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/