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Denis Olivier was born 1969, Royan, France. Currently live in Bordeaux, France. Use Canon digital, Hasselblad or Holga cameras and develop film. At the age of 17 He began to take some photographs and was especially fascinated by mineralogical micro mounts. Denis started studying biochemistry, but after 3 years He changed to Poitiers school of fine-arts, and took an interest in computer graphics and generated imagery.  While He was there meet Alain Fleig who introduced him to art photography. Denis also felt a need to practise photography, and with a friend they spent a lot of time learning how to develop films and photographs. They did sessions with models, scenery, and discovered France.

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Dina Oganova’s photos are very honest and truthful. Sometimes seems that they are too true, and shows the viewer something that should not be shown. Dina is representative of a young Georgian photographers. Works in the styles of the portrait and reportage, sometimes documentalistic.  Here photos without color cause she prefere work with black & white that make photos more dramatic and emotive. Helps audience concentrate on main subject and shows the real life as it see Dina Oganova.

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Sergey Maximishin was born in 1964. Spent his childhood in Kerch, the Crimea (Ukraine). Moved to Leningrad in 1982. Served in the Soviet army as a photographer the Soviet Military Force Group on Cuba from 1985 to 1987. Graduated from Leningrad Politechnical Inctitute in 1991 with a B.A. in physics. Worked in the laboratory of scientific and technical expertise in the Hermitage Museum. Graduated from St-Petersburg Faculty of photojournalism in 1998. In 1999-2003 was a staff photographer for the “Izvestia” newspaper. Since 2003 Sergey works with a German agency “Focus”.

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The inspiration for Thomas Barbey work comes from many years of traveling all over the world, everyday life, and from some of his favorite artists, such as Rene Magritte, M.C. Escher or Roger Dean. Thomas bring his Mamiya RB 67 or several old Canon AE-1s wherever they go to shoot his photographs. The process of his montage starts with concept. It is then followed by the exposure and selection of the negatives. The design is then created by carefully choosing printing procedures as combination printing; sandwiching negatives together; thereby printing them simultaneously; pre-planned double exposure in the camera; the re-photographing of collaged photographs; and/or a combination of the above. He sometimes retouch and/or airbrush the collages before re-photographing them from above with a special contraption to hold the camera in place. Thomas then make a master negative to make a limited edition of prints. Although constantly asked about how He do them, Thomas would like to think that the pictures can be appreciated without any real knowledge of their technical virtuosity. The visionary inspiration and imagination is not a technical skill learned in school but rather to his personal belief, a gift from God. This is the only way Thomas Barbey can explain the source of any idea He may have during the creation process.

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Five years ago Dave Nitsche picked up a camera. What started off as a simple means of taking some fun pictures quickly turned into an obsession and a way for him to tell his viewers how He feel. Dave try to show people what’s going on in his world through his pictures. If you look at them long enohiugh you will understand every facet his life. His wants, needs, desires, failures, joys and pains are all there. He has been blessed with photography and lucky enough to have images and features published in Digital Photo (UK), Popular Photography (US), Unique Image (Taiwan), Digi Photo (Romania), Shutterbug (US), Popular Photography (China), Australian Photographer (AU), Digital Photographer (UA) magazines to mention just a few. All in all his work has been published in over 100 magazines (15 covers, 5 features), private and public gallery shows on 4 continents and images included in 2 books.

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When Joanna Drazek was younger She was proposed to have a photo session for a teen magazine. She didn’t like the photos, which were taken then by the photographer. It all took a lot of time and the final effect was unsatisfactory. It came to here, that She could make better ones. Joanna was very discontented, disillusioned and young. Probably that was his first step of photography adventure. It began uninteresting, but the passion evolved soon.

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Today Photo Slaves represent You amazing insects’ portraits by Thomas Shahan or better knowen in on-line as Opo Terser. After experimenting around with various ways of taking high magnification macros, Thomas realized that nothing man-made is really all that exciting up close. He realized pretty quickly that bugs were one of the only things worth the effort. Nothing compares to the complexity, color, and intricate detail of arthropods up-close. Also, there is a seemingly infinite number of subjects when it comes to bugs.

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Award-wining photographer Fan Ho has won 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956. Ho has been elected Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England; Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and etc, and was honored with One-Man-Shows in the above countries. Ho’s works can be seen and have been published in many International Photographic Annuals all over the world.

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Christian Schmidt, born 1970 in Goettingen. Freelance photographer since 2000, based in Stuttgart, Germany. Since 2002, winning more than 100 awards at ADC Berlin, ADC New York, AOP London, BFF Germany, Commarts USA, Graphis USA, Lürzers Archive & Lürzers 200 best ad Photographers, PDN Photoannual. His clients are ABN Amro, American Express, Audi, Bitburger, Canon, Credit Suisse, Chrysler, DPD, EADS, FAZ, Finlandia Vodka, Ford, Hewlett Packard, Jaguar, Kodak, Krumbach, L’oreal, Lexus, Lincoln Mercury, Michelin, Motorola, Nissan, North Carolina Tourism, Renault, Royal Bank of Scotland, RWE, T-Mobile, Volkswagen, Zeit Leben.

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Vincent Favre’s first look at the world was laid in May 1979 in Valencia city average superb department of Drôme, where He still lives. In a way, his second look was for the mountains that Vincent learned to love with his father in his native Savoie. It is he who has slipped for the first time a camera in his hands. An old Agfa excellent picture of the landscape. Vincent Favre likes to bring evidence of the beauty that nature offers. He hope to touch the skeptics and convince them to make the effort necessary ecological respect for our beautiful environment.

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Andreas Stridsberg was born in september of 1975 outside a town called Örnsköldsvik in northern Sweden. It’s located along the “High Coast” which has been proclaimed a so called ”World Heritage Area” due to it´s natural beauty. And Andreas still live there today with his family. His passion for photography began the summer of 2004 and his my passion for it keeps growing. Since then he have been published in a number of international magazine and had some success in a few contests. One of them being the prestigious Digital Photographer of the Year 2007. But so far his biggest success would probably be getting IKEA to sell one of his photos worldwide. He’s currently being represented by ArtGroup and Rosentiel’s. 

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Anna Voytenko is the new blood of ukraine photography. Anna take photos in style called hyperrealism and almost all here photos are documentary, photojournalism or emotional portraits. She born 1979 in Kiev, Ukraine. Graduated from National technic universety. Anna won gran-pri of contest “Reinoks” (Moscow, 2008). Particepent of a lot of exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, Poland and so on. Here photo was published in such magazines and newspappers: Day, Today, What? Focus, What’s on, Domus, DFoto, DCamera e.t.c. Also, here book “Iza” was published in 2008.

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Viktor Polson specializes in high standard still life photography. His unique vision has earned him the trust of many international clients such as Nestlé, Unilever, Banana Republic, Philip Morris, Dior and Yves Saint Laurent… Although based in Paris, Viktor Polson enjoys shooting on location and routinely works in Milan, New-York, Los Angeles and Amsterdam.

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David Burdeny born 1968 in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. David Burdeny has degrees in both Interior design and a Masters in Architecture.  At the age of 12, David started to photograph the prairie landscape and make his own black and white prints in a makeshift darkroom that also served as his bedroom closet. Primarily self taught, his architecture and design background greatly influences his penchant for simple exacting photographs of sky, horizon and the marks humankind leaves behind. Influenced stylistically by photographers before him, such as Michael Kenna and Hiroshi Sugimoto, David purposefully photographs in poor light and near darkness.

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Max Yavno was born in New York City on April 26, 1911. His interest in photography blossomed twenty years later during the mid-1930s during which time he changed careers to devote more time to the darkroom. He further rounded out his skills by joining the Photo League, which enabled him to associate with other artists on a regular basis. He eventually became President of the Photo League in 1938 and 1939.

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In a world obsessed with superficial image it is a refreshing contrast to look beyond the surface and appreciate the stuff that surrounds us for what it is made of, not just what it looks like on the outside. English artist Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to peel back the layers and peer inside all manner of subjects: people, objects, natural forms and animals. The work has an ethereal, otherwordly quality, yet the things he uses to create the pictures are familiar. Nick’s work has won awards in every relevant photographic competition and shown in galleries around the world. These elegant yet unsettling artworks are a perfect example of the fusion between science and art.

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Vernon Trent was born in Romania in 1967 and he currently resides near Dusseldorf, Germany. Began his photography career in front of the camera as a model. His grandfather was an amateur photographer who documented every moment of his childhood in pictures. He took numerous photos showing him laughing, crying, playing, sleeping and so on. As he grew older, He accompanied his grandfather on his photographic excursions watching everything he did, learning how he did it. He says that he wasn’t sure that he understood everything, but when he first looked through the viewfinder he began to realize how it all worked.

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Matt Barnes is a unique and very particular person. Matt in his life blurs the line between reality and Shangri-la he  has crated through his photography. UK-born, but Canadian, Matt has made Toronto, Ontario his home. With influences ranging as vast as photographers like David Bailey and Erwin Olaf to musicians such as Buddy Holly and Frank Zappa, Matt’s got a lot of cultural knowledge, which always seeps into his work. Encompassing everyone from pop culture icon to small-time scoundrel, if you’ve been photographed by Matt Barnes, you know you’re made in the shade. Being young but very talanted photographer Matt already made photos for Playboy, URB, Urbanology and Chart. Work with such celebrities as Snoop Dogg, Lilly Allen, John Legend and so on. In his portfolio there are commercial work for X-Box, Pepsi, universal Music, EMI, Nissan, Toshiba, Colgate e.t.c.

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Ralph Gibson is a master of dramatic understatement. His high-contrast pictures - usually focusing on one geometric element (the corner of a room) or a single human gesture (the curve of a hand) - form a kind of dream-narrative when gathered together. Or, as Gibson puts it: “I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality”. For more than thirty years Ralph Gibson has served as one of the few truly independent forces within the art of photography. His unique graphic style - stark, erotic, chaste, allusive, surreal - is as unmistakable as it is influential. His many published books have shown generations of photographers in the U.S. and Europe that the bound printed page can be as powerful a strategy for artistic success as the gallery exhibition.

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Walmont is Ukraine photographer working in such genres as fine art nude, glamour and conceptual erotic. He in pair with Kassandra open and launched the studio GLEBAWOOD where they experiment in different styles and very often provoke their spectators. Almost all ukrainian and russian celebrities got through his studio.
  

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