Urban Photographers
.Tuna Önder:
"I yam what I yam" - Popeye. This quote here is on Önder's homepage under the heading 'Biography'.
Turkish born Tuna Önder has been capturing street scenes since the early 1980's, originally inspired and influenced by Cartier - Bresson, Evans and so other too long to name.
Önder's great black and white shots are really interesting and intriguing in such a way that has raw emotion, also depth. I particularly like his black and white work although his colour work is surprising too. The beautiful, bright and eccentric images and exceptionally wonderful, here Önder has got the perfect balance between light and dark which juxtapose against each other which is fantastic.
Bill Brandt:
Is considered to be one of the most influential and important British photographers of the 20th Century.
He was born in Germany, Hamburg in 1904 and he died in 1983.
He had a good fortune to start his career in Paris in 1929
Brandt started photographing in the West End of London in the suburbs and slums in 199..
Brandt also photographed everything that went on inside the houses of wealthy families, servants in this kitchens, and also formidable parlour maids laying elaborate tables.
He mostly specialised in Black and White photographer, which certainly striking.
Brandt's pictures give depth and meaning of his chosen subjects well and his portraits are stunning.
I particularly like his style of his work as he has been around and experienced different places and has been to the worst places, to the best of places. Also he is a very good and interesting photographer.
MJAY:
Born and raised in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, with a large working class city with the biggest port in Europe Most of the historic buildings were destroyed during the Second World War.
Therefore the city consists of mainly modern and striking architecture.
That is why the city attracts photographers from all over the World.
MJAY started at the design school and after doing some work at a design company, he found his way to photography. I'm thoroughly intrigued by MJAY's work as it is so versatile and interesting. His way of getting the perfect shot is very interesting.
Some of MJAY's shots are very colourful and have beautiful bursts of colour which makes the perfect shot. However, when some of his images are quite dark they still bring intensity which makes it a great photo.
I like all of MJAY's work as it is different to the world of urban photography and he changes the perspective of the shots which make it all the more interesting to look at. He now studies Photography on the art academy; also his specialties are documentary and street photography.
Alan Markham:
Having worked in the ICT business for 26 years Alan has decided to leave the business world, retire and to
pursue a long held fascination to photography. As opposed to the "beautiful picture" genre his passion is producing unusual images which have an effect on the viewer, leaving them with questions about their identity and relationship to society. Ideas and inspirations are the most elusive components of any photography so here are some of the artists that have guided him:
Keith Arnatt Richard Misrach Atget Rut Blees Luxembourg
Hannah Starkey Brassai Edgar Martins Kay Lynn Delaney
I was really intrigued and inspired by Alan's work, I was really impressed by his 'Wasteland'
photography shots they're truly amazing, also his DoF (Depth of Field) with some shots is again, outstanding and is remarkable. Alan's work also leaves the viewer wanting to know more about these objects and why that has happened to them. It's so odd to take something that look truly grotesque to something which looks beautiful. I think that Alan has captured that effect well here in this album of work. The album name 'Neglected' also has a few good shots within it, I love the way he has captured the peeling paint and wallpaper from these derelict, run down places.
Keith Arnatt:
Keith Arnatt was born in Oxford in 1930. He studied art at the Oxford School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Though at first he had an interest in figure and portrait painting, after graduating in 1958 Arnatt began experimenting with photography and video, which were then unfashionable media. In the mid 1960's Arnatt exhibited widely as a conceptual artist. His photography skills were employed to document his otherwise ephemeral work, which often included performance. I really did like some of Keith's work it was very unusual and graphic. The whole idea of someone portraying rubbish as something to be beautiful is astounding and it is very odd. I like to way he captured his shots from different angles and didn't keep his main focus in the centre of the frame.
Andre Govia:
Andre is an urban explorer, asylum/hospital fanatic, artist, photographer and film maker. Andre Govia, has an interview to share some adventures whilst exploring his favourite locations – derelict abandoned mental asylums and hospitals. Andre is an admin for a Flickr group called ‘abandoned asylums‘and is a member of Mission Abandoned. Andre’s extensive photo collection which documents each mission has gained a significant following, their most noticeable characteristic being an amazingly cold, hallucinatory detailed post processing technique which leaves people in awe. Andre particularly loves abandoned asylums and schools, not into factories so much for some reason. Andre just likes the dark side of the buildings and his favourite asylum would be Cane hill or Denbigh.
I am completely in awe of Andre's work; it looks so effortless and a bit insane.
His beautiful and horrifying images of the asylums look so memorizing and are captivated beautifully; his photo stream on Flickr is definitely worth looking at. Andre is very good at capturing light on certain parts of his shots which makes the image more striking and more powerful, his work is beautifully executed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andregovia/
Irina Souiki:
Irina Souiki a self-taught artist whose passion for photography started at the age of thirteen when her uncle offered her a Smena 8M for her birthday. Irina's eye is caught by colourful and unique details of her surrounding space that are usually overseen. She has a soft spot for abandoned places as their decaying beauty is bound to disappear. I thoroughly enjoyed looking at Irina's work, it is haunting and excellent.
I was particularly mesmerized by her Urban Exploration part on her website on Still Memory.
There is something truly haunting about the images she has taken it has a film like feel to them and they're divine. I could look at all of her work and not get bored looking at them, there is something different about all of her pieces which makes it stunning and exciting to look at. I definitely love the way she has captured the peeling paint and wall paper in certain shots it makes it like this has a story to tell and she is capturing it. The bold colour in some of her shots adds to the intensity too, again which it makes it appealing to the eye and that you want to know more about what happened.
http://stillmemory.500px.com/
Keegan Gibbs:
Keegan Gibbs is one of the most, top best-known graffiti photographers,
He has graduated from school four years ago and he has spent a good chunk of my time surfing, traveling and hanging with friends and meeting new people, shooting the elements and individuals that make up my life.
I think that all of Keegan's photos are incredible and are very interesting. His personal shots on his website, which i shall post below are superb and are very intriguing, the way the waves look is so fantastic and makes you want to be there right on that beach. However, his urban photography is far superior. In this section he has used black and white which gives greater depth to the image itself, he has also used colour in this section too but I do prefer the black and white shots but that is just my opinion. Further on in this section he has used a film grain effect on some of his images, I really like this effect as it gives an old, rawness to these busy yet subtle images also it makes the viewer want to know more about these people who are in these shots.
Martha Cooper:
Her dad, an amateur photographer himself, gave his small girl a camera and together they hit the streets in search of adventure. “Yeah, my father used to take me out and we would take pictures. That’s what I thought photography was…we were just looking for pictures,” she recalls. Six decades later, Cooper is still looking for pictures; meanwhile, many works from her archive are cited as pivotal recordings of the birth of hip-hop culture and its plastic art form, graffiti. Martha's legendary Subway Art book, which was published in 1984, is a milestone in the medial writing documentation. I like Martha's work as it is very unique and has a certain style that most other female urban photographers do not have. She certainly has a creative eye.
Jürgen Große:
Jürgen was born in 1962 in Berlin.
He specializes in Landscape and city photography.
For years, he has documented urban art in Berlin. His Urban Art Photography book shows interesting and high-quality impressions from the streets in Berlin on about 200 pages.
JR:
The France photographer, activist, and public art artist JR, not only documents his journey, he sticks out his black and white portrait photos as giant paste ups in various cities in the World. JR owns the biggest art gallery in the World. After he found a camera in a Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of Paris.
I particularly find this artist/photographer rather interesting. He uses images of people and sticks them up around the World, which is rather odd and yet very imaginative. His work is a mixture of art and act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit. I do find this person to be rather hands on and has a great fun doing what it is he does best and it makes viewers and passes by truly in awe of what he has done.
Ciax:
90's -> Plenty of research, experimentation and reflection on picture composition.
2000 -> Photography course in Milan, end to 2001.
2002 -> Co-owner of "Openmindz" project.
2004 -> Experiments with freedom of photo abstractism.
2005 -> Starting cooperation with AD agency "BMFactory".
2006 -> working on some reportage starting projects on "urban art".
2007/2010 -> Working as Photoreporter for some newspapers in Milan.
I really like Ciro Guastamacchia's work especially his 'rae martini' work on his website, it is all black and white which I particularly like to look at and is very different. The reason why this section is different is because it shows someone actually distressing the board in which someone graffiti's over. I like the real edge these photographs give and make it into someone telling a story, I also think that it is great how Ciro shot these too, to get the understanding across of how you go by doing graffiti. In the other section 'senso' this subject was a female who was doing the graffiti which was a nice change to the males. I also found that the angles Ciro shooted at was rather spectacular for the given purpose.
Nils Müller:
Nils Müller belongs to the best German graffiti life action photographers. His photo-book “Blütezeit – Prime Time Of My Life” gives not only an insight into the fine art of street photography and graffiti, but also in the rail systems of European cities.
‘Blütezeit’ translates to ‘bloom’, and shows the ‘Prime time of my life’ as the subtitle of this book goes.
Müller is best known for his Vandals series, which documents the world-wide graffiti movement of writers who leave their name on public transport.
Ich mag diese Person Fotoarbeiten. - this translates to English as I like this persons photographs.
These images are really captivating and are so crisp with the clear colours.
Alex Fakso:
Alex Fakso was born in 1977, in Bassano del Grappa Province of Vicenza, Italy.
Since 2001 he has been based in Milan.
At around the age of 13, he discovers the skateboarding and graffiti world. At 14 he was already writing on walls and trains, then by the age of 16 he was also photographing.
Alex is one of the most famous photographers for graffiti and trains in Italy. His photographic focus is mainly on the artistic documentation of illegal spray-actions, which for me is completely interesting and which drew me. You can get more info about him and his book Heavy Metal. I really like the book Heavy Metal as it has some really lovely and classic images of what you might think about graffiti art.
Ruedi One:
Another photo ace of the graffiti scene is Ruedi One who is one of the directors of the spray can producer Montana. Similar to Fakso, Ruedi One’s urban photographs live on the vicinity to the artists.
He mostly photographs in Black and White, visually describe the emotions during writing.For years Ruedi One was an active graffiti writer himself and the documentation of his works led him to photography. Ruedi states that passion, obsession and even addiction connects him to the medium these days and by now he exclusively uses the camera for his works.
His black and white image shots are phenomenal, they give a fantastic edge and are just superb.
I think that Ruedi is a fantastic urban photographer and he is up at the top for me, his work is inspirational and it makes me want to do more like what he has done.
Timo Stammberger:
Stammberger who was born in 1980 in Hamburg and he grew up in Hamburg and also Frankfurt/Main.
After moving to Berlin, he studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie*,
graduating in 2009.
Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie* translates to Ostkreuz School of Photography.
On his website which I will kindly post below there is a selection of bands. His first which is called: Underground Landscapes is rather spectacular also. I find this section to be a like a maze, you don't know what you're going to find. I love that this is all pictures of railroads, it is truly amazing. I also love the vibrant colours on these images, they look so clear as crystal. All of his work is wonderful and I would like to aspire to be able to take stunning images like these. I also like the fact that Timo has a specific page to one of his influences, ie: Iz The Wiz.
Ozkar Gorgias:
Whether on the tracks or in the underground, Ozkar is always on the run. His great monochrome photographs present and record not only graffiti actions, but also the stressed atmosphere. I am in complete awe of Ozkar's work, he is a true Urban photographer who would/will influence me for this project. He has some astounding images which are so fantastic there unimaginable.
His work is not just about graffiti/urban environments it is also about people.
I also like the tilt shift effect he has used on one particular photo which I love the look of, it is one taken from Vienna and it just look classic. Ozkar Gorgias has influenced me from looking at his pictures, they are so great and powerful and I would love to learn from these fantastic images.
Jonas Lara:
Jonas was born in 1982
Has a BFA in Photographing + Imaging / Art Center College of Design.
He likes to take photos, mix media, and makes beats.
I love Jonas' work in the Portfolio of New Mexico, it is so dreamlike and beautiful, also the bright colours make the picture look more happier and more intriguing to the eyes.
His photos give a deep insight into the creative life of creative people.
I think that all of his work is truly outstanding, it is very different and unique.
I think that he will influence me too, during the course of this project.
He was also arrested while escorting two graffiti artists on February 4th 2010 in Los Angeles…
Edward Nightingale:
Edward is a photojournalist who is based in Europe.
He focuses his work on train-writing and everything that goes with that.
On his website the first image you see is a time lapse of a person, which for me is so good.
I think time lapses on people give a certain vibe and make the image look more powerful than it would without the use of a time lapse.
I also like the grainy texture in some of these shots it looks more old and has a nice vibe about it.
Edward has also been referred as a 'Tunnelrat'
Denis Falkenstein:
Denis is off German origin.
Has photography training
Works here, there and everywhere.
For on the One night on the run Denis followed some writers into the yard and created an impressing train of graffiti including all the adrenalin and power, which it deserves.
I do like Denis' work as it is diverse and has a certain quality to it.
Matthew Merrett:
Fine Art Photographer
Has spent several years exploring, photographing and exposing urban decay.
Now frozen in time, subject to the elements and neglect, he captures what was once abundant, before the redevelopment cycle erases them, forever.
On his website the categories are split into bands.
I am particularly interested in the Decay and Chernobyl band.
I am really fond of Matthew's work it is so peculiar and varied to the other above.
I think that Matthew will definitely inspire and influence me for this project.
His work is truly innovative and is wonderful, and also is pulchritudinous
"I yam what I yam" - Popeye. This quote here is on Önder's homepage under the heading 'Biography'.
Turkish born Tuna Önder has been capturing street scenes since the early 1980's, originally inspired and influenced by Cartier - Bresson, Evans and so other too long to name.
Önder's great black and white shots are really interesting and intriguing in such a way that has raw emotion, also depth. I particularly like his black and white work although his colour work is surprising too. The beautiful, bright and eccentric images and exceptionally wonderful, here Önder has got the perfect balance between light and dark which juxtapose against each other which is fantastic.
Bill Brandt:
Is considered to be one of the most influential and important British photographers of the 20th Century.
He was born in Germany, Hamburg in 1904 and he died in 1983.
He had a good fortune to start his career in Paris in 1929
Brandt started photographing in the West End of London in the suburbs and slums in 199..
Brandt also photographed everything that went on inside the houses of wealthy families, servants in this kitchens, and also formidable parlour maids laying elaborate tables.
He mostly specialised in Black and White photographer, which certainly striking.
Brandt's pictures give depth and meaning of his chosen subjects well and his portraits are stunning.
I particularly like his style of his work as he has been around and experienced different places and has been to the worst places, to the best of places. Also he is a very good and interesting photographer.
MJAY:
Born and raised in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, with a large working class city with the biggest port in Europe Most of the historic buildings were destroyed during the Second World War.
Therefore the city consists of mainly modern and striking architecture.
That is why the city attracts photographers from all over the World.
MJAY started at the design school and after doing some work at a design company, he found his way to photography. I'm thoroughly intrigued by MJAY's work as it is so versatile and interesting. His way of getting the perfect shot is very interesting.
Some of MJAY's shots are very colourful and have beautiful bursts of colour which makes the perfect shot. However, when some of his images are quite dark they still bring intensity which makes it a great photo.
I like all of MJAY's work as it is different to the world of urban photography and he changes the perspective of the shots which make it all the more interesting to look at. He now studies Photography on the art academy; also his specialties are documentary and street photography.
Alan Markham:
Having worked in the ICT business for 26 years Alan has decided to leave the business world, retire and to
pursue a long held fascination to photography. As opposed to the "beautiful picture" genre his passion is producing unusual images which have an effect on the viewer, leaving them with questions about their identity and relationship to society. Ideas and inspirations are the most elusive components of any photography so here are some of the artists that have guided him:
Keith Arnatt Richard Misrach Atget Rut Blees Luxembourg
Hannah Starkey Brassai Edgar Martins Kay Lynn Delaney
I was really intrigued and inspired by Alan's work, I was really impressed by his 'Wasteland'
photography shots they're truly amazing, also his DoF (Depth of Field) with some shots is again, outstanding and is remarkable. Alan's work also leaves the viewer wanting to know more about these objects and why that has happened to them. It's so odd to take something that look truly grotesque to something which looks beautiful. I think that Alan has captured that effect well here in this album of work. The album name 'Neglected' also has a few good shots within it, I love the way he has captured the peeling paint and wallpaper from these derelict, run down places.
Keith Arnatt:
Keith Arnatt was born in Oxford in 1930. He studied art at the Oxford School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Though at first he had an interest in figure and portrait painting, after graduating in 1958 Arnatt began experimenting with photography and video, which were then unfashionable media. In the mid 1960's Arnatt exhibited widely as a conceptual artist. His photography skills were employed to document his otherwise ephemeral work, which often included performance. I really did like some of Keith's work it was very unusual and graphic. The whole idea of someone portraying rubbish as something to be beautiful is astounding and it is very odd. I like to way he captured his shots from different angles and didn't keep his main focus in the centre of the frame.
Andre Govia:
Andre is an urban explorer, asylum/hospital fanatic, artist, photographer and film maker. Andre Govia, has an interview to share some adventures whilst exploring his favourite locations – derelict abandoned mental asylums and hospitals. Andre is an admin for a Flickr group called ‘abandoned asylums‘and is a member of Mission Abandoned. Andre’s extensive photo collection which documents each mission has gained a significant following, their most noticeable characteristic being an amazingly cold, hallucinatory detailed post processing technique which leaves people in awe. Andre particularly loves abandoned asylums and schools, not into factories so much for some reason. Andre just likes the dark side of the buildings and his favourite asylum would be Cane hill or Denbigh.
I am completely in awe of Andre's work; it looks so effortless and a bit insane.
His beautiful and horrifying images of the asylums look so memorizing and are captivated beautifully; his photo stream on Flickr is definitely worth looking at. Andre is very good at capturing light on certain parts of his shots which makes the image more striking and more powerful, his work is beautifully executed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andregovia/
Irina Souiki:
Irina Souiki a self-taught artist whose passion for photography started at the age of thirteen when her uncle offered her a Smena 8M for her birthday. Irina's eye is caught by colourful and unique details of her surrounding space that are usually overseen. She has a soft spot for abandoned places as their decaying beauty is bound to disappear. I thoroughly enjoyed looking at Irina's work, it is haunting and excellent.
I was particularly mesmerized by her Urban Exploration part on her website on Still Memory.
There is something truly haunting about the images she has taken it has a film like feel to them and they're divine. I could look at all of her work and not get bored looking at them, there is something different about all of her pieces which makes it stunning and exciting to look at. I definitely love the way she has captured the peeling paint and wall paper in certain shots it makes it like this has a story to tell and she is capturing it. The bold colour in some of her shots adds to the intensity too, again which it makes it appealing to the eye and that you want to know more about what happened.
http://stillmemory.500px.com/
Keegan Gibbs:
Keegan Gibbs is one of the most, top best-known graffiti photographers,
He has graduated from school four years ago and he has spent a good chunk of my time surfing, traveling and hanging with friends and meeting new people, shooting the elements and individuals that make up my life.
I think that all of Keegan's photos are incredible and are very interesting. His personal shots on his website, which i shall post below are superb and are very intriguing, the way the waves look is so fantastic and makes you want to be there right on that beach. However, his urban photography is far superior. In this section he has used black and white which gives greater depth to the image itself, he has also used colour in this section too but I do prefer the black and white shots but that is just my opinion. Further on in this section he has used a film grain effect on some of his images, I really like this effect as it gives an old, rawness to these busy yet subtle images also it makes the viewer want to know more about these people who are in these shots.
Martha Cooper:
Her dad, an amateur photographer himself, gave his small girl a camera and together they hit the streets in search of adventure. “Yeah, my father used to take me out and we would take pictures. That’s what I thought photography was…we were just looking for pictures,” she recalls. Six decades later, Cooper is still looking for pictures; meanwhile, many works from her archive are cited as pivotal recordings of the birth of hip-hop culture and its plastic art form, graffiti. Martha's legendary Subway Art book, which was published in 1984, is a milestone in the medial writing documentation. I like Martha's work as it is very unique and has a certain style that most other female urban photographers do not have. She certainly has a creative eye.
Jürgen Große:
Jürgen was born in 1962 in Berlin.
He specializes in Landscape and city photography.
For years, he has documented urban art in Berlin. His Urban Art Photography book shows interesting and high-quality impressions from the streets in Berlin on about 200 pages.
JR:
The France photographer, activist, and public art artist JR, not only documents his journey, he sticks out his black and white portrait photos as giant paste ups in various cities in the World. JR owns the biggest art gallery in the World. After he found a camera in a Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of Paris.
I particularly find this artist/photographer rather interesting. He uses images of people and sticks them up around the World, which is rather odd and yet very imaginative. His work is a mixture of art and act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit. I do find this person to be rather hands on and has a great fun doing what it is he does best and it makes viewers and passes by truly in awe of what he has done.
Ciax:
90's -> Plenty of research, experimentation and reflection on picture composition.
2000 -> Photography course in Milan, end to 2001.
2002 -> Co-owner of "Openmindz" project.
2004 -> Experiments with freedom of photo abstractism.
2005 -> Starting cooperation with AD agency "BMFactory".
2006 -> working on some reportage starting projects on "urban art".
2007/2010 -> Working as Photoreporter for some newspapers in Milan.
I really like Ciro Guastamacchia's work especially his 'rae martini' work on his website, it is all black and white which I particularly like to look at and is very different. The reason why this section is different is because it shows someone actually distressing the board in which someone graffiti's over. I like the real edge these photographs give and make it into someone telling a story, I also think that it is great how Ciro shot these too, to get the understanding across of how you go by doing graffiti. In the other section 'senso' this subject was a female who was doing the graffiti which was a nice change to the males. I also found that the angles Ciro shooted at was rather spectacular for the given purpose.
Nils Müller:
Nils Müller belongs to the best German graffiti life action photographers. His photo-book “Blütezeit – Prime Time Of My Life” gives not only an insight into the fine art of street photography and graffiti, but also in the rail systems of European cities.
‘Blütezeit’ translates to ‘bloom’, and shows the ‘Prime time of my life’ as the subtitle of this book goes.
Müller is best known for his Vandals series, which documents the world-wide graffiti movement of writers who leave their name on public transport.
Ich mag diese Person Fotoarbeiten. - this translates to English as I like this persons photographs.
These images are really captivating and are so crisp with the clear colours.
Alex Fakso:
Alex Fakso was born in 1977, in Bassano del Grappa Province of Vicenza, Italy.
Since 2001 he has been based in Milan.
At around the age of 13, he discovers the skateboarding and graffiti world. At 14 he was already writing on walls and trains, then by the age of 16 he was also photographing.
Alex is one of the most famous photographers for graffiti and trains in Italy. His photographic focus is mainly on the artistic documentation of illegal spray-actions, which for me is completely interesting and which drew me. You can get more info about him and his book Heavy Metal. I really like the book Heavy Metal as it has some really lovely and classic images of what you might think about graffiti art.
Ruedi One:
Another photo ace of the graffiti scene is Ruedi One who is one of the directors of the spray can producer Montana. Similar to Fakso, Ruedi One’s urban photographs live on the vicinity to the artists.
He mostly photographs in Black and White, visually describe the emotions during writing.For years Ruedi One was an active graffiti writer himself and the documentation of his works led him to photography. Ruedi states that passion, obsession and even addiction connects him to the medium these days and by now he exclusively uses the camera for his works.
His black and white image shots are phenomenal, they give a fantastic edge and are just superb.
I think that Ruedi is a fantastic urban photographer and he is up at the top for me, his work is inspirational and it makes me want to do more like what he has done.
Timo Stammberger:
Stammberger who was born in 1980 in Hamburg and he grew up in Hamburg and also Frankfurt/Main.
After moving to Berlin, he studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie*,
graduating in 2009.
Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie* translates to Ostkreuz School of Photography.
On his website which I will kindly post below there is a selection of bands. His first which is called: Underground Landscapes is rather spectacular also. I find this section to be a like a maze, you don't know what you're going to find. I love that this is all pictures of railroads, it is truly amazing. I also love the vibrant colours on these images, they look so clear as crystal. All of his work is wonderful and I would like to aspire to be able to take stunning images like these. I also like the fact that Timo has a specific page to one of his influences, ie: Iz The Wiz.
Ozkar Gorgias:
Whether on the tracks or in the underground, Ozkar is always on the run. His great monochrome photographs present and record not only graffiti actions, but also the stressed atmosphere. I am in complete awe of Ozkar's work, he is a true Urban photographer who would/will influence me for this project. He has some astounding images which are so fantastic there unimaginable.
His work is not just about graffiti/urban environments it is also about people.
I also like the tilt shift effect he has used on one particular photo which I love the look of, it is one taken from Vienna and it just look classic. Ozkar Gorgias has influenced me from looking at his pictures, they are so great and powerful and I would love to learn from these fantastic images.
Jonas Lara:
Jonas was born in 1982
Has a BFA in Photographing + Imaging / Art Center College of Design.
He likes to take photos, mix media, and makes beats.
I love Jonas' work in the Portfolio of New Mexico, it is so dreamlike and beautiful, also the bright colours make the picture look more happier and more intriguing to the eyes.
His photos give a deep insight into the creative life of creative people.
I think that all of his work is truly outstanding, it is very different and unique.
I think that he will influence me too, during the course of this project.
He was also arrested while escorting two graffiti artists on February 4th 2010 in Los Angeles…
Edward Nightingale:
Edward is a photojournalist who is based in Europe.
He focuses his work on train-writing and everything that goes with that.
On his website the first image you see is a time lapse of a person, which for me is so good.
I think time lapses on people give a certain vibe and make the image look more powerful than it would without the use of a time lapse.
I also like the grainy texture in some of these shots it looks more old and has a nice vibe about it.
Edward has also been referred as a 'Tunnelrat'
Denis Falkenstein:
Denis is off German origin.
Has photography training
Works here, there and everywhere.
For on the One night on the run Denis followed some writers into the yard and created an impressing train of graffiti including all the adrenalin and power, which it deserves.
I do like Denis' work as it is diverse and has a certain quality to it.
Matthew Merrett:
Fine Art Photographer
Has spent several years exploring, photographing and exposing urban decay.
Now frozen in time, subject to the elements and neglect, he captures what was once abundant, before the redevelopment cycle erases them, forever.
On his website the categories are split into bands.
I am particularly interested in the Decay and Chernobyl band.
I am really fond of Matthew's work it is so peculiar and varied to the other above.
I think that Matthew will definitely inspire and influence me for this project.
His work is truly innovative and is wonderful, and also is pulchritudinous