About the Artwork
The Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has abundant natural forests, clear lakes and magnificent mountains. It is perhaps best known for its intense and brutal winters. Snow and ice make many parts of the island inaccessible and the local Sea of Okhotsk routinely freezes over.
ARTIST STATEMENT – Like a majority of people, I take photographs to preserve memories of times spent with my family and friends as well as the places I’ve been. I use whatever camera I could afford to use. Currently, I mostly use either my medium format film or my 35mm film camera loaded with kodak rolls. I like the limitations those cameras impose on me because it forces me to be more creative in the way I shoot and communicate what I see. I see the world in full vivid color, but I wish to create expressive images in black and white because it distills the expression down to how you compose the elements in your frame and the technique used in taking the image.
About the Artist
Paul Res was recently awarded silver medal 2nd place for the “Professional, Analog/Film – Fine Art” category at the International Photography Awards 2019. The “International Photography Awards” is considered to be one of the foremost awards giving bodies in photography today. In 2015, he was also chosen as the “Photographer of the Year” for the Philippines as selected by the “International Photography Awards (IPA)”. In that same year he was also chosen by IPA as “Nature Photographer of the Year”, “Architecture Photographer of the Year”, and “Special Photographer of the Year”. He was a finalist for “Photographer of the Year 2015” at the “Lucie Awards” done at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, New York. In 2011, Paul Res had his first solo exhibition titled “Landscapes” in Manila. His works have been presented and exhibited internationally in Vietnam, South Africa, Iran and New York.
Paul Res was a member of the Board of Trustees and is currently a regular member of the “Camera Club of the Philippines”, the oldest photographic society in the Philippines established in 1928. A tax lawyer by training, he finished his Political Science and Law studies at the Ateneo de Manila University. He lives in Makati City, Philippines.
