Intro To Photography

  Gueorgui Pinkhassov is a Russian-born photographer that was born in Moscow in the year 1952. His interest in photography began while he was still in school. He studied cinematography at The Moscow Institute of Cinematography and worked as a camera-man and on-set photographer at Mosfilm studio. From there he joined the Moscow Union of Graphic Artists in 1978, which allowed him to travel more freely and have more opportunities for photo opportunities.  He currently resides in Paris as a French citizen still taking up his work. His photos are mostly captured in a way that emphasizes more of the extraordinary details of an otherwise average day. He makes sure to take photos that are richly colored, complex in thought, as well as poetic in its angles. He describes his work in a way that the moments he is capturing are like moments of chaos and that instead of trying to control it, you must fall in line with it, meaning he prefers natural scenarios instead of fabri...

Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer that was born 1972. She is a world renown artist artist known for capturing the depictions of moments in everyday life in ways that seem poetic and intimate. Her chosen aesthetic of the photos often give off a dream like quality. The subliminal elements of her photos are also enhanced through her emphasis on using soft colors. Her work is on display in various places of the world ranging from London to Paris, São Palo, and Kyoto. The image that I chose from her is a picture of a swan from her 2004 Alia series. What I like and find interesting about this photo is how it emphasizes the duality to every situation similar to how there two sides of a coin. The swan its reflection seems to embody that Japanese saying where we have a face we show others and a face we never show to anyone but ourselves. In this scenario, the swan itself with its lighter color scheme looks innocent and harmless but the reflection having its darker grey color palette ser...