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Raul Villalba photography workshop

If you want to learn the techniques of an international photographer, Raul Villalba, sign up for this photography studio, where you learn how Raúl made his photographs.

This workshop will be held on 2 October 2010, squares are depleted, so if you're interested in techniques such haste to make the Registration for the workshop by Raul Villalba.

Browsing 01-03-09

Our friends Irunesa Photographic Association have reshaped the web, worthwhile for you to take a peek it:

It is worth to dedicate a moment to photos Gilles-Marie Zimmermann extraordinary photograph y fashion magazines:

The stunning photos of Chinese artist Li Wei relizadas “no photoshop”:

Nor miss the photos The Big Picture with a selection of photos of the year 2008:

On the website are the Pima 2th and 3th part of this selection.

I hope you enjoy today's selection.

Aitor Ortiz Photographer KM outlined in their "visual constructions"

El artista bilbaíno reúne en ‘GAP Espacio latente’ thirty recent works. The exhibition will be installed in the room until the next 28 March:

DV. El fotógrafo Aitor Ortiz (Bilbao, 1971) Koldo Center Mitxelena returns seven years after his participation in the pooled sample chamber Painting, building a collection of photographs that capture fleeting moments in the lives of several buildings.

The sample, GAPEspacio called Latent and will remain installed until 28 March, meets 31 black and white photographs and five pieces of sculpture bordering, all made in the last seven years working. "Even if photographs, understood as a support plane, I call-notes more visual constructions Ortiz-. I use photography as a generator of scenes. The creation process is more like a painter or someone who builds a picture of someone who documents this image ".

Ortiz's work focuses on collecting some of the views from a building at a time disappear, either because it was captured during construction or because it has been for its demolition. This is the case of the integrated works in the series Amorfosis.

"The intention is to convey a sense of ephemeral architecture, namely, photographing an intermediate process in which you do not know if the item is being constructed or destroyed, but at the very moment when the picture is taken is very specific configuration, but that is not the definitive ", says the artist.

Several of the works that Ortiz has collected in this sample, created specifically for the exhibition hall of Koldo Mitxelena and does not plan shown as an itinerant, invite the viewer to join them, given three-dimensional format. "In these parts is very important to the viewer's experience and scale to take over the work".

His work as a photographer in several custom construction Ortiz has allowed access to these urban landscapes, in any case, are completely out of context for the viewer Gipuzkoa, even if the images obtained in San Sebastian. "The work of architectural photography help me find the locations and then intervene and spaces to photograph my own work".

Scale and distance

As for the choice of black and white, Aitor Ortiz said that responds to an attempt "to distance myself from the description of these buildings originally. We live in a society as mediated who immediately try to find a reality applicable to any object. Distance using the black and white helps me to perceive the works with another pause ".

Photographer Bilbao is particularly careful to ensure that their works are offered at a certain scale for the room of KM. "Elsewhere, these works would not have had this scale. In this room, some require some monumental works to be perceived as a building ".

The common thread running through all the works of the exhibition is the crack, that GAP title of the exhibition, "The cut is repeated throughout the exhibition as part of the rift between the language of photography and architecture". In terms of space lantente, "Is determined by your experience in the space".

This is reflected in the piece made in aluminum tubes, whose interior is lined with photographs of the same material, and forming a large sculpture star of one of the central areas of the room Mitxelena Koldo.

(Source eldiariovasco.com – amoyano)

Catalog.

John Armentia from Beijing

Dear Friends: They finished the Olympic and Paralympic now begins the the 6 to the 17 September, not have many hours of TV sports but certainly if we will have on the track some great athletes. This year is my Sixth Paralympic Games and I was trying to capture this wonderful event with my machine with such force and enthusiasm as I did in Barcelona 92. This year I've been a great helper that many know of conferences and workshops taking place in the Federation, Ibai my son that comes with many desires and illusion.

Starting today and if the computer and the network can try to capture through my page www.juanarmentia.com / experiencias.php a picture and a small text both sporting and tour staff, if you like put it in favorites and pass it to other friends.

This time I want to share with you this trip and event.

A big hug

Juan e Ibai

This photograph is the presentation of our athletes in EITB Basque just before leaving for Beijing.

Brau Gabriel's book publishing

Just released: Lights of Africa by Gabriel Brau

The book by Gabriel Lights Brau Gelabert Africa include the beauty of black and white photography, their technique to the final result and the process.

With a selection of nearly one hundred photographs, chosen from the prolific this great professional work has been done in his many travels, us to a continent so close geographically, as far by both customs and ways of life of men and women.

It is the second part of this book, which collects the technical substance of the author, with which they can broaden their knowledge of black and white treatment of the digital file. These pages reels, step by step how to work, their coexistence and struggle to reconcile the new world of traditional pixel with chemical processes.

The use of the latest image editing programs, color transformation to a pure black and white, extensive work with levels and curves, and providing technical resources staff to optimize images, are some examples that show the particular workflow that obtains the best results.

more information

http://www.la-fotografia.com/content/view/1433/26/

http://www.gabrielbrau.com/

Ted Tadder a great photographer

Following the advice they give us on the web Strobist just visited the website of the California photographer Ted Tadder, Do not miss it cross-lighting work with several flashes are great:

Great Mamen SpacePhoto

We received the following communication which I transcribe:

Te escribo para contarte que nos aventuramos por fin en un estudio propio de Fotografía “SPACEPHOTO”, nos especializaremos en la fotografía profesional en Donosti, and the organization and delivery of workshops, courses and field days, the first by the 3 and 4 May, will be devoted to such work in the studio with models, (I attached the file).

Remember that you can do the registration by phone or email and will be to avoid “overbooking” by order of registration.

The menu included work.

A great initiative that we welcome and wish you good luck.

Maquieira collection exposes' Route 40′, in the sample Fotopres’07 which houses the Cultural Center Amaia

"As a photographer, my job is to try to dignify the human being "
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Photographer Fernando Maquieira, poses in front of his collection 'Route 40′. [F. THE HERA]

DATA Sample: Fotopres’07 the Caixa. Participate: Elisa Gonzalez, Lorena Ros, Pep Bonet, Fernando Maquieira, Antonio Xoubanova, Marta Soul, Paola de Grenet, Salvi Vivancos and Jorquera. Place: Exhibition Hall Amaia Cultural Centre. Dates: Up 6 April. Hours: From Tuesday to Saturday, the 18.00 a 21.00 hours. Sundays and holidays, the 11.30 a 13.30 hours. Closed on Mondays.

Fernando Maquieira was only a teenager when she had her first contact with photography. He began working as an apprentice in a studio and, little by little, between developing and printing processes, the photograph was "seizing me". Maquieira never imagined what the hobby is that I felt for this artistic expression, were to become his profession. "Like many things that have happened in the life, also in this case photography found me ", said.

Maquieira was one of six photographers who won the scholarship Fotopres’07 La Caixa for a project of social. His story The path 40, can be seen along with other photographic collections, exposure in the Caixa, in collaboration with the city of Irun, organized in the Cultural Center Amaia.

-What is the collection 'Route 40′?

-This project done and that I considered was to travel a mythical road that crosses from north to south Argentina, the eastern foot of the Andes. I started my journey in and ended up in Ushuaia Quiaca. A total, I made 5.000 km.

- Why 'Route 40′?

- I was fascinated to know this area of ​​the world, Argentina's. There are many unknown lands, who are still virgins. As a photographer, I thought it was an adventure and a unique project. It's a trip I made only. My job is to learn and understand the world through photography. I found a good subject for trying to understand what they had felt the first inhabitants of the land.

-He says he made the journey alone, but I guess along the way many people would know.

-Yes, clear. When traveling alone just to meet people, at least in my case. During the trip, I met many people who were hitchhiking and when he had car, the gathering and was going home. He had nothing else to do. And thanks to this, I know these people and understand how their lives. Traveling alone also helps in the self. You learn to get along with yourself.

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A photograph of award

Ivaylo Velev the Bulgarian has been one of the recent awards World Press Photo Awards 2008 that rewarded the best jobs 2007.

This was the 51st time that an international jury rewarded the best photographic work of the year. In the editing of this World Press Photo Awards 2008 Awards were 59 photographers 23 nationalities who were divided into 10 categories, and all, Bulgarian photographer Ivaylo Velev took first prize of sports action singles. Velev captured when the competitor Philippe Meier escapes an avalanche Flaine, France. It was published in the Bul X Vision Photography Agency.

The overall winner of the World Press Photo Awards 2008 was the British Tim Hetherington, that caught a weary soldier in Afghanistan. In general wars and misery have been the most major awards, perhaps a reflection of what is living this life was.

Valentín Sama Expo AFN

Contra Gallerylight, Photographic Association of Navarra, is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition: ” Transitions” , del fotógrafo, editor y profesor de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Valentín Sama, to be held on Friday 7 March at 20 hours, in their local c / Rio Urrobi, 3 Pamplona,the presence of the author.

Attached, pdf, triptych of it with pictures, biographical text