Angela Singer

Angela Singer was born in Essex, England.  She got an MFA from University of Auckland and appears to be based in New Zealand  She is an animal rights activist who uses taxidermy art to show her concern on the relationship between humans and animals.  She decorates the bullet wounds that the taxidermist has attempted to hide.

I chose her because of the way she was pointing out the way that humans have caused animals harm in a simple distractingly beautiful way.

http://www.angelasinger.com/

Angi Stiegler

Angi Stiegler is an artist from Wolfburg, Germany. She discovered her passion for photography and image creating in 2006. She is also an multimedia engineer. She is a self taught artist. Her images are a mixture of surrealism and conceptualism, her work takes on a daydream style, showing the impossible is possible. She gets her inspiration from music and other artists like Rus Anson, Tim Walker, and Annie Leibovitz.

I picked this artist because of her daydream like style and use of color.I love the uses of blue tones in her work, and also the strong uses of nature.


http://www.photoflake.com/

Fong Qi Wei - "Exploded Flowers "

Fong Qi Wei is a photographer based out of Singapore that has been working with photography for over 10 years. In all of his work he is photographing familiar subjects and themes in a new perspective to make people think.

“Through my art, I hope to introduce my point of view to my the viewer and engage them beyond aesthetics. I wish to provoke them to think further about the familiar and ordinary.”

I choose this photographer because of the way he dissects his subject and lays it out to look like it exploded outward like fireworks instead of laying the parts out like a scientist would. Also I love how he is using dissection to show something so familiar in a different way.

Sergei Gaschek

While he isn't actually an artist, Sergei is a biologist that takes many photos of the wildlife in person and sets up game cameras while studying the wildlife in Chernobyl.  Which was the site of a nuclear accident in 1986 and the 300,000 people living around it evacuated and left it completely to the wildlife.  This place was once a power plant and farm land and is now wetland and forest.  Chernobyl is now the largest wildlife sanctuary in Europe.  Sergei has been taking pictures of the animals there since 1995.

I choose this because it was a place that was dominated by people and ruined by a nuclear accident, but after people left nature and wildlife came back very quickly and have reclaimed it.  His photos from inside 'the zone', as it's called, show wildlife thriving in the wake of nuclear activity.

http://nuclearno.com/text.asp?16855
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/life-after-chernobyl-sergei-gaschaks-photography-from-inside-the-zone-8467725.html?action=gallery&ino=3

Joel Robinson

Joel Robinson all so know as a "Boy Wonder" lives in British Columbia's Mountains valley. He dose photography as a hobby, and in his free time he love to do these type of images.These photographs below are self-portraits. He like to bend the rules of reality, creating a fun surreal environment. His style has a very magical feel to it.

"I enjoy creating whimsical worlds where size, scale, movement and function don't play by the rule that we know"- Joel Robinson

"This hobby has allowed me the opportunity to experience new places and new things and I'm excited at where it will take me in the future." - Joel Robinson

I picked this photographer because of his fun ideas. Also his work give a positive and happy feel to me,very playful ideas.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joel_r/sets/

Michal Giedrojc

Michal Giedrojc, 34, a photographer in Slupsk, Poland. This artist has been taking photos for a few years now. His main subject matter is portraiture. He focuses on a specific person in the world and isolates that person in his work.
"I'll let the beauty to be beautiful and ugliness to stay ugly.... Let the mood to decide the outcome." 

I picked this artist because of his uses of simplicity of the main subject matter and the surrounding environmental. This artist uses a lot negative shape around main subject matter giving the viewer a scenes of isolation, which I like. 

Todd Mclellan "Things Come Apart"

Todd Mclellan is a Canadian photographer who got his BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design. After he graduated he got an internship at a large Toronto studio. Now he shoots commercial photography along with his own work.
Mclellan's Things Come Apart Series was started by him wanting to shoot interesting objects that were thrown away or found in a second hand store in a way that hasn't been done before. When he is displaying all the parts of the objects he lays them out so that when you look at it you can tell how they go back together.

Whitney Patterson

Katrina Plotnikova

 

 

I chose this artist because it seems to be between what I chose last portfolio class and this portfolio class with the fairytale element and animals.  I thought it would be a good take off point going from one to the next.

Katrina is a 26 year old Moscow-based photographer, and has only been doing fine art photography for 5 years.  She has a surreal style and a gentleness about them.  She explains her work as 'another tale about wonderland'.


http://500px.com/katerina_plotnikova


https://www.facebook.com/KaterinaPlotnikovaPhotography


~Emma