Booooooom critique assignment

Booooooom

Serrah Russell

http://www.booooooom.com/2013/02/08/serrah-russell/

As I was looking through the artists for this week many of them jumped out at me, but with Serrah’s work I had to do a triple take to recognized that the first photo was an upside photo of a jaw line.  After I figured it out I just had to look at the rest of her work.  The images I found just captivated me and I found that I just could not stop looking until I figured out what the pictures were. The way the subject matter was edited in just the right way to make my eyes follow the flow within the photograph, and the almost metallic like colors that were used are just visually stunning, and I believe they also help to separate or divide the various body areas she was photographing. Elegant simplicity!!    

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Triangle Triangle

Adam Jeppesen

http://triangletriangle.com/

The photo above was what caught my eye and influenced me to look further into Jeppesen’s images.  I was even more excited once I discovered this single photo was just a peek into his journey through the backwoods of Finland for a series called “Awake”.  My immediate reaction was a want to find out more about the surrounding area concealed in the dense fog, but I feel that this photo would not hold the sense of mystery it does if the fog was cleared.  I love the single white lawn chair next to a staircase that leads to nowhere, I like how we are left to imagine who might sit there and where the stairs go.  Since making this decision was so difficult I also decided to share another one of Jeppesen’s piece from “Awake”.  The photo below quickly won me over in the simplistic subject matter that is so intense and captivating for the viewers eye.  

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Here is my first go at this!!  Would not say that I have it mastered, but I am a lot closer to learning it than I was the day before!  Enjoy!! 

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Urbanautica

OPEN CALL ‘FAUNA’
JOHNNY PANESSA

http://www.urbanautica.com/

Johnny Panessa Grew up in Eastern Long Island, where he was able to explore and find all the wonderful wild creatures in his area. As he grew he saw that the amount of animals inhabited in his area began to dwindle down to near extinction.  These photos were taken to document the return of many animals like foxes, turtles, birds just to name a few.  I choose this photographer because his subject reminds me of how life was like for my sister and I, as we grew up, there  were many summer days spent out in the woods near our house and getting lost in the magical powers of the woods.  What drew me this artist was this particular photo because my husband and I are always getting out to help turtle crossing the road.