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Editor’s Note: To learn more about Martine Brand’s work log on: www.BrandIllustrations.com.
Posted on January 1, 2012
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……….Elizabeth currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.
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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.
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Posted on December 27, 2011 by Ted Adams
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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I’m generally interested in what things look like (as opposed to any sort of inherent meaning), although sometimes events converge to create irony, humor or interesting juxtapositions. These usually happen by accident – I think that when you’re actually taking the pictures, you have to react to things in an immediate, visceral way – then something akin to “meaning” creates itself later when you’re looking at the negatives and deciding what to print.
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Picture-taking also has a psychological aspect which reminds me of going fishing or sifting through junk at a flea market: It involves an obsessive-compulsive drive to put your line in the water to see what you reel in – a subtle mood, an ambiance, a visual structure that tickles your brain.
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I’m also interested in photography as a way of cropping the world into rectangles, as a way of selectively taking things out of context – which often results in stripping the original meaning out of the subject matter, or at least in making the image open to interpretation. Kind of the opposite of photojournalism, whose intention is to create “narrative” and “context” rather than to discard them.
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Photography is, in its very essence, the art of cropping – whether in the camera or in the darkroom.
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About The Author: Ted Adams was born in Louisville, Kentucky USA. The artist resides and works in Philadelphia as an Art, Street and Documentary photographer. He is also Owner/Director of the Southwark Gallery, Philadelphia. To learn more about Ted Adams’s work log on: www.TedAdams.net.
Posted on October 23, 2011
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Jls Birdy is a French photographer who lives and works in Paris. Born in Bordeaux in 1979, Jls has been practicing photography since his childhood. In 2008, he began to produce 2 to 3 series of pictures – depicting a character each month; mostly of woman and most often naked. Sex and humor pass through Jls Birdy’s images, In a very clean aesthetic presentation: which brings forward quite obviously – a certain refinement to his sense of provocation.
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Editor’s Note: To learn more about Jls Birdy’s work log on: www.JlsBirdy.com.