Mauricio Alejo was born in Mexico City in He has received multiple awards and grants, including the New York Foundation for the Arts grant in He currently lives and works in Mexico City. Jim Ferguson. Recently I "remerged" back into the fine art photography world, but this is my second round of showing and selling work. After getting my BFA, I started contacting galleries.
I was successful from the very start with three galleries representing my work and acquisitions by major museums and numerous private collections. In the fall of I re-emerged into the fine art world full time, introducing my work again to galleries and museums. My imagery gelled into the beginning of a body of work. This first trip was truly life changing.
The Southwest appealed to me so much that I moved to Albuquerque. It served as home base for travels in the West; thus beginning my Wide Range series. I call this series Wide Range because of the open range nature of the American West and the wide variety of subjects I choose to photograph. Man's isolated impacts on the environment stood out more in the broad expanses of the landscape.
I sought not to highlight the negative impacts but to utilize the man-made objects to create my images. The juxtaposition of these man-made objects vs. This series began the visual journey I've traveled with my photography. Unfamiliar Places Statement Unfamiliar Places is a body of autobiographical memories that have been altered by the passage of time rather than by a proactive chemical or digital process. The images were stored on undeveloped film for 20 years, resulting in the degradation of the "latent" image.
This work reflect the serendipity that is unique to working with the analogue process and highlights its inherent materiality. The unique process of the degradation of the film over 20 years mirror the historical content of the images.
The images are a result of my photographic journey, the degradation of the emulsion in the negatives and the layering of history with the film wrapper's film numbers and dots. They were taken in France Mexico and the U. Over the past two decades I continued to photograph, standing guard against the instinct for gratification and instead allowing the pictures to rest peacefully in a dark place.
It is now thrilling to finally see that the choice to wait offers its rewards: here are the both subtle diminishments and vital revelations in the aging process. Time has left marks on these images just as the events of a life do. Sumit Gupta. While a software engineer by profession, Sumit has been capturing and sharing the stories of cities and cultures since He finds the experience of walking around the city streets with a camera almost therapeutic and meditative.
Inspired by the human condition, Sumit has photographed mostly in India and Europe. Sumit's photographs are inspired by a personal desire to find meaning in the world around us and attempt to draw attention to the poetic and inspirational nature of human life all around us. All about the project 'The River' The Kumbh Mela is the largest religious gathering of humans on our planet. Over the two month period that this festival happens, once every 12 years in 4 Indian cities, millions of people come from all over the country and outside of it to take an auspicious bath in the holy waters of the river Ganga.
I'm interested in portraying how the contemporary experience of the Kumbh Mela is influenced by aspects such as globalization, consumption and current trends of social behavior. People from all over India come to this event as a pilgrimage to wash away their sins, but they're also cohabiting with people that see this as a cultural attraction, as a possibility to experience a foreign culture and filter it through social media. What's the impact of hyper-communication and advertising in the collective atmosphere of this spiritual gathering?
The project tries to reflect on those ideas by working through the psychological climate of the different people that are present in the event. The images evidence the paradoxical and complex nature of a spiritual event that feeds on tradition when young people seem to drift away from old collective habits.
The river, the sacred area where people transcend their humanity, is the perfect metaphor for the current situation; affected by mass production and consumerism, the polluted river is still worshipped as a place for cleansing; time will tell if the memory that holds this identity will keep flowing through the divine water, or if it will drown to the mirage of pleasures that float in the immediacy of today's world.
Michal Karcz. I was born in in Warsaw, Poland. I had graduated from the High School of Art in Warsaw. My journey into the world of photography began in the early 90's, but at that time my biggest passion was painting. Painting helped me develop vision that was hard to create. Unfortunately I had to leave the paintbrush and canvas.
A few years ago, I opened "the door" to my own world with help of a different key My early fascinations of painting and photography was combined into one piece, with use of digital tools. This digital photography and software gave me the opportunity to generate unique realities that are impossible to create with ordinary dark room techniques. Most of my work is the journey to the places which don't exist, places from my dreams, desire and imagination.
I'm taking my inspiration from many artists and it doesn't matter if they get across to me by sense of vision or hearing I always try to make an extraordinary picture and my goal is to make a viewer stop for a minute, to influence on emotions and take away from reality. Am I making it happen?. Monia Merlo. She was born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, After finishing her studies in Venice, she teamed her work as an architect with her passion for Photography, making it her main expression medium.
Monia currently works as a freelance photographer, her work is focused on fashion, including prestigious collaborations with famous brands. Her photos find inspiration in literature, poetry and her most inner feelings. They are means of creation, research and development of a work which undergoes a constant evolution, as well as being a way to represent, through fragile feminine bodies, the artist's search of herself. Source: www.
Sensuous and physical, yet innocent. Mystical femininity which verges on the sacred. A view shared by many, since she has now collaborated with a number of prestigious fashion labels. This is all the more remarkable when you consider that Monia only started working as a photographer 5 years ago.
She uses only natural light, bringing out the contours and detail more beautifully and making her photographs resemble paintings. She finds her inspiration in literature, poetry and the idealised femininity of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. A period which is currently enjoying increasing popularity amongst the creative elite and trendsetters. She likes to use romantic flowers in delicate colours with an air of vulnerability, such as blossom, fragile roses and daisies.
Source: The Green Gallery. Kieran Kesner. Kieran Kesner is currently on assignment working with Roma communities in Eastern Europe. Kieran is an award-winning photographer, videographer and visual storyteller based in Boston. He has experience in photojournalism, documentary, editorial and commercial photography and is available for international, domestic and regional assignments. Embassy Grant. Latest Interviews. Exclusive Interview with John Simmons. John Simmons is a multi-talented artist whose work has spanned across decades.
Born in Chicago and coming of age during the Civil Rights Era, Simmons' photography started at the peak of political and racial tension of the s, mentored by a well known Chicago Civil Rights photographer, Bobby Sengstacke. Uelsmann is an American photographer, born on 11 th June in Michigan. At the age of fourteen while attending a public school, he developed a curiosity for photography.
He assumed that photography will allow him to live a world seen through the camera lens. Although his grades were poor, he still found some jobs and that too related to photographing models.
In , he started to teach photography to students at University of Florida. His first solo show took place at Museum of Modern Art.
Uelsmann produces amalgamated photographs along with several negatives as well as extensive work in the darkroom. His negatives recur in his work as either a background or focal point. Just like O. Uelsmann enrolled at the Rochester Institute of Technology in The strongest early influence on his creative process came from instructors like Minor White and Ralph Hattersley at the Rochester Institute.
As Uelsmann put it, the most significant lesson he learned from White was that his camera had the ability not only to record images, but also that "it did have the potential of transcending the initial subject matter. He graduated from the Rochester Institute, marred Marylinn Kamischke of Detroit, and saw the publication of his first photograph in Photography Annual.
Uelsmann entered Indiana University's graduate school, to study audio-visual communication. He began work as a graduate assistant in the laboratory at Indiana, but decided that this was not the right field for him. In , he transferred to the Department of Art, where he undertook intensive studies in art history and collaborated with another student to produce a five-part series on photography for a local educational television station.
At Indiana, Uelsmann studied with Henry Holmes Smith, who helped to shape his approach to photography as a creative medium rather than just a means of recording a particular moment on celluloid. In an interview with Paul Karabinis, Uelsmann talked about one of his life-altering moments in Smith's class. The class was discussing a photograph by Arthur Segal, a composition involving superimposed images. Uelsmann, who happened to notice a flaw in the picture, declared "I can do it better.
Smith's reaction evidently strengthened Uelsmann's determination to become technically proficient and make good on his claim. He graduated from Indiana in , with a Master of Fine Arts degree. Soon after graduation, Uelsmann joined the faculty of the Department of Art, at the University of Florida, where he began teaching photography.
He helped found the Society for Photographic Education in , delivering a paper on "The Interrelationship of Image and Technique" at the Society's first conference. In an interview with Paul Karabinis, Uelsmann spoke of the attitudes he encountered when he started his career 30 years ago. As he recalls, the establishment at the time was very rigid about how a photograph ought to look.
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