5th Artist/ Javiera Estrada

Multimedia artist Javiera Estrada was born in Mexico in 1981 and moved to the United States in 1989. Her childhood was heavily influenced by her training in classical piano and violin, which continues to inspire her aesthetic today. She attended Santa Monica College and received her Certificate of Photography in 2009. Estrada’s broad scope of work is a reflection of memories that she has shaped into her reality. A seeker of the spiritual, Estrada believes that every piece of art created is a self portrait, a physical expression of that inner nameless world our soul inhabits. Using photography as her main visual medium, the sound of the camera’s click offers her the perfect confluence between the real and the ethereal. A multifarious artist, Estrada’s creative expression encompasses traditional photography alongside mixed media. Her mixed media works are a comment on the natural cycle of decomposition and reflected through the deconstruction of the image.

Estrada has exhibited in galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work is part of private and corporate collections internationally. In 2014 she won Art Slant’s Juried Competition, was a 2015 finalist for the Emerging Focus Competition and is the 2017 winner of the ND Awards Fine Art Category.

4th Artist/Shawna Ankenbrandt

  • Shawna Ankenbrandt is an American photographer who first started being published as a surf photographer covering the Southern California coast. From there her work evolved toward fine art and she is best known for her landscapes and integrative nudes, where the beauty of the female body and feminine sensuality isn’t separate from the environment, but rather part of a whole. Her work has been featured in various magazines for her editorial and surf photography. Her introduction to the fine art world is one in which she brings a cultivated, yet innovative take on a continuous fascination with nature.
  • Some of her exhibitions are

    2018 CASA Of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

    2017 L.A. Woman, Saatchi Art, Los Angeles, CA

    2017 ROAR, La Jolla, CA

    2016 Hollygrove Norma Jean Gala, Los Angeles, CA

    2016  Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong

    2016  UNICEF Next Gen Art, Los Angeles, CA

    2015 Take Home A Nude, Sotheby’s, NYC

    2015 Nature, Art Paia, Paia, Maui

    2015 I Love Maui, Art Paia, Paia, Maui

3rd Artist/Erich Caparas

Erich Caparas was born in the Philippines but grew up in Northern Virginia /Washington DC area. He has a degree in Economics and Engineering. Professionally, he worked as a graphics designer/photographer in Washington DC and New York. Having started photography in 1977 way before digital, back in the film days. He did all his film processing and darkroom work.

Erich is quick to admit being lucky to be on the forefront of the digital age. He beta tested Photoshop and consulted with them when they introduced layers in 1993-94. Being on the cutting edge of technology gave him an opportunity to work with some of the best clients in the industry. Notable ones: National Geographic, Mobil, Smithsonian Institution, Discovery Channel, Victoria Secret, Ringling Brothers / Barnum and Bailey, Siegfried and Roy, and the White House.

Erich has kept his techniques and skills up to date and shares his 41 years of experience in photography on workshops. He says: “I travel around the world teaching both amateur and professional photographers take their photography to the next level.”

Awarded the coveted Becker Memorial Award for Creative Photography, 2017

Highest Gold Award – Photographer of the Year 2017 from The Societies of Photographers (SWPP, UK)

Diamond Photographer of the Year from Professional Photographers of America (PPC) and International Photography Contest (IPC) 2017

Selected by Team USA for World Photographic Cup, 2017

2nd Artist/Martin Krystynek

He is qualified European Photographer
member of FEP (Federation of European Professional Photographers)
president of Association of Professional Photographers of Slovak Republic

Award winnig photographer born in Poprad, Slovakia. Martin Krystynek is a qualified european photographer , president of slovak national photographic association APFSR.

He started to work as a professional in 2010. In that year he operated in South America, especially in Paraguay, where he gained the necessary experience. He worked for many important people from the field of politics, modeling or show business.

After years working in photography his name became his brand and he obtained professional success and experience. In the last 4 years he obtained more then 300 international awards, gold, silver and bronze medals and tons of honorable mentions.

His photos were published in many international photographic books around the world.

Nowadays he is also working as a curator on the most prestigious international curated photography site 1x.com.

Martin is also working as a judge at international photography competitions and for FEP – Federation of European Photographers as a judge in FEP Photographer of The Year Awards 2018.

1st artist/Ruediger Beckmann

Ruediger Beckmann was one of the most famous photographers that he deals with nude bodies and sexy photo shootings.He has been seriously working as a free art photographer since 1998. He issued his book »Beyond Vanity« in 2010.
Solo shows: Kunst Haus Wien (Vienna) 2014, opening exhibition Photobastei Zurich 2015, opening of Enfants Art Space Hamburg 2016. He exhibit one of the most famous photography artworks of him with the name of ”CYANOTYPES”. He has come across sheer beauty, vanity, attraction, but also self-doubt, vulnerability, prejudice and resentment.

All photos are analog medium format. A selection has been transferred into Cyanotypes.

Exhibition day 1

so this was the first day of my exhibition in cy.A lot of people came to see what I did and what I presented for my final project at uni.I put also prices on my pieces and i sold perfectly 4 of them in the end of the day.Many people was excited about them and the space made them look more bright and beautiful.Also the people gave me ideas how can I continue to satisfy more audince in the future with my photoshootings

Almost there

Finally the day that I waited for comes.The day what I set up my own exhibition in a space that I took from my old art teacher.I named all of my pieces and i made the exhibition for 2 days and it starts tommorow afternoon.All my pieces have a price and can be sell to anyone as everyone can see any other prints of my sessions and order a picture with a frame and s sign of me.More details about the people come and activities tommorow

Preparing..

I’ve already scheduled my last exhibition that it will be big and nice that anything else.I will place my exhibition at an art school that a friend have so many people who likes arts and designs and especially photography art will join there and enjoy my pieces.I thought about to sell some pieces cause I made A1 size big pictures with a nice black frame and a Matt glass in front of it.I posted before my official exhibition’s poster and I glue many posters in different spots in the city.You will see many details to my next post!:)