Sarah VanDerBeek

Sarah VanDerBeek is an American artist who lives and works in New York. Coming from an artistic family, Sarah is the daughter of the late artist and experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek, and sister of sculptor Johannes VanDerBeek. Sarah VanDerbeek works in photography in two interesting ways. First, I am very interested in her photographs of architectural ruins from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. This photographs displace time, and cause questions on the progression and repetition of history. Ultimately, these photographs seem to model solar systems or paintings, further displacing them from the architectural realm. Next, Sarah VanDerBeek makes sculptures that will eventually constitute the finished product of the photograph. Oftentimes these photographs are mysterious, stately, and quiet. I enjoy the translation of the artist's interest in architecture in these forms.

Mark Tipple

Mark Tipple is an Australian photographer. He did this cool series called The Underwater Project in which he photographed people swimming and surfing from underneath the water. More often then not the waves are crashing overhead which makes for some really interesting looking pictures. 

Julia Boneberg

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist who has been making works since the 1960s.  Kruger's work deals with political, social, and mostly feminist issues, and creates discussions about religion, race, gender, stereotypes, consumerism, and power.  By the 1980s, she had her style down, with large black and white images, with strong phrases (in Futura Bold) usually on red text boxes positioned carefully over the images.  Her use of personal pronouns draws the viewer in and makes them part of the piece.  I love her works because they are simple, strong, eye-catching images that really make a statement and comment on all different parts of our culture.  I especially like her more feminist works, as they deal with real everyday issues that stereotype or put down women. (Ariel)

Raymond Meeks

Raymond Meeks is a photographer who lives and works out of Portland, Oregon. Most of his work focuses on nature and his surrounds, and hint at loss and redemption. He uses old and found books to make artist books, in which he mounts his photographs to the pages of preexisting books. Meeks restitches and rebinds many of the books, tones and hand colors some of his black and white prints.

 

-Abby

Bob Demchuk

Award winning motion picture director and still photographer for the past 35 years, Bob Demchuk has photographed throughout the world.  He has a wide range of knowledge and experience from covering the Vietnam War, to producing and/or directing over 500 projects.  I love his work of the Pokot women. In their society, the Pokot women has no voice in any public forum and no authority within her own homestead. She is considered "foolish," like the cows for which she is traded. She is dresses in a cowhide and is valued at 60 cows which is equivalent to $3,600. 

~Alex Prontnicki

Daniel Byrne --------------- Christine Barron

This is the photographer that sold me expired film and said it would be fine but my pics did not come out, but I still love his work. He does a lot of car photography and portraits.

Eirik Johnson

 

Borderlands

Eirik Johnson states that his "artistic practice primarily an openness to serendipitous encounters while wandering the landscape. The work occasionally incorporates physical interventions that mark the relationship between my own presence and natural process" The thing that grabs me in these photos is how the actual landscape sets a certain mood. The way that the photo is composed, the lighting, and the subject all feed into a certain feeling.   

Jared

Andrew Z Glickman

 

Andrew Z. Glickman is a contemporary photographer working in Maryland. He is mostly a street photographer so with this project Among Strangers Underground: Commuters on the Washington DC Metro, he took those ideas onto a commuter train. He took a job in D.C. that was 40 minutes away and made a promise to shoot everyday on his commute, documenting certain small moments in these people's lives. I think the idea itself is a bit boring and doesn't really grab me but his composition is similar to mine, especially in my final shot. The way he frames the subject in the center in a very dramatic way is something I've always liked. 

Jared

ALBERTO TOLOT

There is not much information on the artist Alberto Tolot, however i love how the images above are obviously flowers, but how he crops each shot to make the object an abstract form intrigues me.  There is no distracting colors, but just the purity of the flower.  The line forms are exquisite.  He has other projects of which he does commercial portraits, which are also awesome.  However for me these are very appealing.

David Muench

David Muench is a nature/landscape photographer. He has a beautiful use of color of all his photographs. He takes his pictures all across the US of the landscapes mostly in the western areas. His father was also a photographer, Josef Muench, so David traveled with his dad when he was a young boy and grew up with photography. It’s also interesting that David Muench uses a 4 x 5 camera for the majority of his work. I think his photos are just beautiful; the colors in them are amazing.

Julia Boneberg