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Between eye and lens is happening a lot. It is a crucial moment for the one right decision and then... art is created. Image that stays with us not only in our memory but also on film or disk captured by a camera.

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With landscape photography there’s something about getting out in nature with the challenge of capturing some of the amazing beauty that you see.

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„I consider myself a documentary photographer, always out there looking and documenting what I see and what I am inspired by. On the other hand, I try to go beyond simple observation, attempting to get better understanding of the world, and to express that understanding through art.”

Tomasz started his professional career in wildlife photography, then turned to social documentary, but for a few years he has been working mostly on sports projects. This Tomasz believes that there universal human activity is no inherent contradic- always fascinated him as tion between document a spiritual practice, which and art in photography. is not readily visible today, Both notions lead to in mainstream events. He the same concept of turned photographing pesomething persistent, ripheral, exotic sports into perhaps even intended for his long standing quest. posterity. If, sometimes, The body of work preweb

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sented here is a part of an ongoing project, presently titled Beyond the Body, on sport as a specific social and historical practice. It consists of autonomous chapters, each devoted to a single kind of sport.

Tomasz is focused more on training than competition, and on deep cultural meanings rather than entertainment. As mainstream sports have been largely reduced to business, he turned his attention to ethnic, traditional, rare or otherwise unusual disciplines.

For the purpose of this portfolio presentation Tomasz selected pictures

taken between 2005 and automotive enthusiasts 2010, covering the follow- in Mexico City, fascinated ing topics: particularly with American muscle cars.

Mongolian Child Jockeys (2008) Urban Golf in Mumbai (2009) In traditional horse races held during the Naadam A group of boys living festival, children are used in slums - some of them as jockeys, because a race working as caddies in a is a test for the horses golf club - started to play rather than for the riders, golf, developing their own whose skills should have variety of the game. In little influence on the modernizing India, young score. generation is increasingly exposed to Western Mexico’s Car Frenzy lifestyles, and sometimes (2010) their enthusiasm produces an interesting mix of local A portrait of a small traditions and realities informal community of with new inspirations.

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The athletes from the UK-based Urban Freeflow team, the first ever professional organization set up within the world of freerunning, show their extraordinary skills in New York City, Hongkong, Mexico City, and on the Maho beach on St. Martin.

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Professional sumo fighters – most of them from Azumazeki stable in Tokyo – during exercise and other daily activities.

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rafałmakieła Rafał Makieła is 38 years old, from Wroclaw. His photography began 8 years ago, the impulse of interest in this field of art was the birth of his daughter Maksymilianna.

The desire to immortalize every day of her life led to his interest in photography. And so it became his passion. Slowly Rafał learned following the best photographers and practicing constantly.

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He was looking for theme of expression in different fields of photography.

Finally one day he came across the pictures of Zena Holloway and he decided to accomplish something as spectacular as her pictures (Rafał still follows the best). At the moment Rafał does professional underwater photography, advertising and artistic wedding photography.

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shoot the street

leannestaples Leanne Staples is primarily a street, social documentary and urban landscape photographer. Her photos have been featured in many magazines and on numerous websites. Her photos have been shown in galleries in Barcelona, Milan and New York City.

in which to shoot. A few things that she is always seeking out are shadows, reflections, patterns, moShe started out in film tion blur, clouds, graffiti, and after some skepticism and interesting people. about digital, she finally She studied film and made the transition in literature at university One day, after being an- 2006. A self-described and is planning on writing noyed by people walking gonzo photog, you can about photography in the into her shot, she decided find her on the streets with very near future. She is a She was given her first not to fight it anymore and camera in hand searching Co-Founder of Shoot the camera at the age of 12 by instead to shoot people for the perfect backdrop Street.

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passing by the buildings.

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the reality of the night

xavierbakker Xavier is a Hong Kongbased cityscape and architecture photographer.

He took up photography around 15 years ago starting with a basic Canon EOS analog camera. Xavier picked up photography as a hobby as a result of his fondness for cities and architecture.

years. The majority of his images are multiple images stitched together to achieve the highest resolution possible and/or to create the widest possible field of view. The many Over time he has also as- hours of practice come in sembled his current photo handy especially when the gear. His current camera light changes fast or when is a Canon 5D mark II. For there are moving clouds. optimal sharpness Xavier Xavier always tries to Technique uses only prime lenses. achieve a natural look Over the years Xavier has Next to using tilt shift in his images. HDR is in assembled a very sizelenses Xavier has been his view not the way to able collection of photo practicing multi-image achieve this. He feels editing books. The “digital panorama photography for that using HDR just for

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darkroom� is essential in his view. It can help you elevate an image to a higher level. Xavier practices a lot with many different software packages.

elements in an image or blending exposures together manually leads to much better results.

The best compliment people can give Xavier is that an image looks natural. Despite the fact that in reality he has used an extreme shift lens, or that he has stitched many images together and had spent a lot of time manually blending in blown-out highlights.

Ambition So far Xavier has mostly kept his photos to himself and shared them only on Flickr, his website and occasionally selling non-exclusive prints for advertising. His dream is to publish a book of Hong Kong night photography one day, so he is building a large library of images to that purpose. At a later stage Xavier would love to become a full-time photographer.

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surrealistic world

vassilistangoulis Vassilis was born in a small Greek town –Karpenisisurrounded by mountains and was really lucky to be a “village” boy. He had the opportunity to see sceneries that influenced his viewpoint and perspective and maybe unconsciously defined the absolute meanings of words like “sunset”, “snow”, and many others; all important ingredients of a landscape photographer.

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of 11 and spent some 20 years in different towns and the last 10 years Vassilis lives in Patras, a beautiful town near the sea.

catalysts to this mind function. After three months Vassilis knew he did not want street photography (maybe not too smart to catch the right moments, One day Vassilis just felt he felt uncomfortable to shoot had to buy a DSLR camera people) and it took him and started to shoot. Well two more months to see maybe everything was that he will be a devoted prepared subconsciously landscape photographer. and his profession, his At the bottom line Vassilis childhood, the need for a wanted to be alone with way to express his inner the nature. He tried to world played their roles as take realistic photos but

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never felt satisfied. At that moment neutral density filters came to his life and a new surrealistic world –the world he always sees in his dreams- could be captured by his camera. This discovery changed everything in Vassilis life and from that moment he gives all his creativity to elaborate his surrealistic view.

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(Thailand) at first Maytee bought a camera to take pictures on his mother’s funeral in November 2010.

loves to see many people moving on the street.

There is just so much to shoot and your choices are endless. It gives you freedom to shoot anything and everything within the limits of the law and human courtesy.

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temporary shelters.

Thai flooding situation was a good experience to improve his street photography skills.

His inspiration comes from everywhere, all people on the street, every image on social media. Maytee’s hobby is playing guitar & drum, and composing music using computer music skills.

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inspiration comes from everywhere

julie de waroquier Julie is 22 year-old french photographer, also student in philosophy at the Ecole Normale SupĂŠrieure.

Four years ago, she got in photography quite randomly, but now it has become a true passion.

Indeed, Julie enjoys the contradiction of the art of photography, this is firstly a technique which copies reality, while art is all creation and invention.

Photography thus becomes fascinating, how can one create, re-create Her pictures are a mixture reality and what is seen, of fantasizing, surrealism with an art which precisely and conceptualism. Julie duplicates theworld as it tries to create pictures is ? This is the reason why which remind fairy tales Julie tries to make reality and dreams, which look surreal in her pictures. look out of this world.

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world as it could be rather than as it is. Julie does not want silent pictures.

She wants to let dreamlike images and symbols speak, she wants to show how meaningful a picture can be.

Julie is probably mainly inspired by myths, tales, and by artists and writers such as Freud, Perrault, Magritte, and la Comtesse de SĂŠgur.

During the past years, Julie De Waroquier has Julie doesn't really know been achieving several where her inspiration projects such as collective comes from. It comes from and personal exhibitions, everywhere, from the wedding photos, book books she used to read and CD covers, and other when she was a child, from collaborations with sounds, lights, people. But artists.

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refreshing new spin

jefffarsai Jeff Farsai has made his mark as one of the world’s most successful surf photographers. Since the age of 13, Jeff obsessed with the idea of stopping time through photos. With his creative eye, Jeff brings a refreshing new spin to the digital age. Farsai specializes in celebrity, music, wedding, and sports photography.

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His striking images translate his passion for art. Graduating with his BFA in Photography from California State University Long Beach, Farsai is one of the most accredited and sought out photographers in Southern California.

Jeff has received countless awards for his photography and has been published worldwide.

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uniqueness of feelings

denisbuchel Thirty-two years ago he was born in Moldova.

After almost ten years in Israel, since 2009 Denis has been living in Bulgaria. He works as a photojournalist in a weekly newspaper.

Denis started with photography in 2007, when he bought his first point and shoot camera.

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step, photography started obsessing him. From time to time he thought he was going crazy, because only photography was in his mind – Denis woke up with thoughts about photography, he fell asleep with thoughts about photography, he could not even speak to people who were not occupied with photography. Now, when it turned into, if he can say it so, a way of life, Denis

realized that photography let him understand what he is. Precisely “what” and not “who”, because when you ask “Who am I?”, you examine yourself only materially and superficially.

And if you ask yourself “What am I?”, the answer is deeply philosophical, concentrated on your own consciousness, sensation and perceptions of human essence.

Most of all Denis likes taking pictures that show things from real life – photos with stories behind, with human presence.

Through a photo only he tries to show the real Self of the person that stays in front of his camera, it does not matter if he is familiar or a complete stranger. Denis wants to take out what is deeply hidden under the simple physical cover – the body. However, Denis has

enjoyed taking photos of dogs even more recently.

In contrast with people, they do not either lie, or conceal mean thoughts.

Some of Denis photos have appeared in Moldova, Israel, Russia, China and Bulgaria. Whether blackand-white or coloured, they bring the uniqueness of feelings. This is really important for a photo – to make everyone stop and think for a second, to make

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intricate knowledge of the city

jeffaustin Jeff Austin was born in a small rural town in Ontario, Canada. Small town life was full stories to tell and ultimately led Jeff to Film School. Although he was studying motion picture photography, it was long nights in the editing room where he realized that movies in there simplest form were telling the story one frame of film at a time.

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After that moment he quit film school and began his career in still photography.

The journey has led from small town Canada to big city Japan, in Tokyo. Jeff has photo and printing studio in Tokyo, which he uses as home base for his company. The kanji reads Jinsei, meaning life or way of life. Jeff views his work as his life art or his

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“Jinsei art”. In the studio Jeff is often photographing families, children, and even food. When he is on the road Jeff shoots the beautiful landscapes of Japan and has been fortunate photograph both commercial and private architecture all across the country. However Jeff is most at home on the street.

“Street photography is the passion I always return too after commercial work. A great street photo is highest high I have felt as a photographer.” Jeff often spends every off day walking the streets Tokyo.

His intricate knowledge of the city is paying dividends for others as he frequently teaches local photographers his shooting and

workflow techniques.

Jeff also provides tours of Tokyo for photographers visiting the city. Most recently Jeff has been leading a monthly photowalks in Tokyo for Google+ photographers.

“Next to the feeling of taking a great shot, helping someone else achieve the same level of greatness is just as good.”

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love of form, light and composition

markboyle Mark started taking photographs when he was in school and it is probably the one thing that has consistently been apart of his life since.

He studied fine art photography at the Photography Studies College in Melbourne in his early twenties. Graduating with a high distinction.

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which lasted for about ten years. During that time he learnt a lot about being a professional photographer and found much of it was killing his passion for photography.

For the past twelve years Mark has been working in the web development and web project management industry while continuing to pursue his photography as an important personal outlet.

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does with wide eyes and a sense of wonder.”

It enables Mark to always see the world around him as though it was for the first time. It is always fresh with new things to see everywhere. Mark said “I think as we grow older we tend to notice less and less of the world around us, it all becomes familiar and unsurprising. Photography prevents this and lets me see the world as a child

MONOSCAPES These images are a collection of Mark’s landscape work over many years.

Some are from his days before digital photography and others are more recent. However, hopefully they all reflect his love of form, composition and light.

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light is colour

ursula I abresch Ursula was born in Argentina, and grew up in both Argentina and Chile.

She moved to the USA to attend university, and eventually moved permanently to Canada. She now is Canadian, living in the interior of beautiful British Columbia. British Columbia is a mountainous area, with lots of trees, lakes and rivers, waterfalls, rocks, and wildlife. For Ursula, it’s a great place to live.

in Art and History. She now dedicates most of her time to photography.

Ursula sees the world as a beautiful and interesting place, one that she likes to get to know and explore.

But she’s a very real person.

She loves her family, being outdoors, walking; she loves water and trees and flowers, and she loves quite a variety of music.

She plays the organ at her church, and sings in a choir.

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she was a little girl in Valparaiso, Chile, when she would walk around with her father’s brownie camera “pretending” she was making pictures. She got her first camera of her own at age 17.

interesting combination of technical skills and artistic perception. She enjoys mastering the technical aspects of photography, but she tries to keep uppermost in mind the artistic matters. Her goal is to make absolutely beautiEventually she got access to ful pictures. a small lab where she could make B&W prints. Later on Her style can be described she got a Pentax K-1000 as photo-impressionism. that she still has today.

Her photos often come off In 2003 she switched to as dreams or paintings. digital. One thing Ursula She thinks it is because loves about photography is they are plays in colour, that photography is a very intimate, gentle, feminine,

light. There is just a sliver of sharpness in many of her photos, and you can tell there is something there, in focus, but there is much left to the imagination. Photo-impressionism allows Ursula to abstract subjects and provide much more character than with a representational photo.

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in light can make the difference between utterly glorious and plain drab.

Perhaps more than anything though, the concepts of photo-impressionism make her pay attention to colour. Ursula loves colour!

She plays with colour and uses it almost as if it were the subject itself, which, in a way, it is, at least in photography.

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jürgenvogt Born in Berlin, Germany, Jürgen Vogt is a Canadian photographer living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vogt was raised in Toronto and lived for several years in Montreal, after he and his family emigrated from Berlin.

to document the city, its people, and the unique qualities that make Havana such an interesting mosaic. In April of 2011, an exhibition of Vogt’s portraits of Cubans and In 1986 Vogt completed Canadians, titled “The extensive work for the Portrait Project” opened book, “The Expo Celebra- at UNEAC, (The National Jürgen’s personal work is tion” and again in 1988, for Union of Writers and Artists of an ever evolving style, “Share The Flame”, where of Cuba). rooted in documentary he covered the Winter and reportage genres. His Olympic opening ceremo- His Photographs have been images explore a fascina- nies in Calgary. Vogt has published worldwide in tion with history, the made annual trips to newspapers and magaenvironment, architecture Havana, Cuba since 2004, zines including but not

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limited to TIME, MacLean’s, Business Week, The Vancouver Province, the North Shore News and Toronto Star. Jürgen has also photographed for advertising campaigns, annual reports and trade publications, with a client list including Air Canada, Canadian Airlines, MacMillan Bloedel, Crown Forest, Weldwood Forest Products, Suntour Travel, Sunquest Travel, Canada 3000, Florida Tourism and BC Tourism.

Jürgen’s images have been shown in galleries and museums, and are included in a growing number of gallery and private collections in Canada, Cuba and the USA. In addition, a selection of his photographs are housed in the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.

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simonevans Born and raised in Worcestershire, England, now living on North Island, New Zealand, Simon Evans aged 51 is a Senior Healthcare Manager.

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his current management position. His love of the countryside has remained throughout.

A Christmas gift of a camera and textbooks from his wife Dawn introduced him to the world of digital photography and he set about capturing the beauty of the English Lake District. Selftaught through reading and trial and error, he describes his development as “a work in progress”. He specialises in landscape photography, and has had work published

in photographic magazines Cornish and Ansel Adams. in both Europe and Austral- Though he seeks to develop asia. his own style rather than mimic the work of others.

He`s an active member of “Deviantart”, an online Simon is fascinated with global community of light, especially pre-dawn photographers, artists and and sunrise, when the light writers and believes the play on the landscape is support, encouragement almost other worldly. Add a and advice he receives there touch of atmospheric mist has improved his photoand you have his favourite graphic abilities greatly. conditions to photograph Photographically besides and are indeed becoming Deviantart he draws inspira- his trade mark shots. tion in particular from the His tools of the trade folworks of Galen Rowell, Char- lowing a recent upgrade lie Waite, David Norton, Joe are a Canon EOS 5D, Mark ll,

Capture One 6, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Nik Color Efex and Nik Silver Efex Pro. His most used favourite accessory is a loud alarm clock! As early morning starts are essential for his photography, but a small price to pay for the results he achieves.

His future plans include a blog page, a professional website and to provide opportunities to purchase his work. He acknowledges that to break into the landscape photography market is difficult, but is happy to just

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Simon is happy to respond to any enquiries regarding his work.

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rafaelmesa Rafael Mesa was born decided to left and began in Caracas, Venezuela in freelancing.

1977. He is a graphic designer and photographer. Rafael loves his job and combines love and passion At first he worked for in each of his works. The advertising and modeling concept and production agencies but due to his of all of his shots is a rising inclination for the very close collabotation styles of dark, gothic, nude between himself and his fashion, quirky etc. and the models. Rafael has been fact of never be completely featured in many magacomfortable with not zines and online features being his own boss he in his own country.

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He’s also a teacher at a design institute and planner of diverse artistic events and markets in Valencia, his actual city. The documentary work is also a very important part of his portfolio. Friends, travels, his girlfriend, students; all of this is a good source for great images. Light and inspiration is all he need to make a photograph.

He’s a big fan of Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Jaime Ibarra, Michael Helms, Rebecca Tillett, Akif Hakan Celebi. Every single girl turns to be the perfect model to photograph.

There are no excuses to not think about it. The woman’s body is for him, the most beautiful subject for photography.

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davidrichter quality time outdoors, exploring and taking in the fleeting beauty of the moment but it was not until some years ago that he realized, he can take some of those adventures home, as life-long memories; His focus has always been with a simple click of the nature, whether it’s snowy shutter. mountains or deep forests with small creeks flowing The eager traveler and exDavid Richter is a comover moss-covered rocks. plorer soon found himself pletely self-taught land- In his childhood, David was on a journey to capture scape and nature photog- fortunate to spend some the light at its peak. His “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dew drop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”- John Muir

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love for the outdoors and wilderness has taken him around the globe to some of the most beautiful landscapes in the Sierra Nevada of California, the Desert Southwest and the Swiss Alps.

ephemeral moment of daybreak or dusk, where the play of light and shadow is less harsh; and happily endures Nature’s forces for a chance to find a break in the storm, providing unique potential for rare captures of some David’s style of photogra- of the most amazing light phy can be described as and an emotion-evoking unmistakable, true and viewing pleasure. bold, with a sometimes painting-like quality to his images. He seeks the

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katharinaschimmel Katharina Schimmel known as KIARA BLACK. Katharina was born in September 1986 and was raised up in a small village in Germany. Katharina was interested in the different kinds of art her whole life, so she made her advanced technical college entrance qualification - specialisation Design in 2006.

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That’s when her passion was woken for photography. She bought herself a new Camera, a Canon EOS 400D. She uploaded her photos on Flickr under nickname “Kiara Black”, today it is the name of her photography business. In 2010 Katharina had the opportunity to exhibit some of her work at the Photokina 2010 in Cologne.

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hubertleszczyński Hubert was born in Legnica (Poland), in 1982.

Graduated the University Of Technology in Wroclaw (degree in biomedical engineering). Currently living in Ireland. About four years ago Hubert got his first digital SLR camera (Nikon D80) and actually his adventure with photography has began. As an amateur he read a lot...

Internet was very helpful but Hubert has looked into literature as well.

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Hubert has been trying to get as much knowledge as he could. He has also met a lot of friends with the same passion, more experienced, helpful in giving very important photographic advices. Hubert has tried to take as much photographs as he could to get better his experience, thereby verifying his skills.

Living in Ireland, called by many as the Green Island, helped him to discover the beauty of surrounding landscape, which became

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years early Hubert didn’t pay attention too much to it, but within next months Whenever Hubert goes for He has realized why the holidays he tries to capture light is so important. amazing places, showing “Golden Hour” as it’s called its splendid atmosphere – that’s the time when he and colors. Photography tries to capture the most became a huge passion, amazing photos.

Hubert couldn’t live without at this stage. Lately he Sometimes Mother Nature has changed his old cam- isn’t generous with the era to a full frame digital nice, soft arising light and SLR from Nikon – D700. instead we get cloudy and Some great landscape windy weather. Well, this photographers say that is the time when Hubert it’s all about the light. Few likes to experiment, es-

pecially with the long exposure shots. To do so, he has purchased graduated neutral density filters from LEE, which are also helpful in different conditions, when he faces dynamic range of light (sunrise/ sunset). Post-processing usually is short and simple as Hubert tries to show places the same way he has seen them. Software, such as Nikon Capture NX2 and Photoshop Elements are quite important in his works.

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academy of photography Academy of Photography and Enteprenuership in Bialystok is a two year post-secondary school for photography profession.

Young adepts, both I-st and II-nd year, through the whole education, find their own individual language of expression by having access to various They focus on developing laboratories. the craft workshop, and also on developing creative Contact with lecturers preskills in direction of senting different artistic photography as art. Effects or commercial attitudes of work can be seen in the allows the students to exhibitions organized by come into contact with the school in many galler- diverse topics. From clasies. “About us”, “Seeking sical photography through Image“ is an annual exhi- documentary, commercial, bition of work summariz- art adventure and intering the effect of listeners. media.

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In completing homework which is inspiration and a kind of orientation for our problems, not only deepen their knowledge, but also sensitivity to the world and other people.

theoretical but also practical terms, and therefore the school offer is directed to advanced and beginning photographers.

years of experience, which guarantees a high level of education. Among those who conducted workshops and lectures are the outstanding figures of photography and art A wide range of program as Stanisław Woś, Konrad Academy organizes the activities, allows everyone Pollesh, Marek Szyryk, training with all sorts to develop interests and Tomasz Michałowski. Guest of open air workshops, skills, and the original lectures conducted by prof. analogue photography program teaches to go Grzegorz Przyborek, dr. techniques and with with the times and the Krzysztof Jurecki, Ignacy historical such as wet col- demands of the labor Gomulicki, prof. Vladimir lodion, talbotype, rubber, market.

Birgus and prof. Jindrich daguerreotype. The goal Streit. of school is to provide School lecturers are knowledge not only in professionals with many

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