Justin Partain_Photographers 5 & 6

BILL ARMSTRONG

For my fifth photographer I picked Bill Armstrong. Depicted below are images from his series partial appearances. The write up on him stated, "His work sits between the space of reality and dreams, filled with color and nuance. It’s a space of cinematic consideration, leaving the viewer slightly unsettled and at the same time, delighted." I happen to agree with this assessment and love the color interspersed with the ghostly figures in these wonderfully stripped down abstracts.

http://lenscratch.com/2018/04/bill-armstrong-partial-appearances/

DANIEL MCCULLOUGH

For my sixth photographer, I chose Daniel Mccullough. The images below are from the series Interruptions. These images are made through deliberate surface manipulation of large format negatives. Through this series he continuously questions the camera’s role in its authenticity, and blurs the fine line between reality and illusion.

http://lenscratch.com/2018/06/daniel-mccullough-interruptions/

 

Tyarria Duncan _ Blogger 5 & 6

The first photographer I chose was Hannah Altman. Hannah Altman used photographs of her and her family to showcase the emotional and compositional side of motherhood.  She usually shows her photographs through generations by using her own body to capture he overlapping roles. 

 http://lenscratch.com/2021/08/photographers-on-photographers-hannah-altman-in-conversation-with-elinor-carucci/

The second photographer I chose was Daniel Peebles. He definitely did something different that I actually liked. He created a scene with his pictures. He allowed each family to depict how they interact with one another and how they work together. Although they may have different people in each shot it still looked like they were supposed to be there. I actually like this concept a lot more than I thought I would. 

http://lenscratch.com/2019/11/daniel-peebles/

Kweku Asafu-Adjaye Blogger Artist 5 & 6

Kat Bawden is a Chicago-based photographer that mainly focuses on self-portraiture with a focus on the psychology of the mind. Her father seems to have been her main inspiration for being in this subject matter due to him being a trained psychiatrist and psychologist.

Her piece Perceptual Isolation follows similar concepts.

http://lenscratch.com/2020/12/kat-bawden/

Adrienne Defendi is a photographer from the Bay Area of San Francisco, photographs thoughts and memories. The following series titled Relinquish follows ideas of loss, memory, love, and the last days of living. 

http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/adrienne-defendi-relinquish/

Nicholas Clark_Blogger Artist 5&6

          Phil Oh is a street photographer who photographs people outside of fashion shows. A lot of his work was taken in NYC during fashion week and during events. He has a good balance of off-guard photographs and posed ones. The ones where he is catching his subjects off guard are his most successful photographs to me.

https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/phil-ohs-best-street-style-at-new-york-fashion-week-spring-2022

    Garry Winogrand was a street photographer in NYC. He was known for photographing people doing their everyday things. His book These Animals was made up of pictures of people at zoos and the animals there. The way he would compose his photographs and angle them is very different from what I usually like. But the way some of the photographs are crooked adds to the feeling you get while looking at the photos. I also really enjoy the dark blacks and the contrast in his photographs.

https://www.icp.org/search-results/garry%20winogrand/all/all/relevant/5

Victoria_Risbon Photographers 5 & 6

 Oliver Raschka:

http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/oliver-raschka-the-world-aint-enough/

Raschka is a photographer who studies and got a degree in behavioral economics and that can be seen in his photographs which are centered around family and finding identity, commonly in a documentary format. The photos are pulled from his series The World Ain't Enough... and are in black and white like most of the photos he makes. I am attracted to these photos because I enjoy how the light sources look in all these photos and I think the way that he has them posed is interesting to look at. I like the top image the best out of these five,

I think it's fascinating looking around the photo from the little boy to the fire to the back ground lightly lit and then looking back around to figure out what exactly is the little boy doing. Raschka was photographing his sons throughout his photos. The third photo is of the book he published of this series. 

Sylwia Kowalczyk:

http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/sylwia-kowalczyk-lethe/

trompes-oeils: a way of styling or decorating in such a manner that it creates an illusion 

Kowalczyk is a polish photographer who uses optical illusions to "to create an ambiguity about what is real and what isn’t and is always using analogue trompes-oeils to look at memory, identity, fear, illusion and distortion." (http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/sylwia-kowalczyk-lethe/). I really found these interesting as it was something I came across that I was not expecting to see at that moment, I found myself staring at these photos longer than I thought I would. I really enjoy the "ripped image" they have going on, I think that it adds to the character of the photo itself and changes the "put together look" into something a little more interesting versus if they had chose to just blend the images together. My favorite ones of the photos below is the third one down of the woman "facing" herself, I like the composition and I feel like it is very relatable to me from the take away I get from it. 

 

Harrison Parker_Blog 3&4

https://www.artphotoindex.com/api/#photographer/Romina-Ressia/18915 

Romina Ressia is an Argentinian photographer that practices portrait photography. Her one series “How would have been?” is a series that has an influence on technology and the advances today v.s. how everything was made in the past. The series really shows that things in the past were made to the last v.s. Things are being made to be disposed of. I found this series interesting because she has the subjects dressed from the 1800s-to 1900s and has a modern-day object in their hands which adds more curiosity to the portrait.

Wei Leng Tay is a photographer and videographer that is based in Hong Kong and Singapore. His work consists of him interviewing his subjects, and taking their pictures in the place inhabited. His style is using some studio lighting and incorporates the natural light from the room to light the scene.

https://www.artphotoindex.com/api/#photographer/Wei%20Leng-Tay/10169

KwekuAsafuAdjaye Blogger 3&4

Alexey Kljatov

Alexy is a Russian photographer that makes many macro photographs. This is a set of photos from his website. He has been published on NASA, CNN, and Discovery. 

Susan kae Grant

link: http://lenscratch.com/2018/09/susan-kae-grant/

This series titled Night Journey investigates the odd psychological feelings that come up in the night. Night Journey investigates light, shadow, and silhouettes to create a look of what unconscious memory might look like.