Occupation Artist Photographer Role Visual artist Name Emy Kat | Children Kanaan and Asmani Spouse(s) Natalya Kasyanova | |
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Born August 17, 1959 (age 65) ( 1959-08-17 ) | ||
Photographe - Portrait - Emy Kat
Emy Kat is a visual artist and photographer working in contemporary art and fine art photography.
Contents
- Photographe Portrait Emy Kat
- Career and life
- Film vs digital
- Notable artwork
- Book contributions
- References
Career and life
Emy Kat was born in 1959, of a Middle Eastern descent.
He is contemporary photographer whose large body of work has been built over several decades. Developing a love for the medium at an early age, he started photography when his father gave him his first camera at age 12. He went on to refine his craft in USA and received a graduate degree in 1997 from the Brooks Institute of photography in Santa Barbara, California, (USA) with exceptional academic achievements and honors along with awards in Advertising and Creative Excellence.
Kat began his career in fashion photography, portraits, commercial advertising and has shifted in 2009 to Contemporary Art and Fine-art photography.
A Researcher and a photographer, Kat is best known for his explorations of culture and heritage as well as landscape and spiritual transformations.
In 2013, the artist has introduced a new technique in contemporary Art classified as a Post medium condition, It is a type of “digital Collage” Kat calls it "Mental Spaces", The art work deals with capturing a given space and connects several images taken from various angles to create one image, offering the viewer a chance to experience a given space from multiple angles in one gaze. "This technique allows me to cover several dimensions of a space and to effectively sum up all the facts into a single visual". a sample of "Mental Spaces" by Emy Kat titled "Indoors" 2013
The artist is included in a number of private collections and his iconography work (Nude studies on Platinum - Etudes Nu femme), describing the superiority of the woman in her creation, is a permanent collection and is archived by the BNF Bibliothèque nationale de France (2000). The collection is under Reference number Ep-4001-Boîte pet. fol.(Collection Publiques).
Film vs digital
Although the artist majored in digital imaging, Emy Kat chose to work and mostly use photographic film. This is due to limitations in digital photography. In 2008, he started using a high end digital camera back system by LEAF. However, most of his fine art work, Kat continues to use photographic film with large format view camera and medium format (film) camera.
Notable artwork
Book contributions
Kat's photographs have been included in several books published by Graphis Inc..