Article

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-brooks/photographys-sex-change-t_b_99886.html

This is an interesting article on how digital imaging has changed photography over the years, it focuses on some of Tom Chambers' work.

Little Bit of Background

I was born on a farm in the religiously conservative area of Southeastern Pennsylvania. After high school I joined the Navy and spent a year on a patrol boat base in Vietnam which profoundly affected my outlook on life. Drawing from these experiences of my earlier years, it is easy for me to visualize a photographic image which uses children in peril to symbolically make a statement. I traveled throughout Mexico and the Southwestern United States where I was influenced by Mexican Indian religious art, retablos and masks.

In 1985 I graduated from the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida with a degree in graphic design. My family and I currently reside in Virginia where I work as an art director to supplement my photography habit.

http://www.galleryprint.com/photographers/tomchambers/chambersmain.html

I found an interview with Tom Chambers that I found really interesting, he explains some influences and how he started, etc

http://www.parallax8.com/headline/tom-chambers

Tom Chambers

Tom Chambers is great photographer and his images produce emotions in me that I can connect too. “With digital photography I desire to move beyond documentation of the present, and rather seek to fuse reality and fantasy in musing about possibilities of the future” (Chambers, T, Burn).

Eadweard Muybridge is a brilliant and eccentric photographer. "Muybridge used photography to prove that there was a moment in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once." Muybridge was in fact an artist but his photographs were somewhat scientific, this draws me to his work, while being creative and interesting to look at his works also show facts, but in a way that it is not forced apon you, but your subconcious mind picks up on it.

Micheal Zavros is an amazing artist that makes you think about what his intentions are, when you look at any of his pieces. Like this drawing of a model, but the face is rubbed out. when people look at this they have to think about why the face is rubbed out. Models are what they are because of their face and their beauty. When that is gone what do they have left? Micheal Zavros makes you think about these things and that is why i enjoy his work so much.

Michelangelo was a famous Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. Michelangelo painted 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) of the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. The piece The Last Judgment is widely known and most people when they think of Michelangalo think of this artwork. He has gone into great detail with this painting, and it being so large adds the beauty of it.

My Favourite Teddy :)

APT 6 excursion

The Apt 6 exhibition was amazing, some of the art works didnt really look like art. But some where absolutly mind blowing. It was a great day and i would love to go and visit the next exhibition. i took this photo of the mass paper plane pile. This insallation is done by Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, it is made entierly paper planes made of recycled materials. It was one of my favourite parts of the exhibiton

Photography

I took this photo of my stepbrother when he was fire - twirling. it was completley serendipitous that my stepbrothers movements, when all shot together formed the shape of a love heart :)