Adam Pretty

Adam Pretty is a sports and advertisement photographer from Australia. He has done a lot of work in the Olympics, starting in 2000 to the current one in 2012. He has done advertisements for Sprite, Adidas, BMW, and many more.

I find his work impactful because he shows you a different perspective of the sporting event that you either don't see or think about; his platform diving ones in particular.

Being able to take action shots can take some time to master, especially if your subjects are professional athletes such as Ussain Bolt, the fastest man on the planet. Being able to take those action shots and also showing an important moment in that particular event is a skill I would like to master as well. I don't shoot many subjects in motion, so I don't have much experience with it.

Quetzal Maucci

 Quetzal Maucci is an Argentinean and Peruvian American photographer. She studied at Tisch School of Arts in New York City where she received her BFA in Photography and Imaging. Maui is currently based out of her hometown in San Francisco. She is  interested in documentary photography, human rights, and activism.

"This continuing portrait series is inspired by conversations I’ve had with children of immigrants over the past two years. The people I met talked about their childhoods and how they defined American culture. They reflected on self-identification and the imbalance of cultural identity. And they looked at how the label "children of immigrants" affects the members of that community." - Quetzal Maucci

I chose this series and artist for she is dealing with the same issues as her subject matter, and showing the truths of how life is being a child to immigrant parents.  

Artist Website: Quetzal Maucci

Here is the link to the article and images to Children of Immigrants

Koen Demuynck

Belgian photographer/digital artist Koen Demuynck working in the Advertising Industry, Each of his works is full of interesting details and surreal-like, combined beautifully with weird ideas. 
More images here here.

Conditions

Andres Marroquin Winkelmann's series, Conditions, peers into the lives of "outsiders." Several websites explain his series as a break between the "us" and "them" mentality by having a look into the lives of those that are seen by the populous as different. 

I really enjoy this series because of the beautiful connections he makes between the person and his/her environment, without necessarily telling us which belongs to who.
http://www.andresmarroquin.com/conditions1.html

Nastya Ptichek - Emoji Nation

Nastya Ptichek is a Ukrainian artist. In this series Ptichek takes classic artworks and makes them modern by combining them with emoticons, social media icons, pop-up alerts, and more.

I chose this series because i like how she combines the emoticons, social media icons and pop-up alerts so they make complete sense with the works she chooses.

https://www.behance.net/fefe 

Graphic warnings of the Roadtec RX-900 cold planer

 A small iPhone gallery of the graphic warnings found on this multitrack road planer; I counted over a dozen different signs. Some of these subject the internationally standard graphic stickman to various gruesome perils, others deviate from abstraction to show more specifically how limbs can succumb to the asphalt-gulping machine. Most odd is the perceived need to add a helmetlike nose and eye to indicate a face in profile, which just seems superfluous.

 https://criticalterrain.wordpress.com/

 

 

Autumn de Wilde

Autumn de Wilde is a Los Angeles-based portrait, editorial, and documentary photographer. She was one of PDN's 30 in 2007, and has since gone on to photograph some of the world's most famous celebrities. She is most well-known for her work documenting musicians, as well as her somewhat recent entry into fashion and advertising photography, particularly for the fashion brand Rodarte and the TV show "Girls." She's also one of the reasons I ever formed an interest in photography.

Autumn's father, Jerry de Wilde, was a well-known counterculture documentary photographer in the 60s and 70s who found his voice from Robert Frank. His influence can be seen in many of Autumn's images. In spite of varying vastly in style from snapshot-esque to extremely formal, her portraiture tends to maintain a deeply classic look that's reminiscent of 1960s music photography.

Autumn's work is influential in my current project because I'm still working out where I want to go with the subject matter. At first I was leaning toward photographing artists around Detroit, but as I've been sending out emails, musicians seem to be the most responsive and supportive of the project above any other type of artist around the city. When I started taking photographs several years ago, it was always of bands and musicians. I think I might take the project back to my own roots and change the subject matter to document musicians around the city. Given Detroit's rich musical history and my eternal infatuation with it, I think documenting the music scene here in the Detroit area would be very rewarding.

Adrian Hatfield

Adrian Hatfield is an art professor at Wayne State University. Adrian is orig­i­nally from Ohio where he received his BFA from The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity in Colum­bus, OH and his MFA from Ohio Uni­ver­sity in Athens, OH. 

I really like Adrian's style of collaging photos and drawings into beautiful compositions. It's inspiring, as I wish to augment my own digital collages with drawing elements. 

Fred Lahache

I was looking for interesting ways to compose an image and came across Fred Lahache's work. He is a Paris-based photographer who seems to photograph whatever looks interesting or whatever he could make look interesting. Obviously, composition and color stand out in his work which is what I hope to achieve in my own. You can tell from his work that this requires careful attention to detail of everyday surroundings. Lahache organizes his work in collections, one titled Le Plein, about which he writes "The most important is within reach, as long as you make the effort to appreciate it : moments with your family, friends, beautiful things to see... just because they are familiar it doesn't mean you can't give them a fresh eye."
I am drawn to the act of looking at an object/scene and discovering multiple ways to capture it, but the most interesting way in my opinion ends up being the shots that leave a lot of information out of the frame. The photographs become more about their formal compositions and about all the possibilities that could narrate the image.

http://www.fredlahache.com/