Final project

article/blog review

Featured artist: Alejandro Cartagena 



Fotofilmic is a blog created in 2012, that helps create exposure to the thousands of photographers such as myself, but it is based on film photography. This year they will have showcased 90 different artist and their work. As they interview these artist, one main question is a common trend, why film? I noticed that some of the common answers were, the brightness of color, and the sharpness. I want to test this out myself. I felt that overall the blog was appealing to the eye, and easy to navigate. I really like the fact that they focus on film photography as their main theme.

I found an Article about Alejandro Cartagena, who a photographer form Monterrey, Mexico. His work portrayed in landscape and in portraits, depict the cultural, social, and environmental issue the general population faces today. While he shoots in mexico and uses film versus digital, he says that it slows down his process and therefore creates a more intimate time with the subject, but admits to having some "digital diarrhea" moments when he does use his DSLR. I chose a series named The Car Poolers because it caught my eye. It's pretty clever. Growing up in a family of six, and having a dad who thought having a truck to fit six children was ideal, we always road laying down in the back. This although its grown men in the photographs it brought back awesome memories.

Hands

GIFs

Panoramas

The Donkey

The start and the end of the day 

Green 

Blog/Article Review

 by  Ashley Kauschinger  


Of The South by Whitten Sabbatini

 Monday, April 22, 2013

This Journal, as she puts it, is managed by Ashley Kauschinger. I've actually done a review on her work, so I was excited to see she manages this site. She reviews all kinds of work from up and coming artist to those with tons of experience. She post new interviews four times a month and a new review every monday. I enjoyed the simplisity of the journal, I enjoy scrolling though all the post. Its all photography based and well organized, enough for me at least. She has the Interview for the week at the top of the page and the rest of the post follow. I wouldn't say this blog is my favorite, but I did enjoy how simple it was. It gave me an opportunity to go look beyond her page to find more about the artist in question. 

The artist that caught my eye was Whitten Sabbatini, a college student that attends Mississippi State University. He doesn't have much about himself on his webpage, but I can tell he has been a photographer for quite a while. The collection that Ashley reviewed is named Of the South. Of The South focuses on what the real south looks like and the vibe it gives off. If you are not from there like Whitten, you can be the outsider wanting to fit in and understand why it is the way it is. I got a strong sense of affection and companionship by looking at these photos. All the individuals have this look as if they're asking I'm happy are you? 

http://www.lightleaked.com/2013/04/whitten-sabbatini.html

blog/article review

Richard Renaldi
Touching Strangers

Aperture is a non profit foundation that was created in 1952, I'd say it has been very successful lasting this long! I enjoyed looking through all the postings, it took me a while to figure out which one I wanted to talk about. They post on a daily basis, but also have a magazine and publish books. Its primarily a photography blog and it has a vast diversity of photographers that it showcases.  

The article that caught my eye was one by Richard Renaldi. He uses lots of, I'd say random people, for his photographs and each with a distinct story portrayed so well in his photos. The collection I chose is named Touching strangers. He selected random people in public places and with their permission asked them to pose together in a way that captures intimacy. I was shocked to see how everyone looked like they belonged with one another. The photographs made me look at the people around me and I asked myself how close I could get with them, before they thought I was weird. I also wanted to just go take pictures with random people and make it look like I was having a blast. Anyway, Renaldi is an expert and all of his collection (three of  his collections have been published on aperture) are a thrill to look at. Below is a link to his website. 

http://www.renaldi.com/projects/

Multiple ME!

Is your mom like my mom?

Just when you think you can sit and watch the world series, a visitor is at the door! 

Blog/Article Review

Picking up the Slack: Ware:Wolf:Haus and West Dallas

          Glasstire is a nonprofit cooperation, it focuses on Texas and southern California. I love that it brings us news about anything art related in Texas. On the Texas edition I like how it has the little map of Texas and you can choose your city of interest. I really don't like how it doesn't have tabs for specific artist, although it does have everything posted on one list and you can just scroll until you find something you like. 

          The Article I chose is called Picking up the Slack: Ware:Wolf:Haus and West Dallas, its by Lucia Simek. Lucia is based out of Dallas and she also contriburtes to a blog for D Magazine. The reason i chose this article is because it draws attention to a forgotten part of Dallas. I grew up in West Dallas, and i never realized what a bad taste that side of town had in some peoples mouth. Lucia brings a  light to it. She talks about how investors have created an area of incubator restaurants and a place to have art. On some of the old warehouses they've painted on art murals by Faile, and lots of artist are encurraged to come fill up some of the empty warehouses with pop up shows.  People like  Arthur Peña, Nathan Green, Matt Clark, and Brian Ryden share a warehouse that open up for art and concerts. They hope to expand the boundaries of art by creating different scenes in empty spaces such as the ones found in west Dallas. 

Blog/Article Review

Avondale

by: 2013 LENSCRATCH STUDENT PRIZE 3RD PLACE WINNER: ASHLEY KAUSCHINGER July 3, 2013

Lenscratch makes me sleepy. It could be the giant buffalo chicken sandwich i ate while reviewing this blog, but overall this blog is not one of my favorites. it was launched by Aline Smithson who started as a Fashion editor then later found her passion for photography. Her camera of choice is a 50yr old camera. Anyways, the way the blog has too much wordage is what i don't like. I understand she wants to educate us on the photographer and the (in this case) the narrative at hand, but maybe shorten it a little more. My brain wants to get straight to the pictures and make my own interpretations.  I couldn't see past how much explaining was made for everyone. Its well organize, i found what i was looking for fairly quickly and i was happy with the variety. 

I found a nice gallery on Ashley Kauschinger, who as by the title, was the 3rd place winner for Lenscratch student competition. She said "I am a photographer because of the connection that I feel to watching the world through ground glass, and of all the photographs that have been my friends." I found that I could relate to the way photos make her feel because in a sense photos are our friends, and they put us back to that place and time of the when the picture was taken or how it makes us feel. She did a collection of photographs on perspective. She named it Avondale, a fairy tale place, where she can play out the idea of childhood through an adults perspective. The picture i chose is up above, and I found that this picture really showed the curiosity children really have. I grew up with a tee house and I remember spending countless hours up in the tree with my sister and this picture really captured an innocence in the simplicity of how shes just climbing her way to the top. 

Levitation

Flyer on First 

Picking Leafs 

Late to class?

ABC's (b/w)

ABC's (black and white)

My ABCs

"Mirrored Portrait Triptych"

looking mighty weird...

Portraits of Self, Portraits of Others

Restless

The Prideful 

Forever Love

Daddy 

My mini me