Bertil Nilsson

Bertil Nilsson is a Swedish photographer based in London, he creates his images for commercial, editorial and for his personal artistic projects.  Its primarly  a medium of expression, but also involves moving image. Bertil takes his inspiration from movement and the human form and collaborates extensively with dancers and circus artist. Check out his web site, i found this here another awesome website that never lets me down when it comes to photography.

Asylum

"Take a dark journey into the forgotten, where time stands still. The paint has peeled off the walls and the only occupants are the souls of those left behind. This is the Asylum."

If your like me and love walking round old wrecked buildings with a camer then your gonna love this.....Nice find Oliver.

Holi Festival of Colour

Virtual Lighting Studio

I came across this the other week and for those that want to play around with portraits and lighting its a great way to experiment without setting up or getting you camera out and best of all its free and works off you web browser... what would be good is if it works on smart phones too, ill get back to you on that one. check it out and have a play.

http://www.zvork.fr/vls/

A Little Look At Portraits

I have chosen to post these portrait examples because of the intensity of the colour and the full frame effect. This first guy Georgs Kamelakis is a young ish photography starting out but his main inspirations are those below him you can clearly see. 

George Kamelakis. Born in the USA and living in Heraklion Crete since 1992








Peter Hapak, 1973, Hungary, is a versatile photographer based in the US. He works for commercial and editorial clients, but his main focus lies on portraiture and the human body.








Martin Schoeller

Born Munich Germany 1968, works in New York.

Martin Klimas

I don't have any info on this guy so check his images and website, this seems relevant to some of my students.

Stefano Bonazzi

Born in Ferrara in 1983, Stefano Bonazzi is self-taught, and a fan of modern art, video art, digital graphics, architectural design. Stefano tends to use charcoal drawings, photo editing and digital photography. check out his site here. His best work is through digital photography and photo manipulation and i finf his smoke photos some of his best.

 

 

 

Willis Elkins

Some objects get disregarded without notice and others people have now idea they carry them let alone throw them away. But when 2 and half billion people smoke in the world the lighter is an object that probable outs sells most disposable item. Willis Elkins is an artist from outer Brooklyn that collected lighters washed up on the shore and photographed the spectrum. simple but effective.

Quentin Arnaud

i had been meaning to post these portraits since i found them months ago, I'm not sure why iv left it until now but they have certainly been on my mind since i saw them. Eery is a word to describe them but i find myself wondering about the face, its expression, its emotion and can this be classed as a portrait if there is no face? Quenin Arnaud certainly captures the shape of the face and its depth.

Christopher Bucklow's Pinhole

Bucklow begins by projecting the shadow of his sitter on a large sheet of aluminum foil and tracing its outline. He then makes about twenty thousand small pinholes in the foil silhouette (one for each day of the average human lifespan). Using a contraption of his own device that places the foil over a large sheet of photographic paper, Bucklow wheels his homemade 'camera' out into daylight and pulls the 'shutter' to briefly expose the paper to direct sunlight. Thus each finished picture becomes a kind of photogram silhouette composed of thousands of pinhole photographs of the sun. The intensity of light on a given day and the length of exposure create unique color variations on how the resulting piece appears. via Danziger Gallery:

Buckow's cast of characters are drawn from his circle of acquaintances and, unlike conventional photography, each image is unique and unrepeatable.

Nuala Darcul

I Don't know much about Nuala Darcul apart from i found her on Intimate Vignettes, but check out her work on flickr. I was talking earlier today with a student about going right back forgetting all the rules and going against what we had learned when taking a Photo mainly focus, shutter speed and aperture try and regain an innocence in the image. Im not sure if this was what i meant but its as close as i could find and i Reilly like the images.

Paulina Otylie Surys

Paulina Otylie Surys, 1979, Poland, is a fine art and fashion photographer based in London, UK. Only recently she has launched herself as a fashion photographer. She studied fine art in Poland and photography in the UK. She uses a variety of camera's, mostly vintage one's working with 35mm, medium format and large format film via 500 Photographers

check out her own website here, here work has such a wide range but me being me i just love the process she goes through to create her images, old school and then further touching up but physical rather than digital.

Mark Mawson

I'm always excited when find new photographers as it always urges me to go and have a go at some thing new. Mark Mawson has a style and method in his work that is not only enchanting but refreshes you retinas. The way the colour is portrayed through what i think is smoke is fantastic, setting up the shot and having the conditions just right must have been time consuming and frustrating but it is certainly worth the effort. His web site displays other work different from this with some pieces that i myself can relate to with his style of colour saturation.

Alter Ego

Many people tend to have an alter ego, whether its when they go out at the weekends, during work or in a virtual reality sense, A split personality could be another way of describing it or a defence to hide the true you. It could be in many forms, the way you dress, the way you act, the way you speak or the way you look.
Robbie Cooper put together a selection of photographs showing a selection on alter egos in a digital form, look through his photos on his website, you can see similarities in some and sense that people wish they were something else. At first its strange then it turns to funny but eventually it becomes quite emotional.

Before Photoshop

Using photoshop is a skill in itself and when you apply it correctly you can create some amazing photos or touch up those that are almost there. A good photographer will no doubt use a series of editing programs side by side even when using film and such programs like photoshop have made the industry much more accessible.

However before photoshop things were alot more labour intensive, time consuming and the skill had to reach out to other areas unused in today's photographers. creating images would mean creating sets, props and scenes. ensuring lighting was correct first time and the objects, subjects and colour were in the right place before you expose your film to your creation. This was creating an image old school.

John Chiara

Chiara photographs cityscapes in a process that is part photography, part event and part sculpture – an undertaking in apparatus and patience. Many times this process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera, that is mounted on a flatbed trailer, and produces large scale, one of a kind, positive exposures. Chiara is a native Californian who lives and works in San Francisco.

What i love about these Photos is that i can relate to some of the locations having been there a few times now, im just gutted that i wasnt aware of him while i was in San Francisco this summer. Secondly the whole process that he uses to capture his work tottaly engages me and the rawness of the images the imperfections and hand made hadoc nature is what id love experiment with in my own work.