Elena Simon Week 6

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/wing-ka-ho-laundry-art

I think that this photo series is an interesting look at "intimate life", namely looking at people's laundry and where they do it. Bringing this domestic task into the light of day, enabling any passerbyer to view what may otherwise be considered private. The size of the cities and its overpopulation has forced its inhabitants to find creative ways to complete their chores effectively. I think that its the setup of this series that intrigues me the most, cotton clothes against an industrial landscape.


https://www.lensculture.com/articles/irina-sadchikova-nata-sopromadze-broken-sea

This photoseries is visually compelling, by double exposing her photographs a new narrative emerges. These are photographs of daily life, intimate life that have come together to express sentiments of a past left behind. It has dreamy elements of a mystical past which is attributed to the double exposure.

Nigel At It Again.

Bill Cunningham.
My first photographer for this week is Bill Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham did fashion photography. Besides his published work he is known for wearing a blue jacket when he goes out to shoot fashion on the street. Street fashion photography was how I first heard of him. I admire the way he brought different fashion styles together and made them relate them. These pictures come from the New York Times, which he shot for for a while. Im shooting fashion and I am drawing inspiration from these especially the one with the shoes.

Olivia Locher
A write up by Grant Gill. I find these shoes interesting due to the isolations and use of light and color. These are photos I could remember. The teeth in the first shot stand out so much it make you wonder whats in the black. This might be the only acceptable black face besides faces that are black. Would this be black body? I find the other photos interesting with their pop of color whether its a bright pop or a pastel or flesh tone pop. The composition is interesting also.

WEEK SIX

http://lenscratch.com/2018/08/photographers-on-photographers-joann-carney-and-fred-zafran/

Fred Zafran is a documentary photographer of ordinary everyday events and aims to explore the world as a metaphor and a map of the inner human landscape. A lot of his work is an observation of city life, random occurrences on city streets, and intimate portraits of random subjects and culture. Overall I like his style of photography a lot and what he decides to capture. I  also think the way he captures light contrast it with shadow with each individual shot only strengthens uniqueness of each photo's composition and only helps further strengthen the theme of what he sets out to capture.

http://lenscratch.com/2018/08/south-africa-week-masixole-feni/

Masixole Feni photo series "Water is Life" explores the issue of clean water,  sanitation services, and safe housing for the residence of Cape Flats a collection of informal settlements, or township areas, that lack the infrastructure of the city’s wealthier neighborhoods. Feni's project extends beyond documenting the issues that affect this community of people. Feni’s project describes conditions in the townships without resorting to sensationalist presentations of the communities,  and this is ever present in how the composition and framing of each individual photo.

Mia-Myline Medina_Lise Sarfati/ Jasmine Gibson_Week #6

Though French-Algerian artist, Lise Sarfati, has taken part in many publications, collections, and exhibitions, not much is shared online about her. Sarfati's photography is classified under Contemporary Portrait photography with implied narratives. I find her photography to have a beautiful combination of Deadpan and Tableau aspects to them. My own work will follow this style as well. I believe the a detailed setting/stage allows the subject to have a greater amount of freedom when it comes to showing emotion- or not showing emotion. The viewer is then able to make subjective interpretations and presumptions of what is happening which may provide a deeper, more profound impact on them.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/03/asx-looking-at-photographs-lise-sarfati.html

https://lisesarfati.com/

https://hyperallergic.com/479841/dont-let-them-see-me-like-this-jasmine-gibson-nightboat-books-2018/

Brooklyn based poet and psychoanalyst, Jasmine Gibson, has written for a variety of publications such as "Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism, Queen Mobs, NON, The Capilano Review and has published a chapbook, Drapetomania (Commune Editions, 2015)." Psychoanalysis, sex, desire, and trauma are all themes within Drapetomania. There is very little information about Gibson on the internet, however, but while poetry is the focus of the book from which these photos were taken, the photos themselves are a great source of inspiration for my own series. The warm, dim lighting draws on a darker mood which is the goal of my photography. I've been stewing on a particular setting and composition that I would like to capture that utilizes Polaroids as a low-key aspect of the story being told, much like these photos in particular and this was the perfect time to stumble upon these images.

Ni6el Thornberry Posts again

This Photographer is Paul Graham. I chose him and this write up for more of the story more than the photos themselves. These photos are interesting in their own type of way, but I did find the lighting really interesting. The write up was discussing photography being easy and it being hard. I enjoyed the perspectives he showed while writing about photography. 

This photographer is the well known Dawoud Bey. I chose the first picture because it was interesting way of grouping these bright colors with some dull colors. The colors caught me along with the scarfs wrapping around the figures. An interesting photo to take while in a store.The second photo was a much more powerful photo due to it being a diptych with a just slightly different pose. The light adds more with just a simple lift of the head. There is emotion present.  

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #6

Blog Post 6

This week my first photographer is John Harrelson. John is an award winning motorsport photographer. He has been in the business of photographing racing for more than 30 years. He started loving racing young at Southside Speedway and Richmond Raceway. He is the official photographer for Richmond Raceway, Darlington Raceway and Homestead Miami Speedway. John was named the Howard O’Reilly Photographer of the Year in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2017. His images have been in Sports Illustrated, Racer, Autoweek and many more. When I looked up the photos by John, I noticed he did a lot of close up face shots, along with your typical race action shots. I found this to be very helpful since I will need to be all up in peoples faces and business to get the images that I am looking for. 

My second photographer is Jon Ferrey. John is an award winning sports photographer based out of Portland Oregon. He travels and photographs for Nike, Adidas and Target. Jon had a series called NASCAR’s Nation of Fans, and it was just the inspiration and style I was looking for heading to the 500!

WEEK FIVE

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/11/review-robert-knoth-antoinette-dejong-poppy-trails-of-afghan-heroin-2012.html

Robert Knoth & Antoinette DeJong Photo Documentary "POPPY": Trails of Afghan Heroine 2012 traces and documents the most recent history of the Opium trade in Afghanistan and describes different trafficking routes throughout the country and how opium impacts millions of people on a global scale. The project was shot and documented over 17 years and spans across 13 different countries. It documented the, and there even a video that documents the length and different locations of this project. The project did a good job of documenting Afghanistan’s poppy fields, foreign realities,  militaries struggle to secure vast borders. Overall I like the project, the composition of each individual photo help reinforce the themes of not only addiction but how some people are dependent on the selling of this illegal drug for daily survival and how they make a livelihood of this plant.

http://www.paradox.nl/project/poppy/#work

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #5

Blog post 5

This week I will be talking about NASCAR photographer Matt Thacker. Matt started photography at the age of 15. He starting photographing NASCAR after college and has been doing it ever since. Matt strives for excellence and has a passion for getting the perfect shot. All of his images seem to fall under that description. Matt’s photography has been in media such as sports illustrated, auto week, and USA today. However I don’t think that I would consider Matt’s photos “the perfect shot” Compared to the other photographers I have written about his images are kind of bland and boring. However it is still good to get an idea of the different ways this can be captured. 

 

The second photographer is Rusty Jarrett. Ever since Rusty attended his first race at the age of 10 at Darlington, he knew that was his primary sport of choice. His interest in photography and NASCAR made this a natural fit for him. He started off shooting at local races. He had his first paid assignment in 1983 at Darlington for the Southern 500. He is a well known figure in NASCAR and the motorsport photogenic community. He tends to find the engineering side of NASCAR interesting, as well as the relationship between drivers and crew. When he is on pit road during the races he considers himself in his element. The vibrancy in his photos are better than Matt’s, however they are just your typical NASCAR photos, nothing really stands out to me.

Elena SImon Week 5

http://flakphoto.com/content/keliy-anderson-staley-hyphen-americans

This photo series looks at Americans whose identities are mixed with that of another "nationality" or ethnicity. The composition of these images are all similarly made, with special attention being made into the development of the negatives themselves. The subjects nearly all hold a similar gaze and these portraitures raise questions about what we are supposed to conclude from a work like this. Who are these people and what exactly are their backgrounds? There is a keen eye for posing and angles in this photo series.



http://flakphoto.com/content/maisie-crow-a-life-alone

Not necessarily simply photography, this video tells a story of an older gentleman and his memories of his own life. He looks at his battle with lonliness after losing his love and companion. This multimedia presentation features the gentleman and photos of his life, all done in black and white. It is a difficult presentation to look at as he experiences a range of emotions as he faces the difficulties of trying to share his story with sadness. I'm not exactly sure what to make of this presentation except that it envokes a visceral emotion from its audience, and I like the multimedia presentation of it all, music, video, photo, and voiceovers.


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KelseyCrawford:WEEK5

  

A Portrait of Love Among the Ruins of Post-Industrial America
Brenda Ann Kenneally

I am excited to have come across this series of photos by Brenda Ann Kenneally, because of the many emotional truths they display. She captures the town of "Collar City" and the poverty stricken community within. Each picture acts as a glimpse into each of the subjects life's with nothing censored. I enjoy the different ways Kenneally shoots different subjects to convey their emotions. I feel really taken back by them looking at her subjects just trying to imagine what they are feeling. In the picture to the top left she uses texture of the screen door to her advantage leaving a nice touch to the image. In the second image I enjoyed the bright colors that seem to contrast the emotion on the little girls face. Overall her images are striking with emotion which attracts me to them. 

  
Photographic Stories of Love and Loss As Performed by Hollywood Stars
Photographer: Caitlin Cronenberg Art Director: Jessica Ennis 

This series is especially interesting to me because of the content, but also the fact that it was not just one person but two people who collaborated to create these images. The two women Caitlin Cronenberg and Jessica Ennis, focused in on the different emotions one feels after a break up or loss of love. An interesting quality is that they used actors for the images subjects. They would sit around coming up with stories and imagined every picture before they were taken. The photos were completely staged, but something about them feels in the moment because of the way one can relate. The lighting is also peculiar in all the images which I adore. I personally find myself connecting the images to certain periods of the break up. For example, the top left feels like they are having "the conversation" the one that leads up to all finalized endings. The image to the right feels like that moment of realization where you almost feel the weight thats being taken from the person. Again I find myself heavily attracted to emotion.

 

Mia-Myline Medina_Cody Bratt/Nina Röder_Week #5

http://www.fractioneditions.com/love-we-leave-behind

https://www.codybratt.com/Overview/thumbs

Inspired by his photoengraver father, San-Francisco based artist, Cody Bratt, began his work in print design before eventually making his way into the photo world. Bratt explains that his work from that point on "largely focused on the rediscovery of things that were once immensely important and  loved, but now seemingly forgotten." Many photos from Love We Leave Behind are landscape shots of seemingly abandoned roads, gas stations, and motels. but also of what we can assume to be the residents of these rented spaces. Bratt's main goal is to portray a feeling or emotion and that is something I wish to get across in my own series. I want convey a sense of anger, loneliness, contempt, and despair in a style more closely following that of deadpan photography.

http://www.fractionmagazine.com/nina-roder

http://www.ninaroeder.de/?/projects/wenn/

Nina Röder, a photographer based in Berlin, Germany, captures helplessness and loss in many of her series such as bath in brilliant green and If You Have to Go You Still Want to Stay. Röder began her work on bath in brilliant green after the death of her father and the strong emotion is not captured within the faces of those involved or blatantly described with imagery that pertains to the events that inspired the work, but it is something that is felt through the images as a whole- the darker, more intense tone of the images convey the message of loss brilliantly. I hope this is something that I will be able to execute in my own series.

WEEK FOUR

http://www.americansuburbx.com/galleries/jamel-shabazz-back-in-the-days-1980s

Jamal Shabazz's photo series "Back in the Days" documents the rise of 1980s hip hop culture and the type of influence it had on young inner city youth. His photo explores the daily lives of young New York City kids and how they would navigate the hustling bustling streets of Harlem before it would become plagued with different gangs, and the crack epidemic that would soon hit the streets in the following years. Through the use of his stellar composition, interesting and unique portraits, and subject matter all help transport you back in time to a  1980s New York, I can honestly say this is one of my favorite photo series by Him. 

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/dario-calmese-harlem-socialite-lana-turner

Lana Turner's, Harlem Socialite photographed by Dario Calmese, consists of a collection of hats, gloves, and other accessories that  Lana Turner owns. Which Inspired this projects, Originally the project would consist of Ms. Turners various hats and gowns she owned and would wear for Sunday service turned into an exploration of about the "construction of identity, and the influence of surroundings and culture has on our self-confidence and self-creation". Overall I like the composition of each individual and the use of black and white over color helps the photos stand out more.