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.
Yiorgos Kordakis is a Greek photographer who have some intimate relation with the sea. His series of large format Polaroid called “Global Summer” particularly stuck in my mind since 2008. Fascinated by summer holidays, Yiorgos Kordakis wanted to compare the way people enjoy the summer in very different places like the USA, Romania, Greece or India. Always distant from the subject, he looks for some abstract shapes and lights, using tilt-shift and overexposure. Represented by Karsten Greve Gallery (Paris) and M+B Gallery (Los Angeles).
Naked Eye is a new blog curated by photographer Carol Sachs, and featuring places like the Grand Canyon, Utah (USA), Tokyo, and the Dolomites, the Italian mountain range that can be discovered on a fascinating journey through the photos of this young restless photographer. Carol Sachs is a young Brazilian living in London, subverting the values of conventionality to cross oceans in search of original pictures. Her photos have illustrated pages of magazines like Wallpaper, Vogue Hommes Japan, Vice UK, and the site Nowness.
In Brazil, she has photographed for some of the big publishing houses such as Trip, Glamurama Group, Carta Editorial, Abril, Globo, among others. In addition to her editorial work, during the past five years Carol has been lending her eye to document the plays produced by Sutil Theatre Company, of her countrymen Felipe Hirsch and Guilherme Weber.
Trained as a graphic designer, photography found a place in her life when she was still in college, quite suddenly, as the story on her first blog post tells. Later on, after moving to London, she pursued an MA Photography from the London College of Communication. Since then she has been moving around, capturing people and places and turning them into visual poetry.
The blog project was born gradually until an invitation to write about a trip to Tokyo gave it the final impetus. The site works something like a virtual organiser of her growing travel archives. “The name means looking at things directly, without the aid of lenses. Because before you shoot anything you have to be physically present in one place (the trip), but once there, you have to look around, to see, and only then you are prepared to shoot. The photo is the final product, which sums up the experience, and sometimes my only reason for being in a place, but everything starts with looking at things with the naked eye.”
Her blog also has special contributions from friends who tell her about their favourite places in cities around the world, and include maps indicating locations and reviews. Her photographs are combined with a highly personal narrative, which sometimes bring not only inspiration, but also useful information about the trip. There is space for visual reports, small galleries of images without captions, often with aerial and road views and also brief notes and curiosities.
Alex Roman (real name is Jorge Seva) is a Spanish artist specialist of 3D renderings mostly playing with photographic techniques. After being trained in traditional painting at a few academies, he discovered the world of CG. He created a short movie (12 minutes long), 100% computer generated: TheThird&TheSeventh (see above) is a wonderful combination of photorealistic architectural renderings and stylish CG cinematography. Alex Roman used 3dsmax, Vray, After Effects, and Premier. You can read his interview on motionographer.
Patrick Messina is a French photographer who refreshed the use of tilt-shift during the nineties at a time everybody was using cross processing. He’s just updated his portfolio that is a great chance to get a look. The trendy urban tilt-shifts are soft and beautiful. Patrick Messina is represented by Cendrine Gabaret and VE Production.
Christian Schmidt is a German photographer based in Stuttgart. Great work around landscapes, people, automotive and architecture. There are also gorgeous pictures about emptyness, large spaces, colors… Since 2002, Christian Schmidt won more than 100 awards at ADC Berlin, ADC New York, AOP London, BFF Germany, Commarts USA, Graphis USA, Lürzers Archive & Lürzers 200 best ad Photographers, PDN Photoannual.
Samuel Cockedey is a French photographer who moved to Tokyo in 2000 and started taking pictures using digital SLRs since 2005. He has experimented various options with a focus on tilt shift photography as well as time lapse sequences. Photoshop post-processing is minimal and almost always limited to spot removal as well as color, contrast and white balance correction. The following time-lapse video is actually meeting a large audience on the internet. Lire cet article en Français.
