Stephan Vanfleteren

Quite the mouthful, Stephan Vanfleteren is a traveling photographer who takes some of the most stunning, uniquely straightforward portraits I've seen in a while. While Jackie was working on improving her lighting replication, she introduced me first to her assignment photograph and then, in my own time, I found other reasons to have a gander.


From Facing Stories
Belgium: The Poverty of Loneliness

Probably the most unrelated to my own final project, Stephan's portraits aren't the only thing I fell in love with. Hobos In The USA was the second series to catch my attention because as a photo essay, it was gritty and truthful but straightforward and beautiful at the same time. A seemingly disrespected people seen and portrayed respectfully.




I don't know much about these photographers until I post about them and look them up and realize how far behind I fell in the knowledge pool. These people are famous. Where have I been?

Adam Jeppesen and others

Graham Walzer asked me too look up a fellow named Adam Jeppesen because he had a similar aesthetic to what I wanted to be shooting and not necessarily what I had in my work in progress product.



There so much control over these images without much seemingly controlled light. Somehow even with my poor articulation, Graham was able to pick up on what I desired to shoot and is this wellspring of knowledge in which you can blurt out a style or a subject matter and he will say something like "Have you taken a look at...?" And of course you haven't, because if you had, you wouldn't be so off track.

In exchange for his nugget of knowledge I remembered a photographer I had seen at AIPAD but not heard much about prior to this: Michael Wolf. Wolf's series called Transparent City is a beautifully executed idea that has, in fact, been done before - but not quiet as blatantly well. When you start to navigate his website to discover something original you find the Sitting in China: Bastard Chairs series and immediately find yourself falling in love with his ability to see things that have become so quickly part of the environment while not belonging there at all if they still had an essence of their former selves. These are portraits of personality.

I haven't decided if I want to upload any images from my final-in-progress to here yet. I'm not sure what the sense would be while I'm still completely silent.

Tod Seelie

I ran into Tod Seelie in class the other day while looking for inspiration and while he doesn't have much to do with my Night Spaces project, I cannot get his name out of my head.


Tod Seelie

If you look at anything, look at his Landscape series. These images are breath-taking and find a way to put you in any shooting scenario he may have been in. For all the commercial work he's done, these are peaceful and attainable spaces. This is what I want out of photography.

Finding myself

The plan is to be better.

As public as this might be, tweeting isn't going to help me discover what I've lost and it also wont hold me over until I'm not living here anymore.

I will discover something new.