Lauren Greenfield

Lauren Greenfield is a photographer and filmmaker. A lot of her work centers around a theme of women and girls and their place in America's now commercial-centered society. In one body of work, called 'Thin', she visited a facility for women with eating disorders and photographed as well as filmed their experiences and struggles. In another series, Kids and Money, she visited children, mostly female, in Los Angeles and photographed and filmed their relationships with money. Lastly, in 'Girl Culture' she visited a variety of women, from 14 year old girls to exotic dancers and documented them as well. The results are very powerful films and photographs that reveal American Culture's effects on different people. I know that we looked at this artist in Georgi's class, but I think that it would be beneficial for Chloe to see as well, considering her final project this semester.

Julia Schauenburg

Julia Schauenburg is a German-born, Australia-based commercial/fine art photographer. This is her series 52 Bunches of Flowers I Bought Myself, in which she buys herself 52 bunches of flowers, one bunch each week, and documents the life, decay, and eventual death of each bunch. The simplicity of the photos really gives focus to the concept, which is a little poignant and very beautiful.

Philippe Calandre

Philippe Calandre, born in Avignon, FR, does these really surreal landscapes; I've never been one to find landscapes particularly interesting, but Calandre's techniques create a very alien world out of the average. His images don't seem to be extremely varied in their composition, but his choice in techniques are some of the most unique I've seen.

Rosie Hardy is quite an interesting portrait photographer. The way she manipulates her photographs is really intriguing. Usually I am not drawn to computer manipulated photographs but her manipulations are done unseemly and not overworked. It is obvious the amount of work she puts into each photograph. Some of her images may be a little overdone but I think her work as a whole is impressive. I like that she lets her photographs stand on their own and they don't necessarily need to be in a series. Her approach to portraiture is definitely unique.

http://www.rosiehardy.com/

Check out her work, its really interesting.

Michael Kamber

http://www.kamberphoto.com/

Michael Kamber is a photojournalist who's work is currently being featured in the New York Times. He tackles some heavy subject matter.

Tina Remiz

Tina Remiz is a London based documentary photographer. She has an academic background in photography and journalism.

this is her site: http://www.tinaremiz.co.uk/

Some of her work that really interests me and relates to my project in a way is "Night Shifts". I tried to google these images to post on her but only a few came up. Her site has a lot more photos on it though.

Jack Davidson

(Not sure what happened to the photographs I uploaded earlier)

Jack Davidson is a (mostly) portrait photographer (he has about nine short films he has on his official website) from the United Kingdom.
His portraits are definitely oddities, bizarre, but I do not always see a consistent effect. This is great because it allows for him to display his ability to vary his photographs/effects and still make them "work." Most of his black and white photographs are kind of weird, creepy, with minimal lighting and/or strong contrast. The subjects themselves are interesting and fun on their own. Sometimes it takes me a second to figure out what is going on in the image and sometimes I just can't figure out how he did some effects.
And then there are some what he calls miscellany work, work that could have been commissioned or that are just... seemingly random. But I'm not complaining. They're odd, some of them edited and mixed media-ed. The two images below in particular just threw me off; I see that as an addition to his dynamic body of work. But I love this lioness image - yes, probably because lions are my favorite animal - partially because it looks so stock-photo-y, so National Geographic compared to the rest of his work.

Takayuki Nakazawa and Hiroshi Manaka

These two photographers worket togeather on a series called "When Gravity Fails" in their Fantasy of Life collection. I think it's really great how they're able to incorperate so much detail in their photographs.

The after TED talk..

So I mentioned this video in class after watching Taryn Simon's presentation..

Know Your Rights

Many of you have asked questions regarding your rights as photographers. Check out THIS LINK for a succinct, easy to read explanation.

Béatrice de Géa

Béatrice de Géa is a New York-based photographer specializing in editorial, documentary, and portrait photography. Her work has been exhibited in major publications like the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

http://www.beadegea.com/

Photographer of the Week: David Galstyan

here's a link to the entire photo series on photographyserved.com:

http://www.photographyserved.com/gallery/triptych/1871075

Alright, so the photographer for the week is David Galstyan. He's from Armenia. He tries to really not lean towards the commerical side of photography, keeping his work free-flowing and tries to "keep honest with my inner world." I like his use of people, putting them in an almost non-human manner. He contorts their bodies to make them look headless or to make them look kind of divine and unusual. The colors are healthy and sickly at the same time (strange light hues, but also rosey reds).

For more photographs by him, go to his main website:

http://www.behance.net/galstyan

Yves Lavallette

Yves Lavallette is a French fashion and editorial photographer. I like how he uses his models a lot; even though he is, technically, being hired to showcase the product, he doesn't stick them in the more generic setting for an ad. He seems to take care in noticing the curves of the human form and how they interact in action and play off the environment.

Lisa Wassmann

I love the way Lisa Wassamann thinks. Her approach to photograph complexes me and intrigues me. A lot of her portraiture I don’t understand how she ends up with the results she does. I can usually grasp how other photographs use different techniques but hers is one of a kind. My best guess would be strange light beams and water spouts. She seems to be in the right place at the right time and is pretty situational. The one photograph with a light beam protruding from a person’s head is just so stunning to me. The light is projecting and it becomes a truly composed and well-thought photograph. She seems to be pretty playful and experimental in her photographs. I think that the fact that her subjects are out of focus and it becomes more about the technique then subject matter really adds depth to her work.

Marius Budu

Marius Budu is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Almost all of what he does are nudes. He also has some projects where he takes his nude photos and combines them at different parts of the body. check him out http://www.mariusbudu.com/

Ulric Collette

Ulric Collette is a (mostly) portrait photographer from France, creating odd tableau (ha!) photographs that are comparable to those of Leibovitz, except his are not as grandeur or crazy as hers. His portfolio feels like it's composed of commissioned work (and the bottom of his site says he is available for that), but there's this too-artsy feel to it as well. One of my favorites/one of the more interesting portraits is this oddity from this portfolio:He also did a series titled, "Disembodied Body," which is, well, as odd as the title would lead you to believe. The few photos on his official site from the series display clothes, some still hanging from the hanger, some crumpled on the ground, with the appropriate body parts sticking out from sleeves.
Shown is his "Genetic Portraits" series, which are, as you can assume, of family members, sliced in half, and sewn back together to compare/contrast them, as well as to show the biological/genetic connection between them.

Daughter/Father

Mother/Daughter
Sister/Sister
Daughter/Mother

Hisham Akira Bharoocha

-I found him off off of a tumblr and I loved his work. I went to his site, and noticed how he was so diverse in his mediums, he seems like he explores art in all forms and is actually very multi-talented. Someday, I hope to do the same. What intrigued me the most was his photoshop collages, I really want to grow and expand into that area of study. I also noticed his work before on a snowboard and so I have always enjoyed his work, but I didn't realize how many things he could do. I really enjoy his photography as well, his portraits remind me of mine, or the area I was trying to go in. He paints, collages, photographs, and makes installations how does he get the time? He is so dedicated to his work, it's inspirational! Love his work, his paintings are ridiculously intriguing. Go to his site. I forgot about his music, it's actually good too, very relaxing.

http://www.hishamb.net/index.html