Roe Ethridge.

Roe Ethridge is a photographer who has a lot of change in what he shoots - which I admire.

I really admire the way Ethridge is able to shoot in different conditions/different subject matter. Each image of his is very focused and direct about what he is shooting - a dinner table, a girl smoking marijuana, a diver. 

His website is here, none of his works are favourite images of mine but the diversity of his work is where the interest lies for me. 

Irina Ionesco.

Irinia Ionesco is also a Romanian born French photographer who is most known for her collection 'Eva' which consisted of nude images of her daughter posing in erotic situations - Ionesco had done work like this before but with adult models. 

She has been published in a wide range of books and magazines and you can look at more of her work here, or a google search (particularly if you want to see Eva) works just as well with a Google search. 

Dominique Issermann.

Dominique Issermann is a French photographer who works mainly in fashion and advertising.

I was first attracted to Issermann's use of black and white and how it helps to create drama - both images would work in colour but in grey and white it adds a more serious undertone. 

The work's in colour do highlight some other points of Issermann's work - the use of reflections and light in the images are really prominent (both this one and the top image making use of reflection in one way or another). 

You can look at Issermann's website here, but otherwise just googling Dominique Issermann seems to work as well. 

Jerome Liebling

Jerome Liebling was an American photographer who also worked as a documentary filmmaker. In his lifetime, he recieved many awards for his work, including two Guggenheim fellowships. Liebling enlisted in the U.S. Army during WWII and was deployed to Europe and North Africa. As a result of his military experiences, Liebling became very anti-war in his beliefs.

In 1969, Liebling founded the Photography and Film program for Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and taught there for 20 years.

His photographs are in permanent collections in many museums like the MoMA, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..

Liebling passed away last year, but his website is still active and running.

Shiver Rayfresh

Shiver Rayfresh is a French photographer currently working in Paris who, with his personal work, captures the female body in such a way that questions the debate between being nude and naked.

He also takes Polaroids, retouches photographs, does advertisements and web designs for companies.

Here's his website

Miki Takahashi

Miki Takahashi works out of Tokyo. Her photography on her tumblr is pretty random and show a variety of subjects and objects.

But her photo-manipulation is extraordinary. It's very pretty to look at and has a lot of movement, especially her smoke series.

She doesn't have an official website other than her tumblr, but she has her photographs on sale at Society6

Alan Charlesworth

Based out of PA, most of Charlesworth's work deals with the gay community and sexuality, specifically along the east coast. One of his series, still a work in progress, is called "American Gay Bar" and explores the idea that social networking sites may make these former safe havens for gay and lesbian people obsolete, which explains the absence of people in the work. Here's his website if you're interested (he was also a graphic design major, so the website is super pretty haha).
Unfortunately, his work is super protected and I can't seem to find any more downloadable images than the ones below. But they're all on his website, so check it out.

The next image is from an ongoing project of his called "Brotherhood of Bears" documenting the much neglected group of "big, burly men attracted to other men," otherwise known as "Bears," using photography to raise awareness of a group of socially outcast people. 

Kevin Van Aelst

Aelst was born in New York and grew up in Pennsylvania, he received a B.A. in Psychology and later an MFA in what I assume to be photography. His work is simple--he photographs ordinary objects with imaginative elements in them to convey the extraordinary in everyday ..things, and the power of the mind and inspiration. They're beautifully taken, very clean, and I'm all about that. I also connect deeply with the documentation of normal objects, since I do so much of that myself, and exploring what makes the little things so beautiful and awe-inspiring. Here's his website and I've included his artist statement below.

My artwork is an attempt to reconcile my physical surroundings with the fears, fascinations, curiosities, and daydreams occupying my mind. The photographs and constructions consist of common artifacts, materials, and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged and reassembled into various forms, patterns, and illustrations. The images aim to examine the distance between where my mind wanders to and the material objects that inspire those fixations. Equally important to this work are the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’—the mundane and relatable artifacts of our daily lives, and more mysterious notions of life and existence. This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas. 

Spencer Brown

Spencer Brown is a UK photographer most known for his long exposure work on the southern coastlines of England, I like the more minimal work he does with this. Although I'm usually turned off by this kind of black and white landscapy thing, the use of long exposure gives the water a flattened, smooth effect which is really interesting to me, using the camera as a tool to see/express things differently than they appear to the naked eye. I also just realized how much he's influenced by (or rips off of) b&w photographer Michael Kenna:

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So that's an example of Kenna's work, and here's the newbie Spencer Brown: 

Mario Testino

Mario Testino shoots for vogue and mainly photographs celebrities. Website

Man Ray

Man Ray Shoots B&W film photographs he is considered a master in photography and has shot for VOGUE. Website.

Ellen Rogers

Ellen Rogers shoots in B&W film and hand colors her photographs. Website

Martin Arnold

Martin Arnold graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in Psychology and Art History. He's known primarily as an experimental filmmaker who reworks old found footage--Hassan reminded me of this guy in class today. I cannot stress how much I love his work and it's weird hypnotic quality.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7346135205382749153

"The cinema of Hollywood is a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial, a cinema of repression. There is always something behind that which is being represented, which was not represented. And it is exactly that that is most interesting to consider." Martin Arnold "Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy" - 16mm Film, b&w, 15min., 1998   

 

Thorsten Fleisch

Thorsten Fleisch is an artist who was born in Germany. He began experimenting with super 8 film in high school and continued working in film throughout his career.

This was his first super 8 loop he showed in high school

This is his film called Energie! that was screened at more than 150 film festivals. He used uncontrolled high voltage to expose sheets of photographic paper. It's awesome.

Check out more of his film work on his Vimeo.

Emily Shur

Emily Shur is a photographer living in Los Angeles. Her composition is gorgeous and she has a lovely color scheme throughout all of her images.

She also has amaaaaaaazing celebrity portraits. I mean, it's Ron F**king Swanson.

Check out more of her work here. And look at the celebrity portraits. Seriously. They're awesome.