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Art Raising Awareness: 2 Tin can Fine art

September 24th, 2014 at 2:56pm

We are very excited to be working with Patti Gay and her son Noah. Their collaborations are what make up the 2 Tin Fine art Collection. Noah has astringent, non-verbal, autism. At 18 months, Patti and her hubby began to discover that Noah's language started to backslide, then he began loosing other skills he had previously caused. With an autism diagnosis, they began creating programs for intensive habitation therapy. Patti has ever strived to make full Noah's days with activities that help him connect to the world in both a physical and creative fashion; from hiking and playing outside, to matching games, reading, and of grade painting. Patti spends most of her solar day working with Noah and an instructional aide on teaching Noah contained living skills; sweeping, laundry, shaving, reading recipes, etc. In the midst of it all, they take occasional breaks to spread butcher paper on the kitchen table and paint.

With Patti being an artist herself, having paints in the firm and encouraging Noah to explore his own creativity with paints and textures was a natural therapy and something Noah has loved since he was ii. From adding textures like sand or glitter to the paints and varying the means in which Noah paints, whether it be sponges, brushes, or even his fingers, it creates a wonderful sensory activity for him. Patti has saved hundreds of Noah's paintings over the years. A few years agone she began scanning Noah'south paintings and putting them together to create an amazing collection of images. "I hope that past exposing more people to Noah's art, they will meet that everyone has something beautiful to give the world," says Patti. "That'southward a souvenir that he'southward given to me." Every image from Two Can Art is created but using Noah's painted textures. A portion of the proceeds from sale of any Two Can Art images will exist donated to assistance enhance Autism Sensation.

If you are interested in helping raise Autism Awareness, at that place are a number of wonderful organizations that could employ your assist! Beneath are just a few:

Parents Helping Parents
NBA Northwest Behavioral Associates
Autism Speaks
Residue 4 Kids

See the story NBC Bay Area did on Patti and Noah below:

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Get to Know Erin Berzel

July ninth, 2014 at four:04pm

A Montana native, with an didactics in Photojournalism and a family background in portrait photography, Erin has been a freelance photographer in Portland the past 11 years. Combining her dearest for people and passion for photography, she creates dynamic images that strike a delicate balance betwixt the storytelling and journalism of photography and the art of the medium.

Q: How did you become on this path to condign a professional photographer?

A: Both of my parents are photographers and I've been shooting since I was erstwhile enough to pick upwards a camera. When I was very young, I spent a magical afternoon in my begetter's darkroom watching him produce, seemingly from nada, epitome afterwards image from the chemic bath. I've known ever since that I, too, wanted to spend my time capturing those images.

Subsequently receiving my Bachelor of Arts in Photojournalism from the University of Montana, Missoula, I moved to Portland to start my career. For the next viii years, I worked multiple jobs to make ends meet, only giving upwards on a career in photography was not an option. Photography is my lifeblood and there has never been a Plan B. For the past few years, I accept been doing photography full-time. I'm still in the process of figuring out what's next, merely it feels good to exist able to focus on photography and nothing else.

Q: What is your biggest struggle as an artist?

A: I've always been extremely sensitive and passionate about my work. This has been a double-edged sword. It is what drives me and what holds me dorsum at the same time. That has been i of my biggest struggles; to open up myself up to critique and potential failure or rejection. I estimate all of united states struggle with that in some manner, don't we?

Q: What do y'all feel your artwork represents?
A: My work represents the key human want to connect and form relationships. When I'grand shooting, whether it'southward portrait, macro, landscape or travel photography, I feel connected to my subject. I can only hope that my photos tin produce the same visceral reaction in others that I experienced when I captured the images.

Q: Where do you find inspiration?
A: Correct now I'm dreaming of where to travel next. Exploring a new place is i of the most liberating and inspiring things for me. I'm dying to visit Croatia, Greece, Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar, Cuba and Republic of iceland. The list goes on and on. In 2012, while traveling in Cambodia with my fiancé, Jake, nosotros stumbled into a volume store with the following St. Augustine quote painted in huge letters across the wall — "The world is a volume, and those who practise not travel read just a page."

Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: My ultimate dream is to keep exploring, connecting and traveling…. and to make a living doing what I honey. I couldn't ask for anything more."

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Two Brand New Catalog Supplements, At present Available!

January 22nd, 2014 at 12:33pm

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Brand New Photography

September 30th, 2013 at 3:45pm

We recently added 500 new photos to our all-encompassing photography collection!  All of our images are available for custom press on an array of paper, stretched sheet, and rolled sail. Check out these new pieces and more than on our custom printing page .Search by New Releases for the most current photos.

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Birds of All Feathers

April 24th, 2013 at two:29pm

Gango Editions is pleased to offering a big selection of bird prints.  From the grace and beauty of a peacock, to the quirky wisdom of the owl, we have a bird impress for every bird lover. Do you run into an image yous like only need it in a different size? We can help! All of our images are available as giclee fine art prints on paper & sail in any size you need – please phone call u.s.a. for more information at 800-852-3662.

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Flip Through Our 2013 Catalog Supplement

Apr 16th, 2013 at ane:27pm

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Get to Know Mark Geistweite

April 5th, 2013 at 1:47pm

Mark Geistweite is ane of our newer photographers. His images took offimmediately with wide appeal.Mark lives in Bakersfield, California with his wife, Xiaoping, their 8 year onetime daughter, Kennis, and their 3 yr erstwhile son Jerald. The digital historic period has given Mark a sharper focus on his craft. Mark produces landscape photographs that exhibit the full range of light in a scene, much like how we meet the scene with our own eyes. He manages this past taking multiple exposures of the aforementioned scene and then hand blending them to insure full detail in the shadows and the highlights. This approach extends the range of light beyond what a single exposure can record, but captures the wide range of light our optics are capable of seeing at a given moment. These images of rare transient lite announced about three dimensional, even in impress. Mark attributes his success to Xiaoping and her unwavering support. Mark also gives thanks to Jackie and Jerry Geistweite (Mom and Dad) for providing him with the ability to encounter the world with patient optics. Fifty-fifty though he is passionate nearly his photography, his proudest moments come from watching Kennis and Jerry grow and learn.

Q. As i of our near popular new photographers, what do you meet equally the central appeal to your artwork?

A. I hear my followers say things like "I feel every bit if I tin pace into the picture" or "it looks just like a painting." Many of my photographs are of random rural scenes that look like whatever typical country scene. They are more than only pretty pictures. I believe my images are inviting, calling the viewer to walk into the scene and stay awhile. Many other photographers shoot remote places in the world: Iceland, Alaska, Patagonia, Tibet, etc. These are amazing and beautiful places, beautifully photographed by talented artists. I am not so fortunate as they, to shoot those remote destinations. Yet, very most where I live are lovely locations that to me are simply as beautiful, specially if captured in the correct lite. Viewers encounter the locations I shoot as being accessible; they feel that these ordinary meadows and pastures are within accomplish. New Zealand, the Himalayas, and other remote locations, however, are not and then accessible. This is what I believe separates me from many of the more than well known photographers. The appeal is in the ability to walk into ane of my scenes that could be from almost anywhere, in whatsoever locality, within a short drive perhaps. I gauge what I am saying is that Alaska and Patagonia are incredible, still are not then inviting, because for virtually folks, these scenes don't offering a realistic escape. A simple scene out in the state, taken at dawn or dusk, does appear realistically attainable for the masses, however.

Q. How did you get on the path to becoming a professional person artist?

A. I began shooting landscapes over 30 years ago. It all started as a documentation of my extended travels. My commencement extended outing lasted nearly 6 months and covered 15 states, including all of the western states. Earlier this, I had no interest in photography, merely friends and family encouraged me to purchase a nice camera and record the places I visited. Once the first slides came back from the lab, looking almost like professional pictures, I was hooked. I continued to shoot over the years, but I constitute myself frustrated past the limitations of a motion-picture show photographic camera'southward ability to record the scenes that I was witnessing. When graduated neutral density filters were introduced, I suddenly had a tool that enabled me to shoot scenes that were previously impossible to tape. I'm referring to strong backlit scenes such as sunrises and sunsets. The biggest function of my development occurred when my family and I moved to California and I purchased my outset digital photographic camera. Digital photography made it possible for me to shoot oft and experiment with new techniques. California, well, it is just a magical place. Unlike the e, with so much forestation, out here the scenes are wide open. There is a great vista around every corner!

Q. Sometimes art can exist a passion and sometimes it can be a labor. Have you been frustrated or surprised by a particular prototype? Do you have a secret favorite that you simply honey, no matter if anyone buys it?

A. The act of producing landscape photos is all passion for me. I can't call up of anything related to shooting nature photos equally laborious, save for the undesirable task of breaking camp to render home. I couldn't speak of any of my images that have frustrated me. If a detail image doesn't sell, but I'thou happy with it, so it neither frustrates me nor surprises me. At the aforementioned time, I accept many images that I don't consider significant, notwithstanding resonate with multiple viewers. I love photographing winter scenes, fifty-fifty viewing them, but I also know nigh people won't buy scenes that appear common cold. It'due south simply man nature I suppose. Green sells well, and even though it's my favorite colour, I much adopt capturing warm tones and absurd tones often present at sunrise or sunset. When I do include greens, I will try to discover something to set information technology off, such every bit a complementary color or an incongruous tone. I actually love snow capped peaks higher up a verdant light-green meadow. Add some magenta clouds at sunset, and the contrasts are palpable. I will e'er love shooting snowy scenes, even if I can't hands peddle them at an fine art show or in a gallery. No dubiety, I have several images that I cherish, yet they will never get much applause from the crowd.

Q. How do you continue your inventiveness flowing? For those of us who lack an artistic talent, tin can y'all explain how yous bring your skill, inspiration, and work together?

A. I spend time looking at other artists work. I besides like to play the pianoforte as another creative outlet. When I listen to some new solo piano music, it really seems to pull me over to our piano to try something new. The same can happen when I come across new landscape photography from my mentors. I recollect the main activity for regaining inspiration is to work on something that is exterior of your chemical element. I dearest shooting interesting skies, merely out of habit, I generally include the sky in my landscapes. Occasionally I have to remind myself to etch the scene without the sky. When you discover yourself in a heat, consider your habits as existence the principal culprit. It's something like changing your route to piece of work every day. Take a new route and y'all begin to discover things again. It helps pause that thoughtless tunnel vision nosotros sometimes slide into. As far as addressing those who lack artistic talent, well I merely don't believe anybody lacks artistic talent. We are all creative, but much of it comes from that naiveté that we all possessed when nosotros were kids. For me, information technology's a strong want to explore. I beloved more than anything to find new locations just by trying a new country road. As far as bringing all of the elements together to realize an end production, well I really think it is a matter of time spent doing something often. The threshold oft written about for success is 10,000 hours. That doesn't mean someone volition have to spend 10,000 hours in club to create something meaningful, simply merely that the more time put in, the more than often you will achieve meaningful work. When I moved to California, I had some wonderful images, only it was a modest portfolio. Since and then, the last 5 years have been devoted to producing new work. Now, I have a much deeper library of compelling images. I'g not upwards to x,000 hours yet, merely I'one thousand gaining on it!

Q. Practise you lot have a favorite fourth dimension of year to work on your art?

A. My favorite time to shoot is Spring and Fall, but as I mentioned earlier, I besides love shooting winter scenes with lots of snow. About the only time I don't like shooting is in the heat of summertime when the skies are empty of clouds. I just don't like shooting when there are no clouds!!

Q. What are your plans for the upcoming yr?

A. My goals for the adjacent year and beyond are to produce more than movement work; film and time lapse in particular. I likewise plan to deport more workshops. For the firsthand future, the workshops volition be local, merely beyond the next few years, I want to offering workshops throughout California. I would likewise like to explore conducting one-on-1 Skype workshops, enabling those who can't travel to California to participate. These workshops would be devoted more towards reckoner processing of digital photography.

See all of Mark Geistweite's photos available through Gango Editions .

Art Copyright Coalition Finds Rampant Counterfeiting at Canton Fair & Jinhan Fair

November 11th, 2012 at 12:12am

On October 24-25, 2012, viii fine art publisher members of the Fine art Copyright Coalition met in Guangzhou, China to walk the Canton Fair and the Jinhan Fair to appraise the level of copyright infringements at these shows. The group plant over 30 Chinese companies with significant levels of illegal copies. Because two days was insufficient fourth dimension to cover both shows, the group estimated the number of infringing companies to be much higher.

The group confronted each company found to be infringing. Infringing product included canvas wall decor, framed fine art, tableware, boxes, tables, pitchers, placemats, linens, screens, and other items. The nature of the infringements ranged from exact copies of entire images, to copies of components of images combined with other copied textile, to slightly modified merely clearly copied versions of copyrighted images. In many cases the art publishers removed infringing product from walls and shelves with the compliance of the exhibitor. For others, attempts to remove infringing items met strong resistance, and there were several cases of heated exchanges (fifty-fifty to the point of attracting attention from the law). The fine art publishers documented their findings with photos, and in some cases obtained catalogues or CD's from the exhibitors.

The art publishers met with organizers of the Jinhan Fair and asked for assistance in combating the counterfeiters. The organizers did not take the publishers' digital collections (iPad, tablet, or website) as evidence of copyright ownership. The fine art publishers argued that the organizer's requirements for proof are and so overly burdensome as to effectively condone counterfeiting. To "prove" copyright ownership, each piece of intellectual property would require registration certificates, rights owners' ID cards and business licenses, powers of attorneys, attorneys' ID cards, and relevant certifying documents, authenticated by the copyright owner'southward ain government and the Chinese embassy in the copyright owner'due south country. The fine art publishers did not approach the organizers of the Canton Fair due to time constraints.

Fine art Copyright Coalition members intend to return as a group at least annually to the Canton Fair and the Jinhan Fair, and are discussing the possibility of attending additional trade shows in China. The group is making direct contact with the offending parties. For the most frequently copied artworks, individual art publishers are considering completing the full bureaucratic requirements in social club to gain the leverage to remove product, and if possible to shut down counterfeit operations. The group is contacting their wall decor and licensing customers to report on the shows and to ask for their help in continuing to place copyright infringers. Legitimate companies who pay for the rights to use the images stand to benefit past shutting down companies stealing the artwork for free.

The fine art publishers are part of the Fine art Copyright Coalition, an international organization defended to copyright protection. Member companies are modest businesses, typically with ten to thirty employees. Express resources make it difficult for any single visitor to combat infringements on its own, so the companies combined forces with competitors to pursue this common interest. One participant in the Guangzhou trip described the undertaking as "David Ten 8 versus Goliath." The delegation to Guangzhou was comprised of the following eight companies:

• Encore Art Group (Canadian Fine art Prints & Winn Devon), Canada
o Contact: Lisa Krieger-Maihara
• Gango Editions, USA
o Contact: Debi Gango
• Kunstanstalten May AG, Germany
o Contact: Monique Van den Hurk
• Felix Rosenstiel´due south Widow & Son Ltd., United kingdom
o Contact: Nick Roe
• Sun Trip the light fantastic Graphics, The states
o Contact: Sarah Farnsworth
• Top Art srl, Italy
o Contact: Mauro Torre
• Wild Apple Graphics, Ltd., United states
o Contact: John Chester
• Earth Fine art Group, USA
o Contact: Lonnie Lemco

The alleged infringing Chinese companies include the post-obit:

o Large Fortune
o ChinaPack Huayuan Economical Co-op Co.
o Dalian Feng Handicraft Limited Company
o Eastern Garden Firm
o Fujin Arts & Crafts
o Fuzhou Fuxin Arts & Crafts Co. Ltd.
o Fuzhou Fengde Arts & Crafts
o Fuzhou Aureate Rose Arts & Crafts
o Fuzhou Grand Arts Trading Co..
o Fuzhou Minguan Arts & Crafts Co., Ltd.
o Fuzhou Vmakes Dwelling house Décor Co. Ltd.
o Fuzhou Shanmin Arts Co.
o Fuzhou Sheng Bo Shen Arts & Crafts
o Fuzhou Star & Moon Habitation Decor Co.
o Fujian Huamin Import & Export Co.
o JHR Arts & Crafts
o Jiahua Co. Ltd.
o Liaoming Wanrong Trading Co. / Modernistic Ornamentation Gallery
o Luckyland
o Minhou Folk Arts & Crafts
o Minhou Lucky Arts Handicrafts Co. Ltd.
o Minhou Minxing
o Minhou Shenghua Handicraft Co.
o Shenzhen Gratuitous Cloud Arts & Crafts Co.
o Shenzhen Haifuxing Trading Co.
o Shenzhen Jiz___ Trade Co.
o Shinlong Home Decor
o Wadou
o Xiamen Leadstar
o Xian Ju Zhong Yuan Arts & Crafts
o Xingcheng Yiwu Kaixing Arts & Crafts
o Yunfei
o Zhejiang Neeo Dwelling house Ornament Co.

Get to Know Bob Stefko

October 15th, 2012 at i:59pm

We recently had the opportunity to interview the talented lensman, Bob Stefko. Relatively new to Gango Editions, Stefko's outstanding images are a treasured addition to our catalog.

Q. What do you come across as the primal appeal to your artwork?

A. Much of my work every bit a photographer certainly has been focused on finding the beauty in both unique and mundane places and situations. As a working editorial photographer for more than a decade I'm challenged every twenty-four hour period to make the best of situations and bring dorsum compelling and marketable images. I believe that I carry this philosophy into my fine fine art piece of work. I merely endeavor to bring out the all-time in any state of affairs, which I believe is also what attracts others who capeesh what I do.

Q. How did you go on the path to condign a professional artist?

A. I've been a professional photographer for about xiii years at present. I grew up in a working grade family without any big ideas of having a career in the arts. However, my male parent loved cameras and in retrospect, I think the photograph issues hit me as early every bit age 7 or 8 while watching him take pictures as a hobby. I simply fell in love with photography and knew it was something I'd do one style or some other. I spent virtually 5 years doing odd jobs after school before deciding I'd merely exist happy as a full time photographer. The fact that I was broke when I made that conclusion just made my drive to exist successful stronger. I got hither 1 day at a time, working long hours and always trying my all-time.

Q. Sometimes art can exist a passion and sometimes it tin be a labor. In what ways does this statement resonate with you lot?

A. I'm often surprised by new images, fifty-fifty now that the days of movie are long gone and we can look at images on the backs of our cameras a second later on pressing the shutter. It's still exciting, surprising or sometimes disappointing to run across what y'all accept simply made. I think many of my favorite images have been ones that accept required the most work and planning to get right. That can hateful beingness in the right identify at the right time, going back to a location once again and once more or whatever number of time intensive elements. The other thing that is often lost on people is the amount of time one spends alone in this career, be it traveling to or from some identify, sitting at a calculator at all hours of the morning or night, or being freezing wet behind a photographic camera in the field.

Q. How practice you proceed your inventiveness flowing? Exercise you have days when it all goes bare? How do yous inspire yourself to create? For those of us who lack an artistic talent, can you lot explicate how you bring your skill, inspiration, and piece of work together?

A. I try to be creative with everything I exercise, non simply photography. Certainly it'southward tougher some days than others and there is a lot of disappointment in both editorial and art work. I try to always go back to the things that brought me into this globe to showtime with, like my love of the unproblematic cute prototype and the idea of existence able to find things that other people tin't meet. On the best days it's the ability, afterwards years of doing this, to somehow transcend the technical aspects of photography and really only permit the creative side be in the moment. It's great to have the ability to instinctually understand the low-cal and the moment, and to have the right lens on the camera for the right limerick. It's so like shooting fish in a barrel to become bogged downwards in techniques and numbers in photography. All the time in my twenty-four hours to day work, I'm approached by people who see me working on either a magazine project or a personal project and desire to talk nigh the newest camera or lens or what not. Not but do I generally not own this thing they want to talk most, but they often know more almost it than I do. Sadly, what I'thousand asked much less near is what I'm really doing, or what I might exist seeing or trying to capture.

Q. What are you working on now? What are your plans for the upcoming year?

A. As I write this I'g very busy shooting editorial piece of work for a number of magazine clients and so I don't take time now for personal work. This last winter, even so, I spent well-nigh two months living out of my small truck traveling and camping throughout the southern and western United states. I oftentimes have extended trips during the winter months since that's a slower fourth dimension for my mag work. I'1000 planning a few weeks of shooting this autumn on the Atlantic coast and and so a few weeks later on this year on the west declension to encompass areas my archive is lite on. Early on next year I'll exist returning to Alaska for two weeks of shooting to capture the northern lights. With the current economy I don't travel as much to faraway places for magazine clients equally I once did. Much of my all-time travel is now self-financed. That being the case, I take to shoot more in Northward America than I would have five or ten years agone. This country has so much to offer, however, that it's e'er a pleasance to shoot and work here. These days ane of my new side projects is making big calibration digital panoramics.

Q. Do you lot have a favorite time of twelvemonth to piece of work on your art? What's your next step?

A. My favorite time to photograph is the autumn for both the color and cooler weather. My next step is to try to go along surviving in this catchy economy and to produce the best work that I can.

My task is certainly unlike every mean solar day; 1 mean solar day I'yard photographing i of the biggest CEOs in the country and the next I'chiliad photographing a garden or some small town in Middle America. No matter where I may be or what I'thou photographing, I'm just glad to be doing the thing I honey.

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New Custom Printing Options

September 21st, 2012 at eleven:22am

At present, in addition to our fantastic selection of photography, you tin can besides order fine art bachelor exclusively as custom prints. Take a look at our wonderful new offerings on our Custom Press Page. All images are available in whatever size you demand them, on paper or sheet.

Simply find an paradigm y'all similar and let u.s. know the dimensions and medium (velvet paper, photo newspaper, matte paper, canvas) and we'll create a custom product to conform your needs. The sky is the limit. Requite us a call at 800-852-3662 for more information and substrate samples.

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