Jordan Tiberio

Jordan Tiberio is a portrait photographer based out of New York City. Website

Marwane Pallas

 

Marwane Pallas is a conceptual fine art photographer based out of France. Website

David Meskhi

David Meskhi is a photographer based out of Georgia (the country, not the state). His photos reflect the war-torn history of Georgia through his series "Unknown Soldiers". See them at his website

Eric White

Eric White is an American artist who graduated from RISD. He draws inspiration for his works, which often depict female subjects, from pre-WW2 art and advertising. check out some of his work on his website

Yusuf Sevincli

Yusuf Sevincli is a photographer who lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Attractive youth getting naked, nature, "randomness," etc. We've seen it all before, but for some reason this is different. The black and white images remind me of a silent film. I'm getting a bit of a Cabinet of Dr. Caligari vibe from the second image, and I really dig it.

You can see more of his work here.

Philip Cheung

Philip Cheung is a Canadian photographer who travels all over the world for his photography, but has found a home in the Middle East. I really like his use of color in his photos. He does a great job at taking everyday activities and subjects and presenting them in a surreal way.

Tod Brody

Tod Brody is probably best known for his Vampire Weekend cover, and the subsequent controversy over it. He's been photographing since he was a young kid on the set of movies where his father worked. I really like the weird colors he works with in his Infrared Ektachrome film shots (the last two shown above)


http://www.todbrodyphoto.com/

David Ostrowski

Ostrowski's drawings are minimalistic, but effective. His use of expressive eyes anchors each of his pieces, making it dynamic around each pair of eyes. In some of his pieces, the eyes are not easily spotted, so when they appear to the viewer the piece gains a new sense of depth. The slight black vignette makes the whole piece pop out as well. 

http://david-ostrowski.com/

Ryan McGinley

I appreciate McGinley for his use of space and neutral tones. Compositionally, most of his images are either faraway wide shots or close-ups of a nude or several nude figures. Each is extremely conceptual as well, as the nude figures exist in a natural environment under extreme circumstances. There is a sort of carefree nature to each of his photos, as if humans exist as animals in their natural habitat. http://ryanmcginley.com/

Irina Werning

I couldn't find much information on Irina Werning's background, but I'm really intrigued by her concept in her Back to the Future series. It not only captures her subjects in a way that shows their background (literally) but is basically a way of recreating a whole bunch of different photo styles.

Irving Penn

http://www.irvingpenn.org/

Irving Penn was an early American photographer who photographed subjects such as Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Georgia O'Keeffe. He developed a unique and new (at the time) style of photographing his subjects on a plain black or grey background. I'm drawn to his simplistic but effective style because of the way he can make his subjects so intriguing despite the straightforward way of capturing them.

Asger Carlsen

I appreciate Carlsen for his surrealist, silly style. The Photoshop, while obviously present, is executed well. Even without the fake legs, the context of his pictures is already silly (a man playing ping-pong in a suit, vacuuming on a stage, etc.) so the Photoshop legs brings the photo to the edge of surrealism. Asger Carlsen was born in 1973 in Denmark, and lives and works in New York. http://www.asgercarlsen.com/

Tim Tadder

Tim Tadder uses water balloons and super duper high speed photography to create "water wigs" on bald guys' heads.

I love how he adds in the brightly colored lights to bring another dimension to the portraits. I also like how he uses different shapes of water balloons to create different 'dos.

Check out more of his work here.

Julian Wolkenstein

Focusing on the idea that people have a "better side" of there face, Julian Wolkenstein edited photographs of his subjects so that their faces would be symmetrical to determine if people really do have a better side.

His photos are so interesting because they bring attention to the lack of symmetry in most people. It's crazy how these images look like they could be of two entirely different people.

See more of his work here.

Sogar

Sogar, also known as Jürgen Heckel, is a sound artist and photographer that also works with video. His sound work is "nonmusical" sound, but there is clear direction with his sounds, mechanical sounding sounds created without a noticeable recognizable origin. Here's his sound work

With his photography, most of his work is of nature.

Most of his nature and animal photographs are here

His official website

Susan Bock

Susan Bock is a photographer that I met this weekend at the Neptune Festival. Her work consists of taking old, historic photographs and hand tinting them with oil. She's from Gum Spring, VA and graduated from VCU. She has had multiple shows, even one in Richmond.

She's a pretty cool lady and really takes pride in what she does. She also takes original photographs herself, but mostly enjoys the hand tinting process and diving arm deep into the local history of Virginia.

Her website