Katerina Plotnikova is a Russian artist who uses a canon 50D to create pictures in an outdoor environment. She works with professional animal trainers to make her images. In the photographs above she chooses to center her models, both animal and human, to draw attention to the relationship between the two. She uses color pallets inspired by her surroundings to create a natural feel.
The artist intends for the photos to create a sense of wonder and imagination. By capturing a moment with what should be a wild creature and fairy-tale like women, the viewer feels connected with nature, and the body language of both creature and human create emotions of serenity and gentleness in a surreal like setting.
Katerina Plotnikova is a young, rising artist, and definitely one of my favorites. Her work inspires me because it takes something I enjoy being surrounded by and photographing, and makes it all the more interesting. Her photographs make me wonder what images I could create, or ask myself how I could make photographs of nature more playful and intriguing.
Ute Mahler is a German photographer who shoots predominantly in black and white. She uses everyday people in their immediate surroundings as her subject matter. Mahler creates with intentions of investigating the relationships and knowledge the people in her photos have of each other.
In her series Zusammenleben, which translates to Living Together, Mahler photographs people who do just that. She contemplates whether those who live together see and feel the same, or how they interact with each other. Mahler views photography and life as inseparable. Her photos tell a story of peoples lives and she feels as though her photos also reflect herself and how she views the world.
I am inspired by Ute Mahler and her dedication to her work. She has been making photos for over forty years and she feels as though she could never stop. Her interest in everyday people is important because it creates a sense of community and realism. Not everyone is a supermodel, and not everyone has perfect lives. I find the raw simplicity of her work intriguing and hope that I can bring her ideas into my own work.
Lalage Snow is a British photographer and Journalist. In this series, she created tightly cropped portraits of people using color to show every detail of an individuals face. The three photographs depict a soldier before during and after an eight month operational deployment in Afghanistan.
The purpose of the portraits is to take a look into the affects deployments have on a soldier. The photos appear to be of vastly different people, even through the three in a line are the same.
I appreciate what Snow photographed because it causes the viewer to open their eyes and really think about soldiers as individuals. What were they thinking about or why are there expressions and features so different? I want to use Snows photos as inspiration to really look at the subjects I utilize and portray them for who they are.
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