Eerie and Romantic Photos of the Sea Shot in the Dead of Night

http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/02/eerie-and-romantic-photos-of-the-sea-shot-in-the-dead-of-night/ 

For Moonlighting, London-based photographer Paul Thompson ventures out to the coast in the dead of night, escaping all the light and noise of the city for a few hours of darkness set aglow by the rhythms of the sea.

Thompson is drawn to the seaside in part because it brings back memories of a childhood spent on the coast. He seeks out terrain that is both familiar and mysterious, spaces that metamorphose at night from the commonplace into the preternatural. Though he knows the landscape and can often see boats on the horizon, Thompson’s nights at sea bring with them an eerie sense of isolation. “Your eyes and ears play tricks on you,” he says. Since he works on film, it’s only hours later in development that the true nature of the elusive night reveals itself.

A linke to the artist's website:

http://www.paulthompsonstudio.com/ 

I immediately choose these photos to upload them here when I saw them in Feature Shoot.And then I thought why I was interested on these photos? Maybe because I can see the road. Where does the road goes? To the horizon. What is over there? Nothing. So, what is after the nothing, after the horizon? In these photos artist directing us to the specific point in the photos. Some light some goal in a very far away. But what we see at the background is almost the same thing whit what we can see at front. It is telling us that the path in the goal itself. There is nothing in the end.

 

 

 

Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry Uelsmann is a surrealist photographer thats works with film and manipulation in the darkroom. His images are very unique in a way to where they seem dreamlike and odd. I like that aspect to his work and I feel like with the responses I could get from my inkblots that they could be bizarre and will appear to be dreamlike how his photos are. Looking at his work inspires me and gives me a slight idea on how I could handle a bizarre response and execute it effectively.

Jamie Baldridge

Jamie Baldridge was born in 1975 in a very small town in the deep south. Jamie got a BFA in Photography, eventually obtaining an MFA in Photography from the same institution. He is currently a professor of photography at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

I enjoy the surreal nature of the photos, and the technical mastery of collaging the elements together. 

Jamie's website can be found here: http://jamiebaldridge.com/index.html

Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky is a Canadian photographer who currently is a professor at the University of Chicago.  Her series "Hardly More Than Ever," is an interesting twist on classic still life paintings, and speaks about consumerism and our materialistic nature.  Rather than photographing a luxurious meal, she photographs the remains of a meal, leaving the viewer to make up their own narratives.  Along with that, the dishes are left in somewhat awkward positions, making the viewer a bit anxious.  She started this series in East Berlin, "where the unfamiliar context made me intensely aware of my own cultural and material relationship to food."  After that, she continued to work on it through several years.

http://www.wipnyc.org/blog/laura-letinsky

Untitled, #60, Hardly More Than Ever series, 2002

Untitled, #92, Hardly More Than Ever series, 2004

Untitled, #23, Hardly More Than Ever series, 1999

Untitled, #15, Hardly More Than Ever series, 1999

 

Brent Stirton

Brent Stirton is a highly decorated photojournalist. He has been published in countless magazines, won tons of awards, and is one of 12 Canon ambassadors.

He did a series on a village in South Africa, following the life of a man who was attacked by a lion, and his villages efforts to help him live. 

He did another series called Gods Ivory, following illegal poachers, the the trip an elephants tusk takes once it has been removed from the body.  

Find more of his work here: 

http://www.brentstirton.com/#s=13&mi=1&pt=0&pi=26&p=-1&a=-1&at=0

 

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