Robbie Augspurger was born in Peoria, IL in 1977, and currently lives in Portland, OR. He got his first camera for his twelfth birthday, held at Showbiz Pizza Place, where there were animatronic animals wearing suits and playing in a band. He didn’t immortalize that rare vision on film that night, but ever since he can remember, he was interested in taking pictures.
“College Student Drinking Beer”, Panama City Beach, FL. 2009
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Briony Ridley is a Melbourne-based photographer. She describes her work as an adventure or a fairytale, and says that her lack of organization on set helps lends her work an element of chance. Her series ‘Somewhere In Between’ has recently appeared in Antler Magazine.
Huang Qingjun and Ma Hongjie decided to collaborate on this project, ‘Family Stuff’ in 2005. They have visited a number of areas in China for this project looking for typical Chinese homes to photograph by bringing the domestic objects used in everyday life outside. ‘Huang and Ma work as independent partners, Huang covering the North, Ma the South of the country. Convincing families to expose themselves to their cameras is the major challenge that both face on their respective expeditions. Building trust and laying the groundwork for the shoot can take months, again and again Huang and Ma have to explain why they want the families to empty their houses and let the artists decoratively arrange their belongings outside. Once they have agreed to participate, most families are happy to display their possessions, even more so since they receive financial compensation. In some cases, not all belongings are permitted to be shown, in others not all furniture fits through the doorways; but generally, the artists confirm, their portraits depict average Chinese reality as it is today: simple, unpretentious and compared to 20 years ago, strikingly void of political paraphernalia. In 2011 this project is scheduled to end with a total of 50 pictures and a book’. You can read more about this project on a mesa de luz.
Martin Klimas was born in 1971 in Lake of Konstanz, Germany. He received his degree in Visual Communications from Fachhochschule Dusseldorf and has had many exhibitions in Germany and abroad. He is represented by Foley Gallery in New York and Bransch for commercial assignments.
While earning a degree in economics at the University of Michigan, Jesse Frohman picked up a camera and never put it down. When he returned home to New York, he did not have any formal professional experience, but he did have a portfolio of platinum prints, which caught the interest of legendary photographer Irving Penn, who hired Jesse to manage his studio. It was an incomparable apprenticeship. Jesse has added his own touches of strength, dignity and quiet energy to the techniques and aesthetics he learned from Pennn, all of which are evident in his pictures. Jesse has photographed countless celebrities and still lifes. In addition to his work for magazines, advertising, and recording companies, he has been commissioned to create two award-winning photographic books. His work is also in many private collections. Jesse currently lives and works in New York.
Song Shimin was born in 1983 in Shandong Province, China. Before she studied at Beijing Film Academy in 2008 she was a middle school teacher in Shandong. She was recently awarded Top Prize in concept during Canon College Photo Competition and she has also been selected as “80 reGeneration Photographers of Tomorrow” sponsored by the Elysee Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. This series is entitled ‘Between Reality and Fantasy’. She is represented by 798 Gallery in Beijing.
Untitled, (2005)
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Vee Speers was born in Australia and has been living in Paris since 1990. Her portraits have been exhibited and published world-wide. Speer’s most recent work ‘The Birthday Party’ is a series of short stories linked by the theme of an imaginary birthday party. In a conceptual and technical departure from her previous work it is partly a self portrait, sometimes woven with threads from her own childhood. Speers also wanted to use the imaginary birthday party backdrop to address both our collective human experience of war and our need to retreat from it into fantasy.
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