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Charles Whiting

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“My name Walter "Butch" Hisey. I am an outdoorsman and very aware of my surroundings which makes my photography unique. My father was an artist and I inherited his eye for beauty. I am retired and found photography to be an enriching pastime. I recently started taking photographs of clouds. To my amazement, I saw biblical scenes and characters and found them to be prophetic. I was guided to circle-arts on the internet; this was absolutely God's timing. What better way to share the photos God had given me?

I know it is for his glory, not mine that they be seen by all I have been into photography a little less than 6 years, with my work being exhibited at the following shows in Virginia; The Shenandoah County Government Building and the Shenandoah County Art Show, SHEN MoCA, 7 East Gallery as Artist of the month, and the Government Art Show in McLean, VA. Competitions outside Virginia to include,: I was a finalist in the Art Room Gallery "Skies Art Exhibition"., and recently received a Certificate of Excellence from Circle Arts for Spectrum/Brooklyn Art Fair contest."

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Gary Wagner

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American photographer, Gary Wagner’s work has been recognized in exhibitions in many galleries and in publications. He has won numerous awards, including Best of Show for two years at the Sacramento Fine Art Center, California State Fair Fine Art Exhibit, Best of Show, and received awards for ten years annually in Black and White magazine.

Most recently, Wagner published two books by Amherst Media “iPhone Photography for Everybody, Black and White Landscape Techniques” and “Digital Black and White Landscape Photography, Fine Art Techniques from Camera to Print”. He has also authored three self-published books: 'Sierra Nevada Mountains', 'Redwood Coast: Sea and Land' and 'Iceland: Forces of Nature'.

Gary Wagner's professional career spans more than four decades and includes, fine art, portrait, and commercial photography.

"My knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm for the photographic image enabled me to successfully teach theory and technique at the college level and seminars in Europe on the English country landscape. I am fluent with all film formats, from 35mm to 8x10, and I have now embraced the digital image and the ever-changing environment of photography in the current technological age."

Gary Wagner completed his Master’s in Photography at Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

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Carlos Abraham

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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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Harry Giglio

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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."