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Cristian Quezada Cristian Quezada
Cristian Quezada is a Chilean photographer, born in Santiago, Chile 1982. He studied photography at the “Escuela de Comunicaciones Alpes” in the same city in 2005. He takes street photography, normally playing with light, silhouettes, reflections or shadows. His pictures talk about loneliness, routine, introspection and love, among many other things, having the city as background, mostly in black and white. This series is a selection of different cities in some kind of anthology from 2007 to 2015.
Contact info: cristianquezad@gmail.com Phone: 45863067 instagram/cristianquezad https://m.facebook.com/cristianquezadaphotography
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David Brocken David Brocken
David Brocken, Belgian, born in 1971.
I am an amateur photographer, who has not found his own style yet. Photography is moving all the time. Last years I prefer the Black/White, but stil I make many colour pictures. Here during this exhibition I show my B/W pictures. Photography has made me look at things different, helped me to discover more my surroundings. But also is guiding me to read and understand people better. I hope that people can enjoy my pictures.
Contact info: dbrocken@hotmail.com Phone: 93000495 Instagram/davidbrocken
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Elisabeth Østreng Elisabeth Østreng
I portray Life and the art of being Human as I see it; simultaneously fragile and strong, lonely and connected, marked by struggle, driven by bravery. Urban life fascinates me the most because of the striking contrasts and the multiple forms of human expression, such as architecture, street art and painted messages on concrete walls. Contact info: Elisabeth.Ostreng@samfunnsviterne.no Phone: 92 45 51 86 instagram: @ellebellemille www.myurbanstories.com
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José Ramón Ayala José Ramón Ayala Portrait of Venezuela
José Ramón Ayala is a Venezuelan photographer born in Caracas in 1970 and living in Norway since 2010.
Interested in photography since childhood he studied in the Roberto Mata Photography School in Caracas throughout 2009, participating in many workshops and photographic expeditions, and since then has developed personal photographic projects and commissions in Venezuela and Norway.
His body of work consists mainly in landscapes and contextual portraits of people he meets in towns and roads. Relaying on the compositional techniques of the Flemish painters, he has developed a personal style in his portraits that seeks to capture the person’s character and spirit, but also to document their reality placing them in their natural environment in a honest and dignified way.
Portrait of Venezuela is a project developed between the years 2009 and 2013 during several photographic expeditions, traveling the country west to east. Ayala’s interest in the social issues led him to document the way of life of the inhabitants of some of the most diverse towns and villages, in many cases not so far from the big cities. The approach to these anonymous subjects through the dialogue and sensitivity, often knocking on the door of their homes, created the connection that allowed the guidance to capture a genuine moment in their spaces of every day life, using these as sets, with no lights and technology, just the camera.
Contact info: jrayalar@yahoo.com Phone: +47 414 61 453 instagram: @instayala
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Sandro Vanni Sandro Vanni Tommy Strøm
Sandro Vanni har en lang fartstid innen fotografering. Fra analog film og kopiering i mørkerom gikk veien over til digitalfotografering. På sine reiser rundt i verden er det vel «øyeblikkene» som fanger hans oppmerksomhet. Portretter, følelser, hendelser, tristhet, glede, detaljer… ja alt som «øyeblikket» har å by på.
Sandro Vanni has many years’ experience in photography. From analog film and developing images in the darkroom, the path led him on to digital photography. On his travels around the globe, it is absolutely “the moment” that captures his attention. Portraits, emotions, chance events, sadness, happiness, details ... everything “the moment” has to offer.
Contact info: http://artgate.no/kunstner/vanni-sandro/ https://instagram.com/tommywstrom/
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Urban Hymn features five contemporary artists that takes the viewer on a journey from big cities to small villages from around the world, telling stories about everyday people and places from a personal perspective. The artworks offers a rewarding visual experience with rich narratives, inspiring moments and reflective social discourses.
January 30 - February 6 / Oslo City Hall Gallery
2016
Cristian Quezada
David Brocken
Elisabeth Ă˜streng
JosĂŠ R. Ayala
Sandro Vanni