Artist Research
Aaron Farley
These are not real photographs of real things. The original photographs are of water and clouds and these are photographs of those photographs, turned on their side, moved, reshot, reprinted, cut and folded, and reassembled to create a different scene which still looks familiar. |
Aaron Huey
Huey is widely known for his 3,349 mile, solo walk across America (with his dog Cosmo). The 2002 journey lasted 154 days. There was no media coverage. They walked everystep. Following the walk Huey took a 2 1/2 year hiatus from shooting photos to build an artist in residence program (Hueyhaus), from the ground up, on the Pecos River east of Santa Fe. |
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
The marks range from the formal and professional to the casual and violent. In places coloured dots denote formal editing processes designed to select and emphasize. Elsewhere, ink and sometimes scissors have been used to erase, obscure and deface, highlighting a tension between the desire to expose and the desire to remain hidden.
Key words: History - Belfast - Found photography - Scans - Marks - Expose - Hide
Adam Amengual
Homies is very striking; the unorthodox subjects under studio lighting both captures and confuses the imagination when reading the portraits.
Key words: Portraiture - Gang members - Homies - Tattoos - America - Pride - Crime
Adam Holtzman
“After the unexpected death of my grandfather, I gathered with my family to grieve and to try and put things in order. We began to sort his belongings, going through each room cleaning and packing. After several trips the house became empty of these things that were his. As this process became complete I was struck by the differing voids left as a result. Here was a place, now absent of its occupant, the belongings and life.”
Key words: Familiar - Empty - Space - Memory - Nostalgia - Home
Adam Krawesky
Adam Krawesky started photographing people on the streets of Toronto in the summer of 2002 [..] he asked to photograph them with their hands covering their faces, to assuage his own fear of confrontation and the stranger's suspicion of the lens. [...] What I notice is the truth that comes through from the hands and the postures of the people behind them. The play-acting of hiding reveals more than a common portrait might ever reveal.
Key words: Identity - Fear - Stranger - Hide - Hands - Portrait - Street - Photographer
Alan Ostreicher
The bulk of Alan Ostreicher’s work explores shapes and textures in the context of black/white photography.
Key words: America - Shape - Cars - Tone - Framing - Nostalgia - Iconic - Suburbia - Timeless
The bulk of Alan Ostreicher’s work explores shapes and textures in the context of black/white photography.
Key words: America - Shape - Cars - Tone - Framing - Nostalgia - Iconic - Suburbia - Timeless
Alan Sailer
A normal photographic flash unit gives a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). However Alan's flash unit is much faster than this, and produces a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This allows him to freeze things that are happening extremely fast, and to give us a view of something that otherwise we would never see.
Key words: High Speed Photography - Moment - Freeze - Explosion - Time - Unseen - Destruction
A normal photographic flash unit gives a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). However Alan's flash unit is much faster than this, and produces a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This allows him to freeze things that are happening extremely fast, and to give us a view of something that otherwise we would never see.
Key words: High Speed Photography - Moment - Freeze - Explosion - Time - Unseen - Destruction
Alban Grosdidier
Drowning is a project that talks about the feeling of submersion that you can have living in a big city. There are as many ways of dealing with it that there are people, and therefore there are as many portraits waiting to be done.
Key words: Drowning - Water - Trapped - Alone - Silence - Underneath - Life - Fear - Isolation
Drowning is a project that talks about the feeling of submersion that you can have living in a big city. There are as many ways of dealing with it that there are people, and therefore there are as many portraits waiting to be done.
Key words: Drowning - Water - Trapped - Alone - Silence - Underneath - Life - Fear - Isolation
Alison Brady
“When I conceive my images the questions I ask myself are: What is the state of normality? How can that normality be subverted, perverted, or generally transformed? When does this overcome the real and become psychotic?”
Key words: Normality - Emotions - Desires - Madness - Identity - Fantasy - Unconscious - Neurosis - Anxiety
“When I conceive my images the questions I ask myself are: What is the state of normality? How can that normality be subverted, perverted, or generally transformed? When does this overcome the real and become psychotic?”
Key words: Normality - Emotions - Desires - Madness - Identity - Fantasy - Unconscious - Neurosis - Anxiety
Allen Klosowski http://thebigklosowski.com
Andrea Tese
Clothing, bottles, appliances – relatable objects that serve as the basic accessories of daily life, schematically arranged to form a visual inventory of one man’s possessions. The Inheritance project is an exploration into ideas of legacy, identity, and impermanence, of what we leave behind and how that defines us. At the same time, it is a deeply personal documentation of the artist’s mourning process following the passing of her grandfather.
Clothing, bottles, appliances – relatable objects that serve as the basic accessories of daily life, schematically arranged to form a visual inventory of one man’s possessions. The Inheritance project is an exploration into ideas of legacy, identity, and impermanence, of what we leave behind and how that defines us. At the same time, it is a deeply personal documentation of the artist’s mourning process following the passing of her grandfather.
Andreas Gursky
Bill Armstrong
My unique process of appropriating images and subjecting them to a series of manipulations—photocopying, cutting, painting, re-photographing—transforms the originals and gives them a new meaning in a new context. Extreme blurring makes the edges within the collages disappear, so the photographs appear to be seamless, integrated images. This sleight of hand allows me to conjure a mysterious tromp l'oeil world that hovers between the real and the fantastic. It is a world just beyond our grasp, where place may be suggested, but is never defined, and where the identity of the amorphous figures remains in question. It is a world that might exist in memory, in dreams, or, perhaps, in a parallel universe yet unvisited.
Key words: Montage - Manipulation - Blur - Mystery - Collage - Reality - Figure - Memory - Dreams
Cecilia Paredes
My initial inspiration was the recurrent theme of displacement and relocation. Performance involves nudity one way or the other. The human body is a vehicle to express your thoughts. The series is not about the body though. It’s about location so in this case, the body is part of the space.
Key words: Pattern - Body - Space - Location - Displacement - Camouflage - Disguise - Disappear - Wallpaper - Home
Christophe Jacrot
I like the way rain, snow and “bad weather” awaken a feeling of romantic fiction within me. I see these elements as a fabulous ground for photography, an under-used visual universe with a strong evocative power, and with a richness of subtle lights. This universe escapes most of us, since we are too occupied getting undercover. Man becomes a ghostly silhouette wandering and obeying the hazards of rain or of snow.
Key words: Rain - Weather - City - Window - Glass - Shelter - Water - Distortion - Buildings
Corey Holms These photos are made primarily of food dye, vegetable oil and water.
David Ryle - Steam Portraits
Key words: Portraiture - Glass - Distorted - Steam - Breath - Watching - Trapped - Behind - Emotionless
Denis Darzacq - Floating Bodies frozen
Filippo Minelli
Decontextualization of a violent tool changing quickly the surroundings, creating chaos, blinding the eyes, used in natural landscapes. The result proves that beauty can be found in clashing visions with an approach and aesthetic similar to romanticism. Showing the power of nature with the implication of religious aspects. Juxtaposing violence and beauty as a political statement.
Key words: Explosion - Colour - Landscape - Beauty - Chaos - Smoke - Moment - Juxtapose
Grant Simon Rogers
All of my photographs are daytime pictures. With the aperture ring set to f11-f22 and the shutter speed between 1/500 and 1/2000 of a second, I will get a really dark picture from my cameras in all but the brightest of sunlight. My digital range finder cameras have a small in built flash above the lens, which I then use to illuminate the foreground detail and create definition in the middle ground. This creates the theatrical ‘Day for night.’ The large aperture gives me a wonderful depth of field to play with so that most of my chosen subject is in focus and on overcast days allows for the clouds to become part of the whole composition.
Key words: Light - Flash - Nature - Underneath - Night - Contrast - Angle - Distort
All of my photographs are daytime pictures. With the aperture ring set to f11-f22 and the shutter speed between 1/500 and 1/2000 of a second, I will get a really dark picture from my cameras in all but the brightest of sunlight. My digital range finder cameras have a small in built flash above the lens, which I then use to illuminate the foreground detail and create definition in the middle ground. This creates the theatrical ‘Day for night.’ The large aperture gives me a wonderful depth of field to play with so that most of my chosen subject is in focus and on overcast days allows for the clouds to become part of the whole composition.
Key words: Light - Flash - Nature - Underneath - Night - Contrast - Angle - Distort
Jacob Sutton
Kim Pimmel
I've always been fascinated by lights in the darkness, the ephemeral glow that hovers in your retina after a light has passed, the traces of residual motion, captured one by one by the camera. This series of photographs explores the beauty of light by recording the path of handheld and computer controlled lights during long exposures.
Key words: Light - Beauty - Movement - Glow - Motion - Technology - Exposure - Colour - Space
Laura Makabresku
I always say that there are three things that inspire me: sensitiveness, darkness and death. Pain is inscribed in all of these. Everything is linked with each other inseparably. This is why some of my photos can present sensitiveness and wounds at the same time. Maybe I should say: sensitive wounds? I’m also inspired by forests and loneliness. And also my own past, especially memories from childhood, which are very strong and intense. I often tell stories in my photos which really happened to me when I was a young, little girl, or earlier, when I was getting older and had my first passions.
Key words: Animals - People - Narrative - Portraits - Surreal - Masks - Crime - Pain
Louis Lander Deacon
Louis Lander Deacon is consistently pushing the boundaries through his work of what photography can offer. His following set of photographs, part of his A-Level Fine Art Final Pieces, is full of color and motion.
Key words: Colour - Explosion - Cloud - Portrait - Disguise - Movement - Dust - Smoke
Manon Wethly
Using her iPhone, Manon Wethly has been experimenting with liquids flying against the backdrop of a blue sky. She writes: It is absolutely fascinating to see what kind of shape an object or liquid gets when it is ‘flying’. Clicking at exactly the right second most often brings the most spectacular and surprising results.
Key words: Fast Shutter Speed - Liquid - Random - Moment - Speed - Colour - Time - Frozen - iPhone
Mark Mawson
Aqueous Electreau is a series by British photographer Mark Mawson. The artist specializes in photographing people underwater and, in the past few years, has started to master his experimentations with vibrant underwater liquids. Mawson's inspiration came from watching milk being poured into cups of coffee. Mawson strives to achieve swirls of visually harmonizing patterns in new and captivating palettes of color. Viewers can't help but feel a sense of eeriness as the intertwining blobs rise up from the ground and the suggestion of ghostly figures emerge. The artist says, "I used colors that were very electro, hence the name and the images had a resemblance to 'ectoplasm', ghosts and spirit photography," he adds. The bright, complimentary swirls set against the dark backdrop have an intense energy that lights up each frame.
Key words: Colour - Shape - Underwater - Ink - Form - Surreal - Liquid - Energy - Foreign - Organic
Moneyless
Moneyless creates the next level of what the Spanish La Pluma Eléctri*kstreet art crew calls Spider Tags: Two and three dimensional abstract installations made of cotton threads combined with geometrically paintings. The results are often impressing, especially when the installations look like wafting through the air…
Key words: 3D - Textiles - Graffiti - Shape - Geometric - Depth - Space -Thread - Abstract - Nature - Suspended
PoL Úbeda Hervàs
“How do we accept that we are changing? How do we accept to see ourselves in a situation in which we can’t recognize ourselves? I’m not reacting the same way I used to do in some situations. I surprise myself, I don’t recognize myself any more. These photos express this feeling. I keep the shadow in the photo but I erase my body, because I still don’t know who I am. But I keep the shoes to make sure there’s more than a simple shadow.”
Key words: Presence - Shadows - People - Shoes - Feeling - Body - Unknown - Missing - Photoshop
Rolf Aamot
Rolf Aamot born in Norwegian bergen September 28, 1934 is a famous painter. Since the 1950s Aamot has been a worker within the field of electronic painting. Much of his work consists of creating electronic tonal images and thus his work contains elements of photography but is hard to pigeon hole. It is frequently a form of performance art with abstract photographic elements.
Key words: Digital painting - Colour - Abstract - Mood - Electronic - Tone - Hue - Light - Movement
Ryan Hopkinson
Tornadoes have always fascinated me and this got me thinking about ways of taking weather elements out of context and bringing them within a controlled environment and ultimately into my own work. We managed to create twenty tornadoes, each around 4ft in height all with their own personalities and weight. The delicate nature of our creations was a big juxtaposition in many ways between natures own, but being able to create one and see it up close, regardless of its size and power was mesmerising.
Key words: Weather - Tornado - Natural - Man-made - Colour - Movement - Micro - Macro
Tina Crespo
The complex relationship between the natural world and the freedom it admits us is simpler here, but still memorable and profound. Nature is a recurrent theme, it seems, of her photography, and she turns it masterfully to beautiful and dark purposes in images such as ‘Dark Forest’ and ‘Salt Water Cure’ as well.
Key words: Nature - Text - Space - Vignette - Quotes - Thought - Dreams - Landscape - Circle - Window
Will Nolan
Sometimes a simple concept can pack a powerful punch. Such is the case with these elegantly minimal photographs of melted popsicles by Australian photographer Will Nolan. Each piece is a meditation on the fragility of life and a reminder of the everyday delights (such as ice cream!) that we often take for granted.
Key words: Ice Cream - Melt - Food - Minimal - Simple - Colour - Fragility - Life and Death - Childhood