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Carsten Burmeister
I have been a photographer in the Sydney graphic arts scene since 1979. After my education in Germany during the late 1960s, I spent two years in Amsterdam, Holland, and much of that time in the Rijksmuseum, studying the paintings of Dutch and Flemish masters. It is there I got the inspiration for my style of photography - light is used to maximum effect, composition is all-important and attention to detail reigns. With the arrival of digital photography and Photoshop, I was given the tools to finish my pictures to my liking and thus can fulfil my vision of evocative PHOTOART.
My last stop in Europe was Copenhagen - then I travelled to Asia and settled in Australia thirty years ago; I have three children, Radjin, Yani and Saskia. Being my daughter's biggest fan, I have a website for her as well as a portrait Gallery.
My background is still life photography, but I consider myself an urban photographer for my personal work; most pictures in PHOTOART are street shots from Sydney - I just roam the city, incessantly shooting with my Canon EOS 1Ds camera. Then I manipulate the pictures on my Apple MacBook Pro with Adobe PhotoShop. I abandoned film in early 1998 and have been a digital photographer ever since, both for my PHOTOART work and professionally. Here you may also download a fact-sheet about the NO WAR incidence involving the Opera House - check out my NO WAR - YES PEACE series. Oh yes, I also dabble in writing, don't miss my blog or my Pacifist Manifesto.
Mission Statement
I want to provide awesome photography; but - importantly - I want to move to another level, that of PHOTO-ART. I've been an ad shooter for 40 years; always in control, always constrained. But now the chains are off. When I do my PHOTOART I'm free. I take chances; I love that process: Not to have to worry about the outcome while I shoot … whereas in my previous career the concept, the layout given to me was all that counted. Now I use my professional expertise to bring excellent photography to you as well as an appreciation of art.
Representation
Lacquered, Framed, Limited Edition Pictures BONNEFIN GALLERY 50 Pitt Street, Sydney.
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en.light.en.ment
a new beginning, 25 years in the making
Twenty five years ago, in 1987, I set off on a spiritual journey. The insights gained since then culminated in a collection (a 'panharmonicon') of 150 essays ... about words and numbers, life and death, war and peace, spirituality and philosophy; God, religion, love, passion, consciousness, happiness, delusion, reality, meditation and Zen ... that sort of thing.
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