Photographer 7&8

Photographer 7: Duane Michals

     Greta suggested I look up this photographer and I'm glad I did. Duane creates narrative within a series of photos in which I find fascinating. He does this by blending images with text in a format similar to cinematic sequences. I like setting up narratives and playing around with the setting so it was really interesting to see some of his work.

Photographer 8: Billy Hickey

      Since Duane is mostly known for his narrative photography, I wanted my second photographer to be a narrative photographer as well. Billy Hickey is a documentary and conservation photographer and his work focuses on stories that take place where humans and nature collide. I think the lighting and composition really work in his photos and I like the set up. 

Akira Barnes Photographers 7&8

Alejandro Chaskielberg is a photographer from Bueno Aires. Alejandro usually works in documentary photography and has experience with Cinematography. He's become known for creating intriguing compositions that blend art and nature. He was awarded World Photographer in 2011. For his project "NATUR-E" he relocated with his family to live in the Wilderness of Bueno Aires when the pandemic hit, to forge a deeper relationship with nature.

Kate Breakey is a nature photographer from Southern Australia. She has currently based in Tucson Arizona. She is most known for her large hand-colored portraits of birds. For her series "Creatures of Light and Darkness", she focused on using an infrared camera to capture animal's movement at night. For the project, she set the camera up in her backyard at her home in Tucson. 

Anna Reeve _ Photographers 9 & 10

 Mark Wagener 

When I saw his photos, it took me a little bit to comprehend the subject matter of it all; After reading the introduction, which was actually short compared to what I have seen and read, it was nice to have and relate it to his work. His images soon reminded me of the series 'Human of New York' and it summed up what I wanted to capture, however, capturing the opposite. Wagener's introduction to this series makes you really study the images he has to share and grants a look into different places around the world, as well as each individual's culture and how it all relates to each other. 

https://www.artphotoindex.com/api/#photographer/Michael-Wagener/15581

Series: Teachers of the World 

Sara Ferguson 

With an ongoing series to document the differences to captures these communities, Sara Ferguson captures the different entities of what these communities truly expire to outsiders. She captures the feelings and definition of what the place means and shows the differences along the way compared to the other cities and towns she has traveled to. In her introduction, she explains that in some of her images you can see the growth taking place, yet in others, you can see the distancing and the sinking of what the town or city once was. What she has captured, the different feelings and essence of each of the places she has been, and how they have their own separate feelings and story is what I wish to capture.

https://www.artphotoindex.com/api/#photographer/Sara-Ferguson/18622

Series: n/a (as of right now)

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Akira Barnes Photographers 5 & 6

 David Benjamin Sherry is an American Photographer who focuses on American West landscape photography. In his works he seeks to address conversations around queer identity and environmentalism. His works is best known for his colorful landscapes. In his project American Monuments, he explored various unvisited places in the America west and photographed them. He decided to do this after Trump started revoking various land protections. Sherry has to invoke emotions due to his color choices and conversations about the environment. 

Terri Loewenthal is also a landscape photographer based in Oakland. Terri seeks to examine landscape and psyche. In her work Terri create psychescapes that use single exposure that require special optics. Terri refers to the pictures as psychedelics, to experience them is to be free.

 

Carr Knight Photographers 7&8

 Edward Honoker, finally understanding that what was going on with himself was depression, decided to turn it into something tangible. He stated that he hopes his art will inspire others to talk about mental illness and be more accepting of those with it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/edward-honaker-photography-mental-illness_n_55f0759ce4b03784e2777fbb

Janelia Mould, who specializes in surrealism, decided to use it in her series about depression titled Melancholy.  Her aim was to help remove the stigma surrounding the illness. Crafted as self portraits, you can never see her face.

https://mymodernmet.com/depression-photography/

Carr Knight Photographers 5&6

 Anabel Vazquez Rodriquez is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and organizer based somewhere in-between Borikén and Providence. Her artistic production explores the colonial system, otherness, resistance, nostalgia, the galactical and feminist discourse; all derived from her experience as an antillean living in New England. I chose her for this blogger post because her work "Focus on Self-Portairture" is a series of photographs that she took of herself, like mine will be. 

http://lenscratch.com/2020/10/self-portraiture_anabel-vazquez-rodriguez/

Juan Cristóbal Cobo is a Columbian cinematographer and photographer. As an autodidact he allows his years of knowledge in movie making to imbue his photographic work, combining his understanding of light and composition for an appreciation for stories of human interaction. I chose his work for this blog because it his of himself as well. It turned out harder than I expected to find pictures that people have taken of themselves with an actual name attached to them.

http://lenscratch.com/2020/10/self-portraiture-juan-cristobal-cobo/

Dominick_Bellamy Photographers 7 & 8

 For the 7th Photographer I decided to look at Aline Smithson. I chose to do Smithson because she likes working with music photography. So I'm more so looking at her work called Muema were she takes photos of different night life. Most of the photos are from Night Clubs and strobe lights with people dancing. The pictures are very energetic and have decent compositions with the different colored lights and people dancing in mostly the foreground. Using Smithson ideas from Muema, I think I can come up with some more unique looking photos dealing with music. 

For my 8th Photographer I decided to go with Alexander Hielner and his series Welcome Home. I decided that I just wanted to go with something that looked visually pleasing to me. Welcome Home stood out to me because of all of the led lights that pop out due to all the pictures being taken at night. Alexander Hielner is a street photographer who's work usually consists of colored landscapes. These pictures are very pleasing with great composition and very abstract lighting that really works with this series. I think the lighting really makes these pictures. I also like that each picture has what almost looks like a circus camp or carnival stands. All of these elements make for really fun pictures to look at. 

Dominick_Bellamy Photographers 5 & 6

 For my 5th Photographer, I decided to look at Adam Wiseman and his work on Mexican Architectures. He explains that Mexico doesn't really like to follow the basic rules when it comes to architecture. Adam Wiseman does a great job in showing how Mexico likes to be unique when it comes to different architecture. Wiseman's composition along with weird looking architecture of the buildings makes for some really nice photos to look at. Wiseman also does a good job at including what he wants in each picture. Sometimes he only includes the buildings but then other times he will include different landscapes or objects around the structure. 

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/adam-wiseman-arquitectura-libre

For my 6th Photographer, I decided to take a look at Richard Tuschman and his exhibition My Childhood Reassembled. Before talking about this, I would say that this is one of the best exhibitions that have looked at while doing these blogs. The photographs that Richard Tuschman takes are beautiful along with the theme that goes along with it. The thought behind the pictures are basically memories don't die and live with you forever. The compositions along with lighting that Tuschman sets up are amazing and gives off a very nostalgic aura. The pictures make me feel like I'm watching a movie about a family and that's also a compliment to the models in the picture. 

For some reason I couldn't pull any pictures for these Blogs and the pictures won't upload..

https://mychildhoodreassembled.photoeye.com

Alison Miller_Photographers 7&8

 

I came across Jo Ann Callis while browsing articles on Apeture.org.  Her work was featured as part of a exhibition called “Feast for the Eyes.”  The article speaks of the exhibition’s purpose, “Eating is one of the most mundane and profane acts, yet it is also central to our rituals, religions and celebrations.  Food reflects our desires and fantasies; it can stand for sex, be a signal of status, or engage in our politics.”  This reasoning was part of my attraction to doing this concept. 

 The article only featured one of her works, but the color and composition of it peaked my interest to look at her webpage.  The series titled “cheap thrills” features simple compositions with deserts placed on fabric.  Lighting is simple and soft in most.  The textures and folds of the fabrics compliment the subject as well.  I started to pick up on a exoticness to the work as I viewed the gallery…the sexual connection of the work became clearer.  Callis used photography to render the sensual tones and texture of fabric and food (plus other subjects) to explore gender and sexuality. 

 

Jo Ann Callis | Cheap Thrills

Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, Polygon Gallery | Aperture

 

JP Terlizzi’s series titled “The Good Dishes” beautifully combines intricate patterns and unconventional food combinations to create these constructed tablescapes.  He pulls inspiration from classic still-life painting and social conventions for his work to explore the relationship of memories, family, intimacy, and beauty. 

There is so much that intrigued me about this series of work!  The lighting, the compositional placements of the food on the fine china, how it interacts between the pieces and how the background matches the china perfectly (he had it customed made).  The color of the food are rich and beautifully compliment or contrast with the china/background paintings and its placement create a flow that has your eyes exploring the image. My curiosity has me wondering about his technical approach, such as setup vs digital enhancement as well as the symbolic decisions into the choices of food besides the color.

 

 

photo-eye | BLOG: JP Terlizzi | Photographer's Showcase + Conversation

The Good Dishes — JP Terlizzi Photography

Anna Reeve _ Photographers 7 & 8

 Eliot Dudik: Paradise Raod 

What really struck a chord with this artist were the locations that he focused on and what he was looking for. In the article explaining his work, Dudik is described as "to be looking for Arcadia", where you may ask, well by traveling the back roads through the United States. 'To be looking for Arcadia' is described as designating a place of rustic innocence and simple, quiet pleasure. Dudik, being located in Kansas, had to find this place in only what he could drive to and what was around him. I connected with his photographs on a personal level, not only because of the location but of how these photographs were represented. Dudik couldn't change anything, but he changed the way he captured his subject to make it tell what he wanted to say. 

http://lenscratch.com/2017/01/eliot-dudik-paradise-road/

Dan Lopez: Constellation Road 

Being the opposite, compared to what is pictured above, what Lopez has captured in his photos has a questionable aspect to it all. In the description explaining his series, it quotes him saying "I’m interested in the abundant symbolism that can be found in everyday objects". From a student's point of view, it is obvious he is trying to capture a spark in something that could be so simple. I feel as that is a relation to these photographers that I have chosen this week. Lopez shows that there can still be fun and 'abundant symbolism' in random places that may seem normal to others. This is encouraging and inspiring to see that there could be something there and when inspired and pursue it, we could see something different than others.

http://lenscratch.com/2017/09/dan-lopez-constellation-road/