CONTRASTO

Lorenzo Cicconi Massi (41), Italy, graduated in sociology and then started working with black-and-white photography with a high contrast in it. At the same time he made his first low-budget short films, which received awards at a number of festivals and were broadcast by Tele+ and Rai television stations. In the 1990s he began once again to concentrate on telling stories through still photography, his series on children's games being awarded the Canon prize.

 

http://www.lorenzocicconimassi.it/

HUMBLE LIGHT

Yousuf Karsh (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002 was born in Madin, Armenia and became one of the world’s most renowned portrait photographers. Karsh was a master in the use of studio lights. One aspect of Karsh's portrait is the emphasis on the lighting the subject's hands separately. He photographed many of the great and celebrated personalities of his generation. Karsh said "My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble."

documentary: Het uur van de wolf, 9 juli 2010

SUGGESTIVE PHENOMENA

The large cibachrome photographs in Juul Hondius ’ show "Faction" were all suggestive of phenomena like illegal immigration, asylum seekers, refugees and civil war. In an age in which winning entries for the World Press Photo competition usually are highly aesthetic and carefully composed, no matter how gruesome the subject-matter, Hondius' glossy depictions of politically charged scenes cause a flash of recognition.

magazine: FOAM, nr. 18

PROVOCATIVE CHARISMA

Reka Koti, a young Hungarian talent. This is some of her newest work, which was done in collaboration with Nori Sarma, who Reka found out about after reading about her in the Young Hungarian Talent column. Their goal was to make a provocative, and honest series of photographs that used charismatic personalities instead of professional models that reveals the face of modern Budapest through their eyes.

http://www.myspace.com/kotirekaagnes/photos/11681505#{%22ImageId%22%3A11680929}

WORLD IMPRESS

Tommaso Ausili was born in Rome in 1970. He came to photography at the age of 30, after a degree in law. At the beginning Ausili was interested in travel and geographical photography, the he gradually approached photo-reportage, fascinated by the expressive means and the interpretative possibilities peculiar to this kind of photography. In 2009 he started his “Hidden Death” project, focused on the death of animals for slaughter, awarded at the World Press Photo 2010 (3rd prize, Contemporary Issues Stories) where I noticed him last summer at the exhibition in the Janskerk in Utrecht. 

exhibition: World Press Photo 2010

SEXUAL INTRIGUE

Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth‘s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism, kitsch humor, decadence and sheer joie de vivre. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified. Some flaunt personal fantasies; others are guarded, suggesting that we have stumbled into a secret world. Fashion and fantasy were never so enchantingly combined. 

book: Fraulein, Ellen von Unwerth (Taschen)

HUMAN MADE LANDSCAPE

Prolific photographer and Panopticon Gallery artist Keith Johnson encourages all photographic medias to be used in installations, books, topologies, or extended images. He started making simple yet complicated photos as he travelled the US by car, working as a camera salesman. He continues to find human-made landscapes that are often rather horrifying when you stop to look at all the man-made trash in front of the lens.

http://www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com/