The Inner Light Gallery

PRINT SALE #2

Exclusive print sale by The Inner Light Gallery.

A great opportunity for collectors: A monthly print sale with original prints in a limited edition.

€ 250,-

FROZEN LIGHT  | 2016  | 27x19cm  | matted on 30x40cm

Archival pigment print |  Edition of 15 | Signed, dated and numbered

Shipping: €10 | Ships within five business days directly from artist.

More at: The Inner Light Gallery or at the artist's site.

For the times they are a-Changin'...
RELAUNCHED

I had my personal website already for some times but it became cluttered and overloaded. As I am anyway somehow in the process of "relaunching" my life I decided to redesign my website too. Also a few things are still missing I want to present my new internet presence.

www.chrisdematte.com

As always I would appreciate any comments and suggestions...

Here are some screenshots:

From the archive
WHERE THE OCEAN MEETS THE SKY

Scanned in some older work from my Scotland Portfolio. The photographs where created at the end of the 1990s and the early 2000s. On film, some with the Nikon, some with the Mamiya RB67. Film used was Ilford XP2. And the enlargments were done in my own darkroom on Ilford Galerie. 

 © Chris Dematté.Fine Art Photography _ www.chrisdematte.com

100 years after...
SNIPPETS

Some snap-shots from Russia almost 100 years after the Russian Revolution...

 

© Chris Dematté.Fine Art Photography _ www.chrisdematte.com

LAST OF SUMMER WINE

DRAWING WITH LIGHT

The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtos), genitive of φῶς (phōs), "light" and γραφή (graphé) "drawing", togehther meaning "drawing with light"... 

I proudly present:
FRONTLINE - THE BOOK

The last weeks I was busy finishing my latest book "FRONTLINE". Yesterday finally I got the printed books...

Visiting the battlefields on the approaches to Moscow one can hardley avoid the imposing numbers of Soviet memorials. Along the 600 km long front line, there are large ones, such as the so-called Panfilov‘s Warriors near Volokolamsk or the Shtiki Memorial on the main road to St. Petersburg. There are the monuments at the Stop Line, the line where the German advance was finally stopped. There is a Monument to the Defenders of Moscow‘s Sky (near Mozhaisk), a Monument to the Sappers (in Volokolamsk) and the Monument to the Siberian Soldiers (in Lenino-Snegiri). Off the main streets one can find countless statues, memorials and graves of soldiers. Some of them are at the same time mass graves. But the majority of the fallen soldiers of the Red Army have no grave, no monument because two-thirds of the Soviet wartime dead have no known graves...

I did the photographs for this book in winter 2015/16. They are far from a complete inventory, should (and could) not be. They are showing those monuments and memorial that have impressed me most. And they reflect the mood that places radiate (at least for me). 

They should also be a reminder to the 20 million civilians killed and the seven million fallen Soviet soldiers of WW2. 

Here are some sample pages:

The first edition of this book is limited to 50 copies, all signed and numbered.

Copy #1 to #10
book numbered and signed
plus an exclusive fine art print
(34x23,7cm, matted to 40x50cm)
Edition 1 of 1, signed and dated ________________ € 99,- (+shipping)

Copy #11 to #50
numbered and signed ________________________  € 39,- (+ shipping)

You can find more about my book at my  homepage

Juried Exhibition
THE ABANDONED LANDSCAPE

One of my pictures, Apocalypse #5, was selected for the juried collective exhibition The Abandoned Landscape at the SE Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. The juror was Laura Campbell, Publisher of the Looking Glass Magazine.

Apocalypse #5 [Karabash, Ural]

The SE Center for Photography
1239 Pendleton Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29611, USA
1st - 25th April 2016
Reception 4/1  6-9PM

A WALK IN THE PARK

Vienna, Schoenbrunn Palace Park

Into the Maze

Shelter

Growing

REDISCOVERED II

Finally it was snowing...

Landscape, Untitled #4 

Landscape (detail), Untitled #5 

Landscape, Untitled #6

REDISCOVERED

On the first day of the new year I somehow rediscovered how much fun landscape photography could be...

Landscape, Untitled #1

Landscape, Untitled #2

Landscape, Untitled #3

Work in Progress

PROJECT "FRONTLINE"

A few weeks ago I started with my new project called "Frontline". The background of this project is the WW2 Battle of Moscow, which took place  (according to official history) from Sept. 30, 1941 to April 2, 1942. Today it is seen as the largest battle between two armies of all time. Combining the totals for both sides, German an Soviet, approximately seven million troops were involved in some portion of this battle. Of this seven millions, 2.5 millions were killed, taken prisoners, missing or wounded bad enough to require hospitalization, 1.9 millions of them on the Soviet side. At some points the German Army reached the outskirts of Moscow but was stopped about 25 km from the Kremlin, today a car drive of about 20 minutes (if there is no traffic). The Battle of Moscow marked the first time Hitler's armies failed to triumph with their Blitzkrieg tactics and the German army never completly recovered from that defeat which is seen by many contemporary historians as the ultimate turning point of WW2.

Along the frontline of this battle there are today a lot of memorials and monuments remembering the heroic fight of the Red Army to stop the Fasiscts. With my project I want to document some of them. Seeing photography as a meaning of expression of one's feelings I am planing to "manipulate" my pictures in a way that they express the emotions I had while making the pictures. Here are first test to try out how to achieve this...

 "Alley of the Heros", Ruza

Near Ruza

Near Ruza 

Near Mozaishk

Near Mozaishk 

Monument to the "Sibirian Defenders of Moscow", Snegiri

The "Stop Line" at Snegiri

Monument to the "Defenders of Moscow's Sky" , near Moshaisk

The "Panfilov Warriors", Nelidovo

Monument to Zoya  (Zoe) Kosmodemyanskay, Dorokhovo

NIGHT SHADOWS

"Walk-by-shootings". Shadows caused by street lights.

FOLLOW ME ALSO ON MY NEW BLOG...

I have started a new blog. Solely about photography. A collections of my thoughts, opinions and ideas about photography. After about 35 years in the business there should be quite a lot of them. Some even based on facts... 

You can find the new one here: The Constant Photographer

Work in progress

RAPID EYE MOVEMENT #3

Creativity is making mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep...

More from my current project "Rapid Eye Movement".

Thanatos

Safe Haven

Exhibition

IL PONTE IN ARTE

Yesterday evening was the opening of the 2015 Bagni di Lucca Art Festival. And it was an amazing event. Bagni di Lucca is situated about 20km from Lucca in the mountains and has once been (and still is) a hot spring resort, where the (reach) people from Lucca retrieved during the hot summer month. Beginning with the 1970s a lot of shops on the main road where closed because tourism nosedived. A few years ago in the then still empty shops art galleries where established. And three years ago the Bagni di Lucca Art Festival was founded. It is a small one but with a outstanding flair.

I was lucky to be invited to participate at the 2015 Festival at the La Rondine Gallery (owned by Shonan Nunan and Michael Cartwright, two outstanding artists themselves) with my exhibition "Leftovers. Utopia revistited".

Here are some impressions from yesterday's opening night:

The "La Rondine" Gallery in Bagni di Lucca

Already during the preparation visitors dropped in...

After the official opening...

Contradictions. Soviet time peace monuments and italian (fascistic) war memorial... 

Final of the opening: A concert by the band "Mozait"...

...which lasted long after midnight.

You can find some of the pictures of the exhibition on my website gallery here.

A nice blog post about yesterday's opening:

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/bagni-di-lucca-arts-festival-three-times-lucky/

Shona's And Michael's website:

http://nunan-cartwright.com

The Festival website:

http://artfestivalbagnidilucca.org