Camille Sgrecci

      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...