Lindsay Adler is an American portrait and fashion photographer based out of Manhattan, New York. Her editorials have appeared in Bullett Magazine, Zink Magazine and Fault.
She has contributed to photo publications Professional Photographer, Rangefinder Magazine, and Popular Photography. She is influenced by of photographers, their lighting, or their use of fabric, or their portrayal of women. She mostly uses women as her models as it portrays feminism and herself. Behind every image, she creates a story so help with her shoot. |
“Shoot what you like to be hired for”– Lindsay Adler
“Eventually style is not an option, if you want to be better than ’good’”– Lindsay Adler
“With no particular personal twist on it, you are less likely to be remembered”– Lindsay Adler
Her use of colour gels add to the vibrancy of the image, but also creates a mood to the image that the viewer can infer. I believe the colours Adler has within her images allow her images to be bold and significant when in an exhibition and is easily memorable. I find that her work links to the quote on portraiture I chose:
"If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things." -Sebastiao Salgado, because Adler is empowering the women within these images. |
1. Dress up your model to fit with your theme.
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2. Adjust your colour gels / lighting.
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3. Use a mirror that is a suitable size for your shoot.
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4. For a more dramatic effect, you can spray water on the mirror to make it look like rain.
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Her use of colour gels and shadows adds contrast to the image and also creates a more dramatic effect. The overlapping of colours by shadows are a unique style of photography which makes the image more interesting. It is also aesthetically pleasing how nicely and smoothly the shadows lay on the skin.
I find that her work links to the quote on portraiture I chose: “When you fail you learn, and when you learn you grow, and when you grow you move closer to success.” - Lyndsay Adler |
1. Wear vibrant makeup and things with lots of colour.
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2. Use different shapes and objects to make the image more interesting.
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3. Use the colour gels to create shadows with colours.
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4. Experiment with different colour combos.
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Maurizio Anzeri is an Italian contemporary artist living and working in London. He was born in 1969 Loano, Italy. He works in a variety of media including sculpture, photography, drawing and traditional craft techniques.
Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. |
'I work with sewing, embroidery and drawing to explore the essence of signs in their physical manifestation. I take inspiration from my own personal experience and observation of how, in other cultures, bodies themselves are treated as living graphic symbols.' - Maurizio Aruzeri
Lisa Kokin is an artist, art instructor and art coach Lisa Kokin lives and works in El Sobrante, California, outside of San Francisco.
She creates her art with recycled and reclaimed materials she has found at flea markets, thrift stores, and recycling centers. In the past she has worked with buttons, photographs, and other found objects, but now she works mostly with books, the contents of which she shreds, blends, pulps, glues, and otherwise modifies before presenting them to her viewers in various states of recognition. Kokin’s most recent works are composed of cloth self-help book spines and covers. |
"My installation and sculptural work are about memory and history— both the personal and the collective— and the area in which the two intersect. I am interested in representing the human condition by using the objects we leave behind." - Lisa Kokin
Lauri Laukkanen is an award-winning director & creative, working in the advertising and entertainment fields internationally. His work is aesthetically pleasing, built with a strong visual style and a modern, cinematic feel.
In the recent years, he has combined his visual identity with a new found love for groundbreaking technologies, such as real-time game engines and VR/AR-technologies. This new wave of work has led to his projects being featured in the international media, such as Fast Company, Forbes and The Guardian. |
"Being able to turn my passion into my profession is a great privilege. I'm so thankful to all the people who support me and make it happen every day." - Lauri Laukkanen
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.
Photomontage, or photomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media. Höch's work was intended to dismantle the fable and dichotomy that existed in the concept of the "New Woman": an energetic, professional, and androgynous woman, who is ready to take her place as man's equal. |
Bill Viola (b.1951) is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach.
Viola’s video installations—total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound—employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. They are shown in museums and galleries worldwide and are found in many distinguished collections. |
"I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images." - Bill Viola
Adam Pizurny is one of the ideal artists for the modern age. First, he employs the most modern tools to explore timeless themes of humanity; the perfect combination of the new and the classical.
Second, he suits the modern connoisseur’s penchant for preferring the virtual over the real insofar as one doesn’t need to go to the art gallery to experience his work. As Pizurny puts it in our interview below, his attitude is that “the whole web is your gallery.” Although, this is not exclusively true, as his work has been projected onto larger physical canvases than any other artist I’ve met. |
"Animation feels to me to be an extension or continuation of photography; it is yet another way to navigate through art and create new ways to interpret."