Maggie Taylor

Using 19th century tin-types, photographs, and images, Maggie Taylor scanned them on a flatbed scanner.  She then combines them with some other images that she photographed, acquired, or other objects that she scanned.  These images are then composed, combined, and colorized by using Adobe Photoshop program.  In a typical image composed by Taylor, there can be as many as 40-60+ layers.

Taylor received her BA degree in philosophy from Yale University and her MFA degree in photography from the University of Florida.  In 1996 and 2001 she received State of Florida Individual Artist's Fellowships.  In 2004 she won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition.  She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband, photographer Jerry Uelsmann.

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Claudia Kunin

Today, I would like to introduce you to Claudia Kunin whom I found in the Modernbook Gallery. In the past, Claudia Kunin has photographed professionally for blue chip companies, but is now dedicating her time to her moody and ghostly dreamscapes. Her work offers a new mythology, with statements on earth, life, heaven, and hell. Her latest photography, "Ghost Stories" and "Holy Ghost Stories," rises out of an imagination sparked by an epiphany that led her to immerse herself in the art of such visionaries as Caravaggio and Bosch. Exceedingly accomplished in her lighting technique, as well as digital skills. Kunin shoots the models and backdrops and then assembles them in Photoshop. The final presention is an image that requires special 3-D spectacles that adds a new dimension to fine art photgraphy.

Claudia's work feels more like paintings and that is a very unique rising trend for the modern day photographer with digital manipulation skills available at their disposal. Just let these works of art speak for themselves.

 

Kyoshi Becker

Kyoshi and I had booths at Fresh Fairs 2010 art fair exhibition hall. Like me, he photographs a great variety of concepts from macro to normal and beyond. I don't know much about Kyoshi except he lives in Palmdale, CA and knows how his art should be printed.

Jamie Baldridge

This past weekend I was part of the Fresh Fairs art festival in Santa Monica and was introduced to whom I shall introduce you to this week. His name is Jamie Baldridge. Jamie was born to two hominids in 1975 in a very small town in the Deep South of the United States.  Much of his childhood was spent in tedium.  After spending years studying Theology and Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, Jamie somehow got a BFA in Photography.  After which he went on to work a string of odd, very odd, photographic jobs before receiving his MFA in Photography from the same fine institution.  He is currently a professor of photography at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  His work and writings can be found in many collections such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Rare Books collections of the Library of Congress, Cornell University, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The University of Colorado at Boulder, the Rhode Island Institute of Technology, McNeese University’s Abercrombie Collection, as well as numerous private collections.  The Everywhere Chronicles, his first book, has just been released by 21st Editions. Baldridge currently resides in Lafayette, LA where he divides his time between making art, teaching, traveling, and writing.

I find this work very amusing and entertaining as it shows like a scene out of a high budget, artsy European child's movie. Enjoy!

Cathy Immordino

Since I just happen to be pregnant, I have had a mild obsession with rubber duckies. I am still building a collection of these plastic toys but for now I have finished 10 photos that I find quite amusing.

Let me know how you feel about them. Enjoy!

Minmyo

When I was in Palm Springs a few weeks ago, I came across a quiet, Asian girl with a friendly personality and awesome haircut. This was, of course, at the photo festival and she was one of tens of us standing in line waiting to be seen and heard. Her photography is a study of herself, the universe and everything that exists. Questions of life and death and the meaning of life have been in her mind since a near death experience in her teen years. Every time she takes a photograph she searches for answers like the rest of us to "Why are we here?" and "What's the meaning of it all?"

What follows are her self portraits which I find very intriguing.

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George Row

"I’ve been a computer programmer in the telecoms industry, a computer science academic, a producer (for online-community) in an internet start-up, but I have always been a Photographer – at present I am specialising in Panoramic Photography.

What I like about panoramic photography is that after almost a decade of composing panoramic images I am still learning about it!

Originally my 360° panoramas were only accessible as immersive virtual reality images on the computer. Over the last two years I have been experimenting with ways of making prints of those panoramas.
Having tried a few methods the “stereographic projection” has proved to be the most effective. It typically turns the immersive panorama into a “little planet” as if the horizon in a landscape was the edge of a globe.

I am based in Derry in Northern Ireland and many of my early panoramic images are of that town and the surrounding area. My website veryderry.com provides the visitor with a virtual tour of the city.
I have a huge collection of panoramic images from throughout Ireland that I have shot over the last few years. While my initial gallery here is of panoramas of Derry. I hope, that as I work through my backlog of photography I will be able to add to my collection here panoramic images from throughout Ireland in general."

-George Row