Mark Hartman. Street photographer by Fabiola Barragan

Mark Hartman

                  Founded in the streets of Panama. He took pictures of the streets in Panama because he found them beautiful. He says that he acts as a curator, choosing images he would like to showcase in a bokk someday.

He looks from an anthropological perspective. He noticed themes of information overload, literally “information on top of information.”

He took pictures of billboards that are sometimes hard to find. They might be shredded one day and the next covered with a new poster for weeks. And he has only notices this advertising phenomenon in Panama.

Maria Sardari a Young photograoher by Fabiola Barragan

Maria Sardari

Is a 15 year old girl. She wanted an iPod for Christmas but her mother insisted that she get a camera instead.

She never took photography classes, and never took photography seriously. She devotes herself to take pictures every day for a year and learned as she went along.

She shares her images on Flirk, developed a following online and engaged with people around the world.

Last year, she attended a workshop in New York run by photographer Brooke Shaden, one of her idols.

Recently she sold a print to Greg Silverman, production president of Warner Bros Pictures.

She took dance lessons and art classes when she was younger, but photography came naturally for her, in a way that painting and drawing never did.

Her photos are often inspired by Renaissance art and surrealism. Like Caravaggio and Rembrandt among her influences.

At the beginning she took pictures of herself. Now her friends offer to stand in as models, wearing vintage dresses that she picks up at stores.

Most of her shoots takes place in a forest or fields near her home. After that she pulls the images into Photoshop to enhance the colors and lighting, or to edit out a prop to make it look like the subject is floating in air.

Sheridan O'Neal submits Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell uses multiple negatives to create a photograph which portrays a believable situation. She uses the same model and layers the negatives to have the model interact with itself. She works to explore the intimate relationships within ourselves to question sexuality, gender roles, internal conflicts, irrational and rational, exterior and interior self, motivated and resigned self. I think it is a very interesting way to visually represent all of the internal conflicts that people regularly experience. Its a great way to show how most people explore and discover who they are through questioning, experimentation, and observation. This works is a autobiographical study of the artist’s life and the experiences that she has been through. However, I think everyone can relate to these images in one way or another. They are very intriguing documents.        

Sheridan O'Neal submits Thomas Ruff

All of Ruff’s work has been interpreted to have a deeper commentary on sociocultural. However, he believes his words are focused on aesthetics and process. Some of his photographed subjects include empty domestic interiors, appropriated interplanetary images, pop imagery, abstractions of modernist architecture, and obscured pornography. I think his most interesting series is based on pornography that he produced in 2003. He uses highly sexual images from internet porn then pushes them so far to subdue the palette and diminish the resolution so that the images become only suggestions.The photographs loose all of the implications and innuendos placed on them by society’s crude fascination. They become art and the beauty of the figure instead. The blurring of the photograph creates a painterly aspect and can also be a commentary on society’s obscured view of what sex or the human body should or should not represent.    

Sheridan O'Neal submits Emmet Gowin

Gowin’s first body of work was focused on his family and their interactions with another. Then, he moved to including their environment and their relationship with it as well. He photographed his wife and family as a growth or record of their interactions. In his later work, he photographs landscapes and aerial shots. His aerial shots focused on landscapes that had been damaged by man in someway to show the tension between the beauty of the land and destruction.  I appreciate how interesting the photos of his family are and how the different figures engage with each other and the composition. They create stimulating questions for the viewer of how a family should interact and the feelings that accompany each relationship. Its a common subject but portrayed in a different way. However, I think his images of the landscapes and aerial shots are more successful as a body of work. His photographs create a lot visually through the composition of the lines and textures of the land. They become almost painterly in the abstract forms and movement that is created in the image. 

Lauren Pai Submits Anastasia Cazabon

Love and Rivalry is a series of images created by Anastasia Cazabon about her adolescent years. The artist explains in her work that, "Relationships with other girls are also critical and these friendships are often fleeting yet intense; feelings of love, envy and rivalry pervade adolescent female companionship. These friendships are also marked by polar swings of emotion – one day encompassing cruelty and the next kindness."

I like the way she replicates her memories in her images by using objects that may have been close to her or some one she loves, or that she actually replicates the events that happened in her younger years. the natural lighting and the setting of the old house adorned with old porcelain trinkets and lace covered tables, and the way she composed her subjects to be partially out of the frame. The images are very feminine, but they also carry a violent undertone.  







                                     

http://anastasiacazabon.com/home.html

Melissa Tristan

Bill Schwab
Bill Schwab has been around the art world since he was very young when his father presented him with a gift of photography. He taught himself darkroom skills and took advantage of the curriculum at his high school. He then got his Bachlors in Fine Arts in photography and graphic design. He kept his way in the fine arts but also in commercial as he learned in New York to be able to have a stable financial living.


As I viewed his work, specifically his collodion plates, I admire the thought he puts into them. They are very settle to me and very natural. He seems to play with lighting in a more emotional aspect dealing with an atmospheric composition in these as well as his other art work. Schwab is someone I would definitely recommend as a photographer for inspiration. He has a style that catches my eye making something as simple as the vase containing a feather have such beauty. He creates beautiful landscapes as well in his prints that have such contrast in a deep feel of emotion.


http://www.billschwab.com/archive/collodion_gallery_html/2007/kokopelli_10_28_08.html