence: Warsaw

EDUCATION
College of Artistic Photography in Gdansk, POLAND, 1997-1999


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Hi everyone.

I know I haven't been posting much these past days... My show is tomorrow night (Yikes!!!) and I'll be out for a couple of days... I should be back around friday for my more regular routine.

Wish me luck ;)

xxx Marie xxx

HOUSTON

WE HAVE A PROBLEM

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LU CONG

LU CONG
BORN in Shanghai, China, 1978

Lu Cong (陆琮华) is a contemporary American portrait artist. He is regarded by many as one of the most distinctive young artists to recently emerge from the American West. His paintings center around the faces of his carefully chosen subjects. His style pays homage to 18th Century Romantics, yet it is unmistakably conceived in and relevant to the contemporary era. His portraits do not simply capture the physical and emotional state of the subject, rather they beckon to establish the complicated psychological interactions that ensue when one comes face to face with the sensual, the inexplicable, and the unsettling.


"(...) Like many young people escaping the life already planned out for them by going West, I moved to Denver in 2000 to avoid attending medical school. Thanks to my youthful enthusiasm and blissful ignorance, I jumped head first into a life that I knew hardly anything about. My years as an artist often seem like a hopeless struggle to learn how to paint, how to draw, how to think, and how to pay the rent. And often I feel like I have only gone further down the path that I dreaded as a child. However, now I must believe there is redemption, and what you see here are my efforts at earning it." (LU CONG)


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EVA EUN - SIL HAN

Thought Experiments on the Soul

Could I be replaced with such a complete duplicate-every atom,
not just genetically identical -- it would think that it was me.
But clearly it would not be me, especially if I were not destroyed in the replacement
and continued to exist off somewhere else. We can imagine that such complete identity
might produce a being that would simply see itself as existing in two places at once,
but this would require some kind of communication; and that would require the existence
of some kind of extrasensory or paranormal connection between the two bodies, which is not now part of established science. Without such paranormal communication,
the identical individuals would each think of themselves as the original individual,
although only one of them would be right; and they would immediately begin to diverge
as individuals because of differing experiences.


- Thought Experiments on the Soul by Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.

EVA EUN - SIL HAN
currently working and living in Belgium -

EDUCATION :
1991-1995 B.A.in Spanish Literature and History of Art , DANKOOK University, South Korea
1994-1996 NAREA Design Institute Graphic Art
2004-2005 L'Atelier d'Art de la Grange des Champs - Belgium

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STEVEN NEDERVEEN

STEVEN NEDERVEEN studied fine art at Medicine Hat College and went on to receive a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta in 1995. The following year he moved to Vancouver (1996-2000) where Steven practiced meditation and found that this experience combined with the beauty of the landscape greatly contributed to his growth as a person and an artist. It was these moments that lead Steven to use painting to draw connections between our natural environment and aspects of spirituality. By blurring the lines between photography and painting, he develops a magical realism that inspires us to see the world with new eyes. By using distressing and aging the work he creates the sense of past and present, of struggle and transformation. A glass-like layer of resin coats each painting enhancing the clarity of the image and reflecting the viewer into the work.

STEVEN NEDERVEEN/// SOLO SHOW @ GALERIE DE BELLEFEUILLE
APRIL 24 TO MAY 5 2010
Meet the artist Saturday April 24 from 13h to 16h
1367 avenue Greene, Montréal


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IRWIN TOBIAS MATUTINA

IRWIN TOBIAS MATUTINA
Lives and works in NY.

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STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR

"STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR is a painter and illustrator working in Toronto, Canada. A graduate of Sheridan College's illustration program, Appleby-Barr began producing zines under the imprint Tiger Press Books, with friend and fellow student, Lauchie Reid.

This collaboration soon grew into the foundation of the five-man art collective known as Team Macho, who have exhibited at Magic Pony since 2005

Documenting fictional fraternities and societies, Appleby-Barr's work explores archiving and preservation. A medium intrinsically associated with historical painting, Appleby-Barr lends his oil paintings a subversive and surprising edge, combining references to antique photographs with secret symbols and personal imaginings." (Narwhal)


STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR
Born 1981 in Toronto, Canada
Live and work in Toronto, Canada.

EDUCATION Diploma in Illustration, Sheridan College, 2004


☁ STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR @ NARWHAL ART PROJECT
☁ STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR INTERVIEW @ NOW MAGAZINE