all images are © the artist unless otherwise noted
Aaron Farley
These are not real photographs of real things. The original photographs are of water and clouds and these are photographs of those photographs, turned on their side, moved, reshot, reprinted, cut and folded, and reassembled to create a different scene which still looks familiar.
Key words: Horizon - Repeated process - Atmosphere - Depth of Field - Familiar - Nostalgia - Landscape - Experimental
Aaron Huey
Huey is widely known for his 3,349 mile, solo walk across America (with his dog Cosmo). The 2002 journey lasted 154 days. There was no media coverage. They walked everystep. Following the walk Huey took a 2 1/2 year hiatus from shooting photos to build an artist in residence program (Hueyhaus), from the ground up, on the Pecos River east of Santa Fe.
Key words: America - Culture - Documentary - Life - Colour - National pride - Reportage
Absis Minas
The subject of the first part of this series ($$$) is a loose narrative concerning people, then a lack of people. As the series, then, consists of portraits of the disposable pieces in an economic system, it is with massive sarcasm that these individual pieces are intended to be used as money, and, furthermore, arranged specifically so as to spell out words, names, sentences, and references.
Key words: Money - People - Consume - Waste - Emptiness - Resources - Wealth - Destruction
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
The marks range from the formal and professional to the casual and violent. In places coloured dots denote formal editing processes designed to select and emphasize. Elsewhere, ink and sometimes scissors have been used to erase, obscure and deface, highlighting a tension between the desire to expose and the desire to remain hidden.
Key words: History - Belfast - Found photography - Scans - Marks - Expose - Hide
Adam Amengual
Homies is very striking; the unorthodox subjects under studio lighting both captures and confuses the imagination when reading the portraits.
Key words: Portraiture - Gang members - Homies - Tattoos - America - Pride - Crime
Adam Holtzman
“After the unexpected death of my grandfather, I gathered with my family to grieve and to try and put things in order. We began to sort his belongings, going through each room cleaning and packing. After several trips the house became empty of these things that were his. As this process became complete I was struck by the differing voids left as a result. Here was a place, now absent of its occupant, the belongings and life.”
Key words: Familiar - Empty - Space - Memory - Nostalgia - Home
Adam Krawesky
Adam Krawesky started photographing people on the streets of Toronto in the summer of 2002 [..] he asked to photograph them with their hands covering their faces, to assuage his own fear of confrontation and the stranger's suspicion of the lens. [...] What I notice is the truth that comes through from the hands and the postures of the people behind them. The play-acting of hiding reveals more than a common portrait might ever reveal.
Key words: Identity - Fear - Stranger - Hide - Hands - Portrait - Street - Photographer
Alan Ostreicher
The bulk of Alan Ostreicher’s work explores shapes and textures in the context of black/white photography.
Key words: America - Shape - Cars - Tone - Framing - Nostalgia - Iconic - Suburbia - Timeless
Alan Sailer
A normal photographic flash unit gives a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). However Alan's flash unit is much faster than this, and produces a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This allows him to freeze things that are happening extremely fast, and to give us a view of something that otherwise we would never see.
Key words: High Speed Photography - Moment - Freeze - Explosion - Time - Unseen - Destruction
Alban Grosdidier
Drowning is a project that talks about the feeling of submersion that you can have living in a big city. There are as many ways of dealing with it that there are people, and therefore there are as many portraits waiting to be done.
Key words: Drowning - Water - Trapped - Alone - Silence - Underneath - Life - Fear - Isolation
Alison Brady
“When I conceive my images the questions I ask myself are: What is the state of normality? How can that normality be subverted, perverted, or generally transformed? When does this overcome the real and become psychotic?”
Key words: Normality - Emotions - Desires - Madness - Identity - Fantasy - Unconscious - Neurosis - Anxiety
Allen Klosowski
Amy Stein
Andrea Tese
Clothing, bottles, appliances – relatable objects that serve as the basic accessories of daily life, schematically arranged to form a visual inventory of one man’s possessions. The Inheritance project is an exploration into ideas of legacy, identity, and impermanence, of what we leave behind and how that defines us. At the same time, it is a deeply personal documentation of the artist’s mourning process following the passing of her grandfather.
Key words: Possessions - Inheritance - Collections - Consume - Life - Death - Things - Identity - Old - Time
Andreas Gefeller
Andreas Gursky
Andrew B Myers
Andrew Curtis
Anna Schuleit
Anna Shteynshleyger
Anne Hardy
Arun Kuplas
Aura Rosenberg
Axel Hoedt
Key words: T Shirts - Pattern - Animals - Disguise - Urban - Portrait - Print - Pop Culture - Surreal - Youth - Masks
Barbara Crane
Barbara Hilski
Ben Marcin
Benjamin Bechet
Benoit Paille
Berndnaut Smilde
Bert Teunissen
Bettina von Zwehl
Bill Armstrong
My unique process of appropriating images and subjecting them to a series of manipulations—photocopying, cutting, painting, re-photographing—transforms the originals and gives them a new meaning in a new context. Extreme blurring makes the edges within the collages disappear, so the photographs appear to be seamless, integrated images. This sleight of hand allows me to conjure a mysterious tromp l'oeil world that hovers between the real and the fantastic. It is a world just beyond our grasp, where place may be suggested, but is never defined, and where the identity of the amorphous figures remains in question. It is a world that might exist in memory, in dreams, or, perhaps, in a parallel universe yet unvisited.
Key words: Montage - Manipulation - Blur - Mystery - Collage - Reality - Figure - Memory - Dreams
Bill O'Donnell
Bohnchang Koo
Boogie
Brendan George Ko
I am searching for shades of myself, investigating my past, and finding captions that speak for each moment I had forgotten. Instead of a motorcycle, I use my feet for this journey; searching the terrain that surrounds me for my past self that has so rapidly changed over the course of half decade.
Key words: Myself - Nostalgia - Memory - Text - Past - Journey - Travel - Thoughts - Search - Time
Brian Ulrich
Brice Bischoff
Bruce Checefsky
Bruce Davidson
Candida Hofer
Cecilia Paredes
My initial inspiration was the recurrent theme of displacement and relocation. Performance involves nudity one way or the other. The human body is a vehicle to express your thoughts. The series is not about the body though. It’s about location so in this case, the body is part of the space.
Key words: Pattern - Body - Space - Location - Displacement - Camouflage - Disguise - Disappear - Wallpaper - Home
Cecile Plaisance
Celeste Nelms
Chris Faust
Chris Jordan
Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption(2003 - 2005) - Exploring around our country's shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity.The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.
As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake. ~cj, Seattle, 2005
As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake. ~cj, Seattle, 2005
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'Cigarette butts'
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'Spent bullet casings'
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© Chris Jordan
Chrissie MacDonald
Christophe Audebert
These are lovers of modern times. Time and place don’t matter to them. As long as their couple story keeps on being writed. They are here. Or there. But above all they are here below to love each other. Christophe Audebert’ series, soberly entitled “Here and there”, displays couples of all ages in urban places that don’t really seem aesthetic at first glance, but which are part and parcel of the environment of millions of people who live in big urban areas. The wind can blow, the rain can fall, and the night can come. Christophe Audebert’s couples accept their condition, once again as long as their story rhymes with harmony.
Key words: Affection - Public - Strange - Relationships - Couples - Love - Urban - Alone - Composition
Christophe Jacrot
I like the way rain, snow and “bad weather” awaken a feeling of romantic fiction within me. I see these elements as a fabulous ground for photography, an under-used visual universe with a strong evocative power, and with a richness of subtle lights. This universe escapes most of us, since we are too occupied getting undercover. Man becomes a ghostly silhouette wandering and obeying the hazards of rain or of snow.
Key words: Rain - Weather - City - Window - Glass - Shelter - Water - Distortion - Buildings
Christopher W. Trice
Chrystal Snowden
Cindy Sherman
Claire Beckett
Clarisse D’Arcimoles
Claudia Eschborn
Clifford Ross
Colleen Plumb
Cool Like Pie
Corey Holms
Corina Gamma
Corrie Witt
Dan Ferro
Danny Treacy
David Levinthal
David Ryle
Key words: Portraiture - Glass - Distorted - Steam - Breath - Watching - Trapped - Behind - Emotionless
David Schalliol
Deanna Dikeman
Deborah Guzmán Meyer
Denis Darzacq
Denis Roussel
Dennis Maitland
Derek Shapton
Didier Massard
Dita Pepe
Key words: Life - Family - Marriage - Women - Choice - Future - Class - Wealth - People
East Eric
Ed Ruscha
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Horsford
Eileen Quinlan
Elise Windsor
Elspeth Diederix
Emma Summerton
Erika Diettes
Erika Ritzel
Ernst Haas
Fazal Sheikh
Filippo Minelli
Decontextualization of a violent tool changing quickly the surroundings, creating chaos, blinding the eyes, used in natural landscapes. The result proves that beauty can be found in clashing visions with an approach and aesthetic similar to romanticism. Showing the power of nature with the implication of religious aspects. Juxtaposing violence and beauty as a political statement.
Key words: Explosion - Colour - Landscape - Beauty - Chaos - Smoke - Moment - Juxtapose
Flora Borsi
Francis Alys
Francis Alÿs uses poetic and allegorical methods to address political and social realities, such as national borders, localism and globalism, areas of conflict and community, and the benefits and detriments of progress.
Key words: Line - Trace - Movement - People - Marks - TIme - Change - Borders - Community
Franck Bohbot
Key words: Flight - Levitation - People - City - Fast shutter - Movement - Time - Surreal
Francois Delfosse
These photos by the Belgium architect François Delfosse are beautiful. He says that the images were taken in a “glacier cave just North of the South Pole”, before adding that they are “viewed from the inside of a plastic bag”. As images, they’re really stunning and I love the playful reaction they get. If they really were photos of a glacier cave we’d probably be in awe of their beauty, yet because they’re plastic bags it feels odd to think of them as beautiful. I don’t care, I think they are truly gorgeous.
Key words: Ice - Plastic Bag - Illusion - Light - Surreal - Cave - Space - Beauty - Inside
Frank Yamrus
Gillian Wearing
Grant Ernhart
Grant Simon Rogers
All of my photographs are daytime pictures. With the aperture ring set to f11-f22 and the shutter speed between 1/500 and 1/2000 of a second, I will get a really dark picture from my cameras in all but the brightest of sunlight. My digital range finder cameras have a small in built flash above the lens, which I then use to illuminate the foreground detail and create definition in the middle ground. This creates the theatrical ‘Day for night.’ The large aperture gives me a wonderful depth of field to play with so that most of my chosen subject is in focus and on overcast days allows for the clouds to become part of the whole composition.
Key words: Light - Flash - Nature - Underneath - Night - Contrast - Angle - Distort
Greg Stimac
Gregor Schneider
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© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
Gregory Crewdson
Gunther Forg
Guy Tillim
Hai Bo They
Hannah Darabi
Hans Eijkelboom
Harvey Benge
Harvey Benge who works in Auckland and Paris, has been a full-time camera artist since 1992. His practice, based on looking at the nature of reality and a consideration of what is truth, investigates the overlooked, the unseen and the insignificant in the first world’s urban environments. He is particularly interested in the notion of parallel lives. "While something is happening here, something else is happening over there."
“In his search for the absurd and bizarre in the urban landscape….small moments of everyday life flash with ambiguity and tension, contrasts and conflicts. Part humorous…often he shows disturbing signs of differences, small anarchies… an urban dream at the edges of reality.” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
“In his search for the absurd and bizarre in the urban landscape….small moments of everyday life flash with ambiguity and tension, contrasts and conflicts. Part humorous…often he shows disturbing signs of differences, small anarchies… an urban dream at the edges of reality.” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
Hector Sos
Heidi Specker
Hollis Bennett
Howard Bond
Ian Whitmore
Isadora Kosofsky
Izima Kaoru
J. Adam Mcgalliard
J. Bennett Fitts
J. Henry Fair
Jacob Sutton
James Griffioen
In his series titled Feral Houses, photographer James Griffioen captures abandoned houses around Detroit that are slowly being devoured by nature; as weeds, grass, vines and trees slowly grow over what a family used to call home. I’ve seen “feral” used to describe dogs, cats, even goats. But I have wondered if it couldn’t also be used to describe certain houses in Detroit. Abandoned houses are really no big deal here. Some estimate that there are as many as 10,000 abandoned structures at any given time, and that seems conservative. But for a few beautiful months during the summer, some of these houses become “feral” in every sense: they disappear behind ivy or the untended shrubs and trees planted generations ago to decorate their yards. The wood that framed the rooms gets crushed by trees rooted still in the earth. The burnt lime, sand, gravel, and plaster slowly erode into dust, encouraged by ivy spreading tentacles in its endless search for more sunlight.
Key words: Home - Nature - Feral - Urban - Foliage - Abandoned - Disappear - Man-made - Time
Jeffrey Milstein
Jennifer Greenburg
Jeremy Bolen
Jiang Zhi
Jiang’s new solo show entitled; ‘Love Letters’. The photographs of orchids, roses, sunflowers and trees on fire, but not yet blackened or consumed, are beautiful and enduring, even as the plants howl out their demise. The flower and fire co-exist glamorously together at the same time and there is no destruction, but only a process of transformation. The fire is as beautiful as the flower and the flower is also complete without defect - but of course, this is only temporal beauty.
Key words: Fire - Flowers - Nature - Beauty - Destruction - Temporary - Moment - Death - Life - Time
Jill Greenberg
Jin Lee
Joachim Froese
Joachim Lapotre
Jochen Lempert
Joel Sternfeld
John A. Chakeres
John Crawford
"I'd hire a small fixed-wing aircraft for an hour and hunt for abstract details in the landscape where I could strategically place a nude. I would shoot reference images of each location, which I would print. On these, with a black ink pen I would sketch little stick figures and add the various props I would need."
Key words: Aerial - Above - Landscape - Nude - Figure - People - Perspective - Miniature - Surreal
John Divola
John Kippin
John Ryan Brubaker
Jon Shireman
Beauty is truly fleeting, especially when it is frozen in liquid nitrogen and shattered by a spring-loaded contraption. New York photographer Jon Shireman immerses flowers for up to 30 minutes in LN2, and rockets them into a hard surface, recording their destruction with a high speed camera for his 2010 “Broken Flowers” project. Displayed against a stark white background, the blooms resemble splintered china plates or floral fireworks.
Key words: Nature - Destruction - Frozen - Beauty - High Speed - Shards - Shattered - Death - Flowers
Jonathan Lewis
Jose Antonio Hernandez Diez
Julia Kissina
Julian Rosefeldt
Julie Moos
Justin Schmitz
Keegan Gibbs
Keith Arnatt
Kim Pimmel
I've always been fascinated by lights in the darkness, the ephemeral glow that hovers in your retina after a light has passed, the traces of residual motion, captured one by one by the camera. This series of photographs explores the beauty of light by recording the path of handheld and computer controlled lights during long exposures.
Key words: Light - Beauty - Movement - Glow - Motion - Technology - Exposure - Colour - Space
Kirk Crippens
Kunihiko Katsumata
Kyle Thompson
Kyungwoo Chun
Larry Chait
Laura Letinsky
Laura Letinsky has developed her practice since the late 1990s through meticulously composed still life photographs influenced by 17th Century Renaissance painting. Using a large format camera in a controlled studio environment, her work resembles the aftermath of a meal, where stained tablecloths, spilled wine and squashed, misshapen fruit allude to mortality, frustrated desire and melancholy.
Key words: Still Life - Food - Cut out - Paper - Illusion - Fruit - Meal - Staged - Surreal (c) Laura Letinsky, courtesy of Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery
Laura Makabresku
I always say that there are three things that inspire me: sensitiveness, darkness and death. Pain is inscribed in all of these. Everything is linked with each other inseparably. This is why some of my photos can present sensitiveness and wounds at the same time. Maybe I should say: sensitive wounds? I’m also inspired by forests and loneliness. And also my own past, especially memories from childhood, which are very strong and intense. I often tell stories in my photos which really happened to me when I was a young, little girl, or earlier, when I was getting older and had my first passions.
Key words: Animals - People - Narrative - Portraits - Surreal - Masks - Crime - Pain FAN PAGE
Laura Noel
Laura Swanson
Laurie Simmons
Leanne Eisen
Leopoldo Plentz
Lisa Kereszi
Lori Nix
Louis Lander Deacon
Louis Lander Deacon is consistently pushing the boundaries through his work of what photography can offer. His following set of photographs, part of his A-Level Fine Art Final Pieces, is full of color and motion.
Key words: Colour - Explosion - Cloud - Portrait - Disguise - Movement - Dust - Smoke
Luc Delahaye
Luke Byrne
Luis Gispert
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