Grable 15 kilotons, Nevada, 1953 by Michael Light (born 1963)

(Copyright - Michael Light)

Michael Light (1963) has been exhibited internationally and his works are in numerous public and private collections. His archival photographic projects FULL MOON (1999) and 100 SUNS (2003) have garnered global acclaim.

Exhibited at Foundation Yours Gallery, Warsaw

Real Tennis by Elliott Wilcox

(Copyright by Elliott Wilcox)

"The exhibition PRUNE - abstracting reality focuses on the complex but intriguing relationship between realism and abstraction in contemporary photography. The exhibition includes only photographic work that is based on reality but which depicts this reality with a greater or lesser degree of abstraction. On show in the exhibition is work that first and foremost can be appreciated for its abstract, formal qualities, such as form, colour and composition. Only afterwards does the viewer recognise the subject rendered in the work. Then the viewer becomes aware of an underlying story and the concept employed by the photographer. Usually it is the information in the caption which compels the viewer to relate to the work in a new way. The exhibition emphasises that abstraction of reality is always present in photography and that there often is an underlying story which only reveals itself indirectly."

Exhibited at Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam.

Lehman Brothers 92-08 by Michael Najjar

(Copyright - Michael Najjar)

"(His) photographs take impressive cliff and rock formations to exemplify the development of leading stock exchange indices over the past 20 - 30 years. Like blueprints Najjar suspends the performance charts of such indices as the Dow Jones, Hang Seng, Nikkei and Dax over the mountain peaks, and changes the natural course of mountain borderlines, pairing pure natural beauty with the development of the global financial system."

Exhibited at Bitforms Gallery, New York.

'Lust' from Gabriel Jones - Somewhere on Time II

(Copyright - Gabriel Jones)

"Jones has an eye for the subtle, barely perceptible gestures, glances and stances that become visible through his male and female protagonists.
Recording them, he plays with the difference between the precise moment of a spontaneous 'gesture' and the extended duration of the frozen 'pose'. His achievement is to reveal to the viewer aspects of the human psyche concealed for their laying bare our vulnerability and proportionately evasive of neat words."

Exhibited at Galerie Bugdhan und Kaimer, Düsseldorf

Unseen vistas of the Big Apple by Swiss photographer, Christoph Studinka

(Copyright - Christoph Studinka)

"He's interested in the miraculous moment of seeing and framing the image, which is often happening in a matter of seconds. Studinka strolls through the chessboard of New York's streets with his preloaded camera, the lens on f 8, the shutter on 1/125 second, waiting, watching, searching, waiting, wondering, deciding, and instantly shooting the picture of a concerned wall street banker, of a young couple in love at SoHo, of an elegant lady approaching the stretch limousine waiting in front of the Plaza Hotel. He is fascinated by New York's greed and poetry, its success and failure, the symbols for world power and (like Ground Zero) destruction."

Exhibited at Gallery See 301, Zurich.

early "Bilder über Landschaften" 1979-1984 from Knut Wolfgang Maron

(Copyright - Knut Wolfgang )

"The extraordinariness of Knut Maron's universe does not lie in astonishing forms or new themes. Its profound distinctiveness is not the consequence of breaking through hitherto accepted boundaries of art. Instead it results from a meditative reversion to art itself, from transcending its timeless truths."

Exhibited at Zone E, Essen

from Carte Blanche VI: VNG Verbundnetz Gas AG

(Copyright - Berndt Borchardt)

"The photo collection of Verbundnetz Gas AG is one of the most significant collections of contemporary photographic art in Germany. It is a reflection of a period of social transition, documenting the radical political, economic and social changes that took place in the former GDR between 1992 and 2000."

Exhibited at GfZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.

sans titre by Ralph Gibson

(Copyright by Ralph Gibson)

"Says Gibson, "A Photographer once said that beauty in women is endless.
Perhaps it was I who said it. In fact, I remember distinctly having done so...and the thought persists to this day. We stare in the psychological mirror of the human body with a fascination that endures indefinitely. At least art history indicated this to be so. The Willendorf Venus is said to date from 25,000 BC...that is a old enough for me to believe in the subject."

Exhibited at Photo 4, Paris.

Vidauban, France, 2007 by Ad van Denderen

(Copyright - Ad van Denderen)

"At the same time, So Blue, So Blue breaks the conventional mould of photojournalism. Ad van Denderen's documentary photographs are a far cry from the lurid and judgemental images of catastrophe that feed the news tickers through the internet. Using a medium format camera, he takes pictures that demand lengthy preparation and research. His photographs are the result of intense and sensitive observation conducted over a period of five years, yet they are never patronising."

Exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterhur, Switzerland.

JUVENILIA no 39(Kiss) by Ole John Aandal

(Copyright - Ole John Aandal)

"In his works, Ole John Aandal uses photography to question the politics of the medium and how it shapes and charges our culture. JUVENILIA is the voice of teenagers in a new media world where everybody is an artist and everything you can imagine is real."

Exhibited at Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.