Taylor Quinley Blog Post #10

Daria Khoroshavina is a Russian artist. She used to photograph her friends and fashion portraiture. She describes her cinema graph work as “probably the most challenging thing I’ve ever done.” She talks about how most confuse cinema graphs with gifs, however gifs have a beginning and an end and cinemagraphs seem continuous. “Spotting movement is exciting, unexpected; it makes you search for it and brings some sort of satisfactory and calming feeling.”

https://blog.flixel.com/featured-cinemagraph-artist-daria-khoroshavina/

Perta A Vajger is a fashion design graduate from The Faculty of Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She never really felt like a fashion designer, her passion was GIFS and now cinemagraphs. “I find cinemagraphs interesting because they are freaky and beautiful at the same time and you can watch them forever and ever.” She now works for Fixel. Her work tends to be inspired by fashion, costumes, performers and fairytales. 

https://blog.flixel.com/featured-cinemagraph-artist-petra-svajger/

Nigel Nine

Jack Addis
 Mr. Jack's work caught my eye with the colors used in his work. His work includes some digitally distorted photos. Its kind of a weird vibe but a vibe nonetheless. A vibrant theme of colors always used strategically to distort different types of ways. The fashion in the first photo show the distortion of color and image as to where the face doesn't, but still uses color popping like make up. The second photo is distorted throughout the whole portrait and along with a variety of vibrant colors.

Patrick Darby

    Looking into cinemagraphs I came across two things that peak my interest. Food and photography is what Patrick Darby mixes in his world and career. He is a food photographer that uses cinemagraphs to show food and drinks in a contemporary fashion. Just capturing the hot sizzle of a fresh hot steak or a beautiful flow of a drink being pour can almost access your sense of taste with your sense of sight, These photos/ cinema graphs are next level when advertising food making it an art form also. 

WEEK NINE

Francis Alÿs: Paradox of Praxis 5

https://vimeo.com/150223150

Francis Alys is a Belgian born-Mexico based artists whose works focus on the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. Alÿs kicks a ball of fire in the destroyed urban areas in Mexico City. The Soccer ball on fire remains suspended in the landscape, further politicizing the gesture of a devastated city. The phrase "Sometimes we dream as we live, and sometimes we live as we dream" somewhat offers a critique of how the Mexican government is allowing this community to fall into decay and ultimately leading to its destruction.

Sarah Morris – “AM/PM (Excerpt)” (1999)

https://youtu.be/5axMp4ywzpM

Sarah Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, Morris is both a painter and filmmaker, and her work AM/PM examines Las Vegas famous strip on a daily/nightly bases, portraying the disorienting world of corporate hotels and casinos as the concept of distraction as a conspiracy,  to allure travelers which manipulates and directs the visitor to be captivated by all of the glitz  and glamour as an attempt to keep visitors trapped and never leave the "the sin city".

Mia-Myline Medina_ Liazon Wakest/Dyan Jong _Week #9

Although very little is known about artist, Liazon Wakest, it is apparent that they have racked up nearly 90 million views on the popular GIF sharing app, GIFY. While the content produced varies in style, the majority of Wakest's work is mysterious and dark with a unifying horizontal movement throughout the images. Wakest is placed in the category of "cinematic narratives" which I find suits the content. The images are abstract, yet they tell a story. I'm interested in achieving a narrative for my own work and I find inspiration in the minimalist way in which Wakest creates their work. Simple scenes allow the viewer to focus on the subject matter while it is in motion and I appreciate that.

                                                                                           

https://www.hungertv.com/feature/dark-surrealism-in-gifs-mysterious-visuals-by-liazon-wakest/

Los Angeles based image maker and light installation artist, Dyan Jong, enjoys blurring the line between still and motion imagery. His work with light installation crosses over into his image making, such as this series entitled Neon Lights and Glitter in which Jong utilizes light in a way that emphasizes motion as well as the eerie mood of the images. Jong aims to "explore the narrative possibilities of technology" and that is something I hope to investigate more myself. I hope to continue a darker tone in from my previous series into my current work with my use of heavy shadows and and minimal yet purposeful lighting.

https://www.hungertv.com/feature/neon-nights-and-glitter-immersive-gifs-by-dyan-jong/

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #9

Nicolas Sassoon

Nicolas Sasson uses early computer imaging techniques to render a wide array of forms and figures typically using pixelated patterns, limited color palettes and animation. He focuses on sculptural, material and pictorial qualities of imagery.He uses a moire patterning technique which is the overlap of two images to generate the illusion of third image.






LaTurbo Avedon

LaTurbo Avedon’s work emphasizes the practice of nonphysical identity. Many of the works are research into dimensions deconstructions and explosion of forms. They use Panther Modern, a file based exhibition space that encourages artists to create site specific installations of the internet. 

https://turboavedon.com/portfolio/frontier-study/

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #8

This week my first photographer is Rick Wilson. He is a NASCAR photographer. He mostly does alot of his photography on his own time. As a photographer I think his images are okay, I chose to write about him because he made it a personal project of his own like I have. 

The second photographer I chose to talk about is Christopher Kimball. I chose him because I read his article about photographing NASCAR and what the experience is like. It is interesting to see the images he got and the experience he got out of it. He refers to it as photographing the traveling circus. I found his article more interesting than his photos, so I also am going to attach the link to that below. 

https://www.slrlounge.com/photographing-traveling-circus-nascar-photographers-weekend/

Mia-Myline Medina_Laura Stevens/Jessica Todd Harper_Week #8

English photographer, Laura Stevens graduated with a BA in Art and Designs from Leeds Metropolitan University and went back to school in order to get her MA in Photography from the university of Brighton. Her themes, through portraits and landscape photography, focus primarily on longing, vulnerability, loneliness, and the relationship between man and woman. Another November is the product of love lost and each photo portrays the gradual changes of each emotional stage thereafter. Not only does my series relate to the dark, emotional aspect of Stevens' series, but I have also been working on many stages that follow the same set up or concept as some of the photos here. I strive to portray the same amount of emotion in my own photography as Stevens has here.

Another November

http://lenscratch.com/2014/09/laura-stevens-another-november/

https://www.laurastevens.co.uk/another-november/eoudplfnu4ebzpn58zw7ikg1a5jn33

American photographer, Jessica Todd Harper began her artistic venture as a young child, often copying the great works found in museums. She progressed from crayons, to charcoal, to pastels and eventually moved into the world of photography. Harper's work is inspired by John Singer Sargent and Vermeer, among other artists. Her style is quite painterly in its aesthetic, her lighting is often warm yet soft, and what she tends to focus on most of all is the stage or environment. I hope to be as detail oriented in my own work as Harper is when it comes to her stage. I would like to utilize some of the soft lighting that is seen throughout her series and portray intimacy in it's most raw and vulnerable form- while still, of course, being staged.

The Home Stage

http://lenscratch.com/2014/10/jessica-todd-harper-2/

https://www.jessicatoddharper.com/the-home-stage

WEEK SEVEN

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/priya-ramrakhas-brief-heroic-life-as-a-conflict-photographer-in-africa-and-beyond

Priya Ramrakha was an Indo-Kenyan photojournalist who you could say was one of the first native-born Africans to be given a contract by Life and Time magazines. Often he would capture a lot of ongoing conflicts affecting Africa throughout the 1960s. A lot what he captured in Africa would have to deal with wars, civil unrests, and culture that is relevant to individual regions in Africa. Even though Africa was his major focus, he would also  Photograph important public figures like Kennedy, Malcolm X,  Salvador Dali etc. Though he was a nationally and critically acclaimed photographer he would end up being killed in 1968 while covering the Nigerian Civil War, Ramrakha was killed in an ambush near Owerri in Imo state by Biafran soldiers. Overall I like Ramrakha bodies of work, I like the subjects he likes to cover and I have mad respect for him as well he was a man who lived and died for his art.





http://lenscratch.com/2017/12/housebroken-areca-roe/

In this series, Housebroken the photographer Areca Roe  photographs unusual pets in their domestic environments in a funny and bazaar relationships of people with their non-human companions explores our humanistic desire to be close with animals. In these photographs the autonomy and individuality of the pets are in the foreground, and human presence is minimized. There is also a tension between the apparent wildness of the creature and its tame, mundane surroundings of soft textures and clutter. 

Elena Simon Week 7

http://lenscratch.com/2018/04/harry-flook-beyond-what-is-written/

For this week I decided to look for photographers who have taken a similar route as me on my "Series" project. For my first photographer I discovered Henry Flook, a British photographer who came to America and focused on the looming presence of God. He juxtaposes juxtaposes Houses of God with a population that has turned away from the pulpit as a way to consider a more diverse population. I thought his project was very interesting and I saw his same interest in the signography of the Churches. 



https://www.featureshoot.com/2015/07/inside-the-austere-lifestyle-of-religious-community-in-siberia-who-follow-a-messiah-as-their-spiritual-leader/

Julia Sellmann's documentary photography explores a religion born out of the fall of the Soviet Union called The Church of the Last Testament. She captures this community of followers living in Serbia who sold everything they had to live in wooden houses without modern technology to be closer to their "Messiah" This photo project is an interesting look at the crossections of Religion, Faith, and Spirituality. Her style of photography regarding her subjects is also interesting, deadpan and not looking directly at the camera. They seem to have dreamy or longing gazes, leading the viewer to wonder what they are envisioning.

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #7

This week I will be talking about Harry How. How is a photographer for Getty Images. He photographs mainly sports, but also dabbles in entertainment and news. Harry had no prior photography training. He just practiced hard to produce images that would hold up against his peers. He tends to photograph sports such as golf and soccer. But he did dabble in NASCAR over the years and produced some great images. 

My next photographer is Chris Chrisman. The series I chose to talk about from Chris Chrisman was “NASCAR Night Race” where he turned day into night. They captured high intensity and high speed moments of stock car racing from across the finish line to working in the pit. However they took all of these images during the day but edited them to make them look like a night race. I think this is interesting because you get the detail of the image from it being taken during the day, but the effect of it being night is intriguing. The images almost look as if they are fake, or digitally drawn. 

Mia-Myline Medina_Krzysztof Szczurek / Alec Dawson_Week #7

Mexican-American photographer, Alec Dawson, is entirely self-taught in the field. Having graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Civil Engineering, Dawson's main career is actually as a consulting engineer. Nonetheless, this artist has an impressive Curriculum Vitae (CV)- he has been part of 12 group exhibitions from 2012-2018, provided 12 lectures from 2013-2016, and has been featured in more than 30 articles/magazines since 2009. In his series, Nobody Claps Anymore, Dawson shares his own sense of depression, anxiety, and helplessness through the scenes depicted. His personal philosophy, "Humans are meaning making machines...Furthermore, just like a fish doesn't realize its context is water, we are unaware of the context in which we are experiencing the world," comes through in his work. I chose Dawson for the raw emotions that I felt his work captures. I could sense the helplessness, resentment, discontentment, and longing for something more. I hope to share the same mood in my own body of work.

https://www.lensculture.com/alecdawson

http://www.alecdawson.net/nobody-claps-anymore/

Belgian photographer, Krzysztof Szczurek, does not seem to have much information about himself online. What we do know is that he is a self-taught photographer working out of Belgium. He participated in several small group exhibitions and one solo show back in 2015, and was selected for two photo events, BOZAR's Art Show in Brussels 2018 and Art Truc Troc 2019. His work varies from one project to the next. Some series are colorful while others are black and white, some series are more emotional as with Breaking Point (seen below) and others are straight-forward landscape photography or still-life. In the Breaking Point series, Szczurek focuses on critical moments or turning points in life- returning or departing individuals, a phone call or letter received, etc.- which portrays a melancholy, somewhat darker tone. The low lighting and deadpan style also aid in this feeling. These are techniques that I plan to utilize in my own work in order to have the same effect.  

https://www.lensculture.com/krzysztof-szczurek

https://www.tofrat.eu/breaking-points