The Art Gallery
Erny Kahle
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Although based in the Netherlands Erny Kahle feels the world is his working area. He held his first camera when he was 8 and bought his first professional SLR camera in 1967.Since 2003 he started using the digital technique and became again a professional photographer. Till then he has been occupied in the IT world being responsible for implementing operating systems all over the world for Dutch banks.
In his younger years as a free lance photographer he focussed at travel/culture and portraits. In 1970 he travelled to the Middle East and did a lot of work in Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. Because of his several movements and severe conditions most of his archive was lost.
Nowadays he is specially interested in the Buddhist way of life and so he has been in the countries where Buddhism is the basic of the culture. Myanmar famous for its lovely and naïve people and for the more then 2000 years old pagoda’s is his favourite place. But also countries and regions like Bhutan, Nepal and Ladakh have this sphere where you can work and achieve the most wonderful images In his day to day work (architecture, portraits and weddings) he feels more a reporter involved in and with his subjects. Erny Kahle had several exhibitions and publications about his culture photography.
For his prints Erny uses Innova’s FibaPrint Warmtone Gloss and FibaPrint Ultra Smooth Glosson on an Epson Stylus Pro 7800 printer. The warm colours of the people and their clothes are reproduced in a magnificent way by the Innova IFA-19 paper specific for large formats.
On his blog www.ernykahle.com/blog you will find the latest pictures of his trips to Myanmar and Bhutan. You will find back the colours in the images of the several nuns and monks and their novices in the many monasteries.
Or see website: www.photobalance.nl