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10.04.-8.05.2005 - fotografia - Martin Hestermans, Alfons
Jennes

Alfons Jennes
Alfons urodził się w 1920 roku. Fotografią zajmuje
się od 1979 roku. Jego pierwsze fotografie to diapozytywy. Współpracował
ze sławnymi Belgami „Breughel”. Od 1982 roku pasjonuje się kolorowymi
negatywami. Jego ulubiona techniką jest fotografia czarno –biała. Swoje
prace wykonuje w starych i nowych technikach chemicznych.

Alfons was born in 1920. So, being the oldest
member in years of Foto Total, he’s the youngest in temperament !
Formerly, Alfons had an engineering function in the diary industry. Being
very inventive, he developed the famous Belgian “Breughel” cheese.

After retiring in 1979, our “Fons” began intensively to make
photographs, on slides as well as on negatives, and in 1982 he made colour
prints of both. From 1984 on, love for black & white came and since
1998 Alfons doesn’t practice colour photography anymore.
As a
photographer, Alfons tried all old chemical combinations and processes.
Untill today he’s still using more than one of these old technics.
Experimenting is what Fons likes to do, in fact just like he did in his
former diary time !

Martin Hestermans
Urodził się w 1960 roku. Studiował
architekturę i akustykę. Pracuje jako doradca techniczny koncernu
budowlanego Beneluxu. Zainteresował się fotografią podczas swoich studiów.
Ulubionym tematem jego jest ruch i technika. Tworzy zawsze kolorowe
fotografie. Fotografuje za pomaca obiektywu szerokokątnego oraz „Rybiego
Oka” . Używa „Rybiego Oka” dla wielu różnych celów np. do portretów.

Martin, born in 1960, is working as technical advisor
Benelux for an insulation manufacturer. Being architect, you should expect
that intrest for photography started during his studies, but it was just
some years later, in the middle of the 90’s, that this was the
case.

Technics and mobility are his preferred themes. So, you’ll
often see steel structures such as bridges, as well as cars, trucks, or
locomotives on his pictures. He’s allways making colour
photographs.

Preferred objectives of Martin are the diagonal and
circular fisheye. Although usually limited to specific situations, Martin
uses the fisheyes for very different purposes, sometimes even for
portraits, being humorous in one case, or very seriously in another
case.

AAWEEKEND 2004
Alfons Jennes & Martin Hestermans, Foto
Total

Every year in September, a meeting of American cars,
motorbikes and trucks takes place in Lommel, Belgium. It’s called “All
American Weekend”. Besides this, attractions such as drag racing or stunts
are part of the program.

Since some years, several members of Foto
Total make pictures on AAWeekend, shown afterwards on the internet site
www.allamericanweekend.be . Two of them are Alfons and Martin. In this
exposition, they try to show their two different approaches of the same
theme.

Alfons is showing rectangular black & white pictures.
So, assuming a rather classic approach here, unexpectedly you’ll remark
the dynamic character of his pictures. Details such as chrome parts are
accentuated by split-lighting technic in the darkroom.

Martin shows
colour pictures, made with a circular fisheye. This kind of objective,
having a reach of 180° in all directions, was originally intended to
photograph the hemisphere (starry sky) and it’s giving a specific dynamic
look to AAWeekend now.

FOTO TOTAL was founded in November 2004.
The group is existing of 9 members. Works of 6 of them were already shown
on another photo exhibition in MOK Gniezno, July 2004. Among them were
Alfons as well as Martin (being chairman of Foto Total now).

The
name "Foto Total" refers to the different photographic approaches of the
group members. Colour or black & white ... analogue or digital ...
negatives or slides ... classic or flashy pictures ... Of course, none of
these choices are better or worse in comparison to the other ones. On the
contrary, just this variation is making it so fascinating.

Friendship is an essential value for the coherence of the group.
Just as you prefer, you can call Foto Total a group of photographing
friends, or a group of befriended photographers. Have a look to the
internetsite of the group :
http://users.skynet.be/aemit/total/index.html

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