TOGETHER - The Artists

Hendro Soetrisno is an international award-winning photographer. He is a Master of Photography from PPA, a Master Photographer in Fine Art - Accredited in Fine Art Nature from MPI, and a Master of WPPI. He represented the United States in the World Photographic Cup and brought home the gold medal in the Nature category and the Best of Nations award. He has won more than 150 prestigious awards from reputable organizations worldwide including Professional Photographer of America, Wedding and Portrait Photographers International, Master Photographers International, and Australian Institute of Professional Photography. He also held several Photographer of the Year titles from various professional organizations.

Hendro is a visual storyteller. His fine art images are part of his imagination, where the colors of sky and water are not always blue, where birds and other animals speak to him when he speaks to them.

He started his photography using a medium format film before switching to digital. He was a landscape photographer at the beginning but then his interest expanded to include wedding and portrait photography before settling down in fine art nature.

Upon a suggestion of a friend, he entered his first professional competition in AIPP (Australia Institute of Professional Photography) where he got his first awards. He continued entering other major professional competitions, among them were Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI), Professional Photographers of America (PPA), and Master Photographers International (MPI). Not only were those competitions judged by the world's best photographers, he had to compete against them as well and all these have been contributing to his learning progress. He has won more than 150 awards and earned several Photographer of the Year titles from different organizations.

As an acknowledgement, he also earned Master degrees from PPA, MPI, and WPPI. He is an accredited fine art nature photographer in MPI. These are not academic degrees but accumulation of achievements from each prestigious competition.

Upon rigorous selection, he was chosen to represent the United States in the prestigious World Photographic Cup - the Olympics of professional photography. He brought home the gold medal in the Nature category and also won the Best of Nations award.

Apart from competitions, he also mentored some fellow photographers.

The event that brought him to his current style was actually a casual conversation with one of the most reputable wedding photographers. He attended his workshop and during a break he told him that he needed to be himself, not just a copy of the photographer. There are a lot of talented photographers and he has to have something that distinguishes his work from theirs. Something that can be recognized as his. He does not want to be a nature photographer. He prefers being a visual storyteller who uses his fine art to tell his imagination.

He entered the NFT world in mid January 2022. His first series "VIVID" which consisted of 10 images of edition of 1 were sold out in a month.

He run the collective Artists United. Their first project "TOGETHER" was the very first in the history of the NFT photography collective to be curated by a collector with a buy-back guarantee. It was sold out in 3 days.

Mustafa Aydın is an astrophotographer with 8+ years of astrophotography and almost lifelong experience in general photography. He was born and raised in a photographer family that has the 3rd generation of photographers, at the moment, perhaps more to come. His childhood was centered in the triangle of photography, space, and aviation. As such, he studied Physics Engineering for the love of science, cosmos, and technology. He is concentrated mainly on Deep Space Astrophotography and Widefield Astrophotography, aka Milkyway Astrophotography. Shooting astrophotography takes patience, multi disciplinary knowledge and long hours of work. Lots of images of the same object are taken and these shots are stacked, and post processed, in special software.   He primarily uses his own equipment, a Meade Instruments 70mm Refractory Telescope, Orion Atlas Pro Mount (Tracker), Nikon D5300 Camera and lots of cables, software and accessories. He also has access to the Telescope Live remote telescopes located in Chile, Spain, and Australia. He is the co-founder and the member of Ankara Astronomy Group, and the co-founder and the co-owner of Stellar Xperiences. He is a brand ambassador for Meade Instruments. He is a judge for monthly astrophotography competitions organized by Telescope Live. He has had numerous photos published in national science magazines. Several of his photos have been selected as astrophotography of the day, week, month from international platforms. One photo was shortlisted in the most prestigious astrophotography contest called "Astronomy Photographer of the Year - Royal Museums Greenwich" in 2020 in the aurora category. Several of his photos are being exhibited in Gokmen Space and Aviation Training Center in Bursa, Turkey. And, in 2020 Aydin was able to photograph the Comet Neowise, with rare bicolor (red and blue) ion tails.

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Dima Chatrov is a full-time landscape and travel photographer with a passion for mountains and expeditions to remote areas of our planet, with over 70 countries under his belt. He is on the road most of the time, organizing master-classes and seminars in photography. His personal exhibitions were held in Toronto, Frankfurt (Leica Gallery), Montreux and Moscow. His work graces private collections of the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Cuba, and Russia. He placed first in a number of international competitions and authored over 70 magazine and newspaper publications. Dima is the founder of the “Photoplanet” Club that brings together the photographers and students of his master-classes held all over the world.

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Yuri Santin is a travel and reportage photographer from Italy. After spending years at his day job, while pursuing  his passion for photography, he has recently decided to turn a passion into a job and start a photography career. While traveling or exploring his surroundings, he aims to show not only what he has seen, but also learnt, in an attempt to transmit the culture linked to those places and their unit

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Eric is a French photographer and digital artist from Paris. Inspired by his hometown, the “City of Light,” he has become a “painter of light” through his photography. Eric’s real passion is travel. It is a means of both physical and spiritual escape. When he first began photography more than ten years ago, his photos were just a way to document his life and create memories. Today, it is the quest for the perfect photo that dictates his destinations. Eric’s favorite types of photography are landscapes and urbanscapes, both at home and abroad. On occasion he is fortunate enough to capture a rare photo of a person. In all his photographs, whatever the genre or subject, he seeks to tell the story – of time, distance, and place. Thanks to photography, he can give free rein to his creativity. He works to express through images what he cannot express through words. Photography crosses barriers of culture and language. Exploring the endless world of photography is his passion.

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Emre Bostanoglu was born in 1986 in Istanbul. He has been photographing since 2009. In 2012, he won the Bronze medal award at the FIAP Club World Cup. He opened many personal and joint photography exhibitions. He was the Founding President of the Photography and Culture and Art Association (FOKUS). He won the grand prize at the Sille National Invited Photography Competition in 2013, to which he was invited, and won the title of Photographer of the Year in Sille. He has the titles of EFIAP, CR2 and SSS/B, which are internationally valid in the field of photography. He has more than 300 Awards in National and International Photography Contests. He served as a judge in more than ten National / International Photography Contests. He has three published books. He directed four short films. He actively continues to work on photography, short films, education, documentaries and books.

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Ekrem Şahin was born in 1981 in Antalya. he specializes in documentary, landscape and portrait photography. He also has been giving importance to drone photography for the last 2 years. Seeing the world from above is exciting. He tries to reflect these beauties in his photographs.

He has the EFIAP artistic title and the Global Photographic Union CR2 title given by the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP). He has received more than 300 awards and acceptances from many international and national competitions.

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Daniel Viñé García is a self-taught photographer from Valladolid, Spain. He specializes in travel and landscape photography. Where he lives there is hardly any nature, so he takes any opportunity he can to travel. It was precisely this love of traveling that led him to become interested in photography. For fifteen years now, he has been traveling the world with his camera in hand, discovering incredible places and moments. Being alone makes it unforgettable.

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Paul Moon is a landscape photographer from the United Kingdom and works in and around the Yorkshire Wolds. This is an area of chalk upland and was recently made famous by the artist David Hockney who painted and drew in many of the places he photographs. He has had two books published on the City of York and leads workshops, photography walks and gives talks about his work. He has also had his images used by local tourism providers to promote the area.

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Xose Casal started in photography as a teenager studying image and sound and exploring the ways of chemical photography in black and white. After a break of 10 years, he returned to photography in the digital era, specializing in landscape photography and long exposure. In 2012, he started to develop his Long Exposure signature style by creating his series "Waterworld," where he sought a dialogue between the real and unreal, with easily recognizable objects, products of human activity, situated in a dreamy environment. He has received over 70 awards in national and international competitions. His work is present in public and private collections. He has had several solo exhibitions in Spain and participated in numerous group exhibitions.

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Kristin Piljay has been an internationally-published photographer for over two decades and has traveled to many places in search of knowledge, beauty and adventure. She tends to like to wander off into the wilderness of the mountains and forest, but she can also be found occasionally in cities. Starting out as a portrait photographer in the 1990s, she eventually became a travel photographer for Lonely Planet Images stock agency and some of her images have been published by Lonely Planet, Mountain Sobek Travel, Pearson Education, Microsoft, Condé Nast, Cengage Learning, Oprah Winfrey Network, Hearst Corporation, Aerial Dance Festival, Redbull and BBC Travel.

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Paul Killeen is a landscape photographer based in Ireland. Paul makes images throughout Ireland, and also abroad. His passion is to capture ethereal beauty in his work, often driven by mood and emotion. As a purist, the goal is always to get his images right in-camera. His work has been published in a number of digital photography magazines and featured in both Landscape Photographer of the Year - Collection 10 and World Landscape Photographer 2020.

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Kat Livengood is a full-time, self-taught fine art print and NFT photographer based in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has spent over a decade – and traveled many thousands of miles – photographing the wild horses, wildlife, and wildlands of the American West, and raising awareness about the struggle to keep wild horses free on public lands. Aside from NFTs, she has shown her work primarily from the studio she’s held for ten years on Santa Fe’s historic Canyon Road. For every wild horse NFT sold on the primary market, Kat donates a portion of proceeds to one of eight wild horse rescues/sanctuaries.

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Enrico Fossati is a professional landscape photographer based in northern Italy, born in 1979. His passion for photography was born in 2009. His passion for paintings, art, and movies has influenced a lot of his vision and the way he crafts his pictures. The digital darkroom gave him the opportunity to create unique images, impossible to be created with traditional photography techniques. His works are deeply influenced by his imagination, emotions, and dreams. His inspiration comes from many artists, from fantasy art which is his favorite, to literature, movies, and music. Music helps him a lot to focus on the mood and is an essential element during his processing and when he is in the field. His work is constantly evolving and every day he has new ideas and new works slowly materializing in his mind.

Some of his works have been awarded in various important photographic competitions and have been published in many magazines worldwide. He works with various professionals as a photography instructor and teaches post-production. He is committed to various creative projects and is co-working with various brands as an ambassador or partner.

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