An exhibit of original work of Sodertalje photographer comes to New York:
Artura Photo Art in Illumination: An Exhibition of Fine Art Photography is open for public viewing on April 26 with a reception on Thursday April 28, 6-8 p.m. Admission is free.

Tony Svensson, the Swedish photographer behind Artura Photo Art, is fascinated by neglected beauty, by the small objects that are overlooked in a person’s scurry from one place to the next. Artura, a portmanteau of “art” and “nature,” is an apt name for Tony's work, which takes the viewer into the embrace of a flower, to the precarious perch of a water droplet, or to a world of color that is immediately accessible but too often ignored. The artist compares his walks through nature to a stroll through the world’s largest gallery. “We are all always going somewhere,” he says. “We never stop to see the beautiful little things just a few inches away.”

Tony, who didn’t receive formal training, bought his equipment with money he earned by selling sketches and painting signs. “If you want to work with something you love,” he says, “you learn in every possible way.” By putting his art into the world, Tony is advocating for nature. He is telling his viewers to slow down and look, because there is beauty everywhere, waiting to be seen.

About the exhibition
Illumination: An Exhibition of Fine Art Photography
With both an international and a technical scope, Illumination: An Exhibition of Fine Art Photography is a premier survey of the state of modern photography. The exhibition casts a wide net to find the artists creating the most visually innovative work. There are landscape photographers who transform the terrain into a living, brightly colored being by testing the limits of digital cameras. There are detail photographers who work within contemporary languages – including genres as varied as minimalism, expressionism, and pop – to bring a new kind of photographic work to light. And there are portraitists, who dive deep into their subjects to present psychological studies as well. Innovators and purists alike will find new aesthetic ideas to wrestle with in the collection. These are all artists working with traditional subjects to create modern views of the world around them.

Artura Photo Art | Iryna Brown | Charley Fazio | Karl Girardet | Goodash | Stephane Lieben | Yvonne Lu | Claude MacBurnie | Jessica Mastellone | Mary Pearson | Youssef Sefiani | Judy D. Shane | Riya Sharma | Shifra | Andrea Spagnolo | Viktoryia Vinnikava | David Wile