We all try to live by certain standards. But we all live by certain rules. One of them is gravity. Without it, things would get pretty surreal. And that surrealism is exactly what photographers Li Wei, Natsumi Hagashi and Denis Darzacq share in their works. Floating or playing with the laws of nature captured in a photograph.
Light is the most important ingredient for creating a photo. The more light the better you would think. But some artists roam the nights. With only a few light sources they record a different face of places you probably normally wouldn’t even pay attention to. Carl Wooley and Todd Hido are two examples of artists that roam the nights to record what we normally wouldn’t see. Long exposures and light sources like streetlights and beaming TVs through a window make for some pretty wonderful photos.
Look them straight in the eyes. Close Up: Portraits by Martin Schoeller. He portrays the people we all know from the wonderful world of entertainment and politics. Or is that the same thing? This project gives you a chance to study the faces of the famous ones in great detail. Both the quality and quantity brings an interesting dimension to portrait photography. It is a wonderful appropriation of the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher.
One of my favorite artists is Gregory Crewdson. This photographer knows how to capture a moment in time as if it were a movie still. The feeling of something has just happened or is about to happen resonates through every of his very large format photographs. Scenes that remind me of the paintings of Edward Hopper.
