Mary Morris Weekly Post

Edith Maybin

Edith Maybin is a photographer based in Wales. She won Freelance Photographer of the Year in 2006. Maybin typically photographs her daughter. She has her daughter display specific emotions and her photographs captures a variety of feelings. Her photos are done in color and she typically has lighter photos. Her composition is usually simplistic with most photographs being her daughter. Maybin also pays close attention to lighting and how it lights her subjects. The photos above are from her collection "The Tenby Document."

The Tenby Document is a collection of works that portray Maybin and her daughter. According to the artist statement, it is supposed to represent mother daughter relationships. She had herself and her daughter dress up in a specific brand of lingerie to mimic the brand the photographer's mother wore. Her photographs represent how daughters are a reflection on mothers in how they behave. For example, the last photograph shows her daughter looking posed and mature. Yet, the one above that has her daughter looking at her mother's body in an envious way. This series shows the variety of emotions daughters might have towards mothers and vice versa.

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Heidi Leverty

     Heidi lives in Toronto but was born in Merino, Italy.  She uses her camera as a way to voice her view of the world, her first two series explored life and people while her current one she shows the life cycle through recycled objects. Heidi's work is featured internationally in magazines and galleries, she has also represented Canada in the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

     Outbox, her current series focuses on the life cycle of everyday objects, more specifically the process of going from trash to recycled.  She takes things without value and shows the viewer the beauty and uniqueness in them. The composition and number of the objects turn common trash into something with form.

     

Adam H. Plecker

Adam was born in Virginia in 1840, He opened a studio in Lynchburg in 1877, and was for many years the community's leading photographer. Today he is known best for his collection of portraits of Confederate Army officers, many of which are on permanent exhibition at the Valentine Museum in Richmond. In 1866, Plecker photographed Robert E. Lee astride his horse Traveller, and the portrait was on a penny post card. 

These photographs really really are enticing. The choices made (depth of field) is just amazing. Some may view these as boring but I see so much craftsmanship. I think of the whole idea of actually "Making" photographs versus taking them. Just look at each one for more than 30 seconds and write down what you feel, see,etc... It is awesome

Robert Lamb weekly Post #13

     Mosa’ab Elshamy is an Egyptian photographer from Cairo. He mainly covers daily news stories and documentary projects as well. In 2011 during the Egyptian revolt against Mubarak, Elshamy had a shift of focus while in college changing his degree from Pharmacy to Photojournalism, which is now his career. He became well-known due to his wide coverage of the Egyptian Revolution. His work has been published in many different publications such as The New York Times, TIME Magazine, and Rolling Stone. As for his camera equipment he uses the canon EOS 60D with a 24mm f1.4, and 50mm f1.8 lens.

     The three images above are from his News Coverage Portfolios “The fall of Rabaa” and The Aftermath of Mubarak (Jan 2011- June 2012)” Each image tells a very strong narrative/ story behind it. And it is unfortunate that events such as these happen, even though some truly impactful images are produced from it. Each image holds a certain level of chaos, displaying humans “in today’s terms” in an un-thinkable and barbaric way. Killing one another for the gain of what? Yet it’s who we are, violent be nature when diplomacy fails at its highest level. And too often it’s the innocent who suffer the most. All of these things ca be gathered and assumed from these pictures, but they are only opinions. That’s what I find interesting in Elshamy’s photography, his images are raw and uncut, yet it’s up to you to decide what you want take from it.  

Weekly Post Jada Street

Daniel Arnold

Daniel Arnold is 34 years old and was born in Milwaukee. He now lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where he shares an apartment with two roommates and a cat. He is now known as an Instagram Street photographer. However, the above photos do not reflect that.

This portfolio is called When to Say Nothing. Arnold creates moments of curiosity and drama. In the pictures above, he makes pictures with the subject's back facing him. This creates moments of curiosity. He also captures these moments of phenomena where a man's head is missing and a man's body is levitating. He captures moments where it makes me feel like he should be trying to help the subject but instead, he is letting them suffer and take a picture of it. 

Emily Miah-Weekly Post #13

Zhang Jingna

Zhang Jingna was born in 1988 in Beijing. She moved to New York when she became older and now lives and works there. She was first majoring in fashion, but found her interest in photography as a hobby at the age of eighteen. In 2008, she decided to fully commit herself into photography. 

Zhang Jingna bases most of her work on portraits. In her latest series, she often takes portraits of women in an almost fantasy-like world. They are wearing outfits to fit their surroundings and it almost seems like there is a story behind every picture. The picture draws the viewer in rather than making them feel bored looking at it. Looking at these photos can make someone wonder what might have been happening during this scene rather than a scene that looks like all the other photos in the world of portraits. Zhang must have put a lot of effort in creating pictures with such "story-lines." 

Hailey Porth weekly post

Tyrone Turner

This is just a selection from the talented Tyrone Turner. I am so incredibly inspired by they way he views things. His switch portraits that are viewed above are unlike i have ever seen. He is amazing at the depth of field and also placing the photos exactly where they need to be. With these photos the sense of depth is amazing. Also the color in them literally jumps off the page.

He also has another series that he took of the oil spill in the Atlantic Ocean. All of those are also amazing. When you look at them I get lost in what is what. I think it does a great job of depicting what happened and what a horrific thing it was. Not living on the coast it was hard to imagine how severe it actually was but his photos really take one to the heart of its viewer.