Keith Carter

Called "a poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Carter's haunting, enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, The U.S., and Latin America. They are included in numerous permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the George Eastman House; the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Southwest Texas State University.

I found Keith Carter when I was just browsing the internet for artists that interested me. Carters "opera" nude monographs is what made me choose to blog about him. I found the way he photographed the nudes, both men and women, very intriguing because they spoke to me in a way nudes normally do not. It was as if he was telling a story, something I am trying to portray with my images. Even though right now I am proceeding along the narrative photography with my work, I want to end up portraying emotion and a story people can relate to within my images. After viewing more and more narrtive photographers and looking at my older work, I want to being using nudes more in my images because right now I feel like I am restricting myself since I am not photographing nudes.