Category: Identities
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Nii Obodai Rough Notes
Nigeria Wordpress 2012 theme website but the gallery does not work. Artist statement: “My photography is the process of openly expressing what gives me the energy to remain sane and to visualize the art of life as I experience it. My observation is that thought is image and vice versa. Thought is shaped by the mystery…
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Mathua Mateka Rough Notes
Website much too flashy. One very large image that takes ages to load, even on my fast connection, never mind slow ones in Africa. Rolling slideshows etc down right hand side lead to very slow loading large images. Seems to be trying to use the most jazzy tools for photo galleries. But very confusing…
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Dillon Marsh Rough Notes
South Africa landscape website Themed series of mostly fairly muted colour images of diamond and copper mines, pathways and trees in landscape. Biography: I was born in Cape Town in 1981 and I continue to live there today. I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Stellenbosch and during the course of…
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Emeka Okerere Rough Notes
Nigeria website Much more voyeuristic and less engaged than eg Michael Tsegaye. Performance photography, Artist’s statement Emeka Okereke born in 1980 is a Nigerian photographer who lives and works between Africa and Europe, moving from one to the other on a frequent basis. He came in contact with photography in 2001. He is a member…
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Michael Tsegaye Rough Notes
Michael Tsegaye, Ethiopia, portfolio website Born in 1975, Michael Tsegaye lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He received his diploma in painting from Addis Ababa University’s School of Fine Arts and Design in 2002, but soon gave up painting after he developed an allergy to oil paint. He subsequently found his real passion in…
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Paul Seawright
Paul Seawright is best known for his ‘late photography’ of battle-sites and minefields. He often uses vintage technology and a much older approaches to conflict photography. But rather than reportage, his images are made for museum-going audiences and gallery patrons by people who call themselves ‘artists’. website If it is too explicit it becomes journalistic. If it is…
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An My-Le
http://www.anmyle.com
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Tim Simmons
website: http://www.timsimmons.co.uk Simmons creates his nocturnal landscapes using fluorescent lamps and a range of post-production techniques. His images might be described as ‘hyper real’; they have an aesthetic that somehow seems to transcend photo-realism. They look almost artificial, like video game graphics. Tim Simmons established a successful career within the field of motor photography. Simmons’s innovative lighting methods that brought him…
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John Pfahl
Born in New York in 1939, John Pfahl was raised in Wanaque, New Jersey. He received a BFA from Syracuse University’s School of Art and his MA from Syracuse University’s School of Communications. Pfahl is known for his innovative landscape photography such as Altered Landscape, his first major series of un-manipulated color photographs on which…
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Landscape and Identity
The concept of ‘identity’ is central to most landscape photography – the cultural, historical, ecological and industrial factors shaping identities of people and places and the ways in which the two interact. ‘Identity’ is however not fixed. Individuals and groups of people are continually trying to reconcile multiple and changing identities as a means of making…