Alain Etchepare, is a French photographer currently working/ living between France and Turkey.  She started out doing commercial illustrative work and then decided that she wanted to have more creative liberty and began exploring her own ideas.  Her work now is dream-like windows into the world around her, she is interested in the inspiration and imagination that can come from or be spurred by an image.  What I am drawn to is how she makes the work personal; she creates her own narrative by manipulating the angle and lens to give a strong sense of exploration. the main body of work that I am drown to is the Little stories in Berlitz.

Link to little stories in berlitz

Mosque, Medina Wasi, California

Red Cross, Red Crescent, Medina Aljabal, California

Memoria, Sonora

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Eric White grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received his BFA in 1990. Following graduation, White spent ten years in San Francisco. Since 2000, he has been living and working in New York. Primarily focused on portraiture and landscape, Eric's work is about capturing fleeting moments. He is especially adept at reading people and capturing specific moods and feelings. These were images that were shot straight on straight forward yet they show religious symbols of different cultures.

When he started out in the art field he was unsure what he wanted to do with his art field then his uncle died and he left him his cameras and that started his art career off. 

Brad Moore

 Brad Moore attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He started his own company, Aperion, Inc. He now just mainly focuses on his fine art photography. His work is is about suburbia in Southern California. The neighborhood was once a striving beautiful place in the 50's and 60's that gave people a place to live but now are slowly fading away. This was a place that he grew up and returned to 25 years later. I love his work because he is not shooting in a traditional way. He shoots in a very structured way. Most of his work is of facades and I think that it almost looks set up because it has no dimensionality.

  

Eric Nagel

      Eric Nagel is a German photographer, who was born in Berlin. He has been featured in many art exhibitions and publications. There is a lack of reading on his views as an artist. A lot of his work is portraits juxtaposed with objects serving as their heads. The bottom work "Under the Glass" is a creation of portraits shot underneath glass.













Behind the Glass-

Kanga Bell
http://art.kangabell.com/

     She is an artist out of Boston, Massachusetts.  Her work is an exploration of humans animalism , which society tell us to hide. She does this by shooting close ups of the human body and perceptions of the self, sexuality, nature, and gender. I choose this artist  because of her unique way of looking at humans. I feel that her work is a examination of the basics of what a person is.
     The one of her works that caught my eye was called 'Flesh'. This series is a collection of small details for the living human. The images are inkjet prints on glossy paper, 26 x 24. The other work is her in progress work called 'Micro'. This work is microscopic photos of body fluids, these include vaginal secretions, menstrual fluids, semen and saliva.

"We humans are in fact living organisms. We bleed and breathe, breed and grow. We are mammals, animals, our bodies built of skin, blood and bones. We are beautiful, repulsive, and erotic all at once." - Bell

Rachelle Mozman

Rachelle Mozman grew up in New York City, and is now working both in New York and Latin America.  She uses portraiture as narrative, working in themes surrounding family systems, class, and gender, often investigating these topics through a cultural lens.

Her projects Costa del Este and American Exurbia document children in a fashion not unlike Loretta Lux.  The subjects are obviously still young, but they are captured in a way that ages them in an unidentifiable way.

Jeremy Miranda

http://jeremymiranda.com/

Jeremy Miranda is a painter who often shows a scene within a scene.  He does this through the water line of paintings of the sea or ocean.  These ones tend to include a ladder.  Others show the alternate scene as a wall of a room.  He often shows bodies of water.  I couldn't find anything on him, and not much on his paintings.

I choose this because he puts these two scenes together in a way that looks almost possible.  Yet one half looks more real the the other, which seems a bit fantasy.

Lucy Levene

Lucy Levene's Website

             Lucy Levene is a London based photographer. In 2001 she received her BA from Edinburgh College of Art.

            The larger part of Levene's work involves people in their personal environments. She seems to have a great sense of the people. Whether the subject knows it or not, Levene masterfully conveys their emotional state and personality through her photographs. I typically find straight portrait work somewhat bland and un-interesting. However, Levene's work draws me in and makes me want to learn more about the people.

Jeff Jacobson

Jeff Jacobson's Website

Jeff Jacobson was born, 1946, in Iowa. In 1971 he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. Jacobson became interested in photography while practicing, for the ACLU, in the south during the 70's. In '76 Jacobson photographed presidential campaigns. He pioneered the use of strobes and long exposures during this project.

            In 1991 he explored the American heartland with his body of work "My Fellow Americans." I was immediately drawn to this work for it's unique style. I typically find documentary photography bland. Jacobson's photos have a beautiful aesthetic that makes you want to look at them. You want to know what's going on with the people and why they are doing what they are doing. It's this type of interest I hope to gain in my own work.

Marion Belanger

Marion Belanger received her MFA from Yale University School of Arts. Her work focuses on the concept of persistence and change. She did a series on the inside of homes and building called Real Estate. I really enjoy this series because it talks about stories of what could have potentially happened in that particular space. Seeing a room with molded walls or falling apart wall paper makes you wonder what could have once happened in that space. I really enjoyed her work because I want to try to take pictures of rooms and ad it to my houses somehow. Not only does the outside of a house say a lot but the inside can say a million more words.   

Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh is known for his exemplary career as a fashion photographer. He's worked for Vogue internationally and other known fashion magazines such as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and Allure. Though he commercial work it is obvious that he has a background working with conceptual art. His inspirations come from the works of Hans lux, Van Gogh and early German cinema. He was also a painter at an earlier time in life. His European upbringing along with his college experience has given a gift for capturing the figure. His work inspires me to find my style when approaching the figure. I think this will aid me in finding different ways to remain intimate with my portraits.

Muge Is a Chinese photographer that has a background education in broadcasting and television directing. He has shown his work at the Zen Photo Gallery in Tokyo, and the Anastasia Photo Gallery in New York.  In his series Ash, he explores nature, how it can have an effect of awe, how it changes and its spiritual elements.  He does this by combining dreamlike landscapes with studio shots and close ups of different elements of nature and change.  What I really like about this body of work is how he units the different types of images by mimicking the effect of the fog that are in his landscapes by use of soft focus or overexposure in his other images.

Muge's Website