Zygmunt Jakubek, Janice Street, Yannis Souris
ZYGMUNT JAKUBEK
Zygmunt Jakubek’s photography focuses on visual abstraction and interplay of color and shape. His color-rich photographic creations are inspired by art and artistic credo of Wassily Kandinsky, who once said: “Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” Zygmunt’s photography is frequently guided by his scientific background in photophysics. He is always on a lookout for false perspective effects to create eye-fooling Escheresque images, reflections in curved surfaces to find magic in visually abstracted ordinary scenes, or projected shadows to reveal hidden dimensions. Being married to an avid flower painter, Zygmunt has also developed interest in nature macro photography.
Zygmunt has frequently shown his images in local galleries and exhibitions. He participated in the Mayor’s Art Festival commemorating 150th birthday of the City of Ottawa and featuring 150 local artists, shown his images in the City of Ottawa Centerpointe Theatre Gallery together with three other RA Photo Club members, and every year in June opens his studio to visitors during the Orleans Art Studios Tour. For several years, Zygmunt was a member of the RA Photo Club and a regular participant in the Club competitions at the Senior level. For three years, he edited the RA Photo Club newsletter.
Zygmunt Jakubek was born in Poland and, before arriving to Canada in 1997, had also lived and worked in the USA, Japan, China, and France. He has extensively traveled around the world visiting nearly 60 countries. His travel photos and travel stories have been published in magazines in Poland, the USA, Japan, and Singapore. Zygmunt has a M.S. degree in physics from the Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland) and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). When not creating new images, he works as a research scientist at the National Research Council, where he develops superresolution fluorescence microscopy methods and techniques and studies nanomaterials and biomolecular interactions. He is also an adjunct professor at McMaster University (Hamilton), where for several years he has been a guest lecturer on photophysics of nanoarchitectures and metamaterials.
For more info about Zygmunt’s photography and to view some of his images, please visit his website and gallery at http://photo.jakubek.net.
YANNIS SOURIS
Exposure to journalism gained Yannis extensive experience in commercial art. His talent quickly led him to a successful career in advertising as an award-winning art director. Yannis’ interest in photography as an art medium, however, led to considerable exposure in the past five years. Yannis believes that an outstanding image is the product of creative thinking.
And It is the photographer’s unique perspective and some learned creativity principles that separate a great photograph from the mediocre images we see every day. He has been recognized three years in a row with Photographer of the Year awards in Ottawa, and has had several exhibitions of his work. He has had photographs and articles on the subject of creativity published internationally in magazines like Photo Life, Canadian Camera, Photo Art, and PhotoDigital. Yannis is a regular presenter of creativity workshops and seminars. His core workshops: Design Elements in Photography and Creative Image Making have been very successful amongst tens of serious amateur and professional photographers in Canada and abroad. Raised in Athens, Greece, he has a BA degree from Athens and a HBsc (Biochemistry) from Canada’s Laurentian University. Father of Dominique, Manuello and Dante, Yannis lives and works as a creative marketing consultant in Ottawa, Canada.
Exhibitions
National Press Club / Observations Embassy of Greece / Olympic aspirations Clocktower Gallery / Better than 9 to 5 Suite 34 / Better than 9 to 5 Moth Art Gallery / Better than 9 to 5 Ottawa City Gallery / Better than 9 to 5 Centrepoint Gallery / Better than 9 to 5 Constitution Square Gallery / New Realities Red Wall Gallery / Showcase Armada Gallery / Dante Was here Art & Architecture (Coming in April 2010) / Intersections
Photography Publications
Yannis has published several photo books online as well as conventional paper format inluding Little Portraits Better than 9 to 5 and 5 Days in Havana
Articles
Canadian Camera Magazine Photo Art magazine Photo Digital Photolife Art Direction Magazine
Workshops
Design Elements in Photography Creative Image Making Marketing for Photographers
Web Sites
Check out some interesting images featured in other sites including Yannis’ official web site www.yannisfoto.com, www.photography-now.net and www.dantefoto.com
Awards
More than 200 international, national and local awards in advertising and design including most of the Canadian major advertising awards: ADA, Marketing, Bessies, Billies, Extras, Studios, Applied Arts and Art Direction.
Top 50 art directors list, Strategy Magazine
More than 65 photography awards in five years of shooting, including Ottawa Photography of the Year Award (three years in a row) and CAPA interclub competition overall winner.
Industry Canada Minister’s Entrepreneurial Award
Voted one of 40 under 40 by Ottawa Business Journal
JANICE STREET
Born and raised in Ottawa and surrounding area. Graduated from Commercial Art in the 76’s and worked as a graphic designer most of my career. I have been photographing for more than 40 years as a hobby and occasionally used it as an tool for my graphic design. Camera Club of Ottawa member for more than 20 years.
Passionate about nature and photographing it, but not limited to nature as many things like animals, people, graphic design, or anything that catches my eye.
In 2007 I decided to take a break from graphic design and focus on my photography. Over the past 5 years I have been selling my work at juried shows around Ottawa area.
With my graphics background I have produced and sell books of “Frost on Windows” Greeting Cards, DVD/Screen, Calendars and prints on canvas and paper. Books and cards are sold at 10 store in the Ottawa Valley. Last year I started showing in the Orange Gallery and we are presently talking about a show for me with two other photographers this year.
I have also been hired to do Weddings, Family portraits and Events. In the past two years have been giving workshops for Beginners, Intermediate and Photoshop.
Ottawa shows
Orange Gallery
The Trinity Art Gallery Selections 2010 and 2012 (Shenkman)
Compositions Art Gallery (Smiths Falls)
The Arts Works Gallery (Merrickville)
Red Trillium Tour
Crown and Pumpkin Tour
West Carleton Art show
Almonte Hall and Library
Maple Run Spring Tour
2 private shows.
Articles written
50 Plus magazine
West Carleton Review
The Humm
TV
Regional Contact 2008
http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081017/OTT_Regional_Contact_Janice_Street_081017/20081017/?hub=OttawaHome
For links to my photo, products and workshop go to…. http://www.janicestreet.ca/
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