Valerie Chiang is a 19 years old photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina and Los Angeles. She is a film production major at the University of Southern California. Last two years she has exhibited different series worldwide.
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Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer and photographer, he died 18 April 2013. His name is not very well known but his work for rock bands since the late sixties will remain among the most popular. He was commissionned by bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Genesis, Europe, Peter Gabriel, Yes, the Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Bad Company, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Cranberries, Yourcodenameis:milo, The Mars Volta, Muse or Biffy Clyro… A graphic work that was very important at a time people still bought records.
As a photographer and inspired by surrealist painter René Magritte, he said that some of his works beg the question of is it real or not? He was a teenage friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and in 1968 along with Aubrey Powell he founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis, and between them they designed many famous single and album covers like the famous “Dark side of the moon”. Storm Thorgerson is considered the best album designer of all time.
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Skipped heart beats is Irina Munteanu’s portfolio on Flickr. Irina is a very young photographer from Constan?a, Romania. She currently is in highschool and getting ready for college, planning to stay in the photography world. Her photographs are expressing emotions or words she couldn’t shape or didn’t get the chance to speak. No doubt Irina Munteanu is developping a very subtle yet meaningful language.
Grégoire Alexandre is a French photographer known for his experiment and creative photographs featuring amazing set design and props. Sometimes collaborating with set designer Jean-Michel Bertin, he likes to create surreal installations and build sophisticated compositions for advertising, fashion or portrait. Represented in Europe by carolelambert.com and in the USA by cartelandco.com
Celeste Ortiz is a young freelance photographer based in San Antonio, Chile. She does great series of analog or digital photography looking for some mysterious moods. With a nice sense of self-portrait and an obvious taste for music !
Mark Tucker is an American photographer who is doing an indredible work through a series called “mothers” and where he is using wet plate collodion. This early photographic process was introduced in the 1850s and it requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.
Eric Weeks is an American artist who received a MFA from Yale University in 1994. His work involves the contemplation and exploration into the nature of human relationships, while making narrative photographs that reference a wide-range of cultural influences. Eric Weeks did series of photographs of his wife, “World Was in the Face of the Beloved” showing a high level of attention removing all the creative stops.
Eric Weeks features in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Photography and Maison Européenne de la Photographie (France), among others. Also represented by Pablo’s Birthday (NYC), Galerie Hug (France), Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta, GA), and EDS Galeria (México).
Eric Matheron Balay is a French photographer having a great studio in Paris and working internationally. His work is very nice, from beauty to advertising with a focus on fashion and characters.
Jennifer Bruget is a French artist who is experimenting the art of photographic self-portrait with some computer wizardry. Her work is not narcissistic but certainly melancholic. She has exhibited in several countries and also featured in Vogue Italy. A promising portfolio.
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