Exhibition was a success - moving on

The CASS exhibition was a tremendous success, on the opening night there was over 1600 visitors inside the gallery, which is outstanding! I got to meet new people and I was quite amazed on how many people enjoyed my work. As a purist photographer I was expecting a narrow crowd viewing my work, but instead I got a lot of feedback on my technical skills and the symbolism of the images.

Needless to say, I am very happy with the entire show. It was up from Monday untill Sunday afternoon, and there was a lot of people grabbing my contact details. I had 70 postcard pictures, 50 artist statments and 100+ business cards, and there was only a few cards remaining when I took the work down on Sunday.

For now that brings closure to my London chapter, and Monday morning I started the 3000 km drive to my hometown in northern Norway. Now there is a new chapter and a new set of challenges, my days as a student is finally over which means I need to start attracting new clients to pay the bills.

For me everything pointed in the direction of my hometown Bodø. I got my family, friends, network, access to a lot of different locations and different models. In short any project is possible in the town above the arctic circle. To me that makes more sense rather than moving to a bigger city and knocking on doors that have been knocked on thousand of times before.

Now it is all about pushing myself every day to create stronger images and enhance my portfolio all the time. I wish to work with big international clients somewhere in the future, and I feel the best way to do that is to make every image twice as good as my client expect all the time. Then one day, my dream about traveling around the world shooting fashion and advertising images might come true.

But untill that day you will find me in my office in Bodø from Monday the 25th of June. Feel free to call me on +47 99 000 906 or simply email me at engmark@live.no - and I will bust my ass to delicer twice what you expect.

Exhibition : CASS 2012 (London Metropolitan)

Raymond Engmark

+47 99000906

engmark@live.no 

www.raymondengmark.com

The Consumers

Giclée prints

62 x 93 cm

In a day and age where people have filled their lives with so many layers of meaningless objects that desperately crave their attention, we are in need to take the time to glance into this artists surrealistic window into the apathetic future of mankind. 

By the use of digital photographic instruments we are manipulated into a world where man only exists together with his only true friend; his own complacent image. It depicts how the egotistical average man lives so unaffected by any issues but the ones concerning ones private agenda. 

The artist’s strong roots in northern Norway come to show as he is naturally inspired by the Norwegian romantic nationalism era painters such as Eilert Adelsteen Normann and Hans Gude. And so it may only be appropriate that the artist himself has travelled around Europe to make every digital sketch much like his sources of inspiration did.

With concern to details and the use of light every story is transformed into a realistic digital canvas - and the viewers are transformed into a believable witness of the artist’s surrealistic future.

See pictures at www.raymondengmark.com -> Personal