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IGOR DIMITS

artist, photographer

MELBOURNE - RIGA

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IGOR DIMITS

I was borm in 1931 in Riga Latvia. At the end of the second world war I found myself in a displaced persons camp in Germany from which I was accepted  for life in Australia.I arrived in Australia as an 18 year old youngster, with my education disrupted and subject to a 2 year work agreement with the Australian government.

Art had been one of my interests from early childhoood, and I tried to pursue it at first opportunity by joining the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, which I attended with interest for several years, but then abandoned my efforts in fine arts for lack of resources.

I did however retain an activity in photography, developing the skills and knowledge I had acquired  from an old latvian photographer in displaced persons camp in Germany. In my position photography was less time consuming and yet affording me artistic expression.

In 1974 I founded  the Latvian Film and Photo Club in Melbourne and under the auspices of this club I made several documentary films of latvian cultural activities.

I have held several photography exhibitions, in Melbourne and in Riga, Latvia, featuring various subjects, including larger scale cibachrome prints of Australian wilderness. In later years following vast technological changes with photo processes transferring from darkroom and chemistry to light room and digital manipulation, I decided to revert to the artistic activity of my youth, and took to charcoal and pastel drawing. Charcoal and pastel drawing suits my character and I can delight in the purity and permanence in color.

 

In my vision I am a realist, more related to the  feel of an impressionist tempered by the construction of Cezanne. In that sense I am not a contemporary artist even though I do not mind contemporary times. My subject matter could be the human figure, a landscape or still life or other in all of which I try to see the characteristic shape movement or colour, whilst also considering, how I compose my two dimensional space. As I am loosing my sight, I suppose, I might follow Degas, whose work with failing vision was turning to beautiful abstract.

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