Photographer List:
Male photographer from Slovenia. Born in 1967, Matej suffered severe injuries including the loss of an arm and an eye whilst playing with friends in an area scattered with old World War II explosives. He sees the art of Photography as a visually expressive method of showing his feelings and emotions, which is why he works a lot of the time with children and adults of mixed abilities and disabilities. I have chosen this photographer as inspiration for 'contrasts' as he explores both disability and ability as a contrast, and the contrast between the real world and the media.
This male photographer was born in Rome, Italy nearly 60 years ago. Edmonto focuses his skill on mostly portraiture and landscape work, exploring the natural beauty of his home country. Whilst his portraiture photography focuses a lot on the dynamics of black and white, his breathtaking landscape work uses the richest and most extravagant colours known to the earth, which is why I have chosen this photographer as an inspiration for 'contrasts'. I love how dramatic his black and white photos appear, showing a high contrast between the shadows and highlights across a person's face. I also love the interesting choice of pastel and bright colours in his landscape work, each time contrasting each other nicely.
This male Lithuanian photographer doesn't like to give much away about his personal life, he simply calls himself a 'great hero' and an 'all beauty and charm lover and guardian'. Looking at his portfolio, he is fascinated by the female body, and says that the less fabric, the more beauty in a woman. I particularly like Zilvinas' photography style - the colours have a certain 'edginess' about them; the setting tends to be quite dark and gloomy, whilst he contrasts the purity and beauty of the female body against them. I particularly like this photo as it contrasts the idea of ability and disability and would make for an interesting 'contrasts' topic.
Horst P. Horst was a German-American fashion and beauty photographer, famous for his works for Vogue Magazine. His photos have a certain elegant aura about them, which has made him one of the most famous photographers for the fashion magazine to date. Some of his photos are so iconic, Madonna even copied some of the poses in her music video for 1990 single, Vogue. I have chosen Horst as an inspirational photographer for my personal project because I feel I can learn a lot about black and white photography from him, looking at how to create something really elegant from such a simple technique. I also feel that I could try to replicate some of his iconic, elegant photos, and put a twist on them to show an extreme contrast between purity and evil/gore?
Paolo is a male fashion photographer, born in Italy, now living in Paris. He has worked with fashion magazines such as Elle and Marie Claire. He started life out as a reporter, but he gradually found a love of fashion photography through his friends who were all also reporters, before he started working for the chief art director at Elle. What I like about Paolo as a contrast photographer is that he captures female beauty in it's finest, but I like the gritty/grundgy edge he gives to photographs which makes them so special and so unique compared to other fashion portraits.
Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer best known for her portraiture, photojournalism and advertising work. Mark focuses most of her work on children, exploring themes such as homelessness, addiction, prostitution etc. often combining the two together as she often captures 'real life' in poorer adn third-world countries. I picked Mary Ellen Mark as a photographer to research because I like the obscurity of the themes of her work, and I believe I can relate this to Contrasts as I too can explore the way younger people are seen to do grown-up things and vice-versa.
- 7. Mohammad Moniruzzaman:
http://500px.com/mmzbd;
http://www.talkativepictures.com/;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bacillus
This Bangladeshi microbiologist-come-photographer loves taking photos which represent the people around him and their lives, whether they be good, quality lives or lives filled with sadness. I really enjoy this exploration of life in Mohammad's work, because it so well represents his culture and would do to contrast with a typical British lifestyle. I also like how well he capture's a performance, and particularly, I love his Holi Festival photographs, because of the high contrast in colour.
Sucheta is an Indian photographer, specializing in photojournalism, after she developed a passion for photographing the problems of human life ever since being a young school student. Ever since, she has worked for an array of Indian Press publications, even starting up her own workshops in her studio for other aspiring photojournalists. I am fascinated by Sucheta's work for many reasons; I like the strong use of colour in the Indian culture, and I also like the variety of human problems she comes across as part of her job. I can take inspiration from these problems and reverse the photographs to form part of my Contrasts personal project.
This particular image has crept up quite a bit whilst researching my topic of Contrasts. This photo was taken by American Commercial/Advertising photographer Mark Laita. Raised by Lithuanian parents in Detroit, they then moved to Chicago when Mark was ten when he began to assist photographers as work experience after high school. He then went on to gain a BA in Photography in College. He has worked with a vast list of clients including Apple, Mercedes-Benz and Adidas. In 2010, he published a book titled 'Created Equal' featuring this photo and other similar images, which is why I chose him as inspiration for my project because I love his creativity in contrasting the human body.
HDR Photography is a popular way to explore the contrast of colour in imaging. Frank C. Grace, known as Trig Photography, focuses a lot of his work on HDR Photography. What I enjoy about HDR Photography is the enhanced use of colour and how the image appears to become a well-detailed painting or drawing. The American photographer, based in Massachusetts, is actually a Textile Chemist by profession, but takes up Photography in his spare time as a hobby.
Yago is a Spanish photography, fine artist and designer. He studied Fine Art in Barcelona, initially setting up his own creative studio and working on projects for companies such as Filmax and Chesterfield International. After six years of doing this, he decided to put this side of his life aside and focus on his Photography work, where he taught in a makeup school, before opening his own studio. He then went on to join the company for the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth, DDT SFX. Ever since he has been combinging his work as a conceptual designer and photographer working on his own series' of photography work, including the 'Zoo Portraits' where he contrasts human and animal life by pairing animals with specific clothing based on their personalities.
Danielle Tunstall is a graphic designer and horror photographer from the UK. She says she likes using a plain background because it allows the viewers to focus all their attention on the subject, and that less is more and in that case you shouldn't have any unnecessary information in photographs. She has a real passion for gore but doesn't aim to shock the viewers, she simply likes to comment on everyday life and the human species through her work. She likes to incorporate the graphic-design part of her life with her photography work, making good use of her excellent and eye-catching Photoshop skills.
Joshua was bron in Kansas, graduating in 1991 with a B.A. in English Literature. After graduating, he found a passion for photography and started working as a photo assistant at Hallmark Cards before starting off as a freelance photographer. In 2008, he found a particular interest in shooting 'Horror photographs', stating that, "horror allows us to express repressed feelings, such as terror and rage." Ever since he launched his work online, he has gained a large number of followers, and a new wake of 'Horror Photographers' have begun to emerge. I like how there is an immediate contrast in horror photography, looking at the state of mind of a young child - innocent and pure - and their biggest, darkest fears.
I was drawn to photographer Rachel as I liked how she contrasted reality and dreams in her work. Rachel was born and raised in Arizona, America, and found an interest for photography when her father gave her a camera for Christmas one year. She followed by learning about B&W developing and the darkroom printing in years at college. She combines her degree in Fine Art Design with her photography, creating mostly conceptual pieces and even working for clients such as Vogue.
Thomas Kettner is a fashion, beauty and portraiture photographer from South Africa. Although eh now lives in Germany, he still frequently visits his home continent for he loves the nature and beauty of Africa for his various shoots. I think it is his use of unique compositions and his interesting take on everyday-life which draws me to his work. I am particulalry fascinated by his fashion and beauty work for his use of intense and dramatic colours and the sheer contrasts between light and dark.
Ashley is an artist and fine art photographer, and she has a special interest in conceptual portraiture, abandoned buildings and moodscapes. Her portfolio has a recurring 'fantasy' theme, and I simply love the contrast between dark gothic colours and scenes with soft, pastel-y clothing and models. Her photographs are certainly very moody, and I love the way each photo tells a story of mixed emotions and feelings.
Bagrad is a conceptual and portraiture photographer from Brussels. There isn't a lot of other information about Bagrad to be found. He created a photography book titled, "Matter Beyond" where he showcases his stunning work and exploration of the human body with intense colours, bright lighting and intriguing textures. What is most important about his work is that he mostly uses black models, which creates for a stunning contrast when he applies the vivd body paint. I also really like his exploration of editing, experimenting with various movements and blurs.
Dave Hill is an American photography, focussing a lot on advertising and the media, as well as filmmaking. With a lot of his work, he uses a HDR filter which gives his images a strong dynamic difference between his work and any other advertiser's. The technique allows for strong contrast between the different colours within the image whilst still keeping all the vital details and textures to create a stunning and eye-catching image. I am also really fascinated by his earlier work with black and white landscapes.
Henrik is originally from Denmark but since taking about Photography he divides his time between London and New York. He mostly works on advertising and editorial photography, but it is his personal exploration of life which captures my attention because I love his contrast of the beauty of the human body with the darkness of society. His deep contrast between natural darkness and extreme lighting causes for an intense look in his photographic work.
I believe Seb Janiak is a photographer from France (indefinite). His work consists mostly of portraiture and landscape work, we he creates a series of projects for himself to prevent him from visiting 'the norm' in photography. With his landscape project, 'The Kingdom' I love his dynamic use of colours, shadows and the overall exposure of the image, allowing for sharp and high-contrast shapes and colours to be formed within the image, such as this sky picture. With his portraiture portfolio, he uses a collection of various colours and lighting effects which draw upon the interesting shapes of the human body and create high visible contrasts.
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