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Inspiration: There is something timeless about photography. About looking into the faces of children and knowing they are most definetly dead, but knowing the feelings they have are ones you’ve experienced yourself, the tearing of knees and the joy of ice cream passing your lips. About seeing photos of a wedding for a marriage that…

Inspiration: Barbara Kruger is truly inspiration to me. I love how she blends text with contrasting imagery into her work, creating gut-punchy imagery, sending a powerful message. In terms of art, I have always connected more with the literature side than the visual arts. Though the visual arts have always intruiged me, and I’ve always…

Idea: I love pictures of the snow. It is really challenging, from a technical standpoint to capture the detail the eye can. It can easily seem overexposed, and can easily become overexposed, which makes getting quality photos more difficult than a regular landscape. Additionally, it is harder to get any color to appear in your…

Inspiration: This picture of the blue lagoon captures what I want to capture with my landscape photos. The people are simply a part of the landscape. Iceland looks otherworldly in most pictures, and this photo brings it back to our plane of existence. The people in it are living their tourist-y lives, seemingly floating in…

Idea: Here, Jim Roche is taking landscape images of dirty, unclean sites. He is capturing the gritty underside of life. When most people take landscape images, they are capturing the images that take your breath away: thrilling mountains and beaches and rivers and sunsets. They don’t show the trash and the mud, because no one…

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” ― Ansel Adams Inspiration: In everyday life, there is a performance to living, even without a camera pointed in your…

Idea: I love the idea of storied portraiture. The caputured humanity highlighted in Robert Hammond’s “Where Love is Illegal” uses posing to tell a story wrapped in the photograph. Posing is integral to photos of people. Hammond’s portraiture contains so much vulnerability, but at the same time, an intense resilience. It is a story told…

Inspiration: The way Butor uses color in his photos draws me in. His series is entitled One hundred and nineteen views without Mount Fuji, which implies grand landscapes and cities and wide shots that allow you to see for miles and miles and miles. These are photos of people, drained of color aside from the…

Inspiration: I have always loved the idea of portriature with a very small subject. Using the area around my subject to tell a story is what I’ve always loved to do with my photos. The human face is easily the most readable part of the body, so I love to exclude it, specifically to challenge…

Idea: Highlighting contrast through conflicting imagery Life does not exist in concrete, easy to sort categories, as unfortunate as that may be. Life is a series of juxtapositions, idiosyncracies, and contrasts. The moment one tries to sort the human existence, an exception throws a wrench into the works. In total destruction, life persists. In complete…