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

MOODY ATMOSPHERES

 

What can I say about Hollie Fernando's work. It's a tough one, the girl is a genius and her work carries a real charm to it. Her photo style is largely influenced by the teenage years, love and fashion. Creating the carefree atmospheres in her work is something she can easily achieve as she is lucky to be submerged with beautiful people around her. The mood within her photographs tend to reflect the mood she's in when she took the picture or when it was in process.

http://www.mintmagazine.co.uk/art/hollie-fernando/

HUMANISTIC EYE

Tomasz is a Polish photography currently specialising in documentary essay work. Among his interests are humanistic photography and the classic form of the black and white photo-essay. He began with nature photography and then turned to social documentary. In the past few years he has concentrated on photographing sports, but bringing to the area the kind of humanistic eye of a great photojournalist.

book: World Press Photo 2008