Emerging Photographer
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Mark Kelly
Ernesto Guadalupe
Behind The Scenes & On The Runway
Ernesto Guadalupe
My Coverage ofNew York Fashion Week these last few years, has been a creative challenge that I feel myself looking forward to. it has always felt like a trainig ground for a years worth of shooting events under pressure. It's always been interesting for me to capture just how much goes into the presentation of something / someone who happens to be beautiful.
Mikael Owunna
Infinite Essence
Mikael Owunna
"Infinite Essence" is my response to pervasive media images of black people dead and dying. Being gunned down by police officers, starving and suffering in award-winning photography. The trope of the black body as a site of death is everywhere.
What if the only images you saw of people who looked like you were dead and dying bodies? How would that affect the way you move through the world, how would that enter (and hamper) your body?
With this series, I’ve set about on a quest to recast the black body as the cosmos and eternal. I hand paint all of the models’ bodies with fluorescent paints, and using my engineering background I have augmented a standard flash with an ultraviolet bandpass filter, to only pass ultraviolet light. Using this method, in total darkness, I click down on the shutter – “snap” – and for a fraction of a second, their bodies illuminate as the universe. We view the beauty of the soul and our deeper cosmic connections communicated through them.
In Igbo spirituality, odinani, we believe in the existence of a “chi” in every person. So just as you are seated reading this and I am here, speaking to you through the page, on the spiritual plane, our chis are also convening together. Ultraviolet light is not visible to the human eye, and so we can illuminate and find – temporarily – the unseeable therein, the soul, the chi. It is on this plane of existence where, regardless of our experiences of oppression on the physical plane, we are infinite.
KAREN SHARMAN
Hanging out in the Garage
KAREN SHARMAN
Abi is my favourite model. I wanted to take some really honest pix of her. We played around with some lighting and props in the garage and this is what we came up with. Abi is naturally very blonde & wears lots of makeup. She recently dyed her hair brown. I asked her to shave her eyebrows and wear no makeup for the shoot which she was more than happy to do. We were both very pleased with the results!
Piper Smith
Wendy Jensen
Brandon Clifton
What's Wrong With the World
Brandon Clifton
This was my attempt at tackling pressing issues in today’s society. Each photograph represents an issue: hatred, waste, technology, pollution and poverty. I wanted to include children in the series to represent the innocence of youth and how important it is for us as adults to change our ways before our children have to grow up dealing with these same issues.
Patricia Cook
Andrés Mario de Varona
Contact
Andrés Mario de Varona
Contact focuses on reconnecting with my deceased mother by
recording rituals and ceremonies to contact her spirit. I create and perform these rituals myself and with family, as well as with specific objects that once belonged to my mother. By creating these spaces for my family members we embark on navigating through our own experience of loss. Not only has it been cathartic, but the project has also helped me comprehend death within a societal context. Due to medical advancements, technology, and societal norms, death has become nearly invisible. It's something we don't typically witness, but are informed of instead.
By bridging life and death in these images I aim at continuing the conversation and
exploration Victorian Spiritualists initiated throughout the late 19th and early 20th century. This was a particular time in Western culture when sicknesses were rampant and often untreatable. The visibility of death pushed citizens for a new understanding of what it meant to die, and the camera was an instrument that helped rationalize and ground this mystery. With this series my family and I search for that similar understanding by choosing to get close with death. By sharing the
desire to be spirit communicators we allow ourselves to be guided by mystic forces as we graze the realm of uncertainty.
steven lustgarten
Angie Shehane
Jonathan Michael Castillo
Immigrant Owned
Jonathan Michael Castillo
Growing up my parents owned a computer store in Los Angeles County. Our family business had a retail space on the main street of our suburban city that was vibrant and busy by all indications. At the time I didn't think much of it, the store was just part of our family life for much of my childhood. There was no shortage of customers or work to be done and my parents often employed 2-3 other people to help with the business. My father was the quintessential main street entrepreneur and job creator our politicians refer to so often in their stump speeches. He worked his way through an MBA at a prestigious university and started his own small business in a field that was new and burgeoning. He was also born in south Texas to an undocumented immigrant mother. She came to America seeking a better life for herself and her future children just as people have been doing for generations. Many people think that immigrants come to another country to take but in reality they create, give and share in innumerable ways. They create jobs, take risks and are the embodiment of the American dream. My interest is in the roots of immigrant business, the local and specific spaces that give character to any neighborhood. The places where people carve out space for themselves, their families and new immigrants on their own terms. My work is a reminder that immigrant owned businesses are as American as it gets.
Vincetta Dunnell
michele zousmer
Hidden In Plain View
michele zousmer
The Irish Travellers are the marginalized community in Ireland. Known as Gypsies they are traditional and gender- based, with strong ties to family, lifelong bonds and God. Most live lives of hardship and poverty. Living in caravans with large families, lacking electricity and water, in encampments of overgrown weeds and garbage, rodents everywhere. Recently accepted as an Ethnic culture by the Republic of Ireland they still are denied basic human rights. This makes it difficult to get ahead in life. Trying to bring attention to these beautiful people.
Thaddeus Buenaventura
Umbrellas in Japan Tokyo Marathon
Thaddeus Buenaventura
"Ready?" is the slogan of the 2019, Japan Tokyo Marathon. Japan is gearing up for the 2020 Olympics. Are the rest of the world's athletes ready?
Despite the less than stellar weather conditions- athletes, spectators, media were ready; something exciting is bound to happen.
At the Japan Tokyo Marathon 2019, the umbrellas were part of this historical day. Running culture in Japan is strong. Olympian Japanese runners are bound for victories in their olympic race and their supporters came out in waves with their umbrellas to cheer them on. I wanted to document this day as a journalist utilizing my craft of capturing relevant monochromatic imagery.
"My approach to creating images for documentary work is through meticulous fine arts vision with a true sense for reportage photography."
India Blake
Wale Agboola
Ghost Ships
Wale Agboola
I set out on a journey to find absolution, to resolve my past, present, future, to break down my walls and discover who I am. I wanted to know what the world could look like, find something new and old. I came upon a place where time moves slow, where glorious voices harmonize with ease at community gatherings. The milky way is stunning here. Stray dogs run between my steps. I’m honored to have taken the journey, to sit with people that have been sheltered away.
Shyamala Thilagaratnam
The Totos of Turkana
Shyamala Thilagaratnam
The totos (children) of Turkana in remote Northern Kenya exuded an infectious joy, whether they were lolling in mum's lap, playing, or herding their family's livestock. In my week off the grid at Lake Turkana, I came across many of the same children daily...in school, delighted over new pencils; fishing at the lake after school; playing on the dry plains. Most impressive were the little boys who did men's jobs, confidently herding goats, donkeys and caravans of camels. The little girls too started young, expertly balancing water containers on their heads, taking great pride in imitating their sisters.
Ashley Lippincott
Gwen Solomon
Fade In ... Fade Out
Gwen Solomon
Each one of us is unique yet we can display different facets of our natures depending on the situation. We adopt roles and personas. We dream big dreams and try out identities. We venture beyond the quotidian in secret thoughts.
What if we could actually be different -- enter another realm … be absorbed into nature … become one with the universe? The people in these photographs have made the transition from being to becoming. They fade into a new universe and fade out of the old one.
I photographed people in New York and Florida from 2017-2019. They face the future rather than the camera. I also photographed environments – lights, scenery, abstracts –to represent forces of nature. Then I merged the people with their new milieus. Their new selves appear. What is ahead? What will happen on the other side of darkness?
Kristi Calderon
Cristina Baussan
Stay with Me
Cristina Baussan
In Haiti, many families can’t realize the opportunities they dream of granting their children - so the families leave home or send their children away. Some end up in safe and caring environments, but others encounter exploitation and abuse. This system, called child domesticity, involves more than 300,000 Haitian children, most of them girls.
The practice of domesticity began during Haiti’s colonial era, when European settlers used young children living on the land they claimed for domestic work. In the 1960s, as urbanization sparked heavy internal migration, poor Haitian parents began to rely on family members living in the city to care for their children.
In 2003, after the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern, Haiti repealed a chapter of its Labor Code, which allowed children aged 12 and older to work as domestic employees. The new law, however, does not recognize a minimum age for child domestic workers. Today, domesticity continues to spread, making it difficult to track the scope of the issue.
This photo essay chronicles the experience of young Haitian girls living in domesticity and their attempt to readapt to family life after being reunited with their biological parents. It sheds light on the different origins and consequences of each narrative, suggesting that domesticity is no singular concept or idea; rather, it is a spectrum in grayscale of all kinds of relationships that shape the realities of Haitian youth.
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