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Alexey Kondakov, a Ukrainian photographer, superimposes subjects of classical paintings into modern day Kiev. I really enjoy his works with these amazing combinations between modern life and paintings. It’s a great way that could inspire me to serve as a reference for my work.
Alexey Kondakov
Damiano Bertoli, a contemporary Melbourne artist in his recent exhibition, Superpositions, digitally manipulates classical statues. Personally, I believe that the viewer can understand these works from many different perspectives on superposition. The title Superpositions can be understood as superpositions in digital images, superpositions of personalities between these characters and statues and/or both of them. It’s an interesting way to view these works after having this idea.
Damiano Bertoli
Alex Prager is an American photographer and film maker. In her elaborately conceived and staged photographs, Prager openly references the aesthetics of mid-twentieth century American cinema and photography. Each of her lush colour images resembles a film still – entirely constructed and packed with emotion and human melodrama. The main reason that I want to use her work to be my reference is you can easily find the theatricality in her works. This is exactly what I very need if I want to put multiple more than 5 even 10 statues in one space. I need a powerful and simple story to keep the connection between them as a scene.
Alex Prager
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Alexander Ivanec, a Russian photographer who is working on the project, Down-to-Earth Astronaut raises awareness about the environment. The most attractive part of her work for me is the way she presents her opinion by metaphor and is similar to my objectives in this new work. She is very good at finding interesting moments in life and mixing them into her works.
Alexander Ivanec
August 2020
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer, and a pioneer who drawing on Hollywood’s aesthetic of artificiality and the power of a scrupulously directed film scene in staged photography, crafting narratives of everyday life. The narrative style of his work is very close to my imagination that is rebuilding of our ordinary life by using normal space and character but with some different behaviours.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Liu Di is a Chinese artist who uses digitally manipulated photographs to highlights the relationships between nature and human society. These works provide a totally different angel for us to watch the world and the relationship between human and mature by a pretty exaggerated way. And the interesting thing is I thought about to make the sculpture pretty big in my works before, these pictures give me a great example in this area.
Liu Di
In 1920 a series of photos of fairies captured the attention of the world. The photos had been taken by two young girls, the cousins Frances Griffith and Elsie Wright, while playing in the garden of Elsie's Cottingley village home. Photographic experts examined the pictures and declared them genuine. Spiritualists promoted them as proof of the existence of supernatural creatures, and despite criticism by skeptics, the pictures became among the most widely recognized photos in the world. In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked. It's 100 years away until this year, but this series looks still interesting for me. I think the idea of these works is quite good no matter the original intention of them is kind or lying, but they are good pictures.
Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer and early pioneer of photojournalism and street photography. Personally, He is also the one of my favourite photographer. His works have perfect balance between interesting and narrative. On the one hand, he always could present people's life in those ages by a quite funny way. On the other hand, he show the people how the great of photography and these photos could be the reference as archives for after people to know the real life they were had. The composition of his works is pretty amazing in someway. So, I want to mark these pictures to be my reference in street photography way. And I expect my works could have similar overall effects with his in a different way.
Robert Doisneau
October 2020
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