.acy's blog

"Florence" by Alec Soth
from "Fashion Magazin"

"Crossing the boundary between editorial and fine art photography, Alec Soth creates uncanny photographs, ranging from images of honeymooners in Niagara Falls to views of difficult living in Colombia. One of the leading photographers of our time, his work is continuously commissioned by magazines, repeatedly embraced by book publishers, and regularly exhibited by galleries and museums. Artkrush editor Paul Laster talks to Soth about his blog and its relationship to — and influence on — his photographic work.[...]" artkrush.com

Website
http://www.alecsoth.com/

Blog
http://alecsoth.com/blog/

(left: jet black, right: jason lee)
by Jeremy & Claire Weiss

 "Whether they’re shooting a world-famous rock star or the girl next door, Jeremy and Claire Weiss have a few simple rules: Make sure that the subject is comfortable and that the mood is low-key and fun. Then, work on composition, using light and shadows to create a sense of drama and story.

The results, both simple and stylish, are images that have a carefree informality and hipster vibe, while also being beautifully framed. It’s a combination that has catapulted this young Los Angeles husband-and-wife team to great success in the last year, with assignments that included a major advertising campaign for Nokia, road trips to document MySpace.com’s Secret Shows (where music stars like Ice Cube perform on short notice at small venues) and shoots for magazines ranging from Nylon to Elle. [...]" www.pdnedu.com/

Portfolio
day19.com/v6

Blog
day19.com/text

@MySpace
http://myspace.com/day19

@Virb.com
http://virb.com/day19

by Clayton Cubitt ("hurricane katrina")
his family, his hometown, the survivors
For the stories and words, visit Operation Eden

"Clayton Cubitt, a.k.a. Siege, is a shock photographer. You may have seen his eye-popping work already on the Web. There, his saturated-in-color, boundary-pushing shots have earned him a truly die-hard audience of acolytes who can't get enough of his wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am photographic style. On his eponymous website and the Daily Siege, a weblog he maintains at Nerve.com, Cubitt's cutting edge images are taking the medium of photography to new extremes. Whether he's shooting heartbreaking portraits of Hurricane Katrina survivors in devastated New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was raised, or creating a fashion layout featuring adult film star Justine Joli exposing her most intimate parts, his work sears itself indelibly across the retinas of its viewers.

At 35, Cubitt has dedicated himself to a kind of gesamtkunstwerk approach to photography. He takes portraits of the famous and his friends, shot a recent ad campaign for Converse sneakers, and collaborated with software designer Tom Carden for Metropop magazine on a denim-themed pictorial that incorporated digital vector art. Not infrequently, he steps in front of the camera for his most personal—and hardcore—work. While Cubitt's predecessors remained hidden behind their camera lenses, this photographer—inspired by the raw intensity of Terry Richardson and Jurgen Teller—is unafraid to subject himself to the same kind of scrutiny to which he subjects his subjects.[...]" www.jpgmag.com/stories/1343

from Helloween in Harlem

Amy Stein is a photographer based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture, and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been featured in publications such as Photo District News, ARTnews, Vanity Fair Italia, Smithsonian Magazine and The Washington Post. In 2006 she was a winner of the Saatchi Galley/Guardian art competition for her Domesticated series.

Amy was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a BSc in Political Science from James Madison University and a MSc in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Most recently she received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York.