Akihiko Miyoshi
Akihiko Miyoshi is a Japanese photographer who is currently an Associate Professor of photography and digital media at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Miyoshi’s work explores the intersection between art and technology most frequently dealing with issues surrounding representation. Miyoshi’s has stated that he believes we live in a moment when the digital and the inertia of the analog collide with each other, creating an aesthetic and a lived experience unique to our time.” His work clearly reflects this belief: drawing on his background as a computer engineer, he takes photographs that appear to display glowing pixels in colors like blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow. In reality, Miyoshi turns such analog materials as paper, tape, and mirrors into geometric patterns in order to create these seemingly digital effects.
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His work reflects on his background as a computer engineer, he takes photos that appear to display glowing pixels in colours like cyan, magenta and yellow.
Akihiko's work barely relys on digital software to create his photographs. The use of everyday items is all he relies on in order to manipulate a photo.
Akihiko's work is a beautiful and captivating, The use of simply adding a piece of paper or tape etc, rather than using software such as photoshop makes his work seem even more real. I personally see his work as something of pure fascination, as he can produce work without the use of digital manipulation can show the photographic tension that digitally edited photos can possess.
Ray.K. Metzker
Ray K. Metzker was an American photographer famously know for his bold experimental black and white cityscapes, as well as his large 'composites', printed film strips and single frames.
Early in his career, his work was marked by unusual intensity. Composites, multiple-exposure, superimposition of negatives, juxtapositions of two images, solarization and other formal means were part and parcel of his vocabulary. He soon was committed to discovering the potential of black and white photography during the shooting and the printing. Ray's unique and continually evolving mastery of light, shadow, and line transform the ordinary into a realm of pure visual delight.
Ray was very fond of b&w photography so much so that he was committed to it's potential when it came to evolving his style as an experimentation.
Throughout his career Metzker photographed exclusively in black and white, utilising assertive high contrast and bold use of form and line. Increasingly experimental in his approach, in the 1960s Ray began working on his Composite series in which he treated the entire roll of film as a single concept.
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I find Ray's contrasting black and white photographs almost confusing. The Pictus Interuptus series makes it seem that he wanted his work to be indecipherable, as if he wants the viewer to question what is in the photo. The contrast of the black and white also give the photos a strong powerful look. The black and white blend more so into shapes rather than what it actually is.
Adrian Diubaldo
Adrian Diubaldo is a bipolar photographer. Due to his bipolar disorder he manages to incorporate that into his photographs.
In his series 'Broke Work' he makes a deliberate attempt to capture the fracturing of reality that occurs when he experiences a manic episode.
Adrian disrupts his photos with an object as a deliberate way to show the reality of how he experiences life through his episodes.
Adrian uses the visual effect to signify the trouble with getting back to a sense of ‘reality’ that those faced with bipolar constantly have to relearn to achieve each time they heal from a manic episode.
Adrian's work is something of pure brilliance in my personal opinion. The overall concept for his photos comes with a very deep and personal meaning which I find rather amazing. The use of the objects disrupting his piece as a form of expressing his life is quite genius.
For the object to create a warped and distorted piece in comparison to the other artists, his work tells a very different story. It also give me an insight and outside perspective to his life, the work he creates is something which I truly appreciate.
For the object to create a warped and distorted piece in comparison to the other artists, his work tells a very different story. It also give me an insight and outside perspective to his life, the work he creates is something which I truly appreciate.