aimee bruce: weekly post #2 8/31/2013 ugh

Jose Javier Serrano

                  Jose Javier Serrano, also known as Yosigo, is a young photographer/designer. His photographs are of places and things that most people see on a daily basis. Serrano's concept is to show the aesthetically pleasing side to these everyday images, hoping to give insight on what it is to observe.

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Andrew Farrington

Andrew Farrington is a photographer based out of the UK. He currently resides in Manchester. He has over twenty years of professional photography experience. Ten of those years were at the BBC and the other ten as a freelancer. His images can be seen in high fashion and bridal magazines, and other advertisements.

One of the elements in his photographs that impresses me the most is his ability to create a dark type of enchantment. He is very elaborate when it comes to hair, makeup, and clothes.

A lot of his photography does have a portraiture feel to it. It's really hard to pick just a few images from the vast amount that he has up on his Facebook page. There is too much good stuff on there to miss. Below is one of his high fashion bridal spread: 

He also likes to mix nature with high fashion:

While he does have an official site, he doesn't have very many of his photographs there. All of the pictures above were taken from his FB page. He also has a Twitter and a DeviantArt page.

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Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York, spent much time in Argentina, and currently resides in San Francisco, California. Women are the main focus of her photographs, particularly women engaging in everyday life activities and relationships. I was particularly drawn to the first book in her The Adventures of Guille and Belinda series, which were taken during her stay in Argentina. These sisters could not look any more different, yet they both have their own beauty and charm; when photographed together, they create a sort of visual magic that it impossible to ignore. Her style of photography appeals to me because, like her, I enjoy finding beauty in unexpected places. Rather than seeking out the woman who is already beautiful, I look for the woman who may not be beautiful until she smiles. 

Bettina Rheims

Bettina Rheims is a French photographer with an eye for the unusual and the misunderstood. My attention was drawn to her Gender Studies series, which can be found under the Series tab on her website. In this study, Rheim interviewed and photographed dozens and dozens of young men and women who fell into the category of transsexual and "androgynous" and explored the mindset behind those two lifestyles. Gender Studies questions the notion of what gender is and how it relates to appearance; the three images I featured here, for example, are all male models. This particular theme caught my eye because I have a fascination for people who are outside the typical boundaries in terms of behavior and beauty. (Normal is just so mainstream, dontcha know.)

Florian Maier-Aichen 

Born in Germany and alternating between his home country and Los Angeles, California, Maier-Aichen is a photographer determined to go against the grain and present material that one doesn't see every day. His theme is usually landscapes reinvented with digital computer programs to appear in dynamic infrared colors. This technique offers the viewer a unique perspective on cliche landscape shots of the West Coast and the multiple other mountains, cities, and beaches he visits in his travels.

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                                                             JEFF FRIESEN

Jeff Friesen photography is greatly diverse. He has won a photography award every year since 2000. On his website you can go through the different categories of his work. At the bottom of each page there is a short description of the work. For this post I chose to focus on his collection titled "Keeping Lost Time". In this collection he focused on his daughter and how the little things in the world excited her. This is a subject we often come back to in class so i thought this had relevance to what we were studying. I have learned that being without my phone for a few hours during the day is not such a horrible experience. After reading Friesen's description, I began to think more about how I used to be amazed my the smallest things. Everything was so interesting, and I think it is important that we take the time out to really look around. His website is full of interesting photos, a brief bio about him, contact information and even a link to purchase some of his artwork. check it out.

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Andrew G. Hobbs

Andrew, a photographer, was born in New Zealand. After moving to London in 1992, his career quickly took off. A lot of Hobbs work involves portraitures in fashion although, he does a lot of editorials, reportage, and advertising as well. 

Overtime his photography has been on covers of magazines such as: Rolling Stone, Sunday Times, Esquire, i-D, Vogue, and many more high-end magazines. He is currently in charge of running his own magazine Centrefold Magazine. Not only has Andrew worked with magazines he has photographed many celebrities such as Missy Elliot, Eminem, Monica Bellucci, and even with the Duchess of York and HRH Prince Andrew!

Andrew's perspective regarding fashion is different and centers around more, than just one perspective. He uses a great deal of fashion, texture, color, black and white, along with nature to portray a capturing mood. His photos are upbeat, stylish, and sexy. 

Andrew has inspired me to achieve everything I dream of becoming. I've always seen myself working with high-end magazines and celebrities and his work is intriguing to me! Years from now, I see myself owning my own magazine with a focus in fashion and advertising. 

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Robert Capa

October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954

Robert Capa was a Hungarian photographer and photojournalist well known for covering at least five different wars in his lifetime. Originally planning on being a writer, he changed career plans when he found it difficult to find work in Berlin. Born Friedmann Endre Ernő, he adopted a new name as the word capa translates to shark , it reminded him of the film director Frank Capra, and found it much easier to sell his artwork under his more "American" sounding name. 

Perhaps his most famous photo is The Falling Soldier

Robert Capa often took extreme risks to capture his images, which would eventually result in his untimely death by landmine during the Vietnam War.

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Gilad Benari was born in the October of 1971 in Haifa, Israel although he now resides in Binyamina, Israel. Some of his most fascinating work plays with perceptions of ground and sky. He uses reflections to confuse the eye and also add different colors and textures. An example of this can be seen in the picture below:

A Reflection of Romance

Walking on Clouds

I've been following Benari's photography for a few years now, and the way he uses the landscapes or settings to enhance his subject amazes me. His pictures, to me, are social commentary. Being in such a diverse place, where the modern and the ancient meet, truly does give his photography a special touch. In his photography I can see hints of the divine and the carnal. I see commentary on society and beliefs, on whats above and what's below. He uses the elements of design to do this. Look at how the line pattern of the sand dunes in the dessert contrast with colors and shapes of the subject below:

Sailing Across the Sea

He finds patterns made by nature and man alike:

Walk of Life

 I find these photographs funny. Art within art:

A Kick to the Head

Washed Your Undies?

Benari's photography  can be seen in Israeli tourist commercials and ads. I encourage everyone to check his websites out, his mastery of color, light, and textures always blows my mind. Besides DeviantArt, he's also present on Facebook and Flickr.

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Michele Cera

        Michele Cera was born in Bari in 1973. He had received a degree and PhD in town planning. Cera's main interest, pertaining to photography, is in human settlements and landscape representation and survey. He is co-founder of Documentary Platform. This group exhibits work from areas around Italy. Cera's work consists of the effect of globalization on the changing cultural environment in and around Italy.

http://www.michelecera.com/

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Andrzej Dragan

Andrjez Dragan was born in 1978, he was a scholar to say the least. He has received many awards and earned his PhD in quantum physics. Andrejez has also received many music composition awards and only been in photography since 2003. His style is gaunt, edgy photos that are highly saturated. He focuses mainly on portraiture and he uses his effects to bring forth the harshness and grit of the faces he sees, exploiting the real people of the real world. 

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Ross Taylor

For amazing photo stories; it's a must you visit this artist's website! This guy has been all over the world and has the ability to take his viewers on a true visual journey.

The first time I encountered Ross Taylor's work was at the ODU vs. WM football game last year. With hopes of finding snapshots of friends (and myself) I began searching the internet. The browsing led me to to his official webpage, I soon realized this artist is much more than a man behind a lens. Ross Taylor is a staff photographer for the Virginia-Pilot. Taylor was named Photojournalist of the year by the National Press Photographers Association for 2012. With the the help of Logan Mock-Bunting, they created "The Image, Deconstructed" blog in 2011 to examine the psychology behind great photographs (it has gained a strong following).