Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Photographer Of The Month: Lara Zankoul

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Lara Zankoul, 10 September 1987, is a Lebanon-born, lived her childhood in Saudi Arabia.


She's an artist graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Masters in Economics Driven by passion and impulse, she thaught herself photography and found herself starting an enriching and self-fulfilling journey in the creative arena. In 2008, she started her journey in the photographic art.


Processed with photo-manipulation technique, The characters captured in Zankoul’s work are anonymous and timeless, universal symbols existing within a fantastical and surreal landscape.


In 28 Octobre 2011, she won the 4th prize of The Shabab Ayyam competition in Dubai.

Since Jan 2012, she is represented by Ayyam gallery, one of the top art galleries in the Middle East.

Currently, Lara divides her life between economic research and professional practice of artistic photography. She participated in several 

collevtive exhibitions locally and internationally.

Some of her known shots:












Rihem Ben Yahia

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Photographer of the month || Anne Geddes

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Anne Geddes, born 13 September 1956, is an Australian-born photographer, clothing designer and businesswoman who now
lives and works in New Zealand.


She is known for her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. Typical images show babies or young children dressed as fairies and fairytale creatures, flowers, or small animals. She has described herself as "a baby freak".



Geddes became a photographer at age 25. She had always had an interest in babies in general, but the schools she attended did not offer photography classes. She chose babies as her subject because of her love of them. "I had seen the way children and babies were generally being photographed. It just didn't seem realistic to me that people took their children along to photographic studios all dressed in their Sunday best, photographs that didn't really show the personality of the child."



She believes that "emotional content is an image's most important element" and that people are drawn to her work because of its simplicity and personality. prefers the black-and-white scheme because she feels that colour distracts from the image and the natural beauty of life".

Some of her photographs:





Rihem Ben Yahya


Sunday, August 31, 2014

Photographer of the month || Mario Testino

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Mario Testino (was born on October 30, 1954) is a Peruvian fashion photographer. His work has been featured in magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. One of fashion's most sought-after snappers, Mario Testino was born in 1954 in Lima, Peru. 




He came to London in 1976, took a flat in an abandoned hospital near Trafalgar Square, and began selling portfolios (for £25, including hair and make-up) to wannabe models. 
Today he is best known for his highly polished, exotically bright ad campaigns and his exquisitely styled photographs of the couture scene all of which carry a deceptive air of nonchalance. Now at the top of his profession, Testino has shot Madonna for Versace as well as photographing the late Diana, Princess of Wales for her famous Vanity Fair cover in 1997. His popularity with designers and fashion editors stems as much from his professionalism and good nature as his unerring ability to take beautiful pictures which sell clothes. 


Some of his known photographs:




Rihem Ben Yahya 

Monday, August 4, 2014

Our favorite Photography quotes

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We picked up our favorite Photography quotes that we hope you like .





“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”

- Kate Morton, The House at Riverton.




“He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.” 

― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth.



“It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.” 

― Ian McEwan, Black Dogs.




We hope that You liked our first work and we are always willing to improve the quality of presentation and to make you more satisfied; we accepct with all pleasure your constructive cirtics, opinions and requests.




 Sarah El-Kaffel

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Ellen von Unwerth

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Ellen von Unwerth

Ellen von Unwerth was born in 1954 in Frankfurt, Germany.  


She used to work as as fashion model for ten years, and now, having moved behind the camera, she shoots fashion, editorial and advertising photographs.
 She found fame when she first photographed Claudia Schiffer. Her work has been published in top magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, etc. She has published several books of photography. She won first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography 1991.

Von Unwerth did promotional photography for many music artists, Christina Aguilera and Rihanna among them.
Ellen Von Unwerth has also directed short films for fashion designers, and music videos for several pop musicians. She has directed many commercials and web films for top brands like Revlon, Clinique, Equinox and others, many featuring celebrities. 
• Some of her photographs:




   

    - Rihem Ben Yahya.







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