Captivating Photos of Women Swimming Naked in Enchanted Waters. Jack Davison drove through America’s highways for 10,000 miles, taking portraits along the way. “I’m less concerned with facts and more the beauty or strangeness of that moment.” He’s only 24, but English photographer Jack Davison is already carving out a promising career for himself. Essex born and London based, he taught himself how to take pictures after picking up a camera at 16; studying English at Warwick University, he spent most of his time at university taking pictures.
Photographing his family, friends and the countryside around him, he says the internet was his major influence and “a tutor”. “The internet introduced me to communities of photographers [and] Flickr, in its heyday, was unparalleled for introducing like-minded artists and creators to each other’s work,” he says. “There were huge swathes of images available to me to take in. “I studied English Literature at university [but] despite all the reading and essays there was plenty of time to take pictures,” he adds. See more of Jack’s work here. Spencer Murphy on. Do you think theory sometimes overshadows the artist’s creative process when working on a visual project? Being able to contextualise and speak about your work is definitely important but you see students getting tied up in knots by this all the time. In truth most photographers I know work in reverse and sign off their supporting text once they have a solid body of work.
Too much emphasis on theory would stifle my creative process but each artist works differently - as do viewers. I like art that really makes me think but I don't like to rely on an explanation for me to understand it. Is it important for a photographer to have a recognisable style? An approach across bodies of work can be important for recognition but I don’t think it’s vital. Your online portfolio has a balance between personal projects and commissioned work. There is a bit more freedom in making personal work as it can be more loose and responsive to a situation.
Have you entered any competitions this year? No. Canadian Photographer Captures Wanderlust In Magnificent Landscapes. Elizabeth Gadd is a self-taught 21-year-old photographer from Vancouver, Canada. Her signature style is to photograph wanderers and adventurers in magnificent landscapes. Having been raised in scenic surroundings with mountains, forests and fields, she loves to wander and explore. Eventually, she started taking her camera with her. Sometimes, she takes her two dogs with her as well.
She writes that she aims to “display human interaction with nature in a positive and peaceful way.” As she said in an interview with Phlearn, she is “entirely self-taught. More info: elizabethgadd.com | Facebook| Flickr (h/t: phlearn)
Cameras reviews, comparisons. See 22 of This Year’s Best Portraits. Each year, the National Portrait Gallery in London presents its selection of what it considers to be the best achievements in portraiture. And each year, not everyone agrees with the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize’s final selection, which features 50 portrait images, as well as four shortlisted photographs that compete for a $20,000 cash prize.
In past years, groups of photographers have joined forces to denounce the National Portrait Gallery’s process and perceived bias, which is alleged to favor a certain type of conservative imagery. Since 2011, for example, the Portrait Salon photography prize has been selecting its own winners from the pool of rejected Taylor Wessing entrants. Yet, the National Portrait Gallery’s contest continues to play an important role in portrait photography – often confirming its own conformist tendencies, while, at times, surprising by its unconventional choices. This year, the jury seems to have decided to do both. Incredible Photos of People Living Off The Grid Who Abandoned Civilization for Life in the Wilderness.
Photographer Antoine Bruy not only traveled and lived with off-grid families for three years, but captured captivating photos of their Walden-esque existence. When screeching city noises and demands from the 9-5 job become too much, most people can only dream of what quiet isolation in the rural countryside could be like. But French photographer Antoine Bruy turned that dream into a reality by hitchhiking across Europe from 2010 to 2013. The artist wandered through remote mountain regions without any fixed destination or route in mind, but along the way met several individuals who had willingly abandoned hectic city life in exchange for retreat in the deep wilderness. These people sacrificed modern comforts for greater autonomy and freedom, and in result became inspiration to the inquisitive photographer.
Image Credit: Antoine Bruy In Bruy’s series Scrublands, he documented the homes and faces of the people he countered, by chance, who live far away from civilization. Gregg Segal photographs people with a week’s worth of their trash in his series, “7 Days of Garbage.” Gregg Segal The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage per day. That’s more than double the amount produced in 1960, and it’s 50 percent more than the amount produced by Western Europeans. In January, photographer Gregg Segal decided to put some imagery to those numbers. His ongoing series, “7 Days of Garbage,” shows Californian friends, neighbors, and relative strangers lying in the trash they created in one week. Some of Segal’s subjects volunteered to be a part of the project because they believed in the idea behind it. Segal used natural materials to transform his yard into artificial environments, like a forest floor or a sandy beach or a body of water, where he photographed all his subjects.
Naturally, some people had some hesitation about lying in garbage. Segal posed for a photo, too, with his wife and son. One Photo a Day. Photographers Lecture Series | International Center of Photography.
Workshop with Brenda Ann Kenneally | Foto8. The Hinterlands has organised a 6-day intensive workshop in Devon with highly-acclaimed photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally. For her first UK workshop, Kenneally will deliver her own bespoke programme designed to unravel the inner workings of photographic practice in order to discover photographers’ individual voices. Included in the workshop are: one-on-one sessions with Keneally to discuss exisiting work or work in progress, daily photographic tasks set in the local area, group discussion and brainstorming, evening talks with guest speakers and practical production and technical guidance.
Taking place 24-29 June 2012, the workshop places are strictly limited. For more information and to book, visit The Hinterlands website: www.thehinterlands.co.uk inShare0. Anatomy was never so colorful: Lorenzo Vitturi's latest work | Fotografia Magazine. A 2010 short documentary about the Ridley Road Market by Adam Ryzman. The Ridley Road Market Exotic fruit and vegs, meat and fish, clothes and fabrics in Africa-inspired patterns and bright colours; sellers promoting their products using the oldest of marketing techniques: yelling at passers-by to take a look at their goods; and people walking around the stalls, considering their purchases. It’s the Ridley Road Market, a bustling street market in the district of Dalston, London. Lorenzo Vitturi’s Dalston Anatomy This crowded, multiethnic and colourful market inspired Venice-based photographer Lorenzo Vitturi to make Dalston Anatomy, a project which makes use of photography, sculpture and painting at the same time (as is often the case in Vitturi’s works) and a testament to Vitturi’s unrestrained, imaginative talent.
Dalston Anatomy is currently on view – until 11 December – at Amsterdam’s photography museum FOAM (see here for more information about the exhibition). Wonderland by Kirsty Mitchell: heart-breakingly beautiful photographic series in memory of an extraordinary life. Kirsty Mitchell's Wonderland series has been three years in the makingAll costumes, wigs and sets were constructed on a shoestring budgetSome images took up to five months to createShe would often wait an entire year to find the perfect natural setting for her shots By Stephanie Hirschmiller Published: 14:11 GMT, 17 May 2012 | Updated: 09:34 GMT, 18 May 2012 Kirsty Mitchell's late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen's death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.
She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. 'Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,' said the artist. The resulting images looked so hyper-real that it was assumed that they were created in Photoshop. Stunning Nude Photo Series Challenges What It Means To Be 'Attractive' (NSFW) What is "attractiveness"? Artist Gracie Hagen devised one way of addressing the question. In an effort to explore distance between media-propagated imagery -- the ones that star photoshopped men and women with impossibly pristine bodies -- and the genuine reality of our own flesh, she embarked on a project titled "Illusions of the Body. " Recruiting mostly women and a few men of various sizes and shapes, Hagen photographed her models in two separate poses.
In the first frame, her subjects stand in conventionally sexy positions, usually accentuating the curves they themselves deem acceptable while covering up the "unattractive" sections they wish to hide. In the second frame, the same models were asked to strike an unflattering pose; to let their bodies fall into postures we don't usually see in the glossy pages of magazines, regardless of how unsexy it might seem. The result of Hagen's experiment is a striking collection of visual contradictions. A Husband Took These Photos Of His Wife And Captured Love And Loss Beautifully.
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AnOther | AnOther Magazine & AnOther Man | Fashion & Culture. Magnum Photos Home. Photography Magazine - Aperture Foundation. Magazine | Issue #31/ ref. Issue #31 / ref. The Summer issue of Foam Magazine reflects deeply on relationships between photography and reference.
Ref. presents eight portfolios which refer each in their own way to other photos, a specific visual style or language, or to stereotypical visual elements that we recognize from other photographic genres. They are all portfolios that recognize that nothing exists in splendid isolation. Included is a major portion of the project Then & Now by the prominent American artist Ed Ruscha.
After the creation of Every Building on Sunset Strip, an icon of conceptual art, Ruscha photographed every building of Hollywood Boulevard in 1973. After 31 years, he photographed the same route again, but this time in colour. The result is an unique visual historiography of modern American culture. The road trip, too, is undeniably part of both American culture and photographic heritage. Just as carefully staged are the images by Alex Prager. British Journal of Photography. Photography blog | theprintspace blog | Photography news, events, photoshop tips. Contemporary photography magazine.