ALACRAN

 

Photo Journalist, London
born in the Swinging 60s. Europe
alias Nero

 

 

right: self-portrait photo with muse(2005)


Alacran grew into the arts and entertainment business after he finished his post-graduate studies in Law. He wanted to develop a career in European copyright law but his ideas were quite advanced at the time. The university he studied at was just about to develop what later became known as the mp3 encoding technology. Internet itself was just for those few who knew about it.

So we hope that nowadays are can use the navigations tool to go left or right or show the (thumbnail) index ("series explorer") of most of the series again ! Enjoy ! The sunset photos are only all made in the beautiful region of the Cote d' Opal in France, the weather kitchen of Europe! And there are plenty of them - most are taking from the same window! None of the photos is "photoshopped"! Each image is the original, that is scaled down, yes, but not alterered in light or cropped!


 






Mankind just had landed on the moon, and he remembers to be the proud owner of the "fastest PC in the world", a DOS 5, later windows version 1.1 operated computer with the astronomic hard drive capacity of (hold tight) 32MB ! The highest capacity at that time! ...and one of the first digital cameras.....
                               

Since early age he was taught by his father how to use a camera and how to get the most out of a motive, learning to take stunning photos. "Sometimes you have to go one step back or move to the side in order to get the best results", he remembers his dad telling him. Then taking photos was still an expensive hobby.

In the 80s he became a radio journalist and was contributing for some major radio stations in Europe: the Bavarian State Radio Munich (Bayerischer Rundfunk), DeutschlandRadio Berlin (including the former and original American Radio in Berlin - RIAS Berlin), Vienna'a public broadcaster ORF and within the BBC amongst others.

He joined the World tour of "A Chorus Line", which left a immense impact on his life. This touring the musical was a unique production, bringing together on stage for one season only the original artists, Michael Bennett based this masterpiece on. Kay Cole´s "Never give up in the fate of dancers!" left a huge impact on his future career and life.

Dancing, of course, privately, but also economically between the borders given. However diverse and difficult an artist might be everybody has its chance! He grew into artist promotion and consulting, never really considering himself an artist .

"My own artwork? …. Can be seen in presenting others." He created Artbuy in the nineties, and the later concept what was to become the Artbust of today. He doesn't consider himself an artist. What's an artist? "I am creative. I am a creative designer with the eye and ear for the market or customer and a clear understanding for artists' needs. It seems that I am always creating "new stuff" by accident. I am wilful."

"Berlin in Motion"

a montage, which won the recognition of Russian art professor Gaga, and an invitation to his summer camp master class in St.Petersburg in 1999.

From the early stages of digital photography he jumped the band wagon. One of his first digital photos edited won him some recognition at the St. Petersburg art university were he was invited to join the master class in digital artwork. At this time he made his living as journalist and as web producer. Hotflash.net was one of his first artistic online babies, trying to establish online photo journalism long before time was ripe. Photos journalism became a daily business. His colleagues were still looking upon him in the press conferences, which they attended with bags of cameras and equipment. Alacran just had a little digital camera in his hands.

In 2003 he agreed for the first time to make many of his photos public under the alias - now Alacan


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