Bio
They say that a photographer is either a picture taker or a picture maker; Polina is firmly in the picture makers’ club. While fully appreciating the “what you see is what you get” approach, she is much more interested in chasing an ever-elusive image that appears in her mind’s eye, the kind of an image that conveys her feelings and emotions rather than remains a mere statement of fact.
Prior to becoming a full-time photographer Polina studied Art History at university, and then worked in several museums, galleries and picture libraries. Her favourite studio based photographic subjects are flower portraiture and still life. When it comes to outdoor photography, she like focusing on flowers using special effect or vintage lenses. In addition to her own hands-on photographic workshops, she teaches photography and gives talks to various photo clubs and associations. She also hugely enjoys creating impressionistic landscape images and photographing collectable artisan ball-jointed dolls – relatively unknown but fascinating photography subject.
Polina is an international awards winner, a member of the judging panel for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Photographic Portfolio competition, as well as member of the Royal Photographic Society’s Distinctions panel in the Visual Art category.
Title: “Starting from a blank canvas – Still Life”
Description: This talk is about composition, light, textures, and colours that I use when creating my still life setups. My approach – for better or worse – is to start by creating an image in my mind’s eye and proceed to taking photographs only after all details have been thought through. There will be a few schematic illustrations to show my studio hardware and to demonstrate various stages of putting together a still life setup.
Website:
www.polinaplotnikova.com
All talks are held via zoom
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