gerards artzone
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Due to serious health problems, my presence on this forum (end of 2023) was not only abruptly ended, but also extremely short-lived, lasting something like 3 weeks.
Strangely enough, I completely forgot about this forum over the years, until last weekend when I found a diary in a box in the storage room containing, among other things, the name of this forum, a username, and a password. I saw that I actually made 15 posts on this forum and received 102 likes; thanks to everyone for that anyway, but I don't remember any of it anymore.
Let me introduce myself: I started seriously with the photography hobby back in 1967/1968 when I got an SLR camera (Asahi Pentax S1a) and a tiny darkroom built by my brother, at home in a cupboard under the stairs to the upstairs neighbors. In the late 1970s, I made the choice not to attend art school, but to pursue higher education as a photographer.
All in all, I spent 30 years as an independent commercial photographer and designer in the fields of advertising, product, and model/fashion photography, with my own photo/design studio.
During those 30 years, I ventured into various fields; for instance, I designed jewelry for nearly 20 years (in collaboration with my wife, who is a goldsmith/gemmologist and cuts gemstones herself), and I obtained my diploma as a jeweler in 1990. Around the turn of the century, I worked for a few years as a freelance consultant for Kodak and a few years later, I started making jewelry in special metals, such as titanium and zirconium.
Hampered by declining health and also the fact that digital photography is not really my ''forte'' (to this day), I stopped all my commercial photography work in 2010 to focus entirely on various art forms.
Nowadays, having retired, I am mainly engaged in metal and glass design, digital (photo) art, and mixed media expressions. At the end of the year, I hope to start courses (like cyanotype, creative photo editing, etc.) for small groups.
Gerard
Strangely enough, I completely forgot about this forum over the years, until last weekend when I found a diary in a box in the storage room containing, among other things, the name of this forum, a username, and a password. I saw that I actually made 15 posts on this forum and received 102 likes; thanks to everyone for that anyway, but I don't remember any of it anymore.
Let me introduce myself: I started seriously with the photography hobby back in 1967/1968 when I got an SLR camera (Asahi Pentax S1a) and a tiny darkroom built by my brother, at home in a cupboard under the stairs to the upstairs neighbors. In the late 1970s, I made the choice not to attend art school, but to pursue higher education as a photographer.
All in all, I spent 30 years as an independent commercial photographer and designer in the fields of advertising, product, and model/fashion photography, with my own photo/design studio.
During those 30 years, I ventured into various fields; for instance, I designed jewelry for nearly 20 years (in collaboration with my wife, who is a goldsmith/gemmologist and cuts gemstones herself), and I obtained my diploma as a jeweler in 1990. Around the turn of the century, I worked for a few years as a freelance consultant for Kodak and a few years later, I started making jewelry in special metals, such as titanium and zirconium.
Hampered by declining health and also the fact that digital photography is not really my ''forte'' (to this day), I stopped all my commercial photography work in 2010 to focus entirely on various art forms.
Nowadays, having retired, I am mainly engaged in metal and glass design, digital (photo) art, and mixed media expressions. At the end of the year, I hope to start courses (like cyanotype, creative photo editing, etc.) for small groups.
Gerard
