BCM - Artist 14 - Niel Tolman

I hope none other of you have indulged in the joy and ultimate time suck that is Reddit as much as me. I really know so many useless things and waste so much time there, but I sometimes find awesome things that I love. This digital painting by Guweiz showed up on www.reddit.com/r/art.

Then an artist named Niel Tolman used Blender to create a digital motion art piece which animated the original painting. It loops perfectly and has a really great mood.

What I also love about this work is how strangers on the internet viewed and were inspired by each other without any traditional media or institutions of art that were the gate keepers of the past.

BCM - Artist 13 - Terje Sorgjerd

I ran into Terje Sorgjerd when I was experimenting with commercial film making in 2011. His motor slider timelapse videos were really exquisite and made a big splash in the Vimeo community which was the epicenter of the new wave of DSLR film makers. He gets original music written for each of his videos, uses multiple cameras and long hours to capture the long transitions of light an earth. His technique on motion sliding and bulb ramping were top notch and I highly recommend watching all four of his videos.

The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

The Arctic Light from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

Jeff Rich - French Broad River

The many photos by Rich are captured in documentary style of the French Broad River that runs through North Carolina and Tennessee. As if the water had a life of it's own, sometimes beautiful and serine, other times industrial, and often abused. Rich does a great job with images by capturing a wide variety; bridges, a waterfall, streaming through small towns, etc. He  includes people in some of his images that there to depict the waters use and abuse by mankind.  He captures the surroundings of the river, sometimes natural and other times urban.  This body of work is both lovely and informative. 

Eirik Johnson / Interview

Found in Flak Photo


Portraits of Tattered Fringe is the title of tow collections of work by Johnson, on Camps and Cabins.
lOne body of work is taken in the wilderness of Oregon and the other in Alaska. Johnson captures images of makeshift dwellings built by seasonal mushroom hunters and wildlife hunters. The article is an interview and only two photos are shown.  My curiosity is peaked to see the rest of the work which is currently on display.

Johnson states that he tries to tell a story with his photographs. He has a special interest in the people who are of American mix or Southeastern Asia or sometimes Mexican migrant workers and the architecture that they create.  The forest which always looks the same is speckled with camps that spring up, inhabited for a few months and then abandoned.  The camps or cabin are made with materials that are at hand, tree branches, twine, plastic tarps,  and are made to be temporary however are there for decades.

Johnson is also the owner of a gallery in Seattle.

Time Lapse Snow In NY

The Time magazine reached out to two videographers to create a video of the recent snow storm, the article was named Winter Storm Stella.  Since we are looking about "new" media for photographers, I thought to blog about it.  I found it on the Times link. .Devon Yelkin and Tommy Malano took different approaches and them combined their efforts.  One captured the storm and it's managing energy, while the other concentrated on the joys of snow in Central Park. Time lapse photography was used and a video was created.    Note: Since it was video, I could not capture images for the sake of this blog.  

Michael Mccoy - army veteran.

Michael Mccoy, is an army veteran that served two tours in Iraq and time at Walter Reed Hospital.  He suffers from PTSD and uses his photography as therapy.   Since he is from Baltimore, he was present to shoot some images of the riots that began over Freddie Gray death.  His photography got him noticed by Time magazine who featured him online.  I enjoyed his powerful images.

Katelyn Curtis Post 8

        

     PHOTOS IMAGINE TRUMP AS AN IMMIGRANT

Veronica Gabriela Cardenas

By: Katelyn Curtis

            Veronica Gabriela Cardenas is an artist who wanted to tell the story of the United States undocumented immigrants under the Trump Presidency; but also humanizing their experience and expressing their anxieties. She had a lot of resistance and a lot of the people didn't even want to see or touch the mask due to its symbolic meaning and representation. The people that did agree to help, Cardenas made sure to take care to not show any tattoos or markings that could identify the individual; it is also important to point out that not every individual in the photos are undocumented immigrants. Cardenas also traveled to Mexico to have people participate who once dreamed of living in the United States so that their families would have better opportunities for a future. 

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When Cardenas approached one man with the idea, he responded, “Fuck it, I’m getting deported anyways. I’ll wear it.”

Since making the work, the photographer has had at least one friend tell her to “stay away from politics” and “respect your president.” But A Trump isn’t about disrespect; in fact, the photographer went to great lengths to execute the project in a way that was compassionate and dignified. She knows some people won’t love the work, and she can live with that.

“I wanted to give a voice to those that struggle to be heard,” she says. The concept might be unconventional, but that’s exactly what she’s done.

Jennifer Armstrong - Week 7

The Photographer Who Stalked a Serial Killer
http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/03/photographer-stalked-serial-killer/

Photographer Jesse Rieser, wanted to document the small neighborhood in Phoenix after a shooter has make victims of random people during shooting events. The town was already know for high crime and immigrants. His photographs have a weird feeling to them almost "chilling" like, there is a sense of calmness. The killer has yet to be identified in this case.

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t Miss Eggleston’s ‘Los Alamos’ on View at Foam in Amsterdam

http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/03/dont-miss-egglestons-los-alamos-on-view-at-foam-in-amsterdam/

 

 



 

William Eggleston started this series in 1996, he didn't publish any of his work till 2003. He shot all the photos while traveling in the south. His photos have a vintage feel to them not just cause of the clothes or the peoples style.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mollie Schaidt Week 6

Jim Goldberg
The Last Son
2016

This is spreads/images in Jim Goldberg's 2nd photo book in a 3-part personal series. Goldberg uses assemblage, found objects of his past to bring in and use with his images. "Presented in the form of a Marquette pasted up with typewritten texts, handwritten notes, frames from home movies, and contact-sheet photographs marked with grease pencil, Son is rough and fragmentary, less a narrative than a series of memories, incidents, and impressions." I personally love every single work that this artist produces, and it never ceases to amaze me. I find similarities in how we work with objects of our past, and using what we have to tell a story. The whole idea of being transparent gives a sense of intimacy within work I believe. I also feel like working this way I can convey a story with complete control, and comfort in dealing with familiar things. I find beauty in what on the outside seems ugly, dirty, or rough around the edges. I can work with physical objects and create something with my hands which sometimes I feel photography lacks for me, so I try to bring in sculptural elements within an image. I sometimes found that hard to do just because of being caught in guidelines of "what your suppose to do" and "what photographs are suppose to look like".  I feel it isn't always about how an image looks but what is within the image. The artist makes a photograph for a particular reason and it is up the viewer to interpret. 


Liz Steketee
Reconstructing the Portrait

Liz Steketee examines the construction of family, memories, and truth within her work. Steketee reconstructs images to reality as she sees it. These images are interesting that using needle and thread to piece them together, and that is really what she is doing piecing together realities. I start to try to make sense of certain, and wanting to know why she eliminated people, or parts of people. I wonder why she is piecing two different people together, I just wonder what is the meaning behind the image.

Mollie Schaidt Week 5

Julie Cockburn
Filling in the Crack with Ceiling Wax
2009-2010

Julie Cockburn uses found images that she manipulates and embellishes, Cockburn feels she is rescuing these images even. The defacement of these photos I find fascinating sculpting into what the artist thinks as beautiful. Cockburn changes the images how she believes they need to be seen. Removing the blemishes and even embellishing (adding beauty). 

MJR
Collection 100/ A History
2013

These photographs I can't say I like them, but I do like the feeling they give me. They are obviously personal photos kinda remind me of just snapshots of a moment to remember. I really enjoyed what the artist said about personal photography, and how we need to stop devaluing a photography based if it doesn't fit into the framework of the creative industry. How can we judge a photo and its importance in a world that we won't always be apart of. To stop trying to make photographs important by having a reasoning behind them, and it is okay to not know what your work is about sometimes. "We forget that the passage of time always finds a way distill in our present,  our manic confusion, into a series of events, illustrated and proven by the documents we leave behind."