Wednesday 30 September 2009

Aneta Bartos - American Photographer


Aneta Bartos work is truly amazing!!! Although I am usually not all that interested in fashion photography I must say that I like Aneta Bartos's work, which is refreshingly different as she captures the models in a unique way giving to us a final great result. Her photos are amazing!

She uses relatively long exposure and always underexpose but through this way she is giving us photos that are romantic, tender, sensual, erotic , elegant and at the same time very dark…not an easy combination to capture. She has REALLY a very distinct style. Some of her photos look like paintings

Here you will find some Aneta Bartos’ work. Unbelievably beautiful, very quiet imagery offering to us a usual mysterious, haunting beauty but at the same time tender, accessible and alive.
These pictures are statement that nude can be really elegant and this is something
I love very much.
















Please visit her personal webpage at;

http://anetabartos.com/


Wednesday 23 September 2009

CZECH PHOTOGRAPHERS : Sara Saudkova



Born 1967 in the Czech Republic and graduated at University of Economics in Prague, Sara Saudkova is now living in Prague.

Saudkova was famous photographer Jan Saudek's 'right hand'. She worked as the host of a TV program and wrote before becoming the partner, model and manager of Jan Saudek.

As the Assistant of Jan Saudek he introduced her to Mystery of Phot
ography: "Master Jan taught me the Craft of Photography, for there no better School exists..." (http://www.saudek.com/en/sara/zivotopis.html)

Sara began taking her own pictures in Jan's studio in the late 1990s, and has shown a distinctive style while still working in similar territory to her teacher. There is a femininity and a remarkable tenderness in her work, which shows a very versatile approach, working in black and white with a Meopta Flexaret TLR or Praktisix SLR medium format camera.

She is dedicating her Work exclusive for "free Creation" (not made-to-order): staged (stylised) Photographs are documenting her privacy Life - Love, Relationships, Desire, Loneliness, Expectations, ...


Exhibitions

2009

Vltavotýnské výtvarné dvorky, Týn nad Vltavou (CZ)
Velvet Kelly Gallery, Žilina (SK)
Museum Rýmařov (CZ)
Citygallery Frenštát p. R. (CZ)
Kotva, Praha (CZ)

2008

Galerie Velvet, Bojnice (SK)
Museum Vysočiny, Jihlava (CZ)
Malovaný dům, Třebíč (CZ)
Panský dům, Kynšperk nad Ohří (CZ)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F)
Kotva, Praha (CZ)

2007

Castle Gallery, Kladno (CZ)
Palaice Hybernia, Praha (CZ)
Gallery Špalíček, Brno (CZ)

Castle of Josef Barton-Dobenin, Nove Město nad Metuji (CZ)
Museum of Vysočina, Jihlava (CZ)
City Museum, Pilsen (CZ)
Staroměstská radnice (Old Town Hall), Prague (CZ)

2006

Stará galerie - Svaz polských fotografů, Varšava, Polsko
Mezinárodní fotobienále, Brescia, Itálie
IN FOCUS, Köln, Německo
Fotomuseum, Leipzig, Německo
Výstavní síň Viléma Wünscheho, Havířov
Dům fotografie, Český Krumlov

2005

FOTO ART FESTIVAL Bielsko-Biala (PL)
Gallery A3, Moscow (RU)
Výtvarné centrum Chagall, Karviná (CZ)

2004

Manes Art Prague, Praha (CZ)
Výtvarné centrum CHAGALL Ostrava (CZ)
Výstavní síň FOMA BOHEMIA, Hradec Králové (CZ)

2003

Chateau galery Chagall, Karviná (CZ)
Prague House of Photography, Prague (CZ)

2002

Gallery Mona Lisa, Olomouc (CZ)
Východoslovenská galéria, Košice (SK)
Gallery Pyramida, Prague (CZ)

2001

Photographic Galery G 4, Cheb (CZ)
Gallery Michalský dvor, Bratislava (SK)

2000

Gallery Krisal, Geneve (Swiss)
Gallery Masson, Zlín (CZ)

Project


Postage stamp,
published to 10.anniversary of establishment of Lactation League

Lector of KontAktFoto, Frantiskovy Lazne (CR) - 2008

Fashion-portfolio for french BC magazine of design and art - 2008

Portraits of Prague Chamber Philharmony - 2006, 2007

Photograph made for ABSOLUT Vodka "Absolut Sarah" - 2003 - Included in Artcollection of Absolut Company

http://www.saudek.com/en/sara/zivotopis.html





"A photographie is like a miracle - it allowes us to control and to stop the time, and also it shows us something you can't emphasize: The Movement, the Emotion, the Pain as the Beauty. It creates our memories - of everything we love."



"As a mommy of 4 kids, who takes in her hands a camera, instead of cooking spoon and iron. And I do not something else, as to absorb all negatifs, all what's important to myself and what's fading reliable: The LOVE, the Pleasure, the Sadness as a Longing" smell the children, the Loneliness and the Expactation. All this are stories which turn stil in my mind - stories which were written by people - and which I can read as a book. We all, everybody of us, has a secret, and only the photographie can save it, without to reveal everything!"

Sara Saudkova



You can find Sara's work at;


Official site: www.saudek.com

http://www.gallery.cz/gallery/cz/sara-saudkova.html

http://photoslaves.com/?p=514&PHPSESSID=13ae92b2c9a717e5c0c6c82d3e10ec37