Alejandro Chaskielberg - The High Tide

I just came across another helpful website featuring the work of lots of different photographers and artists (www.yossimilo.com), and as I was looking through them all I saw Alejandro Chaskielberg's series The High Tide, and liked it so much I thought I'd post it here straight away.

Here is a quote from the press release, explaining the series:

Interested in the relationship between people and their environment, Alejandro Chaskielberg has lived in the Paraná River Delta region in Argentina periodically since 2007. While there, he observes the daily routines of the local islanders: fishing, boating, and farming. Drawing from his background in film, the artist carefully recreates scenes from his observations and photographs them at night. The light sources used to illuminate the images are moonlight, flashlights, strobes and lanterns, casting them in eerie and surreal light of unnatural colors.
Chaskielberg’s project, The High Tide, depicts life in the remote community of the Delta, where the river tides determine the activities and movements of its inhabitants. Chaskielberg breaks with the tradition of documentary photography by casting real people in imagined situations based on their own lives. In his photographs, everyday reality is transformed into a dreamlike world where perceptions of color, light and space are challenged.

Matthew Brandt

I came across this photographer when I was looking through one of those excellent websites I sometimes find, that are kind of like agents for photographers, this time it was from M + B Art.

His series 'Lakes and Reservoirs' caught my eye in particular because of photos like these:

Then I read the artist statement and biography which explained them a bit more. The best quote from this that sums it up, in my opinion, is 

 “…Whether silkscreening his own photograph of Half Dome in Yosemite—an iconic image of the American West—with Cheez Whiz, Mint Jelly and other pedestrian condiments, or leaving photographs of lakes soaking in the water of their source, his subject matter visually and physically informs the work…”

These are examples from the series 'Taste Tests', the one on the left Mint Jelly and the right Peanut Butter and Jelly.

Heinrich Heidersberger

Legendary German photographer Heinrich Heidersberger worked on a cruise ship, the MS Atlantic, in 1954. He took thousands of pictures of Americans sailing from New York to Havana -- something Americans haven't been allowed to do for almost 50 years. The pictures are now on display in Hamburg.

- Source

Photojojo posted this link on tumblr and I really liked these photos in particular.

More Inspiration

Every now and then I also come across a website with quite a few different photographers/artists that I really like, like Luhring Augustine where I saw Guido van der Werve and Joel Sternfeld's photos and they're always so useful.

Today I found M + B which has loads and loads of photographers, all of whom I really like, and who have given me heaps of inspiration for this photography unit which is greatly needed at the moment. I'm starting to feel more excited about it again, yay, since my enthusiasm was crushed by my stupid teacher making us do completely irrelevant stuff.

I would do more detailed posts about them separately but there are too many I like and I wouldn't be able to choose which ones, so I'll just post some of the different photos.

'Despair film still #3' by Alex Prager

'Vanessa // San Francisco, California' by Mike Brodie

'Sunset Tree Fern' by Lisa Eisner

And there are so many other awesome ones. All 2 of my followers should have a look.

Redscale Film

Recently I won 'Lomo home of the Week UK' or something on Lomography.com which earnt me 50 piggy points (£50 free pound basically, to spend in the Lomo shop, awesome) and with them I bought a white Fisheye 1 which I've wanted for ages, and some funky film; 3 rolls of Lomography film ISO 400 and 3 rolls of Lomography redscale ISO 100.

I was looking on Lomography.com earlier because some lovely people liked and commented on my photos and I came across some really nice photos taken with an Olympus Trip 35 (my favourite film camera at the moment) and Lomography Redscale film, awesome. I'm clearly going to have to go to some sort of forest/woods when I test my film out.

All linked to their Lomo pages, taken by panchoballard.

Guido van der Werve

I found out about this photographer/film maker on this website which also has information about, and the work of, loads of other artists that I really like.

He takes photos, makes short films and also music compositions I think. But basically I went on his website (http://www.roofvogel.org/) to look at more of his work than was on the other site and I really liked it, so I wanted to put him on my blog like I have done with others.

Giacomo Brunelli

 

http://www.giacomobrunelli.com/index.html

Again, if anyone would like to buy me an earlyish birthday present, I'd love to have his book.

William Eggleston

Since this is a blog I made specifically for photography related posts, I figured I should do some posts about my favourite photographers. I do it on my tumblr as well so there's even more reason for me to do it here.

Obviously this particular post is about William Eggleston, and I always think of him as my complete favourite because there is not one photo of his that I've seen and don't like, or that doesn't interest me, or so on. I don't really look back at my old photography teacher that fondly, since I don't think he taught us that much, apart from when it came to the dark room, but he was the one that brought William Eggleston to my attention so that makes me really glad I had him. I know I would have found out about him eventually, but the sooner I did, the better. 

Looking at Eggleston's photos as much as I do also makes me see things as though they were from one of his photos, for instance when we're going out somewhere and driving somewhere I haven't really seen before I always look for the kind of thing that would be in his photos and look amazing, and imagine trying to take photos like his. The fact that he took photos of what he saw would look good in places he visited and didn't particularly set things up makes me glad because I don't consider myself good at setting up a photograph at all, and prefer to just keep an eye out for interesting/ aesthetically pleasing  places or things that are already there. His photos make me notice things more. (But they also make me sad that I wasn't alive in the 70s and want to go to Memphis.) It's also his photos that made me interested in and excited by film the most, I think, despite being interested in it a bit before I knew of him. I use him for practically every photography unit I do and whenever I take a photograph I always think of his.

Here are some of his photos, there are too many I love to have favourites.

I'm so glad he has a good website, too, www.egglestontrust.com. It has loaaaads of his photos on it.

(If anyone would like to buy me a late Christmas present/early birthday present, I would love William Eggleston's Guide. ;) Well, I'd love all of his books but that is definitely the most affordable. If not, I'll just have to buy myself a present...)