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.
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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
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