Elena Simon Week 6

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/wing-ka-ho-laundry-art

I think that this photo series is an interesting look at "intimate life", namely looking at people's laundry and where they do it. Bringing this domestic task into the light of day, enabling any passerbyer to view what may otherwise be considered private. The size of the cities and its overpopulation has forced its inhabitants to find creative ways to complete their chores effectively. I think that its the setup of this series that intrigues me the most, cotton clothes against an industrial landscape.


https://www.lensculture.com/articles/irina-sadchikova-nata-sopromadze-broken-sea

This photoseries is visually compelling, by double exposing her photographs a new narrative emerges. These are photographs of daily life, intimate life that have come together to express sentiments of a past left behind. It has dreamy elements of a mystical past which is attributed to the double exposure.

Nigel At It Again.

Bill Cunningham.
My first photographer for this week is Bill Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham did fashion photography. Besides his published work he is known for wearing a blue jacket when he goes out to shoot fashion on the street. Street fashion photography was how I first heard of him. I admire the way he brought different fashion styles together and made them relate them. These pictures come from the New York Times, which he shot for for a while. Im shooting fashion and I am drawing inspiration from these especially the one with the shoes.

Olivia Locher
A write up by Grant Gill. I find these shoes interesting due to the isolations and use of light and color. These are photos I could remember. The teeth in the first shot stand out so much it make you wonder whats in the black. This might be the only acceptable black face besides faces that are black. Would this be black body? I find the other photos interesting with their pop of color whether its a bright pop or a pastel or flesh tone pop. The composition is interesting also.

WEEK SIX

http://lenscratch.com/2018/08/photographers-on-photographers-joann-carney-and-fred-zafran/

Fred Zafran is a documentary photographer of ordinary everyday events and aims to explore the world as a metaphor and a map of the inner human landscape. A lot of his work is an observation of city life, random occurrences on city streets, and intimate portraits of random subjects and culture. Overall I like his style of photography a lot and what he decides to capture. I  also think the way he captures light contrast it with shadow with each individual shot only strengthens uniqueness of each photo's composition and only helps further strengthen the theme of what he sets out to capture.

http://lenscratch.com/2018/08/south-africa-week-masixole-feni/

Masixole Feni photo series "Water is Life" explores the issue of clean water,  sanitation services, and safe housing for the residence of Cape Flats a collection of informal settlements, or township areas, that lack the infrastructure of the city’s wealthier neighborhoods. Feni's project extends beyond documenting the issues that affect this community of people. Feni’s project describes conditions in the townships without resorting to sensationalist presentations of the communities,  and this is ever present in how the composition and framing of each individual photo.

Mia-Myline Medina_Lise Sarfati/ Jasmine Gibson_Week #6

Though French-Algerian artist, Lise Sarfati, has taken part in many publications, collections, and exhibitions, not much is shared online about her. Sarfati's photography is classified under Contemporary Portrait photography with implied narratives. I find her photography to have a beautiful combination of Deadpan and Tableau aspects to them. My own work will follow this style as well. I believe the a detailed setting/stage allows the subject to have a greater amount of freedom when it comes to showing emotion- or not showing emotion. The viewer is then able to make subjective interpretations and presumptions of what is happening which may provide a deeper, more profound impact on them.

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/03/asx-looking-at-photographs-lise-sarfati.html

https://lisesarfati.com/

https://hyperallergic.com/479841/dont-let-them-see-me-like-this-jasmine-gibson-nightboat-books-2018/

Brooklyn based poet and psychoanalyst, Jasmine Gibson, has written for a variety of publications such as "Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism, Queen Mobs, NON, The Capilano Review and has published a chapbook, Drapetomania (Commune Editions, 2015)." Psychoanalysis, sex, desire, and trauma are all themes within Drapetomania. There is very little information about Gibson on the internet, however, but while poetry is the focus of the book from which these photos were taken, the photos themselves are a great source of inspiration for my own series. The warm, dim lighting draws on a darker mood which is the goal of my photography. I've been stewing on a particular setting and composition that I would like to capture that utilizes Polaroids as a low-key aspect of the story being told, much like these photos in particular and this was the perfect time to stumble upon these images.

Ni6el Thornberry Posts again

This Photographer is Paul Graham. I chose him and this write up for more of the story more than the photos themselves. These photos are interesting in their own type of way, but I did find the lighting really interesting. The write up was discussing photography being easy and it being hard. I enjoyed the perspectives he showed while writing about photography. 

This photographer is the well known Dawoud Bey. I chose the first picture because it was interesting way of grouping these bright colors with some dull colors. The colors caught me along with the scarfs wrapping around the figures. An interesting photo to take while in a store.The second photo was a much more powerful photo due to it being a diptych with a just slightly different pose. The light adds more with just a simple lift of the head. There is emotion present.  

Taylor Quinley Blog Post #6

Blog Post 6

This week my first photographer is John Harrelson. John is an award winning motorsport photographer. He has been in the business of photographing racing for more than 30 years. He started loving racing young at Southside Speedway and Richmond Raceway. He is the official photographer for Richmond Raceway, Darlington Raceway and Homestead Miami Speedway. John was named the Howard O’Reilly Photographer of the Year in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2017. His images have been in Sports Illustrated, Racer, Autoweek and many more. When I looked up the photos by John, I noticed he did a lot of close up face shots, along with your typical race action shots. I found this to be very helpful since I will need to be all up in peoples faces and business to get the images that I am looking for. 

My second photographer is Jon Ferrey. John is an award winning sports photographer based out of Portland Oregon. He travels and photographs for Nike, Adidas and Target. Jon had a series called NASCAR’s Nation of Fans, and it was just the inspiration and style I was looking for heading to the 500!

WEEK FIVE

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/11/review-robert-knoth-antoinette-dejong-poppy-trails-of-afghan-heroin-2012.html

Robert Knoth & Antoinette DeJong Photo Documentary "POPPY": Trails of Afghan Heroine 2012 traces and documents the most recent history of the Opium trade in Afghanistan and describes different trafficking routes throughout the country and how opium impacts millions of people on a global scale. The project was shot and documented over 17 years and spans across 13 different countries. It documented the, and there even a video that documents the length and different locations of this project. The project did a good job of documenting Afghanistan’s poppy fields, foreign realities,  militaries struggle to secure vast borders. Overall I like the project, the composition of each individual photo help reinforce the themes of not only addiction but how some people are dependent on the selling of this illegal drug for daily survival and how they make a livelihood of this plant.

http://www.paradox.nl/project/poppy/#work