Maureen Drennan
Maureen Drennan’s series Meet Me In The Green Glen explores the life of a marijuana cultivator living in California.
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Guido Mocafico
Guido Mocafico is one of the greatest still life photographers of our time. Interview to come. There are more of his still life photographs on his alt. homepage.
Nicholas McElroy
Nicholas McElroy’s photographs could very well be compared with Bryan Schutmaat’s below. The difference, however, lies in the joyfulness in McElroy’s choice of film and subject. Joyfulness is probably the wrong word, but they lack the neutralness, the homesickness of Schutmaat’s. Anyway, enough comparisons. Check out those landscapes. (Flickr.)
Alina Nikitina
Alina Nikitina, or ‘Nappkin’ as far as the internet is concerned, is a hit. Her images are crisp and cool, and she seems to keep this lighting theme running through all her images. I found her photographs in a couple of issues of Афиша-Мир (Afisha Mir) magazine, the Monocle of Russia. Just look at that backlighting! Be-autiful! (Flickr; Blog.)
Christian Kettiger
Christian Kettiger has all his bases covered. His photographs are a dichotomy between his classical training and current digital technology. His commercial work seems to reference the simplicity of Irving Penn, mixed with the lighting of Helmut Newton and the composure of Christian Coigny, whilst remaining crisp and visibly ‘digital'. (Incidentally, he was lucky enough to spend a year assisting Coigny straight out of university.) There is some more information regarding his life in the Hasselblad Masters Archive.
Bryan Schutmaat
Bryan Schutmaat is a 26-year-old working out of Houston. His work is distant, toned down, and rather home-sickness-inducing—he seems very responsive to the environment around him. A lot of his photographs, especially in the series ‘Half-Damp Eyes’, remind me very much of Alec Soth’s approach to composure and lighting. (Flickr.)
Martien Mulder
Martien Mulder lives in New York and has had her work exhibited around the globe. I found a huge shift going between her editorial work and her personal collection. Some of her assignments look almost ‘corporate’—that’s probably the point though, I guess! There is a nice interview with her over at BaseNow.
Jason Nocito
Jody Rogac
Jody Rogac—born in England, raised in Canada, and currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is subtle and unworried, exploring human nature and people as they are. Here’s a few photographs from the series, ‘Dreamcatcher’.
