René Maltête: looking for surprise in the everyday
Photographs by French photographer and poet René Maltête (1930-2000).
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Art Photo Index: important fine-art and documentary photography
"Art Photo Index (API) is a visual index of important art and documentary photographers, their images and their websites from throughout the world.
Our goal with API is to become the most useful index and search engine for discovering and exploring fine-art and documentary photography. Unlike other general purpose search engines where pertinent information is buried within the less relevant, the Art Photo Index search tool focuses only on a vetted art and documentary photographers and their work, making it the ideal search engine for our discerning audience of curators, gallery directors, publishers, editors, picture researchers, collectors and others who love art and documentary photography.
The photographers included in Art Photo Index have been selected as a result of their accomplishments in the art or documentary photography field. Many of those included have been published by major photobook publishers or serious art photography magazines. Some have received awards given by art and documentary photography organizations. Others are represented by major art photography galleries."
(Photo-Eye)
Fig.1 Meighan Ellis (2009). "The Assistant", Te Aro, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, from the The Sitters series.
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Chris Saunders: One to One Hundred Project
"With this project I intend to concentrate purely on taking close up photographs of faces of people from my hometown of Sheffield. I will photograph 100 people, one person for every year of age, each of whom will be asked to provide the clearest photograph they can find taken when they were younger. This picture, along with the photograph I take, will be placed together to form the final version of each piece showing how the subject's face has changed over the intervening years."
(Chris Saunders)
Fig.1 Chris Saunders (2012) "Danny aged 3 and 54", One to One Hundred Project.
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Tabitha Soren: in-between narratives capturing stories in flux
"Sometimes it's simply looking at a particular behavior in a new way that evokes a range of emotions. Photographer Tabitha Soren has created a series of photographs, Running, that stir up feelings of panic, tension, curiosity, and concern. Tabitha's photographs have power in their simplicity, and it's as if one edge of her photograph is the past and one is the future, creating an in-between narrative that captures a story in flux. As viewers, we are caught in a pivotal moment of cinematic tension, requiring us to imagine what came before and what comes after each image. The photographs become a series of short stories that seem to shout 'get me the hell out of here.'"
(Aline Smithson, 23 May 2012, Lenscratch)
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Peter Bannan: director + photographer
"After gaining a degree in Fine Arts at Canterbury University in the mid seventies, majoring in European Film, Peter went on to make his name as a fashion photographer, shooting fashion for designers, catalogues and magazines both in New Zealand and off shore.
Ten years ago he co-founded his Auckland based film company Bannan Films and now after relocating to Singapore in 2008 is primarily directing commercials as a freelancer.
His fashion background gives his commercials a beautiful, visually unique style, while his cinema interests bring subtle, often quirky humour with strong characters and captivating storytelling. Peter has a relaxed, calm demeanor, which allows him to work well with babies & children, this also obviously comes from the experience he has had with his own three children."
(Peter Bannan)
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