“You know why your pictures are no fucking good. Because they don’t describe the chaos of life.” – Garry Winogrand Not a quote that I am sure that I agree but we are all allowed our opinions. Chaos is not something that I thrive in unfortunately it is something that I am surrounded by. However,…
Tag: contemporary masters
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Peter Dombrovskis
Peter Dombrovskis as an Australian photographer. Dombrovskis was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1945. He emigrated to Australia with his mother Adele and started taking photographs in the 1960’s. He was strongly influenced by Lithuanian-Australian pioneer, conservationist and photographer Olegas Truchanas, who became a father figure to him. He was equally influenced by landscape photographers…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Charles Marville
Charles Marville was a French photographer born in 1813, who mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. Marville achieved moderate success as an illustrator of books and magazines early in his career. It was not until 1850 that he shifted course and took up photography—a medium that had been introduced just eleven years earlier….
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Alexey Titarenko
Alexey Titarenko is a Russian photographer and artist who has devoted his life’s work to depicting the atmosphere and inhabitants of his city. He draws his inspiration from the music and literature he loved since childhood and his long walks through the city. The past decade, Titarenko has turned his lens on New York. In…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Nick Brandt’s INHERIT THE DUST
I would like to start this week with the new works of Nick Brandt entitled “Inherit The Dust”. This particular series highlights the sheer scale of man’s astonishingly rapid and escalating expansion into, and destruction of, the natural world. The destruction of these animals, of these African places, is not happening in the past where…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Mario Cravo Neto
A Brazilian photographer whose work spans many genre, image-making, painting and sculpture. His work shows a dark enigmatic and harsh city, where lonely souls roam, and where the dirt and filth of the streets lie alongside big limousines, the riches, the luxury. Born into a family of artists, Mario started his training early under the…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Landscape photographer Wang Wusheng
Born in 1945 in the city of Wuhu in China’s Anhui’s Province. What I love about his work is the ethereal beauty of nature and our planet that is portrayed. It reminds me that how beautiful and fragile that our planet is really is. Every time that I see images like this, I am reminded…