Lawrence Getubig

Lawrence Getubig's Website

           Lawrence Getubig grew up in the 70's and 80's. Like most children then, he was enamored with the action cartoons and show of his age. He dreamed of being a super hero He wanted to fight along side Batman and He-Man. In 2001 Getubig received a BS in a molecular biology. Deciding research wasn't for him, Getubig gained his MFA in 2008.

            In his series "I Want to be a Super Hero" Lawrence Getubig places himself in heroic scenes with his child hood idols What drew me to his work was the way he created it. Getubig creates intricate cut-out scenes. In each scene he includes a cut-out of himself o place in the scene. With creative lighting and colorful back drops, he builds a 3D comic strip, then photographs the scene.

            I have always loved the idea of creating entire environments for photographs. I have worked like this before, but Getubig brings the style to a whole new level. I am envious of the product of his work. His images compel you to look twice. At first, the images look like a a drawing. Once you look again, you notice the D.O.F. which reveals the 3 dimensional  nature of the images. The amount of detail that Getubig produces ins the second part of the series is truly inspiring.

JH ENGSTORM

Engstorm is a Swedish born photographer who still works in his homeland in Värmland.  His works tends to be about identity and existence.  In his early series Trying to Dance, he creates highly charged images that explore the idea of one’s presence and significance.  His use of muted or out of focus unites the body of work which includes landscapes and portraits.  I really enjoy his use of color and motion in his images, which helps to create a sense of disconnect.

http://www.jhengstrom.com/ttd2.html

William Kintridge

William kintridge is an artist who was born in South Africa. I found his process to be helpful. He films his drawings for about 2 seconds and erases and films again. After making short films of these reductive and additive drawings he hangs the finished drawing with the video.

Maggie Taylor

http://maggietaylor.com/

Maggie Taylor graduated from Yale University majoring in philosophy and got a BFA in photography from the University of Florida.  Her current work are done with each element being scanned in separately.  The backgrounds are pastel drawings.  She rearranges the elements in Photoshop.  This piece is from her Almost Alice series based off of Alice in Wonderland.

I chose this artist because of the Almost Alice works.  The fantasy feel and soft look work with the old strange tales like Alice in Wonderland.

Sarah Malakoff
SarahMalakoff.com

     She lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has done multiple solo show, the latest one being done in 2011 at the Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
     Hey photographs are examinations of the home. She explores the ideas of the home being a refuge from the outside world and it also being a recreation of the outside world. She uses the architecture and furnishings as symbols of culture, family and nature. Many of her images have a window of a door within the scene. She intentionally does this to show that we have a border to keep the outside out and yet many of the homes have  have the essence of the out side withing their homes, in the form of patterns, simulations, and domesticated animals.
     I chose this artist because I find the the exploration of the interior of a home shows a lot about who a person is, by the way that they decorate, organize, how clean the place is/ dirty,the color choices, arrangements, can tell a lot about a person and i find it interesting. The home is accentual an extension of a who a person is.

Colin Pantall

Colin Pantall is a contemporary European photographer working out of Newport.  He works as a visiting lecturer at the University of Newport, and as a journalist/documentary photographer.

A lot of his work is really interesting, though I focused my attention on his Sofa Portraits series.  In this series, he photographs his daughter while she's sprawled on their sofa watching television.  In his statement about the work, he talks about children needing a space where they can let their imagination run free, and that this sofa is his daughter's such space.

I chose this work because of the raw approach he takes in capturing childhood.  He talks about that space being where his daughter can escape from the world and enter into a dream world of her own choosing; spaces like this are an important and healthy part of childhood, and I think especially so in the case of a child growing up in a dysfunctional environment, which is mostly what my project talks about.  Without a place to escape to, damage from such an environment would be far more extensive and not so easily repaired.

Martin Parr







http://martinparr.com/index1.html


A British photographer that does "street photography" the above pictures are from his recent work in
Atlanta GA. He photographs in a way that he "allows us to see things that we have always seen but see them in a whole  new way." He started photographing in his teen with his grandfather who was a armature photographer, then in college where he became fed up with the strict rules and started photographing what he like but felt he had to justify his work, he felt this was a good way of fighting for what he believed in. He feels that if you do this work over time you learn body language and that helps him in taking his photos.
I choose him because of the way he photographs everyday events and things that we pass on the street yet pay no attention too wether it is everyone on a vacation photographing sites , or someone eating a large turkey leg on the street we all leave a mark as we are passed by and someone may just catch it on film.

Kevin Bauman

Kevin Bauman works and lives in Denver. He is an architectural, interior, and industrial photography. He also works in Detroit where he did a project about the decline of housing in Detroit; the project is called 100 Abandoned Houses. It has been a ten yearlong project that he continues to work on. He started photographing houses in Detroit and then he soon got interested in how many houses were really abandoned in Detroit and how it was getting significantly worse with every year. I think that his images are very beautiful, which is very interesting because he showing us a very ugly and sad problem. I also find this project to be very interesting because he talks about the abandonment in Detroit. They amount of abandoned homes in Detroit is very high. Detroit is able to populate the amount of people that Manhattan or San Francisco has but the population is fewer than 1 million people. There is a lot of new reality being built in Detroit but the houses in the area like Brush Park are becoming more abandoned.

http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/about/

Jessica Tremp

Jessica was born in 19818, and grew up in Switzerland. She then moved to Melbourne when she was 18. Her work is inspired by her love for "theatrics, romanticism and nature." She uses herself as a model often, and has been featured in many magazines (all of which are listed on her website).

I chose these works because they are meditative, euphoric and yet uncomfortable. The color is muted but saturated. Mass consumption seems to be another theme running through these images as well.

http://www.jessicatremp.com/

-Christina

Sarah Sudhoff

http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home

Sarah Sudhoff is a Texas based photographer that received her MFA from Parsons The New School for Design.  Her work is realted to the human body, and the experiences that it may incur.   Her artist statement best explains it. "I examine the body within a medical context by exploring through photography, video and performance four main themes: pathological waste; containment of the body and its parts; fragmentation and violence against the body; a subject’s relationship to a specific environment."  

Her work is very powerful, her self portraits hide nothing and bring the viewer into a very intimate moments.  a lot of her work is disturbing and at times appalling.  What I like the sharp focus and rich colors that create beautiful pictures of not so beautiful happens or objects.

 

MIRANDA JULY

http://youtu.be/7RBir3jmQSc

This is Miranda July. In this performance she successfully uses a surrogate. I am becoming really interested in this type of performance and I feel this is a good reference.

Troy Batzler

Troy Batzler grew up in Iowa.  He has travelled across the US, Europe, and East Africa.  He is based in Montana.  Troy Batzler is an outdoor photographer.  He has photos from his hunting and fishing trips, other wildlife and landscapes, and western.  He has even combined his images .  Many of the hunting trip ones have a shallow depth of field.  Many of his images are from things he does as his hobbies/lifestyle.  He even has video of his website of a dog sled team. 

I chose him for the horse photographs, but I found the wildlife and hunting shots really interesting as well.  I would love to give video a go although I have never edited (and have barely shot) video before.

Tealia Ellis Ritter

      Tealia was born in Illinois, attended Columbia College Chicago where she received her BA in Fine Art Photography. She then got her MFA from University of Iowa with a major in Fine Art Photography and a minor in printmaking. The work that she focuses on is based on exploring the physical and emotional way in which people present themselves and their environment where they know that they are on display.

     The focus of this project, called The Live Creature and Ethereal Things, is the nature of longing, vulnerability, self-consciousness, and image as a construction. Her wish for this work is to create a greater understanding of the complexity of relationships between who we wish to be and the person that we are.

     I chose this work because i feel that her focus of the work is similar to what i want to work with this semester, the idea of who i really am and the place that i fit.

EllisRitter.com

 Olivia, 2009













My Dream is to realize who i truly am, 2007

Jennifer McClure

Jennifer McClure is a self portrait artist living and working out of New York City.  Her interest in photography began during her childhood, when she used photos as an anchor to places she had been and people she had known; she grew up in a military family that moved around a lot, so she used photos as proof of what had once been.

Her work is all focused on self exploration and her quest to understand what's important in life, and the images are both emotional and provocative.  The struggles she deals with in her images are ones not unfamiliar to many people, and she approaches them in a manner that produces beautifully intriguing images.  Her work talks about relationships, lack of relationships, isolation, substance abuse, insecure identity, among other things.