Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Max Dupain
Max Dupain was Australia’s most respected and influential modernist black & white photographer of the 20th century. Dupain was considered the pioneer of modernism in Australian photography, an approach that departed from the sentimentality of soft focused, nostalgic imagery to the simplified world of light contrasts, sharp focus, varying angles and creative compositions. Dupain received […]
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Thinking beyond composition in photography
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. – Ansel Adams The idea of this blogpost came to my mind when I came across the above […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Charles Harbutt
“A photograph is a collision between a person with a camera and reality. The photograph is typically as interesting as collision is.” – Charles Harbutt Charles Henry Harbutt was an American photographer, a former president of Magnum, and full-time Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design in New York. He was born in Camden, New Jersey, and […]
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Getting out of my comfort zone
As an individual with a very short attention span, I try new things often in photography. I have never shared them until now. The reason why I try new is because I hate feeling complexent with my work. So when I start to feel stagnant or whenever I feel like I am going around in […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – William Eggleston
‘You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.” – William Eggleston William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers of the latter half of the 20th century. An American photographer born in 1939, he is widely credited with increasing recognition for colour photography as a legitimate artistic medium. As a boy, […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Lola Álvarez Bravo
‘I have no greater artistic pretentions, but if something in my photography turns out to be useful, it will be that it is a chronic of my country, of my time, of my people.. things about Mexico that you won’t see anymore’ – Lola Álvarez Bravo Lola Álvarez Bravo was the first Mexican female photographer and a key figure […]
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How light creates emotion in black and white photography?
The fundamental aspects of photography is light. light is at the heart of every image that I create. Without light, photography will not exist. Light is literally the foundation of every image that we create. light gives shape and meaning to the scenes that we witness. As a fine art photographer, being able to effectively […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Rebecca Lepkoff
‘I didn’t ask for permission to photograph someone.. I’d hand around such a long time in the area that people got used to me… At that time, people weren’t about the camera.’ – Rebecca Lepkoff Rebecca Lepkoff was an American photographer born in 1916. She grew up in a tenement on Hester Street in the […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Ralph Morse
“Photography is more than art. In photojournalism, it’s knowledge.” – Ralph Morse Ralph Theodore Morse was a career staff photographer for Life magazine. He was born in Manhattan in 1917 and raised in the Bronx area of New York City. He lived with his mother and sister in an apartment where the income was $25 a week. At fifteen, he starting working […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Roy DeCarava
“I happen to believe that photography is not about black and white; it’s about grays.” – Roy DeCarava Born in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood in 1919, Roy DeCarava came of age during the Harlem Renaissance, when artistic activity and achievement among African Americans flourished across the literary, musical, dramatic, and visual arts. After graduating […]
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