MY PRACTITIONERS FOR THIS EXERCISE ARE ..
Hellen van Meene
Hellen van Meene (The Netherlands, born 1972) was herself barely out of girlhood when she began to photograph adolescent girls whom she knew, or found, in her home town of Alkmaar in the north of Holland. Although she was at the time a student at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, it is significant that she went home to make these pictures: that the origin of Van Meene’s particular approach to photographic portraiture was the place where she had spent her own adolescence. Van Meene believes that “the ‘best’ kind of adult is one who is able to keep some bond with childhood, and this bridge is adolescence.” In her pictures of pubescent girls, we sense Van Meene’s durable bond through her keen insight into the grace and awkwardness that are the physical and psychological hallmarks of this age.
The girls that Van Meene has selected as models do not appear to be great beauties in the classic sense, but they may grow to be so. Their ages and degree of physical maturity range from prepubescent to fully formed. Through posture and pose, her models display a youthful naiveté of self, as well as an acute awakening to their own sexuality. Few of the girls seem at home in their bodies, though they are all struggling to become so. Bruises, bad complexions, awkwardly applied make-up, and bleached hair are exposed to view. These details, and others more troubling, are corporeal reminders that Van Meene’s models are real girls who, like the rest of us, are imperfect as human specimens. Accepting them as such, Van Meene works with them, and using the transformative power of photography, uncovers the inherent grace in their changing faces and bodies.
In 2005 placed the American magazine Village Voice her book Portraits in the top-25 of best photo books from 2005.
A lot of her portraits are inside where she has to use lighting . A lot of images that I looked at, she had used natural light which streamed through the window. I would say that her lighting is very subtle , theres no major lights on her subjects, just very gentle in my opinion.
An interesting, very successful woman.
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| Jeff Wall | |
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Jeff Wall at Paris Photo 2014
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| Born | Jeffrey Wall September 29, 1946 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | University of British Columitute of Art, London |
| Known for | Photography, Photoconceptualism |
| Notable work | Picture for Women (1979) Mimic (1982) A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) (1993) |
| Movement | Vancouver School |
| Awards | Hasselblad Award (2002) |
Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.
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| This is a cool image. A low angle and a narrow DOF. I would like to take a shot like this. Oh and I can now ... I know how to ! |
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| The lighting on this lady would suggest the lights are in front of her wheres the sun rays appear behind her. |
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| This image in my eyes appears to be a bit fake or is it because he is a brilliant photographer ? The shadow behind her and the actual sky doesn't seem to match . |
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Jeff was a product of the skateboarding culture of the 1980s. He loves fast, from the drag strip to backyard pool skating.
His early work covered skate boarding , live music , which he published in magazines including Thrasher , slap ,Heckler, and Trans World Skateboarding.
Hes skilled at capturing a speeding car as he is at finding the perfect composition for a portrait.
He later moved to Central Valley Los Angeles where he spent 6 months in studio learning the weird ways of shooting food and lifestyle photography and commercials.
His recent clients include Music Fest, Google , Red bull. Wow now thats impressive.
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