Michael Muller

Michael Muller has an extensive body of work, ranging in a lot of themes and styles.
From portrait, to fashion, to movie posters. From monochromatic to a full hypnotic color range. He also has the boldness of drawing a $63K car to make a shot, and to dive with white sharks.



Bottom line, he does it because he loves it, and that show’s in is work.


I love to wander on his site and dwell over the images, so many that it feels I’m always finding something new.

There is a great small video on youtube were we can see is wonderful personality:

QBN Sessions Presents Michael Muller

To learn more about him, there is also a great podcast that interviews him, check it out.
http://www.studiolighting.net/lightsource-photography-podcast-e032-michael-muller/

Gregory Colbert - Ashes and Snow

Animal Copyright Launch Speech

Gregory Colbert dedicated ten years filming and photographing in a very poetic way the relation of humans and animals across places like India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica.
This work culminated on a film and a group of pictures with the name of Ashes and Snow, that is gathered on a nomadic museum that travels the world,
He is also engaged in a project , the animal copyright , that tries to make corporations pay a fee for using animals on their commercials, like any actor would charge.

I have bought one of the hand made books of this work, and I've seen the movie, and i can say that it is a soul engaging experience. I recommend to everyone that at least one time in life to have this experience.

Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek is a Czech Art Photographer, with decades of work.
Is life surpassed nightmares with the nazi and the russian invasion, he saw death and hunger like we may never (hopefully) imagine.

Is biography is by it self very inspiring to me, and even so I may never ( I hope ) see the horrors that he saw, there are some fears that we have in common.
The photographs, that start in the 50’s, are amazing. They reflect raw feelings, in a strange and surrealist world. It's not a easy work to see, but for me, one that makes me feel and makes me think, and that's the most important aspect of any art work.

He also conveys a very personal and expressive touch to is images, by painting and doing some photomontage, that are pretty amazing to see, if we think all the intense labour that must have been, and the dedication needed to do it year after year.

Is site is: http://www.saudek.com/en/jan/uvod.html

Is book:

Andreas Bitesnich

This is a one all time favorite for me. Andreas Bitesnich is a fantastic nude photographer, that is able to compose amazing human sculptures very well lit.
The bodies them self's are amazing, but the overall feeling of the images is for me very powerful.
Many of is pictures are used in commercial campaigns exactly because of that.
Another thing I like about him, is that he only started photography at the age of 25, and that didn't stop him to reach so far.


Check is site on: http://www.bitesnich.com/

   
 

Dave Hill

Dave Hill is a kick ass commercial photographer, with a wonderful style in is images. The pictures usually have a wonderful production, and a really nice focused light setup, and then they get a post production that makes them look like illustrations.
The result is really cool, and very inspiring.

I'm training that post process look my self to see if i can come up with some nice images.

Check is site: http://davehillphoto.com/

Chase Jarvis

This is a one hour video of a talk show that Chase Jarvis did on NYC on 14 of September 2007. This was a photoshelter event.

But in case you don't know, Chase Jarvis is a very successful commercial photographer, and part of the Hasselblad and Nikon Master award. The good thing, is that he also seems to be a great person, and helps the photography community a lot, by sharing a butch of tips and tricks, and also being very motivational.

Seeing this and other of is movies ( check youtube and do a google on it ), and seeing is work, helps me to believe that everything is possible, and that i just need to keep on going and push it further.




His Blog and Site are great places to check out.

As a personal opinion, I always believed that if one wants to be the best, must see and be around with the best. That's one of my main motto's, and that will reflect a lot in the stuff I will put in this blog.

Keep in touch.

Jean Paul Gaultier - Erotic Touching

This is a advertisement directed by Jean-Baptist Mondino for a Jean Paul Gautlier Perfume.
I love every bit of it, the models, the light, the gestures and the composition of the frames.

The music is also fantastic, it a music by Maria Callas, called Casta Diva.

This one inspires me the feeling of seduction and passion in it's raw form.
It doesn't feel real, it's more like a fairy tale, but that's my ideal form and way of passion.
A non racional, non real feeling.