the start
Three months ago we started our gallery in the centre of stone town in the oldshop of zac. The idea to start THE BEAUTIFUL EYES as a place to present art photography in Stone town started in may 2008, when three photographers visited zanzibar for a week of photography, they missed a place where they could talk about, present and even buy photography.
the gallery
In september 2008 Hans Agterdenbos one of the three came back to Stone town and started investigations for a gallery. He met his wife to be Zakia Abdullah and they founded THE BEAUTIFUL EYES Company Limited, a place to talk about photography find inspiration and maybe good ideas. and now we can say with prodish voice many visitor fond the way some take a original photograph home others inspiration. But every body left with a good feeling and positive words
the postcards
Our original postcards collection is printed in a small quantity and avail-able only in THE BEAUTIFUL EYES gallery. The new limited collection of ten deferent is now for sale in the gallery. We printed the card A4 and folded to A5. And used quotes to make the emotion complete, famous photographers or great thinkers bring us beautiful words.
“ friends have a way of speaking without words’ and ” it’s not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed“ sebastiao salgado and “ parents hold their children hands a while and there hearts forever”
We have been very careful finding the write word who balance he picture and so become a treasure to send to friends of relatives. Like all ows products also the postcards we working with the hiest quality we can bay in the world.
the photowalk©
When you want to increase your photography and make pretty pictures, not postcards like records of your travels or vacations. THE BEAUTIFUL EYES invite you for a ‘photowalk’ with one of their professional photographers. Seeing and photographing stone town in beautiful light, at the right time and on the right place, what makes this an exciting photo adventure. We will work on cultivating simplicity and making more powerful photography supporting the notion that a photograph is not ‘taken’ but ‘made’. To make a photograph you only need to be aware, open and responsive to the possibilities of the present moment. Our group is limited to only five participant per day, so one by one coaching is possible. Because only a limited number of participants is able to experience this extremely original photographic exercise, early reservation is needed.
Reading this words in our brochure many photographic enthusiast fond the way to our gallery and did he walk with us and we had fun great fun that is what photography most be. We opened a blog for the walkers in stone town to show the world there work made in stone town.
blog: http://stonetownphotowalk.wordpress.com
See what our photographic friends from all over the world made in stone town. We will bring next month also the possibility to work with local models in the walk and practice portrait photography.
Hope to see you soon in our gallery
fine art photography gallery THE BEAUTIFUL EYES 