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OPEN HOUSE STUDIO   46 Longifolia Street   Paradyskloof  Stellenbosch 7600  Studio Tel. 021 880 2296   E-Mail: ian@oz.net

Open House Studio specializes in Photography, Video, Graphic Design, and Digital Fine Art Printing.

 

A bit about Charles & Ian:

Ian Edelstein was born and schooled in New Hampshire in the New England region of the United States.

He studied art and photography at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

In the early 1990's he spent several years in the former Soviet Union, documenting, among other things, mass- hypnosis treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction.

Following that he churned out work at a photographic lab in Seattle before landing a post as the Official City Photographer of Seattle. There he spent 8 years photographing everything from construction projects from a helicopter to salmon migrations underwater and all sundry in between.

In 2004, he relocated to the Helderberg Region of South Africa and began teaching at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design & Photography and at the Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion Design.

Ian has exhibited his fine art work internationally for more than 15 years.

 

Ian on aerial photography assignment in Washington state

 
 

 

  

Charles Biggs started photography as a schoolboy in the seventies, after which he spent two years at Central Photographic Training in the SAAF, where he learned about the highly technical workd of aerial and reconnaissance photography.

His formal training was at Art School in Port Elizabeth, where he completed a three-year diploma in photography. From there he spent 18 months in Film School in Pretoria, leading to a five-year stint in the film industry. Here he worked as an assistant director and stills photographer on feature films, also directing his own full-length feature. He then took a complete break from the visual arts and went ostrich farming in America and the mixed farming near Graaff Reinet.

Six years ago he moved to Stellenbosch and in 2004 held a very successful exhibition in that town. Apart from freelance wok he has also lectured at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography.