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Miranda July by Autumn de Wilde.

I’m pretty sure everyone knows of Zhang Jingna (zemotion)

Look at the hair in this, oh my god.

I just came back from Uni, doing presentations on style today. Someone in my group presented this guy - Dan Winters, I’m so surprised/ashamed I’ve only just heard of him. His style is so unique you could easily pick out his photographs from a pile, and there are so many awesome shots. I picked this one of Shia LaBeouf because I fancy the hell out of him, but these ones of Barrack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger are so cool.

I usually hate things manipulated like this, but these photos by Thom Kerr are so so pretty.

I’ve put off from posting about Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seascapes for quite a while now. The reason being is that I have never found a half decent way of being able to describe or explain why it is that I find them so beautiful, but today while I was in the shower and thinking about these pictures, I managed to think of a way I can sort of put it in to words. So while this still won’t perfectly describe how much I love them, this can go some way of the way to explaining why this series of photographs have pretty much been my favourites since I started studying photography.

Most of the people I show these photographs to always comment on how simple they are. How simple the idea is, the concept, and the composition of the photograph itself. People pretty much automatically cast them off as boring, and that really frustrates me. Because yes, these photographs are incredibly simple, it is just a photograph of the sea, with some fog. But it is the simplicity which is the whole beauty about this series of work.

Hiroshi Sugimoto explains that his drive behind photographing these seascapes is the fact that without these two things there would be no life. Without this air and this water, we wouldn’t even be here. And then there is the fact that we came from that water. That is where we came from and that is what helps us to continue to still be alive. 
And even this explanation makes people go “So what? It’s still just sea and air”. And this is where I used to get really, incredibly frustrated, but I think I have figured out how to explain it now.

Yes, we all know that. We all already know that water and air help us to live and breathe and blahblahblah. But did we ever notice it? Before seeing these photos did you ever stand at the beach and look out at the sea and the air and just be overcome with the feeling of insignificance? Of the feeling that they’ll always be there, but you won’t? They were here before you and they’ll be here after you. And still you feel so connected to the water and the sea because well, like we all know, without it we wouldn’t even been here.

These photographs capture that feeling, for me at least anyway. The fact that he can capture such a feeling of insignificance, yet with such a feeling of connection too, and still make it all such a simple photograph? That is insane, and so amazing, and the furthest thing from boring I can imagine. That is why I am so completely in love with this series, and I don’t think I’ll ever find a flaw with it.

The photograph I have used for this blog post is one of my favourites of the series, by the way. The way the water and the fog almost blend together is breathtaking.

“Alexander McQueen approached me to do this series involving people with physical disabilities. I felt, “I don’t care if nobody else wants to employ me after this, I want to do something that I care about”. Nowhere in history have people with disabilities been held up as something you might want to look like. How fantastic this woman looks. Yes, she hasn’t got her legs from the knees down but how powerful, how sexual, how intriguing she is.” - Nick Knight

Sad sad sad.

Another photographer from the creative review I’ve borrowed off Lee that I still haven’t properly looked through yet. This is by Beatrice Heydiri, she seems to specifiy in taking photos of kids for editorial/advertising. Most of her photographs are pretty average normal shots of kids playing with bubbles etc. But every now and then she has a shot like this, or this. Kids looking like adults, creepy, but such good photographs.

I just saw this on Catherine’s blog and thought it was the most adorable thing I’ve seen in ages. Photograph by Ryan McGinley.