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”.

Tiara Harris_Photogragher 1&2

Max Foster is a fine arts landscape and nature photographer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work takes him traveling across the USA and abroad, photographing mountains, desert dunes, lush forests, and bodies of water. 

Peter Stewart is a travel and street photographer from Australia. Stewart's images often focus on themes involving a mass scale, with the underlying desire being to showcase the urban sprawl within Asia's megacities.

Jason Agnew_Photographers 5&6

 

            Wilfred Ukpong: Blazing Century 1

                        Wilfred Ukpong is a Nigerian born artist that works out of the UK, France, and Nigeria. He uses multiple mediums in their work like photography, sculpture, music/sound, video, film, and performance. His main focuses are socio-political an environmental issues, he uses community engagement and staged narrative style photographs in order to get his message across. Ukpong's work in Blazing Century 1 appeals to me because of his ability to create a cinematic feel that also feels like it pulls you into a different time and place. His photographs give an uneasy idea of the future that is almost alien instead of familiar. I find his work very inspiring.  

http://lenscratch.com/2022/05/wilfred-ukpong/

                    Jari Poulin: Senses in Animate

                                    Jari Poulin is a photographer with an interesting background that is shown through her photography. With a past in dancing and choreography, you can see how she tries to incorporate movement in her work. In her project, Senses in Animate, she uses multiples exposures of peoples portraits in order to create a surreal and almost ethereal effect of movement in the photos. This inspires me because I have always liked the idea of toying with the technicalities of my camera like long exposures or compositing multiple exposures in order to create interesting and unique effects. 

http://lenscratch.com/2021/10/jari-poulin-senses-in-animate/