KARSH opening night at Pikto

With over 250 people attending, the opening of Yousuf Karsh's exhibit was one of the highlights of the year at the Pikto Gallery. The vintage prints on display include portraits of luminaries of the film industry such as Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. On the second floor and along the columns we also have some  iconic Karsh images, including additional takes of a famous Churchill photo, when the young photographer brazenly took away his cigar and captured his defiant look.

The show features decades of work, including large colour prints of both Pope John Paul at the Vatican and  Carleton Heston in a bathrobe. A larger than life print of Nikita Khrushchev, a visionary photo of Ernest Hemingway and a gorgeous Sophia Loren are just some of the images that highlight Karsh's brilliant career.

Thanks to everyone who attended and all your great feedback on the show, and we hope to see you again on the next gallery opening on November 13th, 2009.

Photos © Kimon K.

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f11 ARTIST TALK, PHOTOGRAPHER PAUL A TEOLIS.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2009. 7-9 PM at the Pikto Studio. Free.

Antarctica, Easter Island and Bhutan are some of the most remote and mysterious travel destinations on this planet to photograph. Please join award winning photographer Paul A. Teolis, as he shares his travel and photographic experiences shooting in these location among others, while discussing his approach to travel photography, guiding you through his equipment and workflow issues while in the field, and his reinforcement of photograph basics which shooting both film and digital.

An award-winning photographer, animator, lecturer, sometimes writer and world traveler, Paul A. Teolis embarked on a successful career working in special effects animation in 1987 on feature films and commercials for such notable studios as Disney Paris, The Animation House and the National Film Board of Canada to name a few. With more than 100 commercials, films and TV series to his credit, his experience has covered most areas within animation production.

Relocating to Los Angeles, California in 1995, he joined the staff of DreamWorks SKG, founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. There he was both a sequence supervisor and special effects animator on the studio’s first two animated releases; The Prince of Egypt and The Road to Eldorado.

A parallel career in photography, along with a passion for travel, has taken Paul on a journey through nearly 40 countries on six continents, amassing a large body of photographic work and literary material.

Today, while continuing to work in animation, he maintains involvement on a variety of independent projects to develop creative properties that are animated, literary and photographic in nature.

Paul A. Teolis
www.fieldandscreen.com

http://www.f11project.com/