We are very proud that Mr. István Virag, a member of Serbia PHOTO Association, FIAP, FSS, FKVK “Rada Krstic” in Sombor, and FK “Moholy”, Baja, Hungary, achieved great success in the field of art photography.
Author in front of his photo “Look 03”
In October last year he was admitted to the World Association of photo-artists of Hungarian nationality (World Association of Hungarian Photographers), which gathers together photographers from around the world.
István Virag and Joseph J. Fekete, a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, in front of the photo “Trippers02â€In the company with President WAHP dr. Patrus Sandor
Membership in this association is granted on the basis of recommendations or invitation by submitting a portfolio and based on the assessment of the competent authority WAHP.
In a conversation with the audience
In GyÅ‘r (GyÅ‘r) in Hungary on January 20, 2015 was prepared a promotional exhibition of new members. István Virag presented with “Look03” and “Trippers02”.
Peter Sabol “Sharpeye”, was born in 1981. He is been engaged in photography since 2007.
He is particularly interested in photographs of nature and wildlife. He specializes in the area of macro photography, that his favorite form of artistic expression.
He is a member of Photo Club ÄŒakovec, Croatia and Photo Club Danube in Serbia.
He has participated in several group exhibitions within the photography clubs. In early 2012. he began regularly sent their works to the FIAP (Federation Internationale del ‘Art Photographique) and PSA (Photographic Society of America) and achieved tremendous success.
AFIAP (Artiste FIAP) won the 2013. and 2014 received the honorary title EFIAP (Excellence FIAP). He has participated in a total of 176 FIAP salon, his works have been admitted more than 1,500 times and has won a total of 137 awards, of which 71 commendations and 66 medals in 29 countries around the world. At PSA exhibitions participated 27 times and won an additional 23 commendations and 27 medals.
He also won the FIAP gold medals in the UAE on 7th Emirates Photography Competition 2012/116 as the winner in the category of macro photography with “Natural abstract”, which is permanently stored in the National Library in Paris.
Between the lines / Omedjeni linijama – is a series of photographs dominated by geometric shapes, most significantly lines which lead to or bind people, which are always present in the frame.
The photographs were taken in urban spaces, where the setting reflects the estrangement which is dominant in those settings, so it is no surprise that the people in them are alone or unconscious of others.
Geometrical shapes, surfaces and textures in the photographs are a part of a setting and our living space, but symbolize the boundaries that are imposed by our everyday lives as well, and their rhythmic repetition imitates the monotonous day-to-day events and the fast-paced rhythm of contemporary life, everything that pressures and binds the modern man.
However, often the lines and shapes with which the man is “bounded†are simply a game of light and shadow and create an illusion of boundaries due to which we feel alone and estranged from ourselves and the others, so one can take away a possibility of escape from these photographs, through life-long optimism and courage necessary for crossing the “lineâ€.
Martin Chambi (1891-1973) was an Indian-born photographer born in Coaza, north of Lake Titicaca, Peru. It is considered one of the great figures of American photography.
Recognized for his photos of deep social witness, historical and ethnic origin has portrayed agrarian and urban society in the Peruvian Andes. At an early age left his native Puno to start an adventure that would lead him to discover his vocation as a photographer.
The story of Martin Chambi began at a mine in the heights of Carabaya when he saw for first time a camera. The interest in learning about the handling of the magic boxes which freeze the time, led him to work in the studio of “Max T. Arequipa Photographer Vargasâ€.
Once learned the techniques of developing and expanding, the basics of photographic composition and management of a study, he established his empire of photo in Cusco.
He was the first to photograph his race with a postcolonial eye. When MartÃn Chambi arrived in Cuzco, the ancient Incan capital, the richest and most splendid among American pre-Columbian cities, was experiencing a slight demographic recovery following the dramatic population decline.
It was Chambi who had the greatest international diffusion, and he who has left us the most personal, magical, profound, and dazzling work among all Peruvian photographers and maybe of all Latin American photographers.
MartÃn Chambi’s images laid bare the social complexity of the Andes. Those images place us in the heart of highland feudalism, in the land of the large landholders, with their servants and concubines, in the colonial processions of contrite and drunken throngs. Chambi’s photographs capture it all: the weddings, parties, and first communions of the well-to-do; the drunkenness and poverty of the poor along with the public events shared by both. That is why, surely without intending it, Chambi became in effect the symbolic photographer of his race, transforming the telluric voice of Andean man, his millenary melancholy, his eternal neglect, his quintessentially Peruvian, human, Vallejo-like pain into the truly universal.
“I‘ve read that in Chile they think that the indigenous South American peoples have no culture, that they are not civilized, that they are intellectually and artistically inferior to European white peoples. The artworks are a graphic testament that is more eloquent than my own opinion, always. I hope that this testament will be examined fairly and objectively. I feel I am representing my race; my people will speak through the photographs.” – MartÃn Chambi, 1936
There is a lot to learn from Martin Chambi. He is definitely someone to look up to if you want to take up photography.
All of his photos say something and indeed, he is one of the few out there who knew how to communicate a whole story in only one image.
Fashion photographer Mario Testino was born in Lima Peru, South America in 1954. He was raised in a mixed Spanish-Italian-Irish family.
He studied economics during his first year at the University of the Pacific in Lima, Peru and later studied law at the Catholic University of Lima. He traveled to the University of San Diego, California to study international relations.
In 1976, he moved to London, England to pursue a career in photography. In the beginning he worked as a waiter to finance his photography. In one of the restaurants where he worked he met some of the editors of British Vogue who invited him to submit samples of his photographic work to the magazine.
Testino soon began to freelance for British Vogue, starting a professional career working for other European editons of Vogue and eventuallly in the United States with Vanity Fair, and later American Vogue.
In 1995,Testino was commissioned to photograph the Gucci campaigns. Testino’s love of glamour enhanced the sexy, sultry and powerful Gucci clothes, and the Gucci aesthetic took the fashion world by storm.
Testino was greatly in demand after that and was hired to shoot campaigns for super-brands such as Donna Karan and Versace. Testino made a name with his practice of putting his models into large groups which convey vitality and energy and are usually set against the backdrop of an event or a daily-life situation.
Testino is today one of the world’s great fashion photographers, the source of numerous covers of the best fashion magazines . Testino has photographed celebrities such as Keira Knightley, Madonna, Kim Basinger, Elizabeth Hurley, Gwyneth Paltrow, Janet Jackson, Cameron Diaz, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta Jones.
But what definitively elevated him to become a celebrity himself was his portraits of Princess Diana for Vanity Fair.
In March 2005, he was honored with a plaque on the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style, a distinction bestowed by the high-end Beverly Hills shopping area for contributions to fashion and show business. Testino’s plaque quotes his famous quote, “Chic is nothing but the right nothing.”
Testino is also known for discovering the models of tomorrow; and launching the careers of models such as Georgina Grenville, Gisele Bundchen, Lisa Winkler, Carolyn Murphy, and Jacquetta Wheeler.
Mario Testino published his first book of photography; a collection of images entitled Any Objections, in 1999. In 2003, he published Portraits to accompany his exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery. In 2005, his exhibition of Diana photos, Diana: Princess of Wales, opened at Kensington Palace.
Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China.
He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. Between 1993 and 1995, he took classes at the Fine Arts Academy of Tsinghua University (formerly the Central Academy of Crafts and Fine Arts) in Beijing.
A freelance photographer since 1993, Lu Guang has developed major documentary projects in China, all at his own initiative, focusing on some of the most significant social, health, and environmental issues facing his country today. His photographic work includes stories on gold diggers, local coal miners, the SARS epidemic, drug addiction along the Sino-Burmese border, Aids villages in Henan Province, the environmental impact of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, industrial pollution and the medical effects of schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
His work on the Aids villages won First Prize in the Contemporary Issues category in the 2004 World Press Photo contest.
His picture story on drug addicts in southern Yunnan was exhibited at Visa pour l’Image that same year. In 2005, he became the first photographer from China to be invited by the US Department of State as a visiting scholar.
In 2008, Lu Guang won the Henri Nannan Prize in Photography in Germany; in 2009 he was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, and in 2010 he won a National Geographic Photography Grant.
Just take a look at the small part of his photography artwork!
