Wow, school is school everywhere, its aways a few key individuals who make it happen in the sea of incompetence. Now for the hard part, what elements make an Avotius picture, I could say that the 3 art history classes I took gave me an eye for elements that make up a artists signiture but that would be a copout. First off, your composition is great, you have a way of framing the "ordinary" in a way which makes it interesting. Along that same line, the subject matter is alway striking. Coming from the Northwest, I have to go out of my way to find decay. Your pictures are always...Lush with decay/lived in/finely aged goodness. You also use the full spectrum of light and dark, I like how there is often patches of complete black in your pictures (at least on my monitor 🙂 ) I'm also struck by what must occur behind the camera, your pictures have an intimacy, I figure you either are invisible, do alot of interaction with your subjects, or people in China don't mind having thier picture taken. But the intimacy makes the viewer really feel like thier walking down the street. There are other technical things like sharpness and stuff but those are minor, its the atmosphere that really shows through. I'm not sure if this is much of a critique, if you were writing a history paper I could give you an honest critique with things that you could improve upon, but in the world of photography I can find little fault with your work.
