Raymundo Torres presents Simon Emmett

Yes a fashion photographer, but with a good cense of light.

His blurry glam photos captured my attention because they show that is is not always necesarry to have a full portrait to show beauty.

http://www.clmus.com/photography/simon-emmett/celebrity

Raymundo Torres Presents-Patricia Aridjis

The taboo of prision life cached my eyes attention by shining a light on "The Black Hours"

Black hours is a photographic essay about women in prison. Loneliness, lesbianism as a way of satisfying affective needs; self punishment and suicide attempts are like gaping wounds in the wrists that cry for help. Drugs to escape reality, maternity, solidarity. Life is limited by watching towers, guards, gates and schedules.''

Very strong and sensitive are the works by Patricia Aridjis. I enjoy her the use of journalistic photography and the crude subject matter.

http://www.fundacionpedromeyer.com/china/paridjis/index.html

Raymundo Torres presents- Cesilia Paredes

I was in the quick conference she gave.

Raymundo Torres Presents- livia Corona

The photographic works by Livia Corona attracted my interest because of childhood memories. In her collection "Enanitos Toreros" she depicts the daily life of these small entertainers.

Also, I am attracted to the "Taboo" aspect of the subject matter. where we

don't particularly pay attention she forces us to look.

http://www.liviacorona.com/#S1,,Enanitos_Toreros

Katy Schmader presents Brenton Hamilton.

On his website Brenton Hamilton states that a lot of his work is influenced by Renaissance painting, human anatomy, astronomy, and botanical. He picks and pulls to created layered images, in this case on top of cyanotypes.

His images are elegant and well thought out. There seems to be a lot of attention put toward how the image is laid out. Each piece is considered. I enjoy the variety of tones that Hamilton brings to his image with the medium.

Hamilton says that he aims to achieve a dream-like image, which he accomplishes well. they are very enjoyable.

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Stephanie Price presents Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti was an italian photographer who lived in mexico most of her adult life. She was the lover of edward weston for a while starting out as his model she learned from him and you can see parallels in their works. The reason i like Tina Modotti so much is her subtle use of lighting and compostition. I can feel a passion from every photograph. For example the first photograph shows the struggle of the everyday woman and her labor. She shows this woman not from the front but shows mostly the full jug on top of this woman shoulders allowing us to imagine the struggle of carrying it. And when she depicts mother and child she crops the mothers face and shows the back of a naked child. These photographs challenge me to take a second look at my own compositions for my personal project.