Brett Weston
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersMay 11th, 2012 | No Comments
In 1925, long before photography was accepted as a ‘legitimate’ art form, Brett Weston embarked upon a remarkable career in fine art photography that would span nearly seven decades. The fourteen year-old Brett began his legendary abstraction of form in Mexico under the astonished eye of his father, the great photographer Edward Weston. Edward would often privately credit Brett with influencing his own work after that date. As some musicians are said to be born with an ear independent of their experience and training, Brett had been gifted with an ‘eye’ that is recognizable from his earliest work. Edward Weston observed that by the age of 14, Brett was doing better work than he was doing himself at 30. In time, they would become photographic colleagues, with Brett not only at the wheel during camera trips (Edward never learned to drive) but also encouraging Edward to shed the older platinum papers in favor of richer tones available in silver halide and doing much of their joint studio darkroom work. By the amazing age of 17, Brett Weston’s work was being exhibited internationally and he had his first one-man museum show at the de Young in San Francisco at barely 21 before the renowned Group f64 – and the world had a glimpse of what was to come. The Curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Van Deren Coke would later observe, “Brett Weston was the child genius of American photography.” (more…)
Ants tales by Andrey Pavlov
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersMay 10th, 2012 | No Comments
The photos of this photographer may look like they been photoshopped or assembled with dead insects, but the ants in these images are very much alive. The marvellous macro images are the handwork of talented photographer russian photographer Andrey Pavlov who spends hours setting up fairytale scenes. He studied ants, and saw that they all follow a very specific path when they’re working. So he put his props on their trail, and photographed the insects interacting with his miniature stage sets. The intriguing insects are pictured carrying out a variety of unusual tasks making the superb scenes look as though they’ve been lifted straight from the pages of a fairytale. Andrey Pavlov shot the images at an anthill just metres from his home in Moscow, Russia. (more…)
White Sea Black Sea by Jens Olof Lasthein
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersMay 8th, 2012 | No Comments
The Iron Curtain is long gone, Germany is unified and the borders of the European Union continue to expand, yet the line between east and west in Europe still remains visible. Jens Olof Lasthein‘s project is a visual journey from the White Sea from Arkhangelska in the north to the Odessa Black Sea in the south – powerful tales of a boundary in transition. The Yalta Agreement gave the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union. Stolnitsy was split down the middle, right over the main street, with barbed wire, mine fields and a guard tower. The minefields are gone and the old guard tower stands empty, but the cruel wire fence is still there, patrolled now by Ukrainian border guards on this side and Slovakian EU soldiers on the other. (more…)
Harry Gruyaert
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersApr 27th, 2012 | No Comments
Harry Gruyaert was born 1941 in Belgium. For more than thirty years, from Belgium to Morocco, and from India to Egypt, Harry Gruyaert has been recording the subtle chromatic vibrations of Eastern and Western light. Every one of his photos is an amazing combination of colour & composition. Absolutely beautiful. Gruyaert joined Magnum Photos in 1981. His book Made in Belgium was published in 2000, Rivages, a collection of portraits of shores around the world, in 2003, PhotoPoche in 2006, and TV Shots in 2007. (more…)
Alex Glickman
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersApr 9th, 2012 | 1 Comment
Alex Glickman freelance photographer with russian roots now based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Amazing creativity and unique individual style in photographing candid street portraits and street photography. Alex describes himself as a clerk by day and a father by morning and evening. In-between happens to be mostly about photography. An ordinary person and consequently is drawn to other ordinary people. Must see! (more…)
Herbert List
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersApr 6th, 2012 | No Comments
Herbert List was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. Born in October 7, 1903 into a prosperous Hamburg merchant family, List began an apprenticeship at a Heidelberg coffee dealer in 1921 while studying literature and art history at Heidelberg University. In 1951, Herbert List met Robert Capa, who convinced him to work as a Contributor to Magnum. Herbert List was a Magnum Contributor from 1951 to 1975. (more…)
Anastasia Kichigina
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersFeb 28th, 2012 | No Comments
Anastasia Kichigina is one of Russian street photographers of new generation with extraordinary view on the surrounding her world and ability to capture moments that nobody else see. Born in 1981 in Omsk (Russia) soon moved to St. Petersburg, where she live and shoots and now, after got there architectural and artistic education. As she told to us from early childhood she was fascinated by photography due to her grandfather. When She was young, he worked as journalist in the regional newspaper, and in spare time was shooting. Mostly family – wife, children and grandchildren. And know after so many years Anastasia still remembers this magic when in dark room her grandfather was printing and making photos and she watched with admiration. For her it was real magic. (more…)
Daido Moriyama
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersNov 9th, 2011 | No Comments
Daido Moriyama is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. Born October 10, 1938 in Ikeda, Osaka. Daido Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant of Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, Nippon gekijō shashinchō, which showed the darker sides of urban life and the less-seen parts of cities. In them, he attempted to show how life in certain areas was being left behind the other industrialised parts. Though not exclusively, Moriyama predominantly takes high contrast, grainy, black and white photographs within the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, often shot from odd angles. (more…)
Turkey Cinemascope by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersOct 26th, 2011 | No Comments
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. Born in Bakırköy, Istanbul on 26 January 1959, Nuri Bilge Ceylan spent his childhood in Yenice, his father’s hometown in the North Aegean province of Çanakkale. His interest in the art of photography, kindled during his time at high school, blossomed at the Boğaziçi University photography club, where he also took passport-style photos to earn some pocket money. As well as photography, he also became involved with the mountaineering and chess clubs. The university’s extensive library and music archive played a significant role in fuelling his passion for the visual arts and classical music in particular. Meanwhile, the elective film studies course he took with Üstün Barışta and the film club’s special screenings did much to reinforce his love of cinema, which had taken root earlier during showings at the Cinémathèque in Istanbul’s Taksim. These were the years before DVD and video when films had to be watched at the cinema. (more…)
Moving pictures by Chris Friel
Posted by Photo Slaves in PhotographersOct 14th, 2011 | No Comments
Chris Friel is a British colour blind painter who bought a camera in 2006 and has not painted since. His work is influenced by the land and seascapes of his home town, Whitstable, in Kent, and by the challenging environments he encounters in his parallel career as a television documentary sound recordist. By simply moving his camera during exposure, Chris creates beautiful and otherworldly images of the landscape around him. He has been shortlisted for Landscape Photographer of the Year for the past three years running. His images have been exhibited in the South Bank Centre, on the Santiago subway in Chile, projected behind the London Sinfonietta in the Royal Festival Hall, and nearer home in Whitstable. Chris is one of the finest contemporary landscape photographers in the UK today. (more…)
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