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International Art, Culture, Literature, and History. (Internacional de Arte, Cultura, Literatura y Historia.)
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| BEN BJORN, Photographer |
Moments
are Photos we Capture in our Brain, Second by Second.
My father used to say that the last photo we do is the
front cover of our life’s album. We never will know when the time has come
for the last moment and we should take care of doing every photo well.
Explore is something that life gives to us as an award for our good
moments and comes by itself. There is no need to rush for it. What you rip
is what you planted. Photographer means “Light Painter,” is a person that paints stories with
photos. You are a Light Painter! -
Ben
Ben Bjorn who lives in Guatemala, is a bit of a mystery man with roots that are
obviously planted in more than one country and in more than one art medium. He
photographs with almost a sculptor's sensibility for form, place and context.
His elaboration with color and texture is masterful and engaging. His subject
matter is 3rd World with a deeply human element
that would touch
anyone, anywhere. The lead (Top) photograph has a photo-memory for me of the
abolitionist John Brown; determined, revolutionary and forceful. There is a
moral imperative in this photograph. A demanding presence to all his
photography sweeps one into the existential moment. Behind every set of eyes
you see their stories, hurts and struggle. There is no middle ground for Ben,
no compromise of detail or content, no “making pretty” or topic enhancements.
You see the real subject matter with a “You are there” experience. Ben has
documentary substance and emotional content that in some respects extends
beyond his subject matter and is directed back to him. – Don Noyes-More Ph.D.,
Editor in Chief.
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"Creating
art is to lay down the subconscious bare on the work, mostly it is a
relief to me, and it helps me to make the right decisions in my life
and to keep the sensitivity." - Corinna.
Her art is a creative world of color and
movement, of brilliant flashes of chemicals, pigment, and substance reactions.
Her visuals at times are almost alarming when they react with one's eyes. This
is photo-art that wakes the viewer up, transforms color into experience and is
not a labor of interpretation and context, it's unnessary. Only rarely do you
see subtle tones and smooth textures. There is a cosmic clash in her art that
at times seems to cross the definition of time and space. - Editor
Jackson Pollock
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In the twenty
years between his arrival in New York City to study art and his premature death, Jackson Pollock had emerged as the most original
painter in America--famous for his unprecedented physical involvement with the act of painting. His friend and patron,
the artist Alfonso Ossorio, described Pollock's artistic journey this way: "Here I saw a man who had both broken all the traditions
of the past and unified them, who had gone beyond cubism, beyond Picasso and surrealism, beyond everything that had happened
in art....his work expressed both action and contemplation." Wikipedia, & JPO.
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