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all images are © the artist unless otherwise noted
Aaron Farley
These are not real photographs of real things. The original photographs are of water and clouds and these are photographs of those photographs, turned on their side, moved, reshot, reprinted, cut and folded, and reassembled to create a different scene which still looks familiar.
Key words: Horizon - Repeated process - Atmosphere - Depth of Field - Familiar - Nostalgia - Landscape - Experimental
Absis Minas
Key words: Money - People - Consume - Waste - Emptiness - Resources - Wealth - Destruction
Adam Holtzman
“After the unexpected death of my grandfather, I gathered with my family to grieve and to try and put things in order. We began to sort his belongings, going through each room cleaning and packing. After several trips the house became empty of these things that were his. As this process became complete I was struck by the differing voids left as a result. Here was a place, now absent of its occupant, the belongings and life.”
Key words: Familiar - Empty - Space - Memory - Nostalgia - Home
Adam Krawesky
Adam Krawesky started photographing people on the streets of Toronto in the summer of 2002 [..] he asked to photograph them with their hands covering their faces, to assuage his own fear of confrontation and the stranger's suspicion of the lens. [...] What I notice is the truth that comes through from the hands and the postures of the people behind them. The play-acting of hiding reveals more than a common portrait might ever reveal.
Key words: Identity - Fear - Stranger - Hide - Hands - Portrait - Street - Photographer
Adam Pizurny
Alan Sailer
A normal photographic flash unit gives a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). However Alan's flash unit is much faster than this, and produces a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This allows him to freeze things that are happening extremely fast, and to give us a view of something that otherwise we would never see.
Key words: High Speed Photography - Moment - Freeze - Explosion - Time - Unseen - Destruction
Alban Grosdidier
Drowning is a project that talks about the feeling of submersion that you can have living in a big city. There are as many ways of dealing with it that there are people, and therefore there are as many portraits waiting to be done.
Key words: Drowning - Water - Trapped - Alone - Silence - Underneath - Life - Fear - Isolation
Alexander Harding
'Visible Light' series
Alexander Harding received his BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2002. He returned to MassArt in 2011 and received his MFA in Photography. Alexander has been in numerous group shows throughout the United States and abroad, most notably Cultivated: New Photography from New England and the FIFA International Photography Festival in Brazil. He currently works as a Curatorial Assistant in the department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. Alexander lives with his wife Leah and his son Charles in Cheshire, Connecticut.
Key words: Light - Angle - Memory - Alone - Silence - Contrast - Energy - Home - Openings
Alison Brady
“When I conceive my images the questions I ask myself are: What is the state of normality? How can that normality be subverted, perverted, or generally transformed? When does this overcome the real and become psychotic?”
Key words: Normality - Emotions - Desires - Madness - Identity - Fantasy - Unconscious - Neurosis - Anxiety
Allen Klosowski
Aisha Zeijpveld
Andrea Tese
Clothing, bottles, appliances – relatable objects that serve as the basic accessories of daily life, schematically arranged to form a visual inventory of one man’s possessions. The Inheritance project is an exploration into ideas of legacy, identity, and impermanence, of what we leave behind and how that defines us. At the same time, it is a deeply personal documentation of the artist’s mourning process following the passing of her grandfather.
Key words: Possessions - Inheritance - Collections - Consume - Life - Death - Things - Identity - Old - Time
Andrew Curtis
Anna Shteynshleyger
Arun Kuplas
Aura Rosenberg
Barbara Crane
Barbara Hilski
Ben Marcin
Benoit Paille
Using colorful flashs to outline surreal representations “ I often see myself like an hyper realist painter, my pictures documenting an altered state of mind ”. Cultivating a predilection for casual people and locations, kitsch landscapes, fences and strange parkinglots, he’s seeking the unexpected and the unseen. “ Everybody can shoot a beautiful scenery or sunset, but I rather be a pataphysician, to apply myself to think about what others don’t ”.
Berndnaut Smilde
Bettina von Zwehl
Bill Armstrong
My unique process of appropriating images and subjecting them to a series of manipulations—photocopying, cutting, painting, re-photographing—transforms the originals and gives them a new meaning in a new context. Extreme blurring makes the edges within the collages disappear, so the photographs appear to be seamless, integrated images. This sleight of hand allows me to conjure a mysterious tromp l'oeil world that hovers between the real and the fantastic. It is a world just beyond our grasp, where place may be suggested, but is never defined, and where the identity of the amorphous figures remains in question. It is a world that might exist in memory, in dreams, or, perhaps, in a parallel universe yet unvisited.
Key words: Montage - Manipulation - Blur - Mystery - Collage - Reality - Figure - Memory - Dreams
Bill O'Donnell
Boogie
Cecilia Paredes
My initial inspiration was the recurrent theme of displacement and relocation. Performance involves nudity one way or the other. The human body is a vehicle to express your thoughts. The series is not about the body though. It’s about location so in this case, the body is part of the space.
Key words: Pattern - Body - Space - Location - Displacement - Camouflage - Disguise - Disappear - Wallpaper - Home
Cecile Plaisance
Chris Faust
Chris Jordan
Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption(2003 - 2005) - Exploring around our country's shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity.The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.
As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake. ~cj, Seattle, 2005
As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake. ~cj, Seattle, 2005
'Cellphones #2'
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'Cigarette butts'
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'Spent bullet casings'
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© Chris Jordan
Christophe Audebert
These are lovers of modern times. Time and place don’t matter to them. As long as their couple story keeps on being writed. They are here. Or there. But above all they are here below to love each other. Christophe Audebert’ series, soberly entitled “Here and there”, displays couples of all ages in urban places that don’t really seem aesthetic at first glance, but which are part and parcel of the environment of millions of people who live in big urban areas. The wind can blow, the rain can fall, and the night can come. Christophe Audebert’s couples accept their condition, once again as long as their story rhymes with harmony.
Key words: Affection - Public - Strange - Relationships - Couples - Love - Urban - Alone - Composition
Christophe Jacrot
I like the way rain, snow and “bad weather” awaken a feeling of romantic fiction within me. I see these elements as a fabulous ground for photography, an under-used visual universe with a strong evocative power, and with a richness of subtle lights. This universe escapes most of us, since we are too occupied getting undercover. Man becomes a ghostly silhouette wandering and obeying the hazards of rain or of snow.
Key words: Rain - Weather - City - Window - Glass - Shelter - Water - Distortion - Buildings
Christopher W. Trice
Chrystal Snowden
Claire Beckett
Claudia Eschborn
Colleen Plumb
Cool Like Pie
Corey Holms
Corrie Witt
Dan Ferro
Danny Treacy
Darren Pearson
Darren Pearson (aka DARIUSTWIN) explores landscapes near and far in search of the perfect scene for his light-drawings and animations. These light-drawings are created by using a specially designed LED light in the shape of a marker called a 'Night Writer' and through long exposure photography (the same technique commonly used to write a name with a sparkler or capture car trails at night).
David Ryle
Key words: Portraiture - Glass - Distorted - Steam - Breath - Watching - Trapped - Behind - Emotionless
Deanna Dikeman
Deborah Guzmán Meyer
Denis Darzacq
Derek Shapton
Didier Massard
Dita Pepe
Key words: Life - Family - Marriage - Women - Choice - Future - Class - Wealth - People
Edward Burtynsky
Elise Windsor
Elspeth Diederix
Emma Summerton
Erika Diettes
Erika Ritzel
Ernst Haas
Ezekixl
Ezekixl is a multi-talented award winning Film-Maker, photographer and fashion designer from Essex. Growing up, the Nigerian born visionary was inspired by the culture and flamboyance of his country, surroundings and people.
Key words: Youth - Portrait - Culture - Fashion - Colour - Beauty - City-Life - England - Nigeria - Identity
Flora Borsi
Francois Delfosse
These photos by the Belgium architect François Delfosse are beautiful. He says that the images were taken in a “glacier cave just North of the South Pole”, before adding that they are “viewed from the inside of a plastic bag”. As images, they’re really stunning and I love the playful reaction they get. If they really were photos of a glacier cave we’d probably be in awe of their beauty, yet because they’re plastic bags it feels odd to think of them as beautiful. I don’t care, I think they are truly gorgeous.
Key words: Ice - Plastic Bag - Illusion - Light - Surreal - Cave - Space - Beauty - Inside
Grant Simon Rogers
All of my photographs are daytime pictures. With the aperture ring set to f11-f22 and the shutter speed between 1/500 and 1/2000 of a second, I will get a really dark picture from my cameras in all but the brightest of sunlight. My digital range finder cameras have a small in built flash above the lens, which I then use to illuminate the foreground detail and create definition in the middle ground. This creates the theatrical ‘Day for night.’ The large aperture gives me a wonderful depth of field to play with so that most of my chosen subject is in focus and on overcast days allows for the clouds to become part of the whole composition.
Key words: Light - Flash - Nature - Underneath - Night - Contrast - Angle - Distort
Greg Stimac
Gregor Schneider
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title: u r 10, (with inventory) KAFFEEZIMMER "Wir sitzen, trinken Kaffee und schauen einfach aus dem Fenster"
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© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
Guy Tillim
Hai Bo They
Hannah Darabi
Hans Eijkelboom
Harvey Benge
Harvey Benge who works in Auckland and Paris, has been a full-time camera artist since 1992. His practice, based on looking at the nature of reality and a consideration of what is truth, investigates the overlooked, the unseen and the insignificant in the first world’s urban environments. He is particularly interested in the notion of parallel lives. "While something is happening here, something else is happening over there."
“In his search for the absurd and bizarre in the urban landscape….small moments of everyday life flash with ambiguity and tension, contrasts and conflicts. Part humorous…often he shows disturbing signs of differences, small anarchies… an urban dream at the edges of reality.” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
“In his search for the absurd and bizarre in the urban landscape….small moments of everyday life flash with ambiguity and tension, contrasts and conflicts. Part humorous…often he shows disturbing signs of differences, small anarchies… an urban dream at the edges of reality.” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
Howard Bond
Ian Whitmore
Izima Kaoru
J. Adam Mcgalliard
J. Henry Fair
Jacob Sutton
Jasper Wilkins
Jeffrey Milstein
Jin Lee
Joachim Froese
John A. Chakeres
John Crawford
John Divola
John Kippin
John Ryan Brubaker
Jonathan Lewis
Julie Moos
Justin Schmitz
Kim Pimmel
I've always been fascinated by lights in the darkness, the ephemeral glow that hovers in your retina after a light has passed, the traces of residual motion, captured one by one by the camera. This series of photographs explores the beauty of light by recording the path of handheld and computer controlled lights during long exposures.
Key words: Light - Beauty - Movement - Glow - Motion - Technology - Exposure - Colour - Space
Kirk Crippens
Larry Chait
Laura Letinsky
Laura Letinsky has developed her practice since the late 1990s through meticulously composed still life photographs influenced by 17th Century Renaissance painting. Using a large format camera in a controlled studio environment, her work resembles the aftermath of a meal, where stained tablecloths, spilled wine and squashed, misshapen fruit allude to mortality, frustrated desire and melancholy.
Key words: Still Life - Food - Cut out - Paper - Illusion - Fruit - Meal - Staged - Surreal
(c) Laura Letinsky, courtesy of Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery
(c) Laura Letinsky, courtesy of Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery
Laura Makabresku
I always say that there are three things that inspire me: sensitiveness, darkness and death. Pain is inscribed in all of these. Everything is linked with each other inseparably. This is why some of my photos can present sensitiveness and wounds at the same time. Maybe I should say: sensitive wounds? I’m also inspired by forests and loneliness. And also my own past, especially memories from childhood, which are very strong and intense. I often tell stories in my photos which really happened to me when I was a young, little girl, or earlier, when I was getting older and had my first passions.
Key words: Animals - People - Narrative - Portraits - Surreal - Masks - Crime - Pain
Laura Noel
Laura Swanson
Leandro Erlich
Swimming pool, 1999
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2004 © Leandro Erlich Studio Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York |
Swimming pool, 1999
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2004 © Leandro Erlich Studio Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York |
Bâtiment, 2004
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France © Leandro Erlich Studio, courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York |
Leopoldo Plentz
Lisa Kereszi
Lori Nix
Luc Delahaye
Luis Gispert
Luisa Lambri
Lynne Cohen
Magdalena Jetelova
Mandy Barker
Manuel Cosentino
Marc Yankus
Marco Ugolini
A series of photographs displaying supermarket products divided per color. "I see the supermarket space as a space of manipulation. The attempt, in this action, is to subvert this structure of power." None of the products have been bought after the shooting.
Key words: Colour - Consumption - Group - Advertising - Supermarket - Shopping - Manipulation - Organise
Marek Chaloupka
Hands and feet photographed through milk glass by Czech photographer Marek Chaloupka. Looking up at these human silhouettes gives an eerie and trapped feeling. An interesting technique and new perspective on the human figure.
Key words: Figure - Shadow - Silhouette - People - Above - Glass - Below - Trapped - Hands - Feet
Mario Lalich
Mark Mawson
Aqueous Electreau is a series by British photographer Mark Mawson. The artist specializes in photographing people underwater and, in the past few years, has started to master his experimentations with vibrant underwater liquids. Mawson's inspiration came from watching milk being poured into cups of coffee. Mawson strives to achieve swirls of visually harmonizing patterns in new and captivating palettes of color. Viewers can't help but feel a sense of eeriness as the intertwining blobs rise up from the ground and the suggestion of ghostly figures emerge. The artist says, "I used colors that were very electro, hence the name and the images had a resemblance to 'ectoplasm', ghosts and spirit photography," he adds. The bright, complimentary swirls set against the dark backdrop have an intense energy that lights up each frame.
Key words: Colour - Shape - Underwater - Ink - Form - Surreal - Liquid - Energy - Foreign - Organic
Menno Aden
Michael Cogliantry
Michael Corridore
Michael Hughes
Michael Wolf
Miharu Matsunaga
A series of photographs titled “ten-ten” [dots]. In order to illustrate the obvious yet often forgotten bond between man, woman, family, friend, adult, child and nationality, hand-draw hundreds of dots across the human body.
Miloushka Bokma
Mirza Ajanovic
Mitch Epstein
copyright Mitch Epstein
Moneyless
Moneyless creates the next level of what the Spanish La Pluma Eléctri*kstreet art crew calls Spider Tags: Two and three dimensional abstract installations made of cotton threads combined with geometrically paintings. The results are often impressing, especially when the installations look like wafting through the air…
Key words: 3D - Textiles - Graffiti - Shape - Geometric - Depth - Space -Thread - Abstract - Nature - Suspended
Mr T
Nadia Sablin
Nicola Dove
Nikki Graziano
Nils Orth
Nina Katchadourian
Noah Addis
Noemie Goudal
Ofra Lapid
Photographs of Models of Photographs of Abandoned Buildings - For her project “Broken Houses“, NYC-based photographer Ofra Lapid created realistic models of abandoned buildings using printed photos, and then photographed them on an infinite gray background.
Key words: Buildings - Abandoned - Urban Decay - America - Models - Construction - Aged - Empty
Ori Gersht
Paccarik Orue
Peter Ainsworth
Phillip Toledano
Rineke Dijkstra
Robbie Copper
Robbie Kaye
Rolf Aamot
Rolf Aamot born in Norwegian bergen September 28, 1934 is a famous painter. Since the 1950s Aamot has been a worker within the field of electronic painting. Much of his work consists of creating electronic tonal images and thus his work contains elements of photography but is hard to pigeon hole. It is frequently a form of performance art with abstract photographic elements.
Key words: Digital painting - Colour - Abstract - Mood - Electronic - Tone - Hue - Light - Movement
Sarah Hobbs
Sarah Pickering
Scott Fortino
Sharon Core
Sharon Lockhart
Siri Hayes
Stefan Nitoslawski
Steph Goralnick
What matters most to me is the vision behind the image, rather than the particular tool used to capture it. I shoot with everything from a Canon 5D to a Holga to a digital point-n-shoot to the box full of vintage cameras I got on Ebay for 99 cents. Each has its virtues, of course, but in a certain sense they are all equal.
Key words: Angle - Portrait - Illusion - Moment - Trick - Point of View - Personality - Suspension
Stephan Tillmans
Stephan Zirwes
Offering a whole new perspective on both natural and manmade settings, stuttgart-based photographer stephan zirwes's aerial images is an extensive series that illustrate an otherwise unseen phenomenon of texture and pattern that could only be observed from above. Rendered abstract in its composition and vantage point, the photographs range from airfields to cultured lands; from dense crowds to a lone skier on a mountainside. very often, the result is an image that depicts the gravity of isolation, showing the vastness of an environment but at a scale that is still discernible to the viewers.
Key words: Above - Landscape - Pattern - Texture - Abstract - Unseen - Isolation - Scale - Nature - Man-made - Aerial
Tara Sellios
Terry Border
Thomas Jackson
Thomas Lindahl Robinson
Tim Davis
Tim Pickerill
Tina Crespo
The complex relationship between the natural world and the freedom it admits us is simpler here, but still memorable and profound. Nature is a recurrent theme, it seems, of her photography, and she turns it masterfully to beautiful and dark purposes in images such as ‘Dark Forest’ and ‘Salt Water Cure’ as well.
Key words: Nature - Text - Space - Vignette - Quotes - Thought - Dreams - Landscape - Circle - Window
Todd Deutsch
Tom Bovo
Tom Hunter
Tomas Teodosijev
Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
Trish Morrissey
Trish Morrissey was born in Dublin in 1967, and currently lives and works in London. Her work has been exhibited abroad – including solo shows in 2004 at both the Impressions Gallery in York and the Gardner Arts Centre at the University of Sussex – and is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art in Houston. Morrissey received an Arts Council London Research and Development Grant in 2004 and was a finalist for the 1999 John Kobal Portrait Award given by the National Portrait Gallery in London. “Seven Years” consists of large-scale colour photographs that deconstruct the trope of family photography by meticulously mimicking it. In the series, the title of which refers to the age gap between the artist and her elder sister, Morrissey functions as director, author and actor, staging herself and her sibling in tightly controlled, fictional mis en scene based on the conventions of family snapshots. In order to construct images that appear to be authentic family photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, Morrissey uses period clothing and props, both her own and others, and the setting of her family's house in Dublin. She and her sister assume different characters and roles in each image, utilising body language to reveal the subtext of psychological tensions inherent in all family relations. The resulting photographs isolate telling moments in which the unconscious leaks out from behind the façade of the face and into the minute gestures of the body.
Ursula Sokolowska
The Constructed Family series 76x76cm (30x30”) Lambda prints - Edition of 7
This work examines the trauma and uncertainty carried from childhood. In particular, I am referencing my own upbringing as a Polish immigrant. There is an undercurrent of helplessness and misdirection linked to a sort of schizophrenic parenting, excommunication, and constant movement. Typically, the perception of children handed down by my elders was that children did not have a choice. Frequently, I heard a Polish equivalent of the phrase “Children should be seen not heard”. I am attempting to give these children voices.
These photographs are projection-based installations. The models are mannequins and their faces are projections. The faces of the children are slides that my father took of me when he was still involved in my life. The other slides are present day images that I have shot of my mom, my dad, and myself. My goal is to reconstruct my own childhood, empowering the past for better or for worse. The result is a troubling recreation of events that may seem disturbing but are far less in context to the real events that transpired.
This work examines the trauma and uncertainty carried from childhood. In particular, I am referencing my own upbringing as a Polish immigrant. There is an undercurrent of helplessness and misdirection linked to a sort of schizophrenic parenting, excommunication, and constant movement. Typically, the perception of children handed down by my elders was that children did not have a choice. Frequently, I heard a Polish equivalent of the phrase “Children should be seen not heard”. I am attempting to give these children voices.
These photographs are projection-based installations. The models are mannequins and their faces are projections. The faces of the children are slides that my father took of me when he was still involved in my life. The other slides are present day images that I have shot of my mom, my dad, and myself. My goal is to reconstruct my own childhood, empowering the past for better or for worse. The result is a troubling recreation of events that may seem disturbing but are far less in context to the real events that transpired.
Key words: Childhood - Movement - Relocation - Choice - Projection - Self - Past - Memory - Family
Wendy McMurdo
Will Govus
William Hundley
Yasumasa Morimura
© Yasumasa Morimura; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Yeondoo Jung
