PHOTOGRAPHY ART FAIR 2012

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Welcome to
the passionate
World of fotofever!
Cécile Schall
fotofever founder
Whether you are a knowledgeable collector or just
starting your collection, we selected for you a wide
range of galleries mostly from Europe: Amsterdam,
Den Haag, Eindhoven, Luxembourg, Berlin, Paris,
Lyon, Bordeaux, London, Barcelona , Madrid,
Milan, Turin, Budapest, Vienna, Ljubljana, Warsaw,
Antwerp, Knokke, and of course Brussels!
Each gallery exhibiting is delighted to meet with
you and share their passion for photography.
For the second edition of fotofever, 261 artists
from 38 countries are exhibited, great masters
from the 20th century such as William Klein,
Irving Penn, Alex Webb and Saul Leiter, with
up-and-coming talented artists.
Among them, some of our favorites that
we wish to share with you, such as the Russian
artists Vadim Gushchin, Oleg Dou and Natia
Kartvelishvili, Belgian photographers Justine
Collomb, Katrien Vermeire, French Aurore Valade,
Cécile Decorniquet, Virginie Maillard, Oliver
Valsecchi, Dutch Mischa Keijser, Marie-Cecile
Thijs, Ellen Kooi, Polish Anna Orlowska and
Łukasz Trzciñski…
For fotofever, all categories are represented :
portrait, nude, landscape – country and city –,
installation, construction, colored photography,
black & white photography, surprising and
mesmerizing videos…
So, let your heart guide you in our fair and treat
yourself by buying a work of art that moves you!
photography art fair – 2012
photography art fair – 2012
a great time
This catalogue proves how all these artists
have explored the medium photography itself,
accepted and explored new technologies in
photography, broken almost all formal taboos and
explored almost all varieties of content. These
photographers are all capable of making a thrilling,
creative, masterful employment of the elements of
the language of photography we have developed
the last fifty years.
In some ways, we’re in the strongest position
we’ve ever been. We have all techniques at
our disposal and our visuel language is at its
most highly developed. We are liberated from
boundaries and limiting notions of form, we have
gone through questioning the medium itself. We
are free of the pressure of living with an avantgarde
– we no longer have to stick to a style of
working to be considered 'current'. We can move
beyond the search for new ground via technology.
Everything – from 35mm photographs of our cats
to large-format industrial landscapes to square
medium-format deadpan portraits – is equally full
of potential for being combined eloquently into a
fresh vision that we can term progress, depending
on the hands its in. We are at the moment for
photography to be able to speak as eloquently
and as richly as at any point in its history. Finally,
the only limits are ourselves and our imagination.
What a great time for photography.
www.christophruys.be/Thanks to Tom Griggs @ Fototazo
Christoph Ruys
360° Agency
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