Weekly Post: Russell Jones

Jeff Frost

Jeff Frosts photography works on tailoring locations or subjects to the view of his camera. Much like Gabriel Orozco or Andy Goldsworthy, he is constructing an image rather than photographing something that is merely found. He often uses optical illusions in his works; painting a surface with rectangles, but because of the angle the photograph is taken at they appear to be squares coloring a surface.

Jeff Frost also combines this process with long exposures during the night, creating a mystifying feel to his photographs.

Weekly Post: Matt Eich by Jessica Fee

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Matt Eich is a photographer from Norfolk, VA.

"Hi, my name is Matt; I am an independent photographer living in Norfolk, Virginia while working on long-form projects around America. I’ve photographed governors, gangsters and everyone in between. I find them all equally fascinating."

Weekly Post - Ali Bosworth by Alli

These photographs by Ali Bosworth are of a girl named Sinead. They are sort of an archive of their relationship with each other, but he explains it as not being a good one.  He says that their relationship has changed his photography and the way he photographs. A quote from him in an interview that I thought was interesting was, “I think the topic of Sinéad as a subject in my photographs is an interesting one but I don’t think I am the best person to speak on it. I like hearing other peoples readings of it.” After reading the interview on Sinead it makes me feel as if they may have a relationship that is very up and down, and that maybe they have been through a lot with each other, but his photographs don’t really say that. The say more like although they may have been through a lot Ali Bosworth can appreciate every bit of it.

I like the way Ali Bosworth captures Sinead. They seem very intimate and without reading his interview I get the feeling that they have a very close and adventurous relationship. I also get the feeling that he has very deep feelings for her, most of the time the photographs of Sinead are of guard, so he is photographing Sinead in the moment  capturing her emotion and what she is doing. The way he photographs them, to me, shows that he can appreciate capturing these things about her. Everything about the photographs of her feels very natural. They don’t look staged at all or like he set up the photograph to be taken, and I can appreciate that.

Weekly: Julia Fullerton-Batten

Julia Fullerton-Batten portrays mother-daughter relationships in a cold way based on her own experiences growing up. She tries to portray the complexity of the relationship between the two as the daughter grows older through beautiful tableau photographs. These photographs feature good colors, lighting, attention to detail, and natural acting by the models.

Weekly Post: August Sander

August Sander (1876-1964), the last image is his self portrait. His work included landscapes, nature, architecture, and street photography but is best known for his portraiture. He is considered the important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century. In his portraits he uses natural lighting and sets up the background, paying particular attention to what was included or excluded. He does this to give a controlled and intentional hint at the origin and profession of the sitter through the background or through clothes, hairstyle, gesture or props. I've always been fascinated with the timeless feel to the black and white images. They make me wonder what it was like to live in that time period. If life was simpler and decisions were clearer and easier to make.

Matthieu Raffard by Stephanie

Matthieu Raffard is a film photographer who spent some time in Ukraine and did a series called Corps Balnéaire, while he was there. He photographed in a small area in a city where a lower class community lived. In the series he captured mostly juveniles who seemed to be mischievous and daring  and loved to stay active. His color palette is soft and he uses natural lighting for the entire series. His compositions are harmonious and his subjects always seem to give something back to the camera even when they aren't looking directly at the camera. My favorite from these images has to be the last one with the young boy in the background taking a wiz. 

Weekley Post: Neil Krug by Troy Bonner Jr

Neil Krug is a photographer and a film director.  His work spans from monograms and pulp prints.  One thing I admire about Krug's Pulp print books is the fact they are narratives.  His first book told a story which continued through the second book.  The books are based off B movies, Westerns, in the 60s and 70s.  His mix of photography and film work very well together. As they establish a world in which the viewer can fall into the story through his prints.

Weekly, Nan Goldin

As a teenager in Boston in the 1960's, then in New York in starting in the 1970's, Nan Goldin has taken intensely personal, spontaneous, sexual, and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. In 1979 she presented her first slideshow in a New York nightclub, and her richly colored, snapshot like photographs were soon heralded as a groundbreaking contribution to fine art photography. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency-the name she gave her ever-evolving show-eventually grew into a forty-five minute multimedia presentation of more than 900 photographs, accompanied by a musical soundtrack. I personally enjoy the snapshot like quality of Goldin's work. That, coupled with the vibrant colors really give the images a candid and very personal feel to them. The content of the images is sometimes hard for the viewer to deal with, but Goldin makes images that need to be seen. These images speak to me in ways that very few others could, and can not only immerse the viewer into a different time, but almost allow the viewer to get a taste of what her subjects are thinking, doing, seeing, and feeling.