J.R is a French artist, born on the 22nd February 1983. He was an ambitious teenager who loved graffiti from a young age. He would climb buildings with his friends and use graffiti to spread his love for the movement. However, it wasn't until he found a camera on the subway that made his perception on street art change forever. This allowed him to track the individuals, like him, who communicate messages and feelings via walls and street art. He quickly began to track people in the forbidden undergrounds and high top roofs of Paris. In 2004, JR photographed the riots that broke out in the banlieues and pasted up large prints of their faces around the city. This marked the start of his first major project.
JR exhibits his work freely in the largest art gallery in the world, the streets. He has always allowed the public to assist with his street artwork, which shows his dedication to community and emphasises how he believes art should be interactive. He prefers to catch the attention of people who are not a part of the typical museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity, and limit. |
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JR's chronicles series brings light to relevant issues and discussions through different types of media, such as: videos, murals, dioramas and film. He took individual photographs of people from the city and created large collages of them interacting. It importantly showcases the lives of strangers coming together through art, whilst highlighting the similarities and differences between them. Emotions of passion, anger, happiness and fear can be seen in each chronicle, along with movement and courage. |
As JR travelled through conflict zones, he realized that women are often the primary victims of war, crime, rape and political or religious fanaticism. JR’s intention in the Women Are Heroes project was to underline women’s pivotal role in society. He took photographs of women from different backgrounds and with different stories and pasted them all over the world, from small villages to the largest cities, in hopes of highlighting their power and uniting various communities. |
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In JR's series, 'The Wrinkles of the city,' he portrays the older generations who have lived through the changes and upheavals of the city. He photographs them close up so he can capture their life stories through their facial features. He then prints their portraits and puts them up around the city as a reminder of the importance of community and respect. |
In November 2005, the deaths of two teenage boys who were hiding from the police lead to riots breaking out and quickly spreading through the city. With the continued chaos, JR returned to the ideas of his first exhibition on the walls of Les Bosquets from 2004. With a 28mm lens, he shot full-frame, close up portraits of young people. They were pulling scary faces to caricature themselves and these were then pasted as enlarged posters onto the walls of both Les Bosquets and ‘bobo’ districts of the city. He named this series, 'Portraits of a Generation.' |
Portrait of a Generation served a purpose in invited us to look into the eyes of men playing bad boys. The portraits provoked pedestrians to question the media representation of them, which was relevant to the ongoing turmoil at the time. The close up photographs also allowed for people to feel more connected to those portrayed by breaking down the formal barrier by the use of complex facial expressions. |
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Alma Hasser was born in 1989 into an artistic family in Germany. She is known for her complex and meticulously constructed portraiture, which are influenced by her creativity and her background in fine art. Alma creates striking work that catches the eye and captivates the mind.
Alma expands her photographic skills by using inventive paper-folding techniques, collage and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around her subjects; manipulating her portraits into futuristic paper sculptures and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery. Her creativity has been recognised by many and given her the opportunity to win awards. Her cosmic surgery series launched her to win awards including the Magenta Foundation's Bright Spark Award in 2013 and it also inspired a successful self-published book project. |
David Samuel Stern is a photographer and artist whose work centers on examining photography as a physical interaction. He demonstrates this through his woven portraits.
The portraits are the result of physically weaving together two separate photographic prints of the same person. It was his attempt to create an entirely new visual experience. The weaving gives a sense of calmness against a certain discomfort as the images used seem out of place and distorted. |
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1. First, I opened my image in photoshop and used the quick selection tool to select the are that I wanted to use 2. Then copy and pasted it onto my chosen background 3. I used free transform to adjust its size 4. Next I used the quick selection tool to select some of the background that I wanted to overly the person 5. Then I deleted this making sure that the top layer was selected My Response:
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Thomas Kellner was born in Bonn in 1966. He studied art in university and has shown his work in a wide range of solo exhibitions. Including ones in Germany, Australia and Russia.
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Thomas Kellner is a well-regarded artistic photographer. He focuses predominantly on architecture. Keller continuously tries to offer a new perspective, leading to a reinvention of the structure of famous buildings.
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Savinova was born in 1988. She is regarded as multi-talented in the artistic sense. He practice spans photography, collage, text, video, sound, collage and performance. She also holds an architectural background, which can be said to influence her long-time love for constructing and building.
In her work, Savinova focuses on creating a well-imagined, visual piece of entertainment. She draws her inspiration from her travels where she observes the differences and similarities within colour and texture. I like her images as I think that they give a sense of warmth against the cold and snowy environment that they are placed in. |
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Frescoes and paintings of saints in cathedrals had a strong influence on Gabriels work as they were his first introduction to art. In his most recent body of work, called Queer Icons, Roman addresses the severe lack in representation of queer people of colour and turns them into heavenly beings. Activists and community organizers stand hallowed in photographs, their radiant halos like the saints Gabriel grew up with. |
Gabriel Garcia Roman was born in 1973. He was raised within a Mexican family in Chicago. Roman then went on to study studio art at the City College of New York. He is a mixed media artist who is constantly searching for new ways to defy the limits of the medium, whether it's printmaking, woodworking or ceramics. |
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"I THINK OF COLOUR AS MORE OF A COMMON LANGUAGE. MORE GENEROUS, MORE OPEN, NOT TRANSPOSED, THE LANGUAGE OF THE REAL."
Sarah Moon is a French photographer. Initially a model, she turned to fashion photography in the 1970s. Since 1985, she has concentrated on gallery and film work. Sarah Moon's photographs are almost abstract and they explore texture, surface and colour, giving her work a melancholic mood. There is an atmosphere and intensity, her images lead us into a world bewitched.
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HOW I CREATED THEM: I wanted to test out another medium so I created image transfers.
1. I covered the top of my images with tape and then placed them in water until they were fully soaked. 2. Then I removed the back of the image and was left with a clear image. 3. I placed newspapers and other materials on a piece of white paper and then placed my image over the top. |