Christian Wilbur by Stephanie

Christian Wilbur is a Long Island based photographer who photographed his handicapped brother's move from the family home into a care facility. This series called With or Without You covers everyday moments and family spaces in the home. I came upon this article earlier this morning and was intrigued by how Wilbur captures images within the home and the tight spaces in the care facility. The intimacy that is shown through the photographs and how his family has allowed him to capture every part of their experience. The fact they trust him enough to allow him to photograph aids the images to be much more genuine. I enjoy the use of natural light and how he's allowed light to play with some of the subjects within the frame - how both the light and camera interact is beautifully done with his stills. 

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Went home this weekend and was limited with the time available for photographing - I did as much as I could do with everyone's schedule. This is also most likely my last time visiting MD before the senior show. I haven't photographed any new self-portraits but they will be in the process this week. My mother was willing to be photographed but she has very little patience.

Stephen Tourlentes by Ken Riley

Stephen Tourlentes started photographing prisons after a facility was built in his home town, in Illinois, USA. In a series of images entitled 'Building Absence', Tourlentes captures prisons at night, in the distance, their lights illuminating the landscapes in which they exist. An estimated 0.7% of the population of the USA is incarcerated inside more than 4,500 prisons and almost 3% of the population is in some form of correctional supervision. 

By his own estimation Tourlentes has photographed more than 100 prisons in 46 states, often from dead-end public roads and from within the communities that border these huge facilities.

Elinor Carucci by Stephanie

In all honesty I've had difficulty finding artists that I've personally found inspiring, until today. Yesterday I looked but to no avail - today I look and there it is. Elinor Carucci is a photographer who does like me and photographs the closest things to her. She has created bodies of work that have included herself, her husband, her parents (prior to their divorce) and the latest her children. Her photographs are gentle, sincere and honest. I've found her work to be inspiring because I hope to someday be as honest as she is and still manage to stay "clean" with it all. I don't know exactly what that means, but it is an aspiration.

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My sisters were visiting this weekend and I brought them in the studio for an idea I've had in my head for a while. I also photographed them in my home with natural light, which I prefer better but I'm posting both to show the difference.

Weekly, Brian Ulrich

I was very interested in Brian Ulrich's Copia when we took a class trip up to his show in Richmond his method of addressing consumer culture spoke volumes to me. I was most interested in his photographs of abandoned and run down storefronts, and what that said about the speed at which our interests as a consumer society change. I admired his courage to go into a store and take as much time that he needed in order to make the photographs of products on shelves and signs and such. His photographs of people in thrift stores shopping not only perpetuate the nature of our short term interests in products, but also introduce an aspect of our socioeconomic class system.

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Weekly, Stefan Hancock

Weekly, Keith Yahrling

Keith Yahrling's series titled "American Consumerism" addresses the American capitalist society in which the public, as consumers, are persuaded everyday to buy things that we do and do not need. The photographs focus on the overwhelming array of products on shelves, signs, prices, and sale prices, all created to make us buy things and give more wealth and power to the massive corporations that produce these material effects.