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/