Zura Arabidze

http://matiss-100.photosight.ru/
Amazing photographer, but cant read the website. Different language. :(

Michael McCarthy

My path toward becoming a photographer and artist began in ernest after spending a tranquil eighteen years living in Ithaca, New York, Since that time I've been lucky enough to be able to see and live in many different and mostly exciting environments.
Studies often provided opportunities to discover new communities: bringing me to Vermont, Paris, Philadelphia and Rome. I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Vermont and then a Master of Fine Arts degree from Tyler School of Art in Photography where I also devoted considerable time to Printmaking.
This is a series of photographs made with hand made pinhole cameras. These images are from two different large scale cameras in which I use paper negatives of 20 x 24" and 10 x 24" size. Pinhole work has fascinated me for some fifteen years. The quality, clearly, is not so finely detailed as it is with professional 35 mm cameras but I feel the pinhole look--which comes from long exposures of a minute or more as well as the strange way in which space is often depicted--gives a powerful quality to the images.

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.