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Carlos Abraham's work was exhibited in 2017 at the September Photo and 3rd CMUCH Biennial in Mexico and published in APERO Art Catalog April 2021. He received an Honorable Mention in ArtRoom Gallery online "Botanicals" and "Nature" and Merit Award "Animals", Spectrum Brooklyn, New York art fair with artistic excellence in 2021.

Carlos has exhibited at the Chopo University Museum in Mexico City in 2005, where he participated with photographs in cyanotype. He also participated in the Instituto Cultural Arte AC, in the city of Monterrey, and several galleries and museums in Mexico as well as in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of Santiago de Querétaro, in the Instituto Cultural Arte AC of the City of Monterrey, in the CIF of the City of Puebla, and in the National Photo Library of the INAH at the City of Pachuca. In addition, Carlos Abraham has studied at the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and The International Center of Photography in New York in the United States.

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Angelica Jerzewski

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“Meine Intention ist, kleine und unbeachtete Dinge ins Blickfeld zu rücken, die verborgene Vielfalt von kunstvollen Architekturen und Strukturen aufzuspüren und das Charakteristische ihrer Eigenarten zu finden. Im Gegenlicht verwandeln sich feingliedrige Netzstrukturen in „natürliche“ Kunstwerke.”

“My intention is to bring small and unnoticed things into focus, to track down the hidden diversity of artistic architecture and structures and to find what is characteristic of their peculiarities. Against the light, delicate network structures are transformed into "natural" works of art.”

Nach Abitur und Musikstudium in Hannover Engagements als Cellistin in div. deutschen Kulturorchestern sowie Lehr- und Konzerttätigkeit. Parallel zur musikalischen Berufsausübung verstärkte Hinwendung zur Photographie mit Schwerpunkt "Künstlerische Naturphotographie im Nah- und Makrobereich". Zahlreiche Ausstellungen und Ausstellungsbeteiligungen (u.a. in München, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Hamburg, Athen, Kreta), Preise und Veröffentlichungen.

After graduating from high school and studying Music in Hanover, Angelica Jerzewski worked as a cellist in various German cultural orchestras. She also taught music and performed in concerts. Parallel to the musical profession, Jerzewski had an increased focus on photography with emphasis on "artistic nature photography in the close-up and macro range". She has had numerous exhibitions and participation in group shows (e.g. in Munich, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Hamburg, Athens, Crete). She has received prizes and her worked has appeared in publications.

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Hiromi Kawano

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Hiromi Kawana, Japanese photographer, has been working as a freelance illustrator and designer. Besides the daily work, she was searching for a way to express her style creatively. In the fall of 2015, Hiromi realized that multiple exposure of digital photography was exactly what she had been looking for, marking her start as a visual artist.

In 2018, her work was published in Dutch and British art magazines. From 2020 onwards, Hiromi's work has been featured in art magazines and online galleries in France, Germany, and Canada. Presently, she is exhibiting her work in various exhibitions, including Paris and New York, with the desire to reach a wide audience and share her creations with many people.

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Bruce Cowell

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Australian photographer, Bruce Cowell exhibited in March/April 2020 at Marziart Internationale Gallery in Hamburg, Germany, and is a featured artist in the arts magazine "Spotlight - Contemporary Art Magazine" which was released in March 2020.

Cowell was a Finalist in the online art competition by Circle-Arts.com with Expo-Arts New York and is presented as a featured artist on the Circle Foundation for the Arts website. In 2020, he also exhibited in New York within the WWA Pavillion. His photography has been featured in the publication "Who's Who in Visual Art", published in Leipzig Germany and in the German Publication "International Kunst Heute" (International Art Today) as well as in the WeContempoprary Art Catalogue published by Musa International Art Space, Palermo Italy and has had work hung in the Blank Wall gallery in Athens, Greece.

Cowell was a Second prize winner in the Artroom Gallery "Consequences of Light" photographic competition in Rome, Italy and second prize winner in the Hasselblad Masters of Photography Competition. The image "Beth Plays the Clowns" received an Honorable Mention in the Circle Foundation Artist of the Year Awards 2019, Lyon, France.

He was commissioned to produce images for projection onto the giant sun sails that covered much of the site of World Expo 1988 in Brisbane, Australia.

Cowell is the photographer for the book, "Wild Places of Greater Brisbane" (No.1 best seller in Queensland for twelve straight weeks.) A Senior photographer for the books, "Wild Guide to Moreton Bay", " Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane", "Discovery Guide to Outback Queensland", "Wildlife of Greater Brisbane", "Kangaroos of Queensland". He was Senior Photographer and Picture Editor for "Wildlife Australia" magazine and co-ordinator and judge of the "Australian Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition. Bruce Cowell is the principal photographer in the "Outback Queensland" photographic exhibition that toured Queensland.

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Marcel Jomphe

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Describe your creative process.

I meticulously observe the world of organic structures where its unique intelligence unfolding in infinite forms fascinates me. These forms are reinvented in my imagination in poetic works of beauty or as a window into a metaphysical realm. Thus, creating a distinct style and identity of my own, which pushes me to diligently work for hours on detailed drawings or series of photographs. Finally, my artwork is an intimate interface between the real and the imagined. My creative process uses observations that are slowly distilled over time in my subconscious, and finally rendered in detailed drawings and photographs either traditionally (brush and ink, graphite) or digitally produced. These days, I even go so far as to blend my drawing inside my photographs.

What influences your work? What inspires you? Why do you make art?

I make art mainly to capture the impermanence of beauty, the Japanese have an expression that sums up this dual perception of "mono no aware" aestheticism. It means "beauty tinged with sadness". There is no beauty without deterioration. The Japanese expression "wabi sabi" also applies to this notion of impermanent beauty. I capture these moments of impermanence to show them and make them last a little longer. These moments are used as a basic influence and inspiration, which are then reinterpreted, therefore, moving further and further away from the first level of realism.

What is the role of the artist today?

There are two things that unite us all -- our dependency on nature and the universal language of art. In response I would also quote Abbas Kiarostami (Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer): "The purpose of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to lead us to a hidden and difficult to access truth."

Denise Dethlefsen

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"I began my journey into photography almost by accident when my husband bought me a 35-mm film camera for our anniversary many years ago. I'm mainly self-taught, with some mentoring and workshops along the way. I’m from a family of talented artists, musicians and writers, but somehow could never make my brain and fingers work together for any of those skills. The camera allows me to make art in a way I’d never been able to accomplish before. It frees me to be creative while not having to force the process. It gives me a view into the world that is sometimes impressionistic, sometimes real. It allows me to “see” something, then take it home and bring out either the original vision or something entirely new in post-processing. I don't call myself a nature photographer – my tastes are more eclectic and wide-ranging – but most of my imagery is taken outdoors.

My photography is often spontaneous, unpremeditated, and serendipitous. I’ll "see" an image, quickly set up for the capture, press the shutter, then look again to see how I can improve, take additional images from the more thoughtful perspective, and then go home and cull out all the later images while keeping only the one or two I first "saw." I have numerous images where the composition, colors and forms seem almost instinctive; there are others where the work in post-processing was the inspiration for the end result.

I currently live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the foot of Pikes Peak in the American Rocky Mountains, and close to a variety of contrasting landscapes – from the “14ers” (mountains higher than 14,000 feet) to the plains, from mountains to desert, from high country to rolling hills, from thick forests to shortgrass prairie lands. My husband and I frequently explore these areas, and they’ve provided many of my favorite images."

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Jean Paul Soujol Benedetti

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Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti has been practicing photography for more than a decade. In a constant search for creativity and inspiration, he continues to evolve technically and artistically. Jean-Paul began with landscape photography and moved towards minimalism with long exposure, square format, and now towards abstraction with a plastician approach. His latest works, always minimalist and square, are part of a more conceptual vision.

Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti chose the square format in line with his compositions. “This format lends itself perfectly to minimalist photography. It requires rigor but gives great freedom of composition which makes it very creative. Its very aesthetic and modern geometric shape blends perfectly with my work.”

Recently, Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti left the world of full-frame sensor for the medium-format camera. His current photographic work on light is even more gratifying as is his creativity.

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Pablo Guillamon

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Spanish artist Pablo Guillamon has exhibited in various establishments and cities including Lorca, Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Paris, Miami, Huesca, Barcelona, Zurich, etc.

In 2021 Pablo Guillamon was a semi-finalist at the ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0. Zurich, Switzerland and in 2019, a finalist in the National Painting Prize "Art without Barriers", Albacete, Spain.

For Pablo, his works are an expression of his deepest feelings on everyday life. In his realistic work, he tries to find the poetry of shapes and colors that configure our real world. In his abstract works, the strokes of light and color move the observer to a warm and cold place at the same time. Hot in the feelings, cold in the observation.

In his own words: "An image is the past of everything that has been during the time elapsed in its composition. Colors create different and harmonious visions that can not always be seen.

These works represent this eternal and continuous contradiction."

Select Mentions

2022 Finalist 55 Artavita Art Contest Art Expo New York, New York, United States

2022 Avatarte Ralist Painting Contest. Maruja Mallo Exhibition Hall Madrid, Spain

2022 Biennale Art Expo. Venice, Italy

2022 Contemporary Art Gallery Online. All CityScape. Wilmington (Delaware) U.S.A.

2022 Realism. The last vanguards Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

2022 Urbanside Gallery. Zug, Switzerland

2021 Mention Luxembourg Art Prize 2021

2021 Contemporary Art Gallery online Exhibition. Wilmington (Delaware) U.S.A.

2021 Gálicca Art Gallery. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2021 SwissArtExpo, Zurich. Switzerland

2021 V Salón de Pintura Realista. Centro Cultural Moncloa. Madrid, Spain

2021 Casa América. "Arte en Red" . Madrid. Spain

2021 Semi-Finalist ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0. Zurich. Switzerland

2021 Contemporary Art Gallery Online's Digital Art Exhibition.

Wilmington (Delaware) U.S.A.

2021 ArtBox Gallery. Project World 1.0 - Zurich. Switzerland

2021 Mundo Arti Museum. Special Christmas

2020 II Internacional Museo Virtual Mundoarti

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Charles Whiting

"Photography is the artistic medium that allows me to share my love of nature with others. For me, photography has been a lifelong study in learning how to see, and how to capture faithfully that which I am capable of seeing."

Carlos Abraham

Angelica Jerzewski

Hiromi Kawano

"More and more, I am creating works that combine photographs of rain and flowers with cities and buildings. Natural landscapes and colors continue to have a positive influence on my work. I like the four seasons of Japan, flowers, trees, leaves, light, rain, raindrops, etc.”

Bruce Cowell

Harry Giglio

Highly experienced artist in all aspects of photographic and video assignments.

Marcel Jomphe

Describe your creative process.

What influences your work? What inspires you? Why do you make art?

What is the role of the artist today?

Denise Dethlefsen

"My photography is often spontaneous, unplanned, and serendipitous. I don't follow the pattern of traditional landscape and nature photographers who pre-plan their images; my style is more instinctive with an element of 'let's just go and see what happens!"

Jean Paul Soujol Benedetti

Jean-Paul Soujol Benedetti is a minimalist photographer inspired by contemporary painting. His work results from aesthetic research on the purity of lines and forms where blue is omnipresent. His sources of inspiration are contemporary painters like Pierre Soulages, Mark Rothko, Yves Klein.

Pablo Guillamon

"My painting transmits the poetry of everyday life through shapes and colors."