A New Christopher Jordan

A New Christopher Jordan

Christopher J Jordan is a working photographer and a professor at the University of Alabama. His work is focused on landscape. He approaches the landscape photography completely different then the typical ‘beautiful landscape’ photograph.

I really enjoy his project Suburban Sublime it is quit interesting. He photographs suburbia but gives it a mysterious twist. He makes the homes seem abstract and very creepy by photo manipulation. I absolutely enjoy this project because I want to try a new approach this semester by shooting homes in the dark. I think that it will add a whole new approach to my project. These suburban homes are perfectly made neighborhoods that have no uniqueness but also have a mystery to them, which is what makes me so interested in using homes to express people. His work is visually interesting as well as a interesting concept.

  

 

www.jordanphoto.com

Newsha Tavakolian
http://www.newshatavakolian.com/
she is a self taught photographer and started working in Iran at the age of 16 as a photographer. At the age of 21 she started working internationally covering war, natural disasters and social issues.
Her main work focuses on women's issues in Iran.

from her "Mothers of Martyrs series





from her "Listen" series

I found her work interesting and compelling in that she is trying to draw attention to issues she believes in.  

As i read through an interview with her i found that she would love to create her images without censoring herself.
I did not find a lot of information on her other than she is a freelance photojournalist and she has had images published in time and news week as well as national geographic mag.

Here is a fascinating inside look at our SLR camera lenses

SLR Camera Lens Dismantled 

Carina Linge

   Carina Linge is a German contemporary photographer, still living and working out of Germany. She graduated with distinction from the Bauhaus University in 2006 and later went on to teach at the university, beginning in 2007. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, received multiple grants, and also participated in several art fairs.
   Carina's work references the renaissance and baroque styles of painting, while dealing with the concept of relationships and whether individuals in our society are able to form truly intimate bonds with other people. She works mostly in portraiture, though sometimes her portraits are absent of a human figure while still creating a narrative about a certain person.  She typically spends several months getting to know her subject before even beginning to photograph them, and she effectively makes use of symbols to communicate something specific about her subject.  The symbols she chooses are subtle, which allows for her images to hold the viewer's attention for a more extended amount of time while they consider all the elements existing within the frame.
   This work interests me for several reasons, but especially how she uses her photos to tell a story about a person.  I've always been drawn to portraiture, both in my own work and also in the work of other artists I enjoy, and I think Carina's work shows a nice balance between obvious and subtle statements being made simultaneously.

Kara Walker

Kara Walker, daughter of artist Larry Walker was born in Stockton, California. At the age of 13 kara moved to Stone Mountain, Alabama. Some of her experiences growing up in the South as well as her views on the world inspires her art. The life size or larger tableaux are loaded with many themes. Her over all theme deals with power struggles, then the types of struggles within. Her work mimics the subtle beauty of the Antebellum South while speaking about ugly truths involving race, history, physicality, sex, and personal issues. For me, it reads like a dark satire. It is a sound balance between compelling, beautifully crafted work and heavy, pugnacious subject matter.

Steve McCurry

 

 Steve McCurry was born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied film at Pennsylvania State University, while working at a local news paper. He made freelance images until his first trip to India. He has since traveled extensively and captures family's at their strongest and weakest moments.

His work is so home hitting it is almost shocking. I felt a strong connection with this particular series of images because they reflect very deeply on the frailness of life, and on the strength to go on. Age may cause you to become frail, but heart and mind can keep the will to push on. All of these images are taken in different parts of the globe which reminds us of our similarities, and our strengths.

Christina

Viviane Sassen

Viviane Sassen was born in 1972 in Amsterdam.  She won the Prix de Rome in 2007 for her colorful photographs from her travels in Africa and the ICP Infinity Award for Applied and Fashion Photography in 2011.  Her fashion photography, In and out of fashion, is exhibited at the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam. 

Her fashion photography is surreal and abstract and has energy.  Viviane Sassen works with natural light like bright sunlight, shadows, and reflection.  As seen in this photo Hoover.  Which was for 'Pop' magazine in 2011. 

I choose this work because it caught my eye for looking strange and tangled with the limbs and shadows, and because it looks as if it is upside down or without gravity.  I choose this artist because she does artistic and comercial fashion photography.