Sunday, 1 March 2015

Research Log

Bobby Neel Adams






Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina and presently resides in Arizona on the Mexico Border. He has exhibited worldwide and his photographs are in the collections of: International Center for Photography, NY, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Station Museum, diRosa Foundation, and the Norton Family Foundation to name a few. Adams has received grants and awards from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, LEF Foundation, MacDowell Art Colony and the Hermitage. His book Broken Wings was published by the Greenville Museum in 1997. Adams is currently working on a series of Memento Mori photographs of insects, birds, and mammals. Adams' work conveys evidence by showing a contrast in age by having a portrait of a person being shown at different ages.


Jane Dorn






Jane Dorn is a graphic designer, photographer, and educator of graphic design. Her photos of evidence mainly focus around the subject of human presence and abandonment. Dorn reflects this in her work by having empty rooms with fading paint or even showing objects that humans have thrown away.

Ernest Sebastian






 Sebastian was born in 1981 and lives in Liège, Belgium. He started photography in 2011 with a self-taught approach. He does not have any real preference and likes experimenting with different styles. His work mainly focuses on evidence of abandonment. He is able to show this by photographing locations that have entirely been left over large periods of time with rust, litter and debris.

Don McCullin






Don Mccullin is an internationally recognised british photographer, most known for his war photography. He worked as an overseas correspondent for the sunday times magazine,  and was most recognised for his hard hitting coverage of the vietnam war and the northern ireland conflict. Mccullin focused on photographing the people in these situation in order to truly express the mental state of the people and the harsh conditions. one of he photos is a closeup image of an american soldier suffering with shellshock, it is hard hitting images like these that Mccullin would use in order to fully represent the power of what he was capturing. McCullin shows evidence of shocking events through the use of emotion in his photos.


Murray Becker






Murray Becker was a photographer whose career included photo journalism, sports photography,  and management of photographic services at the wire service. Becker has been considered one of the worlds most famous photographers largely due to his fifteen shot sequence that he took when the hindenburg disaster occurred as he was one out of only seven photographers able to capture the event. Becker's images mainly focus on medium to full body shots of specific people and events. The black and white style of the images mix well and add to the tone of the picture in order to get your attention and focus it on a character or object in the photo. Becker shows evidence of historic events by showing the aftermath of the event in his photos.



Bruce Davidson







Davidson is an American photographer whose documentary work of gang life in Brooklyn, poor districts of Harlem, New York, and his photographs of the New York subway system in the 1970s helped him break new ground. He has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His mother built him a dark room and he began taking photos. Soon after, he approached a local photographer who taught him about the technical sides of photography, in addition to lighting and printing skills. His influences included Robert Frank, Eugene Smith, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Davidson shows evidence of different cultures within the world by making people the focus of his images.


Walker Evans





Walker Evans was an American photographer, most famous for his work during the great depression. Evans' work showed evidence of the conditions of the great depression by focusing a great deal on people and terrible living conditions at the time.


Robert Capa






Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann) was a Hungarian war photographer, photojournalist and also the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taró. He covered five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. His work was able to show evidence of these wars by documenting the emotions of the soldiers and the conditions that they had to face.

Steve McCurry







Steve McCurry's career was launched when he crossed the pakistan border while wearing native garb. He returned with rolls of film sewn to his clothes and the pictures were published around the world and were the first photos to really show the conflict in rebel-controlled areas in afganistan, just before the soviet invasion. McCurry's work in outstanding environments are used to really capture the setting through a use of vibrant colours and a focus on foreign locations and people. McCurry shows evidence of different civilisations and the people within them through the focus on living conditions, beliefs and in some cases starving children.


Nicholas Goodden





Nicholas Goodden is an award winning London-based urban photographer, Olympus ambassador, founder of the Street Photography London collective. His photography is entirely focused on London through the mediums of London street photography, urban landscape photography and graffiti / street art photography. Examples of evidence can be seen in the vandalism within some of his photos that is made the focus by using eye catching colours.

Michael Kelly






Michael Kelly is a former snowboarder turned photographer. He likes to focus his photography on architecture in small and large environments. Some of his photos focus on the theme of before and after which can show evidence of alterations to the images.

Ursula Abresch






Ursula was born in Argentina, and raised in Argentina and in Chile. She moved to the United States to attend university, and eventually moved permanently to Canada. She has a degree in Education with a concentration in Art and History. She is currently the Artistic Director at the VISAC Gallery of Art in Trail, British Columbia. Outside of that, she dedicates most of her time to photography. Her ultra detailed close up photography allows evidence of some previous weather conditions to be seen from features such as water droplets.

David Bailey:








David Bailey is known as one of britains best fashion and portrait photographers. Bailey made his ascent in vogue, shooting 800 pages of vogue editorial in one year. We can see in his work that he has kept with the black and white colours on his pictures in order to capture the detail of the shadows in the faces. The emotive expressions in the people that he is photographing is used to crate more wrinkles in their face and add more depth to the black and white filter that he uses. His photography can show evidence of different trends and iconic figures throughout different time periods and how they change.

Darrel Davis






Davis has been taking photos since 1966 and doesn't like to have a specific style. He likes to explore nature, landscapes and colourful things and people. He partly took photos of abandoned buildings in his career. THese images show evidence of abandonment and ageing due to the old looking structures in which he photographs.

William De Wiveleslie Abney:






Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney, RE, KCB, FRS. was born in Derby in 1843, the eldest son of the Rev. Canon E. H. Abney. Sir William's work revolved, in the main, around light, vision and associated subjects - in particular, photography. He was responsible for numerous books and handbooks which remained for a long time as standard guides for practical photographers who found all the technical advice needed in the information contained within them. Some of his work focuses on evidence of abandoned structures.

Micheal Bosanko





Michael Bosanko is a Welsh light artist. He has copied masterpieces from artists throughout history using just coloured torches. His images are homages to artists including Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Munch, Hokusai, Magritte and Banksy. His images show evidence of light and the journey that they travel on.

Lincoln Clarkes






Lincoln Clarkes was born in Toronto, 1957 and is an award-winning photographer of the National Magazine Awards, silver Western Magazine Awards, gold, who has published three books and has been the subject of two documentary films. His photography tends to depict city life while some of his other work focuses on abandoned and ageing buildings. This shows evidence of time passing.

Emmanuel Rosario





Emmanuel Rosario is a Documentary photographer from Harlem, New York. He mostly photographs his  adventures with his friends and the people he meets. His images depict different cultures and environments. Some of his photos also show examples of graffiti which can show evidence of vandalism.


Stephen Twardowski





Stephen Twardowski is an American photographer who likes to document moments from his life. One of his projects features a focus on abandoned areas and clothes. This collection of his work can be used as a means of showing evidence of human presence and abandonment.


Liam Frankland






Liam Frankland is a photographer from Suffolk who likes to photograph landscapes, seasides and streets. Frankland uses objects as the main focus of his images with different backgrounds. The objects relate to their background and suggest how they ended up where they are.

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