Tiara Harris_Photographers 7-10

 Christine Fitzgerald is a photo-based artist from Ottawa, Canada. Her work is “inspired by hidden histories and often deals with the relationship between humans and the natural environment, and the tension that this relationship inevitably creates.”

Allan Salas is a photographer based in San José, Costa Rica. His work is a poetic exploration that revolves around introspection and self-analysis through the themes of mortality, the passage of time, and the relationship between nature and the self.

Dan Bannino is an Italian photographer, who to give new meaning to the phrase “portraits of interior lives”, decided to blend both in his projects, Still Diets – Celebrity Diets as Classical Still Life’s and Neon Vanitas – Last meals of the Famous. Creating a series of photographs of foods from the tables of the rich and famous plated as art historical Baroque and Rococo still life’s.

Mischelle Moy is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She creates brand imagery for small and local businesses in her commercial work and combines digital photography with photo manipulation techniques to depict a vibrant and dreamy yet otherworldly version of the world in her landscape art.

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 Adama Jalloh-

 Adama Jalloh is a London-based portrait and documentary photographer who specializes in highlighting Black beauty through stylized images. Although Jalloh piques my interest in general, I was particularly drawn to a recent exhibition titled "An Ode to Afrosurrealsim." In this body of work, Adama portrayed many scenes, typically involving the use of spiritual iconography. The dream-like posing and costuming of the images were very intriguing to me and offered an effect similar to that of what I am attempting to achieve. 

Noelle Osvald-

Noelle Osvald is a Hungarian visual artist who creates black-and-white portraits with a surreal touch. The images feature shadowy figures in quiet backgrounds to evoke feelings of uncertainty and identity. I particularly enjoy her use of gender-fluid clothing, as she typically dresses her models in flowing cloaks that disguise shape and figure. 

Gaelle Elma-

Gaëlle Elma was born in Haiti and now lives in Montréal. Her work revisits our perceptions of racialized bodies, projecting vulnerability and the gentleness of nature. Her works are authentic portraits that seem to emerge from a suspended world, where the subject is sheltered from external social mechanisms.

Elliott Verdier-

Elliott Verdier is a documentary photographer based in Paris, France. Verdier travels across the world documenting for publications such as The New York Times and others however, he also produces works in this vein of documentary photography that can stand alone as fine art portraits. 

Christian Lamm Photographers 7-10

 Kevin Hoth 

Transforms the process of destruction into a cathartic act initially serving as a coping mechanism to a singular traumatic event, the project explores the inherent fragility and impermanence of life, and our inability to ever truly be prepared for what may come next.

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Sandi Haber Fifield

Sandi uses conflict in her work to recontextualize nature and make beautiful images

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Rembrandt Quiballo 

As image makers and consumers, we don’t tent to think about the digital artifacts we leave behind. Even though the digital image is ubiquitous to the point of becoming taken for granted, it’s continually surprising when it shows wear. It’s an odd combination – the intangible, digital images that exist only on a screen aren’t subject to rips or tears, cracks, or friction, all the same. As more and more of our every day experiences are mediated through screens, it begs the question of what is corrupted 

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Christiane Freser

Is a German artist who uses paper and installation art for her photography, often using cut up prints of her work

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Jason Agnew_Photographers 7-10

 

                Heather Evans Smith : The Heart and The Heavy

                               Heather Evans Smith is a fine art and conceptual portrait photographer from North Carolina. Her work focuses on capturing not only the everyday but whimsical scenes depicting the struggle and reality of women. Her work is often very surreal and cinematic. The cinematic appeal is what really draws me to her work. 

                          http://lenscratch.com/2013/05/heather-evans-smith-heart-and-heavy/

               Kerry Skarbakka: 2011 Excellence in Teaching Award

                                Kerry Skarbakka is a performance based photographer that uses his own physical prowess as he creates fascinating scenes of movement and action in his photographs. His photographs are extremely gripping and awe inspiring in a way. The actions he captures are very strange and inhuman in a way, while still being rooted in reality. The cinematic style and sense of awe or even confusion created by his photographs are very appealing to me. 

                         http://lenscratch.com/2012/10/kerry-skarbakka/

                Aaron Hobson: The Cinemascapist

                                Aaron Hobson is a photographer from Pittsburg that came from a difficult upbringing. Having dropped out of school in the 10th grade as well as getting mixed in with drugs from a young age he didn't have much. It wasn't until his 20s where he picked up a camera and started to use it as a way to escape his situation. The photographs he creates are extremely cinematic in the way he says they are influenced by movies, games, and television. He says the photos he takes are his memories mixed with his imagination and follows themes of fear, sex, abandonment, and curiosity. I find his photos very gripping and moving in their composition and feel. 

                        http://lenscratch.com/2011/05/cinemascapist-aaron-hobson/

Julian Robbins_Photographers 7-10

 Olivia Parker

Olivia Parker is a Wellesley College graduate majoring in Art History. Parker would start to photograph ephemeral constructions around the 1970s. Her work has been in a number of museums like the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and The Hirshhorn Museum. Parker's photography consists of still life images. Her series Vanishing in Plain Sight is a photo series about Parker’s speculations as to what happened in her husband’s mind as he was overcome by the Alzheimer disease. Parker has incorporated her husband's office supplies, his hallucinations, and his fears in the series.

Evelyn Bencicova

Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, is a visual creative specializing in photography and art direction. The artist has an interest in contemporary culture to create a unique aesthetic space in which the conceptual art ties into the visual. Her (an)organic (2016) series are still lifes that have unique content that goes along with a well composed composition.

Lanna Apisukh

Lanna Apisukh is a photographer based in New York City. Lanna is a BA graduate of the University of Washington and would study photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology. During quarantine in 2020, Apisukh made a series called Stay Home Still Life that are still life images of household items, personal healthcare essentials, snacks and trinkets found and photographed in her apartment during the coronavirus. Apisukh says, "The visual study of colorful objects arranged against a plain white background brings into focus the basic products that are in high demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the non-essential items and keepsakes I’ve collected from around the world that have given me travel nostalgia during isolation. 

Cris June

Cris June was born and raised in Germany and has worked in Italy for several years. June mainly shoots street photography, but at times indulges in the other genres of photography. She loves to play with framing and timing. Through the number of color and black and white still life photos that she has taken, June plays with the contents and framing in her images. 

Madison Moreland_Photographer 7-10

Park Young Soon brings attention to Korean Women in her project Mad Women. In this project she identifies how women are affected by societal standards and precieved notions.

"Park creates provocative portraits that strongly emphasize femininity, which has been historically and socially suppressed and considered a taboo topic. The woman’s body is placed at the forefront of her work, raising the issues of social oppression, absurdity, and unbalanced sexual power structure against women’s body and consciousness."

Photos: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/south-korea-week-park-youngsook-mad-womens-project/

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Arielle Gray creates photos related to women of color and non-binary people to show the next/future generation of "Black aspiring artists in honor of Black History Month".

Photos: http://lenscratch.com/2023/02/arielle-gray/

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Samantha Metzner uses a different type of photography to express perceptions of one's self. Using cyanotypes the photgrapher strives to shows the inner person of someone while expressing that what is on the outside isn't all that matters.

"My body of work seeks to explore the mystery of such interactions with the self and the intimate (personal) constructions of meaning which follow. By using mirrors as objects to hold my cyanotypes, I aim to make such interactions more fully realized in an embodied experience, one that brings up questions of conceptualizing about the self in all its complexity. For me, the mirror is inherently an intimate object. It is designed to bring one closer to the self by reflecting the truth, but is in fact fundamentally flawed: there are no true reflections—a mirrored image is always reversed, for example—just as there is no fixed self."

Photos: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/the-human-experience-through-alternative-processes-samantha-metzner/

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Sara J. Winston is an artist who used photography to develop self portraits of herself going through life and her struggle with a chronic illness. 

"As a chronically ill person I have often looked to document the world close to me in order to visualize and contemplate the speculative and erratic nature of my illness, it’s unknown causes, and methods of biomedical intervention I have undergone to quell symptoms. In parenthood my curiosity and concern has evolved as I now wonder about matrilineal inheritance, something that is difficult to anticipate, articulate, or explain in words, or pictures, alone."

Photos: http://lenscratch.com/2020/10/self-portraiture-sara-j-winston/

Tiara Harris_Photographer 3&4

Kimberly Witham is a still-life photographer born in Wakefield, Rhode Island, and currently living and working in High Bridge, NJ. Witham's photographs are strongly influenced by her studies in art history and her interest in the natural world. In her series Of Ripeness and Rot, she uses composition to draw attention to the fragility of the natural world.

Kate Breakey, a native of South Australia, is a visual artist and educator currently based in the desert outside of Tucson, Arizona. Inspired by the noises of the desert, she set out to capture close-up images of animals. Using motion-sensing infrared cameras Breakey presents the viewers with “rare glimpses, of these untamed creatures of the night void of human presence”.