A NEW HORIZON

Where others see a silhouette Leon Steele sees a new horizon. Through his lens, people become physical features, camels and cows become simple textures in a larger landscape. In a cutthroat industry where sexuality often sells, Steele turns that idea on its head as well: a shoot for an organic food company becomes an artistic statement. “We took these girls into the middle of a field, stripped them naked and turned them into landscape,” Artistic publicity photography.

http://www.thefstopmag.com/?p=595

BCC

 

An Irish photographer of striking versatility as well as one of the finest photographic printmakers that ever lived, Bob Carlos Clarke made a wide range of memorable images in his hugely successful career.

Highly regarded in the field, he worked in almost every sphere of photography; winning numerous awards for high-profile advertising campaigns, gaining recognition for his photojournalism and portraits of celebrities and achieving international acclaim from art dealers collectors of fine prints.

http://www.bobcarlosclarke.co.uk/

ICONIC WINTERS

 

 

Dan Winters images are iconic, and it's not just because he photographs icons. The magic of a Dan Winters portrait is it's authenticity. His pictures have a soul. They invite the veiwer to connect with people in a very real and personal way. In a media landscape overflowing with "less subtle" imagery his always seems to stand out. His photographs are technical amazing and this is part of the way how he connects with his public.

book: Periodical Photographs, Dan Winters

COLOURED SILVER

 

Youssef Nabil’s hand-colored gelatin silver prints are carefully crafted portraits inspired by Egyptian movie posters and films of the 1940s and 1950s. Mr. Nabil photographs actors, artists, friends and himself in glamorous, melodramatic staged scenes that recall stills from the golden era of Egyptian cinema. He meticulously enhances his black-and-white prints with watercolor and pencil using traditional hand-coloring techniques. By combining photography and painting, the artist transforms his subjects into romantic icons and grants them an air of cinematic immortality.

http://www.youssefnabil.com/

STORIES OF ISOLATION

Todd Hido has taken the American road and its landscapes, its stories of isolation and carefully made them conform to his will. The book, beautiful and large feels natural as if these physical places and these moments in time exist to fulfill the urges within Hido, to express his "need" and his "feeling". In the textures, both grotesque and beautiful... in the obscured vision, in the ice, in the lunar like emptiness, in the rain and in the sleet... the aesthetics act as metaphor and story for emptiness itself, for sorrow, for separation... for isolation.

book: A Road Divided, Todd Hido (2010)

INNER HUMANITY

Wolf Suschitzky, the Viennese born photographer and cinematographer who has live in London since 1935, talked about his life and work in a public interview with Norman Lebrecht, the BBC Radio 3 presenter and award-winning writer, at the Lebrecht annual garden party on 18th September. It was a great privilege to listen to a photographer whose work has been illuminated by his inner humanity and his engagement with the world around him. His work always tells a story and it creates a lot of questions. The questions will never be answered, and that is the part of the pleasure of looking at the results of his beautifully crafted photographs.

http://www.wolfsuschitzkyphotos.com/

DUST

Olivier Valsecchi, 1979, France, is specialized in portraiture and photographing nudes, but the most attention he has recently gotten is with his series Dust. Nude males and females covered in white powder in awkward positions. This most recent work, “Dust,” features men and women seemingly caught in a womb-like dust storm, an alternate universe devoid of gravity and color. “The Dust series is an in-between,” explains the artist. “Between death and birth, in a chronological sense. It is the ‘re’. It is the chaos, the confusion between the water and the gloom that is the cradle of the world. Between the fall and the takeoff, the renunciation and the impulse, the bodies are chalky, zombie-like, between animated and disembodied. The in-between, meaning what is nearly, what is not quite.”

magazine: Eyemazing 2010