Stephanie Pana: By Jessica Fee

Stephanie Pana is a photographer from Chicago, who photographs portraits of women. A lot of her work coincides more with fashion photography but she also takes the time to work on Conceptual work. She has a shallow depth of field to focus in on her subject, making them the main focus in her photographs. She is a natural light photographer.

Tom Hunter - Jennifer Stoudt

Tom Hunter's photographs are tableaus that are set up to mimic famous paintings. The photographs are completely set up and controlled by the artist, but still look natural. Hunter's photographs focus a lot on composition, and are often composed in the same way as the painting he is working from. The lighting is very beautiful, especially in the indoor photographs that are lit only by the sunlight shining through the window.  You can see that he pays attention to color in a lot of his photographs with some repeating colors. His beautiful photographs portray the lives of common people in an interesting new way.

William Eggleston by Stefan Hancock

William J. Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennesse, but grew up in the small Mississippi town of Sumner. He became known as "the father of color photography" for his striking photos of people, events and landscapes in the South. Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, and by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's book, The Decisive Moment. The clean, simple aesthetic of Eggleston's work with color is what intrigues me the most. The juxtaposition of objects within his compositions complement one another color wise, and his timing and composition are somewhat representative of Cartier-Bresson. 

Weekly Post: Russell Jones

Delaney Allen's In Visibility consists of photographs are various cloud-like forms, with some clearly depicting clouds, and others depicting images of dust or mist or smoke. Most are shot portrait style, in various settings and at various times of the day.

The strength of this series definitely comes from the formal atmospheric qualities of these cloud like forms. You could say that he has done a very good job of capturing the visual nature of mist, smoke and dust, but there is enough variety between each individual photograph that it doesn't get stale. The title of this series plays with the word invisibility, which reminds me of magicians using smoke as a form of disrupting the audiences visibility momentarily, which certainly fits these photographs well.

Weekly Post: Kaylynn Deveney by Alli

These photos by Kaylynn Deveney are from her series "A Day to Day Life of Albert Hastings" whom is 85 at the time the photos were taken and lives in Wales. Kaylynn moved to Wales at the time she started this series and became apart of Albert's daily life of gardening, laundry, and grocery shopping. The photos are accompanied by notes under each photo with captions written by Albert. The entire series contains 78 photographs of Albert, a poem and clock drawings by Albert, and personal family photographs. These portraits of Albert are captured by Kaylynn by catching him off guard in his daily activities. They aren't dead on frontal portraits, but Kaylynn places him in or near the center of the frame making him the main focus of the photograph just as he is the main focus of the series. 

Parisa Taghizadeh by Stephanie

Parisa Taghizadeh is a British-Iranian photographer who started the series Boy which started as a documentation of her son's day to day life in a world that he creates around him, but slowly began to unfold as an intimate look into how he is exploring beyond the gender "role" that is given onto him in our society. Her heavy cropping gives us a glance into the details that her son explores on his own. The saturation of color is not overdone but in fact just enough to catch the eye of the viewer to zoom in on the items that her son considers as simply "beautiful". The nail polish, necklace and pink dress brings joy to the boy and it brings me joy to see that gender roles aren't an issue to children - it isn't until they get into the world that they are told different. The images are simple and beautiful and reveal the innocence behind children that we often overlook and forget.

Weekley Post: The Wade Brothers: Troy

The photos I selected for my blog are the work of the Wade brothers, David Lidnsey Wade and Lyndon Wade. Their work tells a story because of its composition and the animated tone set to each photograph.  The Wade brothers work has also gained them plenty of  clientel from Best Buy, Sprint, Sony, Coca-Cola, Discovery Channel etc.  Besides how many people have hired them for their work and it is a very impressive track record, what impresses me is the imagination put forth behind in their photographs.  I love the fantasy aspect for example in the spider woman photograph or the ravens attacking the town.  The photographs are beautiful in their own right as the Wade Brothers utilized their imaginations and transferred that into their photographs.

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