Katarina FagerstrØm Levring Biography Katarina Fagerstrom Levring is a Fine Art photographer. Art, and later photography, has been an interest since her childhood. For many years water media were her main focus until digital photography, and the Lensbaby Composer entered her world. Today experimental, abstract, and close up photography of flowers is her passion. Her art has an internal focus, which means that she draws most of her inspiration from her own heart. It is a very emotional work behind the art she creates. Sometimes she finds it exhausting but it is always rewarding in the end. She uses different flowers as imaginative living sources of forms and colors through which she creates her unique imagery. She finds that abstracting the subject is an exciting way to make her images. To quote Georgia O´Keeffe, ‘Art is not what you see, but what you make others see'. Her work is a result of a sensitive and highly intuitive work where she experiments with light and/or motion, with the digital camera she uses. She works mainly in her studio in the solitude she needs to be able to enter the contemplative state of mind, her work relies on. Photo Impressionism is the style that her work most resembles. There is one exception though, she does not use any post-production to enhance or edit her images, with the exception from necessary cropping or resizing. The images are what they are from the moment she has closed the shutter. Her favorite tools today are the Canon 5D Mark II digital camera with the Lensbaby Composer and macro filters. The artist lives and works from her studio at home in Kungsbacka, Sweden. Awards 2011 June Prix De La Photography Paris; Non-Professional; Finalist, 6 images from the Strelitzia portfolio, nominated to the Official Selection Winner category. No-one ended up as an actual winner though. 2010 August Photography Awards 2010: Amateur, Abstract, Iris Solitude1, Honorable Mention. July Upstreampeoplegallery.com:10th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, 5/5 accepted, 2lips, granted 2 Honorable Mention awards for 2lips 2 and 5. June 7 Prix De La Photography Paris;Non-Professional; Nature/Flowers. First price, Dancing Iris I Prix De La Photography Paris;Non-Professional; Nature Flowers. Honorable Mention, Dancing Iris I January 1 Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 12th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition, Finalist, 5/5 images accepted, IrisLive is being granted Special recognition. Exhibitions Upcoming exhibitions: November 4th - 30 th, 2011 Group show at MarziArt Gallery, Hamburg, Deutschland 2010-2011 September 1 2010 -31 August 2011, Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 12th Annual Photographic Processes Juried Online International Art Exhibition. August 1 2010 -31 2011, Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 10th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online International Art Contest. April 7-June 8, Still Point Art Gallery (online): Still Point II. January 1- Mars 30, Infinityartgallery: Winter Expo 2010. January 1 2010- December 30 2011; Upstreampeoplegallery.com: 12th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition. Publications 2012 International Masters of Photography, Volume 1 by publisher World Wide Art Books, late in the Fall 2012. 2011 Who's Who in Visual Art, 100 Fine Art Photographers, Vol 2011-2012 2010 Annual PX3 Book No. 04, 2010 |