Phil Borges- Lexi Wilson

 

Phil Borges is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. For 25 years he has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures. Many of His photographs are portraits of these individuals. In his images, everything is gray scale except for the individuals’ skin. He aims to portrait these individuals in a way that shows their stories and culture.

In this time in history, it is important to keep culture and language alive in a society. In Borges images he strives to create an apprehension of the challenges they face.  As he pursues his subjects, he listens to their ways of life. He then tells these groups’ stories in the hopes for a social change.

Eric Lafforgue - Allison Bills

Eric Lafforgue spends most of his time travelling the globe to share his encounters, through the perception of an ethnologist and the heart of an artist, privileging the regions or populations in danger and less usually visited countries. His photographs mainly consist of portraits of the people he's encountered over the various countries. His strong attraction towards capturing in black and white is admirable, while his undoubtedly gifted talent of capturing raw emotion is undeniable. I very much appreciate his attention paid to composition; more specifically his symmetrical way of seeing things.




I actually look up to this photographer very much because it is, in general, what I would kill to do and I find myself very connected to his work.