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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
2/6/2011 12:12:04 AM
Your face --- your face --- your face --- your beautiful face. Your face is a pure gift.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
2/5/2011 11:51:50 PM
This photograph first convinced me of your creative genius
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
10/22/2008 3:37:13 PM
Pure poetry -- a remarkable portrait.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
5/22/2006 9:42:50 PM
Absolutely poetic! A powerful and timely statement. Thank you.
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Photo By: Larry Donnelly
(K:644)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
5/6/2006 5:07:20 PM
Very evocative -- her beauty comes through the quiet softness of a night.
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| Photo By: emil schildt
(K:427)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
2/10/2006 3:54:39 PM
Beautifully composed and rendered -- happy to find you sharing your seeing again, Syrie.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
2/1/2006 4:07:36 PM
I think I recognize that Eskimo! Photo is worthy of publication in National Geographic magazine.
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| Photo By: c c
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
12/24/2005 2:23:12 PM
Your photographs always awaken in me a desire to write a story.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
11/11/2005 7:56:59 AM
Perfect! -- Magda is still here -- and unforgettable -- I come back to visit her now and again.
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| Photo By: Ewa Brzozowska
(K:391)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
11/11/2005 7:52:03 AM
In all your portraits truth comes forth from their eyes and gestures -- you succeed so very much because you know when to press the shutter -- capturing the human soul's revelations.
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| Photo By: Ewa Brzozowska
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
11/11/2005 7:46:44 AM
Wonderfully achieved -- A Degas quality capturing the moment of a pianist at rest -- how very much of her truth comes out to us by her look -- by her posture -- you have done very well here.
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| Photo By: Ewa Brzozowska
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
11/5/2005 1:49:02 AM
Thank you for your reply to my comment -- you can buy Writing With Light from www.Amazon.com as a used book for less than ten bucks -- you will like it -- it celebrates an introduction to photography that I conducted with elementary and middle school kids -- we had a great time discovering that we could indeed write with light -- and could do so creatively.
Peace --
Paul
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| Photo By: Kiarang Alaei
(K:49415)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
11/4/2005 5:44:17 PM
Kiarang -- I value your work very much as a photographer -- you write with light so very well -- and interestingly -- I just sent your photograph to my daughter, Julia Czaja, who is a young beginning photographer and whose work I think you will admire, too -- check her out here in USEFILM -- Peace to you!
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| Photo By: Kiarang Alaei
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
10/14/2005 11:37:50 PM
Perfect -- very Degas like -- capturing the human beauty in informality and rest -- she is so generous in giving her soul to you -- and so to us as well.
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| Photo By: Ewa Brzozowska
(K:391)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
10/8/2005 1:42:06 PM
I keep returning to this portrait -- it is so powerfully good -- it is a masterpiece.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
9/26/2005 2:26:02 AM
syrie, I entered her eyes and found you there.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
9/15/2005 3:43:17 PM
The eyes are the windows to the soul -- you have done well in proving such to us.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
8/30/2005 12:04:33 PM
Reminds me of a story I tell about building a cottage in the wild woods with my young bride -- your photography is so evocative to our imaginations -- you pull me in every time I see your work -- your photography is cooperative -- a eucharistic sharing causing mutual involvemne -- I an never view your photographs passively.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
8/18/2005 1:18:46 AM
It amazes me how very present you are in these portraits -- your sister's lovely face cannot eclipse your soul -- your powerfully being there -your dominant theme of wounded woman waiting.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
8/15/2005 11:11:10 PM
Syrie -- you are such s great storyteller -- not unlike Wyeth who wrote his Christina with paint -- you write with light and set our imaginations and then our hearts on fire.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
7/11/2005 1:19:37 PM
Save this one for his first rock album cover!
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| Photo By: c c
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/30/2005 6:54:02 AM
Poetic -- her appearing out of the sunlight is a superabundant moment of beauty -- a gift -- you have created a poem written with light -- you have taken photography up to a higher level then perception.
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| Photo By: Stanislaw Trzaska
(K:660)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/30/2005 6:47:56 AM
How wonderfully well you go with the sea -- the composition is perfect -- and your artistry captures and expresses the dynamic primitive mystery of the ocean -- your photograph moves -- lives -- I hear the sea -- I smell the salt air -- my eyes follow the sweep of the wet rocks and I find you, a Selkie from the shores of Finland -- or can you be the princess Perseus comes to rescue before the tide rises any more -- such a story teller are you, Syrie!
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/25/2005 1:52:02 PM
Putting aside all the adorable cuteness you captured in this photograph, what counts most of all is the look of love coming out of Sammy's eyes for his Mom -- that is precious anad beyond words.
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/22/2005 7:55:06 PM
Excellent photography for you are writing with light and also doing so poetically -- the image you give us has mythical power and does call to my own mind/heart/soul as a knight to take caring and loving and rescuing action -- like Don Quiote I ride quickly to her rescue -- I admire and welcome your fine work,Athos.
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| Photo By: Athos Guedes
(K:745)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/22/2005 2:26:50 PM
Brilliant! I have re-visited this self-portrait and it still reminds me of those made by the great American artist, Gregory Gillespie, and this one of yours still has wonderful originality and successful accomplishment as a powerful revelation of you the human and photographer.
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| Photo By: Andrew Polushkin
(K:311)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/22/2005 2:17:35 PM
The comparison works for me -- and as always the exquisite beauty of the human form surpasses all else superabundantly so -- excellent artistic rendering -- your photogaphy is truly a writing with light.
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| Photo By: Andrew Polushkin
(K:311)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/21/2005 1:57:58 PM
Syrie --- years and years ago when I just began in photography I came across two men whose names I no longer remember who used to put liquid emulsion on eggs and then turn them with appropriate images into photographs -- much like a friend of mine did by finding stones rubbed smooth in CT streams and then painted images of animals onto them inspired by the shapes of the stones -- this is not to say I think you should place your lovely face onto an egg or a stone -- I like what you have done with flat paper -- and shall cherish this portrait of you always. Peace and love surround you -- Paul Clement
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/19/2005 2:14:39 AM
Lovliest angel of my dreams -- your unreality is so beautiful it challenges raw reality with its exquisite hope and ultimate meaningfulness -- such visions cause me to go on and on in sleep -- to dread the morning of looking away.
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| Photo By: Syrie Kovitz
(K:1349)
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Critique By:
PAUL CZAJA (K:2563)
6/10/2005 10:44:24 PM
I value greatly your presentation of this striking portrait -- it is somewhat dreamy -- surrealistic -- as if she were looking through a train's window before it pulls away -- the close cropping makes her appear much older than she is -- accentuates the timelessness of her soul -- of her feminine beauty -- yes, her eyes, but the eyes are the window of the soul.
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| Photo By: Antonia BauerleinSehnert
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