March 2015 – Newsletter #34

Hello all! We hope you are doing well and taking lots of photos. The weather is still chilly but the days are getting longer and we can only be pleased as that means MORE AVAILABLE LIGHT!

This past month was dense with courses and events. We ran two Masterclasses and want to thank Mike Roles and Sue Atkinson for accepting our invite and in particular all the participants who attended the events.

The assignment this month is on Fine Art Photography. To get your creative juices going and get inspired, you can read an article by LSP founder Antonio Leanza about the subject and view the Pinterest board we have created. (You’ll find the links below). You can then send us your images for a chance to win an Evening Workshop.

We are grateful for everyone who keeps following and supporting us, please never stop to send us your feedbacks on courses and events so that we’ll be able to improve and meet all your requests.

We are also presenting a new winner for the ‘Food and Texture’ contest and a new exhibition review. So get comfy and read on!

ASSIGNMENT+TIP #34   FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

Following the thought provoking Masterclass in Fine Art Photography at LSP, we would like to ask you make an image that closely relates to this genre this month.
Or better, your own interpretation of it.
Portraits, nudes, close-ups, landscape, geometric and abstract photography can all fall into this category.
If we look for definitions in dictionaries and encyclopaedias, we might end up more confused than we started, but it is generally accepted that Fine Art Photography is “decor photography,” “photo decor,” or “wall decor,” and this “involves large photos that can be used as wall art”.

To get you inspired, Antonio shares his thoughts about the subject on this Article.
You might even have images that can be considered Fine Art hiding somewhere and don’t even know it.

In any case, we hope you enjoy the read and the making of Fine Images.

You can also take a look at our Pinterest Board

Please submit your photos here (A maximum of 3 images per person) 

Deadline: 27th of March.

Now 86 years old, but with the same passionate curiosity about the world that he had as a young man, William Klein is exhibiting his unique Abstract Photography at Hackelbury Fine Art Gallery in London.

This very particular and unique body of work grew out of experiments he did with long exposures and it is, in my view, simply breathtaking.

Artist, film-maker, street & fashion photographer, William Klein also designed his books, and he is best-known for being the antithesis of Henry Cartier-Bresson.

A rebel with a cause.

“I liked Bresson’s pictures, but I didn’t like his scripture and set of rules on photography.
So I reversed them. I thought his view that photography must be objective was nonsense. Because the photographer who pretends he’s wiping the slate clean in the name of objectivity doesn’t exist.”

“I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do… having little technical background, I become a photographer. Adopting a machine, I did my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph was to make an anti-photograph.” 

I have always loved his work, I find him not only inspiring, through his artwork, he gives us a window  and view of photography that is full of possibilities and powerful ways to express ourselves visually. 

Antonio Leanza

Hackelbury Fine Art Exhibition Preview

3 March – 11 April 2015

Hackelbury Fine Art

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TOP PAGE IMAGE: Paris, Dorothy juggling white light balls. 1962 William Klein