Sam Abell

I like Sam Abell's work because he has different ways of looking at things. After seeing his photographs in American Photography on Campus I was intrigued. He has a unique style. His photos have a very old time feel to them which is great to see in a world full of digital, high resolution images.

Though he has an old time feeling he still knows how to shoot his subjects very well. He has a great eye for composition and brings out the more dull colors found in the world now a days. I find it very interesting how he can take something that is very bland and make it into a beautiful photograph. He shows the beautiful light within everything.

Chris Donahue

Johan and Johanna

I found out about Johan and Johanna by searching various photographers on an agency website. Johan has a deep passion for shooting houses, he feels that homes have more soul than actual people. Johanna grew up wanting to get into fashion photography and eventually did jobs for H and M, Diesel, etc. Together they photograph landscape, architecture and people. I really enjoy the photographs that are taken at night and the surroundings are lit up by artificial lighting, either coming from the street lights or the lights inside the homes. I think these two create beautiful images together and they have real talent. A lot of their photos use soft colors, while a few are very saturated like some of the landscape. I like the variety in their work.

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Jeremey Cowart

Jeremey Cowart is from Nashville, TN. In 2005, Jeremey Cowart switched from graphic design to do photography full-time. He has released a photography book. He has entertainment clients such as FOX, A&E, ABC, E!, Capitol Records, and many more. He shoots many celebrities and musicians. What caught my eye about Jeremey's work was an series called Atmosphere (I couldn't get any of the pictures). The photographs in the series are mostly soft and his compositions are very interesting. All of his photographs seem very personal, like they are the created for the viewer. With the soft colors, interesting compositions, and cool surroundings, the pictures drew me in.

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Natalie Krick

Natalie Krick was born in 1986 in Chicago, IL. She recieved her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. Her work has been shown at the Visual Arts Gallery in New York and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins, Colorado. Natalie Krick's work was recently featured in the Daniel Cooney Fine Art's Photographers Auction. She is currently living in Colorado where she shoots most of her photographs.

About her current work, Ambiguity and the Masquerade, Natalie said, "In my recent body of work, I examine the ways photography contributes to the construction of identity and gender. Women are encouraged to create a socially acceptable feminine appearance. I want to explore how this construction of sexual identity influences gender roles and sexual stereotypes. The women I photograph are dressed in excessive costumes to emphasize the artfice of femininity. I am interested in how transforming a woman into an exaggerated cliche of femininity results in her gender becoming ambiguous."

Her work has a blown out, flash bulb appearance, which I find to be truly beautiful. It has a fashion forward look, both in the lighting style and in the appearance and dress of her models. The colors are vivid against the bright whites, yet seemingly somewhat de saturated at the same time due to the bright flash. The high contrast of the photographs also help to give the photos a fashion photography feel. Although these photographs are posed, they are posed in a very natural way, capturing raw human emotion and natural actions.

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Mikhael Subotzky

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Mikhael Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently based in Johannesburg.

His most recent body of work, Beaufort West, has been published in book form by Chris Boot Publishers and was the subject of the 2008 exhibition New Photography: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Subotzky’s work has been exhibited widely in major galleries and museums, and his prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, and FOAM (FotoMuseum Amsterdam).

Recent awards and grants include the Oskar Barnack Award, the Lou Stouman Award, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant, the ICP Infinity Award (Young Photographer), the KLM Paul Huf Award, and the Special Jurors Award at the 2005 VIes Recontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako.

He works as a photojournalist. The history of documentary photography plays a decisive role in Mikhael Subotzky’s work. At an early age, the artist was exposed to the activist work of his uncle, Gideon Mendel, one of South Africa’s notable “struggle photographers,” and he grew up in a milieu of commitment to social democracy.

But the images he took of prisoners started out as his senior project at his university.

Cole Rise

Cole Rise has spent the better half of his life taking pleasure behind the lens; stalking cows and lying in the grass to capture the landscape. His work has been featured in a notable amount of international creative magazines, books, billboards, websites, posters, and even a few CD covers for bands you can find in most music stores. 

What makes Cole Rise's photography so inspirational to me is his masterful use of color within everyone of his images.  The backgrounds of each of his photo are done in such a unique way that they closely resemble a water color painting.  It feels as though every picture has a certain texture to it, backgrounds are grainy and all the detail is captured with precision.   The overall theme and tone of the images is presented well by the vibrant colors.  I find his work to be very inspirational, due to his unique use of color treatment.

Michael Mann