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Jack Savage is a fine art photographer and digital artist and a certified expert in Adobe Photoshop CC and trainer. Winner of Gold at Tokyo Foto Awards 2018/2019; Silver from The PX3 Awards - The Prie de la Photographie 2019, Silver from Moscow Foto Awards 2020, and Winner of the Pangea Prize, 1st Place from Siena Photo Awards 2017, and winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award - 1st Place in the Fine Art category at The Spider Awards 2017, 1st Place at The Chromatic Awards 2017 - amongst many other international honours. He currently is the owner of a spacious studio in Northampton, UK where he teaches both Photography and Photoshop classes and workshops. We have conducted a short interview with him. Jack Savage What's so special about your collaborative art project INFLUX with Dominic Abbey? My collaborative art project with Dominic Abbey is born out of 20 years of friendship, together with a joint passion for the arts. Over the period of the global pandemic we managed to visit...

Gigi Chung is a San Francisco-based fine-art photographer who mainly works in medium-format digital photography. She has come to focus on architectural abstracts with a minimalistic approach. She finds the juxtaposition of light, shadows and lines in architecture fascinating. This continues to inspire her for new ideas. Her art work has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums in Athens, Chania, Cormons, Glasgow, Greenville, Portland, Minneapolis, Taipei, Trieste, Tokyo, San Francisco and Vermont. Some of Chung’s recent accolades include being selected as Kyotographie KG Plus 2020 featured artist, “Inspired With Hasselblad” featured artist, Cityscape Series Winner in the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Architecture Series Winner in the 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Golden Design Award, Top 50 Designers And The Most Popular Design in Photography and Photo Manipulation Category in Novum Design Awards. Her series "Geometric Abstraction" was published in the ...

A.N. Quittner was born in New York City in 1964 and grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. The rural beauty and kindness of the people he saw in Reading as a child their simplicity and decency made a strong and indelible impression upon him which greatly influenced his artistic vision. In September of 2019 he met a professional photographer who told him that the fundamental principle of photography in one simple phrase is: Fill the frame. When he said these words something extraordinary occurred within him and Adam began taking 500-700 pictures a day. A.N. Quittner A Statement of Purpose Life is Beautiful— a single work in many volumes Life is beautiful. How can one say such a thing? How is it possible that a man can take his seat upon a crowded city bus with these words emblazoned on his baseball cap and not be laughed at? And better yet, how is it possible that a man seated on that very bus can point a camera at this same man and take a picture of him and produce a work...

What is outside is no longer outside. Trees, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes. Michael Nguyen has transformed these elements in his artworks into feelings, fantasies and dreams. They become part of our inner nature, part of the human soul. Through the subjective lens, Michael Nguyen gives all a new perspectives, a new soul. "Michael Nguyen's photography is the art of showing more than you can see. Making visible - worshipping the invisible, he walks with the third eye of a wanderer through the visual adventure of life. Michael Nguyen How did you become a professional photographer? Before this journey, where were you working on? Before I could consider myself lucky to work as an artist, medical nursing was my vocation. While working in the intensive care unit and the emergency room, I was confronted with great suffering and death. This certainly had an impact on my photographic work. Many of my photos, as one can see, are melancholic and sometimes a little b...

Born in Howrah, West Bengal, India but currently working and living in Kolkata, Kaushik Dolui graduated and completed Master Degree in Economics from Calcutta University. In his childhood days, he did the drawing and painting, later in his mid-twenties he developed an interest in photography. We conducted a short interview about his latest project Transformation. Kaushik Dolui How did you begin to develop an interest on photography?  In my childhood days, I did the drawing and painting, later in my mid-twenties I developed an interest in photography. I also completed a photography course form a local institution in Howrah, during the period of analog era. Earlier for two/three years casually I used to send photographs in different national/ international salons but without any success. My first international acceptance came from a FIAP salon of Hongkong in the year 2005. Slowly I started thinking about it seriously and decided to move on further. Later I participate...

Ayla has been born in The Netherlands, but is really more a child of the world. Using every penny she had to travel the world with her camera and backpack to live her dream. Seeing the world from Asia to South America and from Africa to Sweden. This allowed her to look at life differently, because as she looked at all these cultures and people from different backgrounds, she was always able to capture the commonalities between these distant tribes from across the world. In her early teens she always wanted to do a study in Photography. Despite her parents not being able to financially support her with this, she did not give up on her passion and dreams. Learning from just putting in hours and hours of photography and editing turned her into the artist she is today. Mostly self-taught she developed a unique style that got her to rise to fame in different places, one of them being the artistic platform “Ello.co”, where she has over 4,000 followers from all over the world and hun...

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 26, 1987, Lucila Masciorini is a Miami-based visual artist that uses photography as her medium. Her interest in photography began when she found her father's old camera in a dusty box, where it had been stored for years. Fortunately, the camera was still functional, and so she began experimenting with it. Shortly after, Lucila decided to attend the Andy Goldstein Creative School, where she studied photography. Although best known for her surrealist compositions -which feature select body parts placed in unconventional settings- she is particularly interested in the use of the camera as a way of immortalizing her own interpretation of moments that are worthy of being seen again. The essence of her work lies not in what people see, but what people don't see conveying a sense of mystery that forces the viewer to engage intellectually. Coral Contemporary Gallery has included her work in numerous collective exhibitions, and currently disp...

Aga is a documentary photographer based in the USA and her work focuses mainly on documentary photography, conservation, exploration of heritage sites, indigenous tribes and their rituals. She actively supports human rights and conservation efforts. Aga’s assignments involve both freelance work and collaborations with various NGOs. We have conducted an interview with her. What motivates you to focus your photography on conservation, exploration of heritage sites, indigenous tribes and their rituals? Photography is a medium I use to communicate with a wider audience as it enables me to share my experiences and the beauty and struggles of various cultures from across our world. I'm a very curious and inquisitive person, I love the sense of adventure, exploration of the great unknown, hence venturing out into remote corners of the world feels very natural to me. Growing up, I was always reading books about expeditions and adventures in exotic places, as I grew up and be...

Edgar Garcés is an internationally renowned, award-winning creative photographer who has been working in advertising, artistic and editorial photography for over 25 years. His huge experience now serves him well in the field of conceptual photography which he has been specialising in for the past 10 years, shooting campaigns for numerous international brands, personal clients and agencies. We have conducted a short interview with him. Which do you prefer most, black and white or color? It all depends on the final result, having in mind which are the parameters of creative creation. Do you consider your final artistic and commercial work influenced by your background with advertising, artistic and editorial photography? How long have you been in these industries and how did you discover your strengths in conceptual photography? Over the last 25 years, I have been shooting all kind of subjects in photo advertising and editorial assignments. I always try to include...