Deborah Sfez says, "I am a Visual Writer from Israel using words and images, My camera is my extended eye.

In my artistic practice I mainly focus on Photography and Video, For me Photography means a creative research. It is a tool in the process of creating an image. My work mainly deals with the ups and downs of Human Existence."


Sfez is an Israeli artist born in 1964, now working in Israel and Ivory Coast, focusing on the fields of Photography and Video in all their creative configurations.

She studied French and English Literature in Haifa University, Fashion Design in ESMOD Paris, and Scenery and Costume Design at Rakefet Levi school of Theatre Design in Tel Aviv.

She has been practicing the profession of Fashion Design and Theatre Costume Design for over twenty years before she decided to concentrate exclusively on Art.

Deborah has been exhibiting photography and video works in Israel, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, England and the U.S.A in the last five years, gained acknowledgment and wan several photography and art prizes.

Her work mainly focuses on the ups and downs of the human existence, she talks about the experience of existence, partnership, overcoming a sickness, fear of life, beauty of being a woman and the impossibility of being perfect. Photography, for her, means a creative research. She has started her photography research with a series of hundreds of self portraits in many different characters using heavy make up costumes and wigs to transform her looks. She started, later on, using these various self portraits in a more complex way as a part of larger photography or video Installations including text and sound written and composed by her.

C.V.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO.

1964 Born, working in Israel and Ivory Coast.

EDUCATION:

2004 – 2006 Rakefet Levi School of Theatre Costume Design Tel Aviv

1987 1988 Esmod studies of Fashion Design Paris

1984 - 1987 BA in French and English Literature, Haifa University

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

2019 "Black International Cinema Festival", Berlin

EXHIBITIONS:

2018 Solo Exhibition,“Land of Memory”A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, U.S.A

2018 Solo Exhibition,“Land of Memory”,Zaritsky Artists House Tel Aviv

2017 “Change” Hellerau, Portrait, Group Exhibition, Dresden, Germany

2015 “Mirabella” Solo Exhibition, Memoire de L'Avenir Gallery Paris

MUSEUMS:

2018 “Yad Vashem”, Jeusalem, visual center archive, “A Journey to Land of Memory” film.

2017 The New Museum of Networked Art Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Shoah Film

collection “A Journey to the Land of Memory”.

AWARDS:

2017 Finalist, Top Ten, at Portrait Exhibition Photography Award, Hellerau, Dresden,
Germany

2014 PWP - Professional Women Photographer Jurors selection for best portraiture, NY

2014 Short Listed in ASFF Aesthetic Short film Festival for Video “SFEZMATOZOID”
York England

2013 Short Listed in Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art, London

Languages: Hebrew, French, English, (speaking and writing).

https://www.deborah-s-artist.com/

Debra Achen says, "My "Outside Out" series is a study in spatial perception.

The images are taken from a perspective outside of a window looking through to the inside...and back outside through interior windows.

Part of my larger “Mixed Vantage” portfolio, these images are not composites or double exposures. Reflections on the foreground glass overlay the details of the interior space and window views. Without the reference of the foreground window panes and frames, the overlapping images become more surreal, some bordering on abstract.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, my passion for art began at a very young age. I moved to California to complete my BA in Visual Arts and for a number of years, painting and mixed media were my preferred creative mediums. Then the gift of a digital camera rekindled my love of photography. This coincided with a move to the scenic Monterey Peninsula, an environment that inspires my work today.

As a photographer, I am attracted to the underlying structure of things, and to the way the forces of nature – Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Gravity, Light, and Time - imprint the material world with their magic. Some of my images border on the abstract.

By extracting, isolating, or separating out" a certain element of a photographic subject, it becomes simplified to a more basic, fundamental form. Other work examines the relationship between objects, space, time, and light. Slow-capture images blur the borders between objects and the space that surrounds them. Movement of the subject or the camera adds the element of time, creating a more impressionistic interpretation of the subject."

Selected Exhibitions:
2018 - Juried Exhibition,"Center for Photographic Art, 2018 International Juried Exhibition, Online Gallery" Carmel, CA. Juror: Eve Schillo, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2018 - Juried Exhibition, "Celebrating Women, Online Gallery,"  PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Joyce Tenneson
2018 - Group Exhibition, "Fire and Water" at The Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA. 
2017 - Group Exhibition, "The Elementalists,"  Three-artist exhibition with William Giles and Carol Henry at Carmel Visual Arts, Carmel, CA.
2017 - Juried Exhibition, "The Photographic Nude 2017,"  LightBox Photographic Gallery,  Astoria, Oregon.  Juror: Kim Weston 

www.debraachen.com

Deb Achak says, "The semi-opacity of the frosted glass window reveals the quintessence of my subjects while acting as a physical and metaphorical shield of protection. These portraits capture the innate beauty, vulnerability, and soul of each woman without exposing their most sacred truths.

I approach the medium of photography a marriage of machine and meditation. My process is to stretch the capacity of my camera to create photographs that breathe with emotion and have a painterly quality to them."

The photographs of artist Deb Achak have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including Winston Wächter Fine Art in Seattle; Artspace Gallery and the New York Center for Photographic Arts in New York City; Photoplace Gallery in Middlebury, VT; A. Smith Gallery in Johnson City, TX, Blackbox Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, VT. In addition, her work is in the collection of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in Santa Fe, NM. Achak’s photographs have been featured in many publications, including Fraction Magazine, Luxe Interiors and Design Magazine, Elle Decor, Domino, Apartment Therapy, and Lenscratch.  

http://www.debachakphotography.com/
https://www.instagram.com/debachak/

Don James is a creator of abstract photographic images.

He finds inspiration in natural, industrial, and urban environments, being drawn to subjects that are rarely noticed by others.

They are pieces of man-made structures, details of common objects, or short-lived fragments of nature that are continuously sculpted by the elements. He has been influenced by the abstract photographs of Brett Weston, Aaron Siskind, and William Garnett, as well as images by Precisionist painters and photographers of the early twentieth century.

His photographic process is digital; however, he uses a minimal amount of post-processing, comparable to the basic manipulations he had done with his traditional darkroom prints.

Mr. James holds a degree in engineering from Cornell University, and a Masters from Loyola University in Baltimore. His photographs have appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New York. 

www.donjamesfineart.com

Eric Davidove was born in Hollywood, California and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.  

He specializes in Street, Documentary, and Travel Photography.  Many of Eric’s photos have been curated into international and national competitive exhibitions, and some have won awards and have been published.  

https://edovephotos.myportfolio.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edovephotos/

Eric M. Renard is a Los Angeles based Photographer. Born in New York, he attended school in the Riverdale, NY.

Eric spent his summers in Maine, where he was first exposed to photography and dark rooms. Eric’s passion for photography was reignited at Tufts University in Boston, where he studied under Sigfried Halus.
After graduating, Eric moved to San Francisco, as an architectural photographer before moving to Los Angeles.

Eric’s unique exposure to both urban and rural living can be seen throughout his work, as he is equally at home in both settings. Whether working in black and white or vibrant colors, his urban cityscapes and rural landscapes often reflect an eerie sense of peace and quiet, rarely portraying more than one or two people.

Eric’s photography has been exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles and Minnesota and viewed digitally around the world, receiving numerous awards.

www.ericrenardphotography.com
 

Eva Deitch says, "My photographs are made with immediacy, when my awareness makes scenes, objects, and gestures, known. I then work with what has caught my attention until the action, the light or the charge of the moments energy has passed.

For me, the camera’s most fundamental attribute, as a tool to freeze time, moving life into stillness, is key. In turn, stillness and pause is what I encourage in the viewer. This is not intended to leave the viewer empty or void of thought and emotion, but instead galvanize attention towards these fundamental ingredients of being human. 

The photographs I make explore place as both a physical and psychological space. I use the practice of travel, poetry and contemplation as the impetus to engage photographically with what is both a tangible and existential experience."

Eva Deitch is a full-time editorial and documentary photographer living in the Hudson Valley region of New York. She graduated with a degree in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and is an 2018 Alumni of the Documentary and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Her work focuses on portraiture and stories that speak to a sense of place, both tactile and unseen. 

Deitch has photographed for numerous publications such as The New York Times, Departures magazine and the Wall Street Journal, as well as, non-profits, institutions and commercial clients with art and environmentally focused missions. 

Career Highlights: Features and Interviews
The Washington Post : In Sight Blog
Hudson River Stories: Find Sanctuary in the Hudson River Conde Nast: A Desert Road Trip
The Guardian: Original Observer Photography
Lady Guns Global
Of Note Stationers

www.evadeitch.com

Gia Marie Houck says "A hospice social worker by profession, I use my camera to capture the subtle intricacies of life and the world around us. I enjoy finding the quieter, lesser noticed, but really beautiful small moments and shining a little light on them. My work includes images from my beloved Austin and my travels.

My images showcased in published works include: “War Mother” on the June 2009 cover of The Sun Magazine; “Beautiful Compost” in I Garden: Urban Style, Reggie Solomon and Michael Nolan (2010); Various images of Brompton Cemetery in London Out of Sight: Exploring the City’s Secret Green Spaces, Black Dog Publishing (2013); "Letting Go" in Pulse- Voices from the Heart of Medicine,pulsevoices.org (2016), and “Fridgehenge” in Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World, Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal (2017).

I have exhibited at The People’s Gallery Group Exhibition, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas (2018- 2019); The Long Shot 2017 Group Exhibition, Seattle, Washington; The ARTiculation Artists Collective, both EAST And WEST Austin, Texas Studio Tours (2017-2018); and the 5 x 7 Group Exhibition at The Contemporary, Austin, Texas (2011). A selection of my work entitled Into the West has been featured in a solo exhibition in Vienna, Austria, at the Odaada Gallery.

Two of my 36”x 24” signature truck pieces, “ORD” and “Chevrolet” are featured in the permanent collection of The Current Iowa: An Art-Themed Boutique Hotel. Others are held in private collections in Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Prague, Czech Republic; Bentonville, Arkansas; San Jose, California; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Vienna, Austria.

I am a member of ARTiculation Artists Collective of Austin and also Creative Arts Society of Austin."
 
https://www.giamariephotos.com

 

Harry Longstreet says, "No one just takes up space. The human condition is an entire canvas of thoughts, emotions and reactions to circumstances. In my photography I try to capture the truth about diverse people and how they live and reflect their respective spaces.

My subjects never know they’ve been photographed. I don't set-up or pose any shot and never employ anything but available light.

I retired after twenty-five years as a writer, producer and director of filmed entertainment, primarily for television.

In the last ten years I’ve had a number of one-man shows and my work has appeared in more than two hundred national and international juried exhibitions.

I’m twice a Single Image Merit Award recipient from Black & White Magazine and twice a Single Image Merit Award winner from Color Magazine.  In 2013, I was awarded the FIAP Gold Medal (monochrome) in the International Varna Salon, and in 2014, I took Best in Show in the annual CVG Washington State competition and First Place (Photography) in the 2017 competition.  

 www.harrylongstreet.com

Ira Weinschel says, "These images are from my series, Prague Revisited. I lived in Prague in the fall of 1994, five years after the “Velvet Revolution” that forced the Communists to relinquish power—a time of optimism and uncertainty. It was a place of beauty and mystery that resonated deeply with me. I’ve returned to Prague several times in recent years to make these images, exploring the built environment and revisiting the past."

Ira Weinschel is an artist living in Austin, TX. His work explores themes of memory and loss, depicting mood as well as moment with expressive color and subtle detail.

 iraweinschel.com
 

Jaime Greenberg says, "I write with words and light. I am a writer and a photographer, and I use both mediums to unravel the mysteries inside my own head and heart. If my internal life can connect in some way with your internal life... that’s the most beautiful thing I can imagine.

I think a lot about the dreamy, magical world – accessed through reflections and light beams – that exists beside our own everyday lives. The idea of it fills me with wonder, but also an ache of sadness. Just out of reach… Everything is here and gone at the same time. Photography is my way of documenting that world of imagination and emotions, and holding it still – if only for a shutter click.  

I live in Boca Raton, Florida, with my husband, two daughters, cat and dog."

 www.jaimegreenberg.com

Jamie Price says, "I am a queer visual artist from Chicago, currently living in Paris. I received my Bachelor's in Fine Arts in Photography from Northern Illinois University in 2012. My favorite mediums are photography, printmaking, and woodwork. Common themes within my work question societal behaviors and the sociopolitical in a way that creates a visual dissonance.
 
These three images are part of two of my series’, “Femininity”, and “Sapines”. In “Femininity” I explore the stark comparison between femininity’s multiple forms and the feminine culture that the media portrays. “Sapines” guides the viewer to question aspects of the Christmas tree, what makes a plant acceptable to be inside our homes, how are these trees being discarded, and what happens next? In both these series there’s an underlying theme of capturing the urban ephemeral and creating new relations between these objects and the viewers."
 
www.jamienicoleprice.wixsite.com/artistjnp
Instagram: @jamolovesit
 

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