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“One of the great advantages with macro photography is that of purpose will give you pure joy and will allow your personality
it does not matter where you live and there is no need to travel to shine through your images. Vision, style and taste will con-
long distances to find a subject. It is mostly very close by which tinually change and so will the stories you are telling in the form
allows you to spend hours observing, studying and trying out of colour, light and shade”, explained Eva.
different techniques until you achieve the result you are aiming For more information go to: https://www.evapolak.com;
for. Even ordinary everyday subjects can be expressed in a new https://www.facebook.com/evapolakimpressionist;
and exciting way. To create freely and expressively with a sense https://www.instagram.com/eva.polak/

Forthcoming E & D Presentations

9th March – Principles and Elements of Art in Photography – Tony Bramley

According to Tony, this presen- the finished composition.
tation shows how so much more Whether it is pictorial, creative or abstract photography that
should go into producing a pho- you shoot, you should go away with a new view on the content
tograph when looking at the of your photographs.
elements of composition. When Tony's conceptual work on suprematism in photography
exploring further behind this earned him a fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. He
thought process it is necessary works exclusively within the Russian avant-garde style of Dy-
to understand the artistic de- namic Suprematism, abstracting compositions from a single
sign elements that make up an photographic image. A single scene is selected, photographed
image. These principles hold fast and reduced, to its geometry, through rejection & separation,
for the art world and sit comfort- producing a photographic abstraction that has independence
ably within both traditional & of form. Everything else is insignificant and of no artistic value.
contemporary photography. For more information go to:
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understand the rules”. This presentation will help to understand www.suprematism.co.uk;
the key principles and elements that should be considered www.stormphotography.co.uk
when creating an image. It shows that an image that breaks the https://www.saatchiart.com/suprematism
rules, usually obeys other principles or elements that support

Suprematism is the rediscovery
of pure art which, in the course
of time, had become obscured
by the accumulation of “things”

-Kazimir Melevich

9 Cape Town Photographic Society