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Ryan Gallagher

So this is a photo of Ryan Gallagher, a Texan semi-professional photographer. What I like about this picture is the strong composition and the incompleteness of it, leaving room for interpretation. I like the way the light creates a silhouette of the person in the picture. I like the way the focus of the picure is in the very right, leaving the majority of the picture blank. I particular appreciate the sunbeam that comes through the hand, breaking the silhouette.

More infos on him can be found at his website.

Niki

These sculptures were made by Niki de Saint Phalle, a French artist who primarily grew up in the US. She became famous through the shooting paintings, where she would shoot with a rifle at paint containers creating an image. However, i got introduced with her art through the very feminine lifesize Nana figures as you can see in pic1, representing the roles women have in society. She is an example for the use of clear color, as each element of the figure is clearly separated from the other using flat color and black lines. I like the simplicity of her work and the colorful designs. Quite a bit of her work can be seen in Hannover as for instance the Niki de Saint Phalle Grotto in the castle of Herrenhausen, as well as along the sculpture mile where several artists exhibit their sculptures.

my friend is an artist 2

So this is something she did quite a few years back in highschool. She started out with a drawing, then digitalizing it and producing many variations in photoshop. I particularly like the reflection of her face in the blue picture. I love how detailled her drawing are and you can lost trying to follow the lines going through the picture creating texture and depth. I told her she could see those as prints online, maybe she will do that one day and get rich, or she gets rich simply being a doctor...i like the way the different bacgrounds work well with the skin texture of the alien-like being.

red

I don't know if you've noticed, but I like colors....so sometimes I would just walk along and take pictures where not the object itself, but the color is strinking. So here is red, all of these pics have been taken in New York, where I discovered my passion about photography. I really like the perspective in these, only giving an extract of the whole scene. I also like the angle at which the pictures were taken.

Ron Mueck and Duane Hanson

Ron Mueck probably is one of my favorite artists ever, right next to Duane Hanson both hyperrealistic sculptors. Even though they both picture human beings, they have two very different approaches to doing it. Ron usually shows the human being in a very natural way, whereas Duane was adding clothes and objects that would fit in displaying an everyday situation of that person's life. Sometimes it is really hard to identify whether that person is real or not, however, Ron either overproportionates or underproportionates the object, making it surreal, yet realistic. Duane was portraying everday issues of the American society creating disgust, fear and sympathy. Ron's topics inclde youth, aging, birth and life. I was able to see exhibitions of both artists, Duane Hanson in Madrid, and Ron Mueck in Berlin a few years back and it was worth every penny.

garbage

You probably won't blieve me, but I found this piece of paper sitting in a pile of garbage! I would love to find out what the story behind this is, if somebody just placed it there or if it did coincidental get mixed up with the trash lying there. I found this in some alley of Brooklyn while me and my friend were browsing the streets for nice photo objects. I really mis those times, having enough spare time to just go on a walkabout for a day and take pictures. I still need to do this in Ashland, but school does not leave any room for is unfortunately...

Andy Goldsworthy

You recommended to check out Andy Goldsworthy's work! I have to admit, I LOVE it! Although I don't really seem similarities to mine, since he uses natural things and putting them in place to create an image, I usually just take the objects as they are and try to tell a story by the way I see them, without putting them into context. I just think if you can't make the picture look interesting by the way you see them, than either the object is not worth the picture or you are simply not a good photographer. Certainly, what Goldworthy does is art.I like the composition and the symmetry, resembling organic forms by taking other organic forms. I like his approach of creating a similar image with different objects, creating a different color set and feeling associated with that color. I particularly like the top picture as it is warm and the black hole looks like it will drag you down to the bottom.

Sicuani

Thsi picture was taken in a little village called Sicuani, on the way from Cusco to Punu, Peru. We stopped there for lunch with Inka Express ( a local VIP bus company stopping at multiple spots of interest along the route). However, people went off the bus, directly into the walled restaurant where they were served their food. Me, being a rebel, I decided to walk around the town which I found to be deserted. There were only a few mechanics working on some cars and few kids running around. The city however was very interesting as it offered really colorful walls and houses that set themselves off from the rather grey and rough sourroundings. You can find a lot of these rikshaw type bikes in Peru, used for transporting heavy goods and sometimes people. I particular like the assymmetry of the houses and the color repetition in the clouds.

rusty junk

I particularly like these images since they only show an extract of the actual object. The top two pictures were taken on a horse farm near Wernigerode, Germany. The bottom pic was taken at a dump spot in Iceland. I don't know whether it's illegal or not there, it definitely should be though. People (I suppose it was the owners of the nearby fishfarm) were just dumping their old objects (fridges, tvs and all sorts of metal pieces) and left them to rot in the countryside. I am not complaying, since it offered me the opportunity to get some really nice shots with rusty objects in a green environment, but it still made me sad. Rust is just a really nice warm color with the right lighting and it creates the feeling of the momentariness of objects, left and forgotton.

I like the symmetry in the middle picture, and the leaf breaking that symmetry.

Papercraft the final object

This is my little Bavarian in Lederhosen. It was surprisingly fun to do and a pain in the butt to cut out all these tiny details!

Papercraft

Scratch 2

Scratch 1

The other

pics of friends

Here's a couple of pictures I took for friends of mine. I usually spend the whole day outside taking pictures which involves different location nad change of clothes. I really enjoy myself since they get to take home some really nice pictures to give to their family. I just love doing it. I don't get paid, the thankful smiles are enough for me. I don't dare charge anybody since I am not a professional.

self-portraits

Blue

So here is my little blue line. As I said, I dig colors, and whenever I see something standing out I take a picture. I particularly like the bike picture due its perspective. The person in the picture is actually a friend of mine who I went on photo shootouts with in NY. The brush is also not so bad. I like the way the little holes show where there used to be bristles. In your comment you mentioned Andy Goldsworthy. I think the major difference is, that he arranges the things to his liking, whereas I take them as they are, trying to capture the major by letting the things be in its origianl positioning. I sometimes just wait for the right moment (when the wind is moving the objects like you saw with the N in the alphabet soup) before taking the picture. Oh, and these pics have been made with a Canon Eos 400D, however, the Alphabet soup pictures have mostly been made with a Canon 40D. The dandelion pics again with the amateur Canon Eos 400D. The pics of the littöe girls have been made with a Kodak Easyshare, that was before I dared to carry exoensive cameras to underdeveloped countries. Now I just don't care anymore and carry two cameras just in case they steel my good one. ;)