Camille Sgrecci

      Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist who lived from 1918 to 1978 (second image). During World War II, he followed American troops as they island-hopped to fight the Japanese. He was severely injured and underwent over 30 surgeries but kept going as soon as he recuperated.      One of Smith's series was following a country doctor, Dr. Ernest Ceriani. The images in this capture who the doctor was, who he treated, and how he treated people. The first image included is a photo Smith took of the country doctor. He's walking through a yard next to a white picket fence. He's on his way to see a patient or is just leaving one. The doctor is centered in the image with many grey tones surrounding him. The image is moody, especially with the way the clouds sit above him. His expression holds sorrow, as though he just saw or heard something that will never leave him.  This is fitting because I feel it was common for country doctor's to be called when...

     Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer. She created books, exhibitions, and did editorial magazine work. She spent most of her life traveling and taking photos. During her lifetime, she received many awards for her work. Many of her photos tell a story. Whether it's the way the subject is positioned or what's included in the image, there's a sense of who that person is in every photo.    I like the variety in her work. Some photos are posed while others are simply capturing a moment as it happens in real life. The image below is from her work with the "Indian Circus." Within this single image she captured who these people are and what they do. I like that their gazes aren't on Mark or the camera, rather to the side, like they're watching something else. When I think about a circus, I imagine it being busy, for example people everywhere, and various concessions. Here, the background is simple, part of a tent and the ground, it allows the viewer...

       Sebastiào Salgado is a Brazilian photographer and photojournalist. His work is expressive in a way I didn't see in the other photographers' work I've looked at so far. From poverty to orphans to weddings, he's captured it. A lot of his photos I've found are from Serra Pelada, Brazil. Many of these show men doing intensive labor in some type of mine while officers of some sort ensure they're doing their work. While some of these photos were taken from a distance, others were taken up-close, from down in the mix.      I like the way Sebastiào captured images of the "uglier" sides of society by being right there with him. Standing next to the men in that mine or on the mountain tops with the men delivering wood to a village. Although he wouldn't have experienced exactly what all the other men were doing and going through, he did on some scale just by being there next to them. I feel like that type of immersion adds more emotion to the images be...

      Mary Ellen Mark was an American photography who lived from 1940 to 2015. During her lifetime, she photographed as she traveled, her focus on humanism. She received numerous awards from national and international associations. Because of her travel, she was able to capture a wide variety of different cultures. Looking through some of her work, it looks like she was ahead of her time. She was capturing images that would be perceived as controversial at the time, especially some of the ones from her "The Lives of Women" exhibition.      I like that she went outside of what was excepted and told stories about the subjects through the images themselves. In the photo below, the girl's expression combined with the dirty, worn clothing, and the campers in the background create a sense of awareness. She doesn't look happy or sad, but rather defeated, as though she has been struggling for a while and it's starting to make a heavy impact. The butterfly mask...

      Michael Kenna is an English photographer who does a lot of work with landscapes and long exposures, sometimes up to 10 hours. He has shot in places all over the world, from Dearborn, Michigan to Hokkaido, Japan. Some of his images have a lot of contrast while others include a range of grey tones.      While looking through the photographs on his website, the one that really captured my eye was the one from Guatemala in 2003. While seeming simple at first glance, the longer I looked at it the more detail I noticed. There is a mountain in the background with water from a lake or sea in the foreground. Although neither of those shows much detail because it was shot at night. The sky on the other hand has the paths of the stars. The lines are not perfectly straight but have a slight curve to them, showing how the Earth rotates around its axis and the Sun.       I love the simplicity of it. While the landscape was rather plain, I f...

           Christopher Colville is an American photography who does work with photograms. In experimental and traditional form, he is known for pushing the boundaries of photographic medium. While looking through his website, I noticed a trend. He includes both photographs and photograms. Most of the photograms he has visually available here are black and white with brown and rusty shades too.     I like his use of these different shades that create images that make me wonder how he did it. For example, the few images with a coyote appear to have the same cutout he used but each background is    different, almost as though he used chemicals on the paper before exposing it to light. Other of his works look like metal, using silver and more rust colors to make various shapes and impressions. I think some of the pictures included show what he used to make a few of the photograms, such as metal with holes in it, but it does not show wha...