Image by Aline Smithson and Tom Chambers
Bronwen has a myriad of series, but I loved her idea of a self-portrait for a day for a whole year. These images from Best of 365 days, represent less than two week's worth of self examination.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Bronwen Hyde
I've been visiting Australian photographer, Bronwen Hyde's website a lot recently. Particularly because we have been assigned to each other for the Collaboration issue of F Stop Magazine, and also because she is such a prolific photographer. I love the idea of collaborating with someone on another continent. I've done this once before for Wallspace Gallery with Tom Chambers and loved the result (see below).
Image by Aline Smithson and Tom Chambers
Bronwen has a myriad of series, but I loved her idea of a self-portrait for a day for a whole year. These images from Best of 365 days, represent less than two week's worth of self examination.
Image by Aline Smithson and Tom Chambers
Bronwen has a myriad of series, but I loved her idea of a self-portrait for a day for a whole year. These images from Best of 365 days, represent less than two week's worth of self examination.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Ben Roberts
Londoner and free lance photographer, Ben Roberts, has a wonderful sensibility that translates throughout his many series. I was particularly drawn to his series, Always. Simple premise, beautiful, rich work:
"Someone once told me that if I wanted to be a photographer I should always have a camera with me. I decided to follow that advice. "
A new body of work, Over Dark Waters, reflects a winter in central Ontario, complete with ice fishing and visual descriptions of a frozen world better seen from afar.
Images from Always
Images from Over Dark Waters
"Someone once told me that if I wanted to be a photographer I should always have a camera with me. I decided to follow that advice. "
A new body of work, Over Dark Waters, reflects a winter in central Ontario, complete with ice fishing and visual descriptions of a frozen world better seen from afar.
Images from Always
Images from Over Dark Waters
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Lisa Jack
Just received these in an e-mail and you will undoubtedly also, but in case you don't, Lisa Jack, a fledgling college photographer asked a particular friend to model for her in 1980, never realizing what history she was creating...
Fred Muram
Fred Muram's work makes me happy. It has that smart simplicity that some of his artistic heroes possess (see below). The follow-through of a simple or slightly absurd idea makes the end product even more fun to see duplicated over and over. Fred grew up in Canada, but was educated in the States, and currently lives in Seattle. He has many unique series and amusing videos on his site. I am featuring two of these: Kissing the Ceiling and I'm Going Baldessari (one of my heroes).
"I want my audience to experience images and video that can be understood within the context of similar experiences that might have occurred within their own lives. As individuals we share so much in common with other people, but we are isolated within our own minds. There is a disconnectedness created between every individual and their surrounding universe that is fundamentally integrated through that person’s ability to accept sensory information and respond with language.
I pattern my work after artists such as John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden and others who incorporate humor, antagonism, and absurdity in their work. Through the use of still photography, video, and sound, I address issues as sexuality, consumption, mass-media, and physical appearance.
The work I create relies not only on my interactions with people, but the exchanges I observe between other people and social groups. These interactions are not limited to people; I have also explored inter-species behavior and how animals react to unfamiliar environments in recent work, and have since come to realize that there are many instances in which we can learn about ourselves by trying to understand the reality of other creatures."
Images from Kissing the Ceiling
Images from I'm Going Baldessari
"I want my audience to experience images and video that can be understood within the context of similar experiences that might have occurred within their own lives. As individuals we share so much in common with other people, but we are isolated within our own minds. There is a disconnectedness created between every individual and their surrounding universe that is fundamentally integrated through that person’s ability to accept sensory information and respond with language.
I pattern my work after artists such as John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden and others who incorporate humor, antagonism, and absurdity in their work. Through the use of still photography, video, and sound, I address issues as sexuality, consumption, mass-media, and physical appearance.
The work I create relies not only on my interactions with people, but the exchanges I observe between other people and social groups. These interactions are not limited to people; I have also explored inter-species behavior and how animals react to unfamiliar environments in recent work, and have since come to realize that there are many instances in which we can learn about ourselves by trying to understand the reality of other creatures."
Images from Kissing the Ceiling
Images from I'm Going Baldessari
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Natalie Young
Continuing to look at Review LA participants
I've known Natalie Young for a number of years and am always happy to see what projects she has up her sleeve. Natalie is a wet darkroom printer and a master of the black and white image. The first featured series, Georgia and Sabine, captures the relationship between her minature dachshunds up close and personal. The quality of intimacy and connection is palatable.
Naltalie's second featured series, The Farm, explores personal identity and cultural history, all captured on a family farm in Kansas over a period of years. This beautiful, evocative work has been tea stained to mute the pallette.
Natalie is represented by Kevin Longino Fine Photographs and is currently part of the Collectable collection through Wallspace Gallery in Seattle.
Images from Georgia and Sabine
Images from The Farm
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I've known Natalie Young for a number of years and am always happy to see what projects she has up her sleeve. Natalie is a wet darkroom printer and a master of the black and white image. The first featured series, Georgia and Sabine, captures the relationship between her minature dachshunds up close and personal. The quality of intimacy and connection is palatable.
Naltalie's second featured series, The Farm, explores personal identity and cultural history, all captured on a family farm in Kansas over a period of years. This beautiful, evocative work has been tea stained to mute the pallette.
Natalie is represented by Kevin Longino Fine Photographs and is currently part of the Collectable collection through Wallspace Gallery in Seattle.
Images from Georgia and Sabine
Images from The Farm
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