CIRCLE-24

Wiestaw Mariusz Zielinski - Poland              Fine art photography, books and exhibitions, specializes in old processes. 1963-67        member of the group STODOLAGO 1964        Silver medal at Newcastle 1965        Silver medal at Calcutta 1967        Silver medal at Gdansk 1968        Second prize at Warsaw exhibition “Portraits of Women” 1970        Silver medal at Nantes 1971        Sweden, Denmark, Germany Invited to take part in the exhibition “Twelve Top International Photographers” at Gent 1982-83        Received two grants from the Ministry of Culture for the project: ‘Making gum prints in a new way’  1984        Admitted to the Union of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF). Fotografia zajmuje sie od roku 1961. Jestem czlonkiem Zwiazku Polskich Artystow Fotografikow nr. legitymacji 335. Bralem udzial w wielu wystawach fotograficznych na calym swiecie otrzymujac wiele nagrod, medali i wyroznien. Ale najbardziej cenie sobie wystawy indywidualne. A oto

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 &#

CIRCLE-24 member: Robert SCHILDER - the Netherlands -founder of Circle 24 Robert SCHILDER - the Netherlands -founder of Circle 24   Photograph from his exhibition: “Places as Symbols”   (1948 the Hague, Holland)      Publications:    Camera, Polaroid Magazine, Kodak Magazine, Taj magazine, PF and Asian Photography.      Exhibitions:    Triënale Fribourg,    1989 NCPA, Bombay   Eindhoven: on Wagner’s Festspielhaus   Leiden, Holland : ”Banaras ” in Leiden, Holland.    1992 Organiser : “The Other Way of Seeing”, exhibition on the Indian way of visualising in photography at Museum of Ethnology Rotterdam and University of Louvain, Belgium.   Gave workshops at academies in several countries.        Robert Schilder describes himself as a studio-photographer, who likes to travel. Founder of Circle 24, a worldwide foundation of renowned photographers and of Galerie 24, an international centre for photographers.  Organiser of the Circle 24 exhibition “Photography for Sale”, Ko

CIRCLE-24: about Taffi ROSEN .. (text is from 15.01.2001) Taffi ROSEN is a Canadian born, Toronto-based professional photographer. For over 15 years, her work has appeared on CD jackets, in advertising and fashion campaigns and magazines. She has had a number of very successful solo shows in galleries. Presently, she is working on a series combining the Tarot and well-known Toronto personalities.  “The camera becomes an instrument of transformation. My work is primarily with people as my subjects and with the myriad of techniques that I constantly experiment with, I create a penetrating point of view: the way I see.” Quote from Moses: "The first thing you’ll notice about Taffi Rosen is that she has taste. That is to say she shoots with discretion as well as with a certain visual acuity, such that subjects as potentially ungainly or outrageous as pregnant women emerge as tasteful, intriguing, alluring. The other great thing about her is that she’s independent minded; true

CIRCLE-24 member: Dennis SAVINI - Switzerland Studio Savini & Ruefenacht - Switzerland Dennis Savini and Iréne Ruefenacht and are two photographers who both like to work in their studio on still-life but also internationally for annual reports. Their personal art photography inspires their commercial photography. “Iréne and I work as a team!  Most of all we do still-life photography (we see portraiture or nude as still life as well).  The most important thing for our work is the idea, which has to include information as well being simple to understand.  Thereafter comes the light which blows life into our thoughts and gives them atmosphere and colour .  This work, connecting creativity and beauty is of a kind which makes us deeply satisfied and sometimes very tired too.”  Dennis Savini.

CIRCLE-24 about .. OCCHIOMAGICO OCCHIOMAGICO - Italy (1949 Milan, Italy)   "The Human Condition The man, alone, in front of the universe tries to win the fear. He is assailed with anxiety every time a star falls. The man, with other men, tries to keep peace and is assailed with war."   1971    Opening of the Occhiomagico Studio 1972-78    Expressive research through the elimination of the traditional visual codes a    and criteria of the photographic medium. In 1978 held first exhibition at the Diaframma Gallery, Milan: “La porta di Niepce”, one monolitho in crystal.  1979-84    Birth of the Post and Neo-Modern movements in Italy.  Occhiomagico takes part theoretically and practically in multi-media groups, working with studio Alchimia and with architects as A Rossi, A Mendini and Ettore Sottsass jr.   24 cover photographs made for ‘Domus’ magazine. Seminar held in Venice, about the contamination which photography has to undergo to become “new photography”. Ar

Neil ROBINSON - England Specializes in studio and corporate photography

CIRCLE-24: about Emmo Italiaander .. EMMO ITALIAANDER - MO-INC,   Corporate design Originating in Jakarta, Indonesia, Nu-Age understands and reveres the artistic and cultural traditions of the Asia-Pacific region, and is totally in tune with the needs and priorities of regional clients.Nu-Age's creative focus has now expanded to embrace both sides of the Pacific, making Nu-Age the ideal partner in communications for companies based within the region, or looking to reach targeted audiences around the world eMail: emmo@mo-inc.com website: http://www.mo-inc.com (2024) Nu-Age was founded in 1981 by the husband and wife team of Narcisse Tiara Rassidi and Emmo Italiaander.  Initially Nu-Age concentrated on prestigious photographic products including art calendars, brochures and promotional materials.Nu-Age produced a range of corporate books and manuals, audio-visual presentations, identity and logo designs and marketing  materials for some of Indonesia’s largest and most prom

CIRCLE-24: about Vasant NAYAK .. Vasant Nayak - USA  Vasant is an image-maker from India. He teaches photography at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, USA. He is also the overseas representative for the Center for Photography as an Art Form located in Bombay, India. “In the process of photographing in the region, I discovered that there was virtually no distinction or ‘separateness’ between the daily life of the people and their religious activity. To photograph their daily life was also to photograph their spiritual concerns and beliefs.” Buddha Nature Hardcover – February 17, 2015 by Vasant NAYAK Hardcover : $100.00 Hardcover : 102 pages ISBN-10 : 1320932053 ISBN-13 : 978-1320932059 Publisher : Blurb (February 17, 2015) available from Amazon.com Forgotten Negatives Hardcover – February 17, 2015 by Vasant Nayak (Author) Hardcover : $100.00 Hardcover : 106 pages ISBN-10 : 1320931944 ISBN-13 : 978-1320931946

CIRCLE-24: about T.S. Nagarajan .. T. S. NAGARAJAN 1932 - 2014 Karnataka, India Widely acclaimed photo-journalist, consultant photographer to UNICEF T. S. Nagarajan is one of the foremost chroniclers of social change in India. His work encompasses a great variety of themes, places and moods and is marked by strength and directness. Apart from their high craftsmanship, his pictures have intellectual depth; they make one think. The interaction of tradition and modernity fascinates him. His photographs on the induction of technology into rural life and on themes such as family planning and the spread of education have been internationally published. He has carried out photographic essays on Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi and has edited a number of picture books including 'India: Portrait of a People'. He has held numerous one-man shows and received many national and international awards in photography. He latest book of photography is focussing on ancestral and turn-

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CIRCLE-24: about Eldad MAESTRO Eldad Maestro - Israel  (1954, Israel) Studied at Tel-Aviv University in the deparment of Film and Television, where he received his BFA; he then studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts in Ramat Hasharon and attended advanced studies in fashion photography in Milan, Italy. Eldad Maestro has made a few short-length films, video art and experimental films. He became a leading figure in the field of commercial photography, more specifically in portrait, fashion, advertising and theatre where he created his unique style. After having run a studio in Tel-Aviv for nine years, he took a sabbatical year in 1990, closed the studio and travelled to the Far East. Back in Israel, he made photo etchings with the pictures he had snapped in Japan, giving birth to the present exhibition “Fields”. Eldad has also been a teacher at the school where he himself once studied - the Academy of Arts in Ramat Hasharon - and also at the Camera Obscura in Tel-

CIRCLE-24: about Gunnar Merrild .. GUNNAR MERRILD 1958 - Denmark Fashion-photographer: Gunnar says of himself: "I have two photo-studios in different locations in Denmark. Primarily I work with fashion photography but my main interest lies with new techniques and how to developthem." Gunnar set up his own studio in Denmark 15 years ago and now has a successful company specializing in fashion photos and special effects. eMail: merrild@post7.tele.dk