Jason Agnew_Photographers 3&4

 

            Norihisa Hosaka: Burning Chrome

                                 Norihisa Hosaka is a Japanese photographer that works and shoots within Tokyo. Much of his work is landscape/cityscape photography where he uses long exposures to create surreal effects. In his project Burning Chrome he explores the idea of creating images that look as if a blend of different time periods in Japan. He talks about the obsession with "Cyberpunk Tokyo" and "Near future Tokyo" that was often explored as styles during the 80s and 90s in Japan. However, he sees now that these ideas of what the future would look like feel nostalgic because Tokyo looks different than what people thought it would in the future. He draws upon these stylistic motifs in his work in order to create images where it is very difficult to tell when the photo was taken. It could have been taken this year, ten or twenty years ago, or even fifty years into the future. His work has inspired me a lot and is making me rethink how I want to approach my series project. Because I had a similar idea of expressing the style of Cyberpunk along with what the future may look like and hold in store for us, and the way he executes his work is making me think differently about how I should execute mine. 

http://lenscratch.com/2010/11/norihisa-hosaka/

                    Paolo Ventura: An Invented World

                                        Paolo Ventura is an Italian photographer born in the late sixties. He studied fine arts in school before picking up fashion photography as a job after he graduated. After he worked for some time he decided to get his own studio where he could start doing some more artistic photography. In this time he started to build dioramas and paint murals that he could use within his photographs in order to create a fabricated setting for his photos. This is what would eventually drive him to get a larger studio where he could make larger scaled sets. Most of his work consists of narrative styled portraiture where he uses his fabricated sets and props in order to create scenes for his characters. Ventura's work inspires and resonates with me because that is something similar that I would like to pursue in the artistic direction of my photography. I want to explore narrative/cinematic styled photos that use photo manipulation and digital painting to add to the artistry of the photo and place the photo into an imaginary world. 

http://lenscratch.com/2020/01/paolo-ventura-an-invented-world/

Jason Agnew_Photographers 1&2

Argus Paul Estabrook: Half Eye Half I

             Argus Paul Estabrook is a Korean American photographer that was born in Korea but bounced around between Korea and America throughout his life. He started doing photography as a teenager and it stuck with him from there. His main style of shooting is street photography, but he often uses longer shutter speeds and the flash to create movement and energy in his photos. A lot of his photos are moments captured in a decisive moment of people living their lives in different parts of the East Asia and America. I find his photographs very interesting in the way he is able to create movement with the lower shutter speed as well as embody the chaos crowds of people can create. I relate his work to my own in the way that I too like to use longer shutter speeds while doing portraiture in order to create surrealistic effects. 

            http://lenscratch.com/2023/01/argus-paul-estabrook/

            Madeleine Morlet: I Promise I'll Never Forget

                            Madeleine Morlet a London based photographer who has worked on video and photographic stills for nearly a decade. Her work borders on narrative portraiture with a focus on  a cinematic and romantic style. Her project I Promise I'll Never Forget explores a narrative series about adolescence and the bliss of youth. The coming of age styled series uses very cinematic styles of portraiture and lighting that give a very nostalgic and romantic feel to the images. I want to use this as inspiration for my own work because I want to create images in this narrative style where they give off a cinematic feel and look. 

                        http://lenscratch.com/2019/10/madeleine-morlet/

Christian Lamm_Photographer 3&4

 Akihiko Miyoshi

Akihiko is a Japanese photographer who graduated with a Masters degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Miyoshi is currently an Associate Professor of photography and digital media at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Miyoshi’s work explores the intersection between art and technology most frequently dealing with issues surrounding representation.

LenScratch

Linda Alterwitz

Linda is a Las Vegas-based visual artist utilizing photography, collage, and interactive methods. Her practice focuses on envisioning the unseen rhythms of the human body and our relationship to the natural world. Her current work integrates the authenticity of science and the communicative power of art, sparking dialogue on the intended and unintended consequences of humankind when we separate ourselves from our natural environment.

LenScratch

Madison Moreland_Photographer 3&4

 Amanda Rowan is a photographer who aims to convey what it is like to be within the martriarchy in her series Place Settings. Rowan uses bright imagery, color and multiple props to express ideas of what women have gone through in their lives and how they want to express themselves. 

"I sought to capture the duality of the space. In one sense, a reaction to privilege and aristocracy, and at the same time, a celebration of autonomy in the American Southwest as independent women."

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Farah AlRasheed is an activist who uses photography to show the experiences of Arab women in the United States. Using this medium as a form of communication AlRasheed uses her photos to show reality of a culture that express interest in purity. 

"Through sensuous poses that subvert the religious associations with the veil, the shrouded women are unfettered by expectation – granted anonymity to do as they please. Freedom to express individual desire and independence is a virtue that AlRasheed seeks to express through these images. At the same time, she alludes to a lack of representation that is greater than a simple appeal to seduction or physicality. While living in the United States, AlRasheed observed similarly limited views about femininity. While the two societies appear very culturally dissimilar, she discerned a different kind of “veil” that seemed to box women into stereotypes that were acceptable to society at large. Through her photos, AlRasheed questions the social power structures that exist everywhere, and limit honest and genuine expression of self. By pushing the limits of what’s considered acceptable behavior and shining light on cultural taboos, AlRasheed creates images that deconstruct ideas and beliefs around what femininity really is."

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Julian Robbins_Photogrpahers 3&4

Anastasia Samoylova is a photographer based in Miami, Florida. Her FloodZone photo-series is still an on-going, in which it is shot at her home environment in Miami Beach. What had inspired her to make this series was a category 4 hurricane that hit her area in 2017. The destruction, flooding, and rising of sea-levels are subjects that the photographer hits in her series. It mention in the interview with Anastasia that Florida is known for these situations happening all the time, but there is a lack of preparation when these hurricanes hit, resulting in the same problems occurring often. Through the photos, you can get a sense of the impact that the hurricane had done to the area. 

Flooded Garage, 2017   

Construction in South Beach III, 2018

Diving Pelican, 2018

Concrete Erosion 

Sue Palmer Stone was born and raised in Connecticut. Stone would start using photography as a medium in 2012, where  she studied photography at Silvermine Art School. From 2012 to 2012, she participated in Sandi Haber Fifield’s photography workshops, which were in Connecticut and New York. Stone's photo-series Embodiment : Salvaging a Self is a creative photo/sculpture series that focuses on themes of fragility, loss, and a sense of playfulness. Throughout the pieces that Stone creates, you are able to see a bunch of different litter being used to create a sense of abstraction of a self; something more open, more universal. I thought this idea of the series is similar to what I am doing for the project, which is using trash to create objects/actions out of trash that I use or pick up from outside. 

Elena Harris_Photographer 1&2

Melissa "Bunni" Elian is a Hatian-American journalist based out of Yonkers, NY. Since the beginning of her career in 2013, Bunni has had her work published in numerous prominent news publications including The New York Times, Google, and other such outlets. Her work focuses on social justice and issues of structural inequality, as well as capturing stories from across the African diaspora. Similar to Demenkova, Elian's work is aimed toward showcasing the unique pov of those who often have little to no accurate representation of themselves in the public eye. Many of Bunni's projects also specifically highlight the internal hardships of African American men and women in their daily lives, whilist simultaneously capturing their effort to show up and participate as members of society in the outside world. What I find most interesting about her work is the hyperrealisic feel a large majority of her assignment pieces have to them, almost as if she was utilizing a point and shoot camera to snap the quick, yet intimate moments as they happen in real time.

Generation t.b.d.

Alexandra Demenkova is a Russian-born photographer whose work has been specializing in capturing the daily life of those in Russian provinces since 2004. Alexandra believes that there is a "screen" which seperates the common "civilized" person from reality. This is why she aims to capture "real life". What particularly draws me to her work are her views on the people she photographs, as she states that they live through a particular experience of life unknown to most of her audience. As I am trying to accomplish a similar goal with my work, I thoroughly enjoyed the images she curated and their expression of the humanity present within this marginalized group. 

POKROVKA, NOVOSIBIRSK REGION, 2010

Madison Moreland_Photographer 1&2

Laurence Philomene is a non-binary transgender photographer who uses their experience to express their identity within their images. Within these photos they express their day to day life and emotions going through their transitioning. Their most recent work - which has been exhibited across the world including Canada, Germany, France, and Poland- is titled Pubery and has won many awards. They've written, "Having dedicated my practice to documenting non-binary lives over the last 5 years, Puberty allows me to dig deeper into what it means to reclaim autonomy over our stories as marginalized individuals".















Nadine Boughton is a photographer whose work has been exhibited all across America. In her series The Moddess Woman she aims to tackle the boundaries surrounding menstruation. In this series women are taken from clippings dress in fancy clothing, look elegant and then are placed in areas that may not seem so clean and symbols of women are placed around them. Boughton wrote "These images of women were as far away from the body and bleeding as possible, in a word, “sanitized.” This collage series is meant to reclaim women’s bodies especially in these politically charged times when women’s rights are challenged, and ownership of one’s body is up for “grabs”.

Julian Robbins_Photographer 1&2

Jiayue Yu is an artist from China that uses photography, 3D modeling, and video as her main form of mediums. She was born in Nanjing, China in 1995 and would get her bachelors degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Now based in Shanghai, Yu incorporates elements of literature and her own life experiences that explore close-relationships and emotions. I found her In Retrospective photo series mind-blowing; where Yu places herself in these stage-sets that reflect on the ideas of time, longing, and distance. 

Lighting Up

Strawberry in Winter

Mom

Songs

Lin Zhipeng, also known as (No. 233) was who born in Guangdong, China in 1979, is a photographer and a writer based in Beijing. Graduating from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, he is a big figure of Chinese photography that has been rising in the past decade. His work is a diary of the young generation trying to escape of the high pressures of society and plays with the boundaries of it. The Chinese artists fills his photos with a sense of carefreeness and joyful innocence. I found myself staring at his Flowers and fruit series for quite some time. I love the way 233 uses flowers, the environment, and people to give a sense of freedom, love, and joy all throughout the series. His work reminds me on of one of my favorite photographers, Ren Hang, who I would also check out if you have the time!