Rashid Johnson

He is an African American Socio-political photographer and produces conceptual post-black art. His work has been displayed around the world in many of the world's leading museums. He finds inspiration in the work of a diverse group of visual artists, actors, musicians, writers, activists, and philosophers, including Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Eldrige Cleaver, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, David Hammons, Kasimir Malevich, Parliament Funkadelic, and Sun Ra. Often identified with the post-black art movement, Johnson's work engages questions of personal, racial, and cultural identity, producing a unique synthesis of historical and material references that are grounded in African American and art history while expanding into questions of mysticism and cosmology. 

Benoit Courti versus Ansel Adams

Benoit Courti is a modern era French portrait photographer. There are many websites dedicated to his photography work. He mostly shoots black and white portraits. They are extremely detailed and display high variations of contrast. In addition to this he poses his models in a way that is less mainstream and more unique when compared to other portrait photographers. He takes mainly head shot portraits and then poses them in a way that shows more expression or drama in the picture. He uses bright whites and deep blacks in his portraits with either a white or black background. The most obvious repetitions in the style of his portraits is the detail especially in the subjects eyes and the unique poses with dramatic expressions. 

Ansel Adams is a famous landscape photographer and can even be credited with being one of the truly first landscape photographers. He is an american landscape photographer most known for taking pictures of the american west, especially Yosemite National Park. Liek Benoit Courti he is a black and white photographer but unlike Courti he uses film instead of digital and shoots landscapes instead of portraits. His photos are landscapes that are extremely detailed and are very majestic.

Benoit Courti

Benoit Courti does these amazing black and white portraits, and has taken pictures that are truly remarkable. He worked for years as a composer before shifting his career to ward photography, specifically black and white portrait photography in 2010. His images fall everywhere on the spectrum from dark and brooding portraits to light, atmospheric shots of animals. His images are highly detailed black ands white pictures of predominately people. This is an excellent example of simply good photography. Parisian photographer Benoit Courti photographs are dark, riveting moments captured for us to enjoy. His photography covers a wide range of subjects, but most seem to be some form of intimate self-portrait. He is perfectly capable with and without color, but his dark monochromatic photographs are perhaps his most gripping.

Tom Lin

Tom Lin is a professional photographer at Tom Cody Design studios. He is known for his hdrs to be extremely detailed with a dark background. In my photos i am going to attempt to recreate his style of hdr portraits then crete it with my own style as well. 

Rineke Dijkstra

Rinek Dijkstra is a prominent photographer from the Netherlands. She is known for her unique way of shooting portraits which has become the basis of her portrait series. In her portraits she shoots with the camera at a lower level than the subjects face, which results in the camera almost appearing to be aimed at the subjects stomach. In addition to that she also shoots with natural lighting pointing at the subjects back and a flash pointing at the subject, this results in the background appearing bland or fake and almost like a backdrop in a studio. She is trying to bring emphasis to the physical and psychological development of people in general as well as shooting portraits in a way that is unique and makes her stand out when compared to other photographers.  

Second Chance

For my second chance project I took HDR portraits of people. I looked up videos on how to get better at the process and that made me better.

Freedoms Speech

Earlier there was a massacre in Paris that threatened the freedom of speech in the area as well as the whole world. Several cartoonists were killed by terrorists when they made political cartoons that ISIS found to be offensive.