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Photographer Profiles
View digital photo portfolios for some of the best professionals out there. Our photographer profiles showcase a vast array of styles and provide inspirational insight from the person behind the lens.
Monday, November 12, 2007Robert Glenn Ketchum - Master Of TransitionsHow crisis became opportunity for one of North America's most celebrated landscape photographers After 40 years of developing a signature style and body of work, Robert Glenn Ketchum found himself confronted by dramatic and simultaneous changes in his personal and professional life, which precipitated a departure and reinvention of his photographic expression. What followed was an entirely new direction for both himself and his image-making technique and vision. |
Monday, November 12, 2007Peter Read Miller - Master Of The GridironSports Illustrated staff photographer Peter Read Miller is the consummate sports photojournalist. For years, he has been the go-to guy for catching the action on the football field. Football is the contact sport for most Americans, and when it comes to capturing the action, Peter Read Miller is the photographer. Beginning when he was a student at the University of Southern California, Miller took his love of the game and began to frame images that would freeze decisive moments for all time. |
Monday, November 12, 2007Colin Finlay - Master Of The ImmersiveColin Finlay gets close to the human condition and the suffering of others. Real close. Robert Capa's famous dictum stated that “If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.” Photojournalist Colin Finlay's pictures are so good, they're almost too good—blunt, honest, yet beautiful to behold. |
Monday, October 8, 2007Gary Land - In the Right PlaceWorking with people who are short on time and don't necessarily love a photo session, Gary Land gets the shot fast, then spends the time placing his subject in the perfect 'background' Gary Land is an overnight sensation, though it took him years of hard work to get here. In less than a year, he has gone from salary man to success story, photographing musicians and athletes for some of the biggest names in advertising. Read More... |
Friday, September 28, 2007Parish Kohanim - Split PersonalityParish Kohanim embraces a variety of genres as he captivates and ensnares his viewers. His images are bold, dramatic, vibrant and whimsical—and he always delivers the goods. Parish Kohanim's work isn't easy to categorize. The Atlanta-based photographer doesn't do just one thing; he photographs people and products, in the studio and on location, for advertising as well as fine art. The only common thread that runs through his work is that he makes it all beautiful. Read More... |
Wednesday, August 15, 2007Bruce Smith - Beyond The GirlBruce Smith's 30-year career of bringing vitality and life to fashion springs from an inner energy that erupts in his on-set enthusiasm and animation For Bruce Smith, making a photograph is more than setting up a camera in front of a model and releasing the shutter. It's about the moment, the energy and the spontaneous, intimate connection that happens between people. He shouts out his encouragement as he moves around his model, responding to the subtle changes in shapes and expressions that appear before him. He erupts into joyful laughter as he revels in the exciting juxtaposition of shape, color and gesture. These are the moments he lives for. |
Wednesday, August 15, 2007Ed Kashi - In The Thick Of It AllAmidst a revolution in the fundamental nature of photojournalism, Ed Kashi stands as the quintessential next-generation storyteller Photographer Ed Kashi defines the phrase “next-generation photojournalist.” Rather than reject the use of or struggle with adopting digital imaging tools and technologies, he has readily welcomed them. He acknowledges that the days of working strictly as a print photographer, in the spirit of Cartier-Bresson or Kertész, are long gone. As a photojournalist, creating static images no longer suffices as an effective means of storytelling. |
Tuesday, June 26, 2007David Mendelsohn - The Complexity Of SimplicityDavid Mendelsohn is modern photography's John Henry, locked in a battle to keep image processing from completely dominating the creative process of taking a picture Digital photography and its infinite possibility can make us forget how to do things correctly from the start. The idea that anything is possible, and every mistake fixable, has taken a hold of an industry that used to know better. Not only that, but as much fun as Photoshop can be, it also can be the ultimate black hole. And the more hours spent tweaking in front of your computer, the less time you spend in the field. |
Friday, June 15, 2007Jean-François Rauzier - The Image Is In The DetailsJean-François Rauzier's Hyper-photo composites are extraordinary in size, in vision and particularly in detail. "On Time,” Jean-François Rauzier's gargantuan 32-by-66-foot panorama composed of several hundred seamless images of clocks, cliffs, buildings and ocean, is emblematic of the hours upon hours Rauzier spends to capture, compose and edit each of his Hyper-photo dreamscapes. In the photo, a man in black stands alone amidst a beach comprised entirely of clocks, thousands and thousands of clocks. |
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