CIRCLE-24

  charlie f.kohn: 'enlightment '     photographer / artist / designer what i wanted from early on was to take and make pictures. it has taken a long time to enter into the activity and life of a full time photographer / artist / designer i am today. and then there are so many pictures around. even more have been taken and made already. do we need new ones? still, a picture is not only the product of our mind, imagination and creativity, its also well influenced by the time and circumstances we live in. and then there are some… the significance in  the insignificant, the composition in the details of everyday items and situations and places i feel challenging in  search for the pictures behind pictures. reflections and  perspectives, signs and signals, glass and water, colors and structures radiate some magnetism i cannot resist. impressionistic view of people, events and places. questions about the environment and the everyday life around us. next  to ...

CIRCLE-24 recommends: Sacha KOULITCHOV Sacha Koulitchov - the Netherlands  (1950, Leningrad, USSR) An exhibition of manipulated photography Thursday 22 December - Saturday 28 January 1994 Sacha Koulitchov is an artist who was born and studied in Leningrad. For the last 17 years he has lived in France and the Netherlands. Photography has become an important part of Sacha Koulitchov's research into individualisation and becoming oneself. "People live superficially but the possibility of the spirit is infinite. Experience and depth lie redundant in the unconscious. There is an enormous black hole. We only see the outside, not the inner world. What fascinates me is the meaning of individuality, the meaning of self." His portraits are based on the interaction between people. "It is a research of relationships, the fact that people are more preoccup...

CIRCLE-24 member: Tetsuro TAKAI TETSURO TAKAI 1951 - Gifu City, Japan Award winning, Japanese photographer, Tetsuro TAKAI, is to stage his latest exhibition in Glasgow.  He is a photographer who has developed his own style for making separations in colour and has kept a genuine Japanese atmosphere in his way of visualising in photography. Both Tetsuro and gallery owner, Donald  NISBET ( MNS photocolour , Glasgow) are members of CIRCLE-24, a worldwide foundation of professional photographers who keep each other informed about trends and developments."Circle 24 is made up of photographers all earning a living from commercial work and all of a like mind, that photography is more than just a job.  This event is the latest exhibition run by the foundation as a means of expressing creative talents to the full and portraying photography as an art form", says Donald,  "We are setting out to show quality photography from all over the world." . In 1989 Tetsuro co-founded ...