Photographer #093: Alexander Gronsky

Alexander Gronsky, Estonia, 1980, started working as a professional photographer in 1998 and has done various projects since then. He has recently received the FOAM Paul Huf Award. In his series Pastoral he explores wastelands within Moscow City, areas that have no definition as they are not urban nor rural. For Endless Night he travelled to Murmansk which lies behind the Artic circle, where each year the sun disappears for two months. For an editorial story he left for Naftalan in Azerbaijan. They have a supply of oil that is considered medicinal, but one can't do anything else with it, therefore it is worthless and all they can do is bathe in it. The following images come from Pastoral, Endless Night and Naftalan.

Website: www.alexandergronsky.com

Photographer #082: Kevin O'Connell

Kevin O'Connell, 1958, is an American photographer who's main interest lies with machinery of energy development. His photographs consist of pumps, tanks, towers, wind turbines and pylons. Although there is a certain beauty in these machines and objects, it also raises questions about how we deal with our horizon and environment. These machines will one day break down and decay, but they will leave scars on the environment. O'Connell asks himself various questions, one of them is; What is the fate of the horizon? The following images come from the series Conventional Entropy, Everything Comes Broken and Big Burn.

Website: www.kmoconnell.com

Photographer #081: Peter Bialobrzeski

Peter Bialobrzeski, 1961, is a German photographer with an impressive number of books published in the last several years. In 2009 two books were released. One of them was Paradise Now, which deals with how we treat nature in these times of urban growth. The other is Case Study Homes about urban structures in shantytowns. In 2007 his book Lost in Transition came out, where he examines the transformations of urban wastelands in 28 different cities all over the world. The following images come from these three books.

Website: www.bialobrzeski.de

Photographer #077: Ambroise Tezenas

French photographer Ambroise Tezenas, 1972, has won various awards for his photographic work. Currently he is working on a large series called Dark Tourism. He travels to places where as a tourist you can visit sites where disaster has taken place. Examples are; the Sichuan Wenchuan Earthquake Ruins tour, where you can visit the southwestern area of China where 90000 people were killed during the earthquake, or Prypiat, the town that became a ghosttown after the Chernobyl disaster.

In 2007 his book Beijing: Theatre of the People came out about the Hutongs of Beijing and their downfall. These traditional blocks of Beijing with small alleys had to move for new large buildings with giant boulevards.

Website: www.ambroisetezenas.com

Photographer #049: Andrew Hetherington

Irish photographer Andrew Hetherington, 1969, photographs nearly everything. When he is on a trip you can follow him with pictures on his blog. This leads to archives of images that become an important body of work. For four years he had been taking pictures of the hotels he visited and of the views from his window, consistent, therefore also if there was nothing more than a wall. Due to the consistency in his work it is a true archive. These pictures were published in the book A Room with a View.

Andrew also concentrates on various stories. The following images come from East Bay Rats, a motorcycle club that also boxes, and Tall Paul, the tallest college basketball player ever.

Website: www.ahetherington.com

 

Photographer #026: Branislav Kropilak

Branislav Kropilak, 1982, is a photographer from Slovakia. His photographs are very graphic. They often contain straight lines and a very orderly manner. The next photographs come from the series Garages, Landings and Billboards.

Website: www.kropilak.com

Photographer #017: Michael Wolf

German photographer Michael Wolf, 1954 has a long list of projects behind his name. Currently he is working on a project using google streetview as his camera. The photographs of architecture in projects like Architecture in Density in Hongkong (2006) and Transparent City in Chicago (2008) are most known.

In 2009 he did a project called Tokyo Subway Dreams. As in his architectural photography, the horizon is nowhere to be found in his pictures.

Website: www.photomichaelwolf.com

Photographer #011: Bert Teunissen

Bert Teunissen, 1959, is a Dutch photographer who has been working on the project Domestic Landscapes for the last thirteen years. 
"This project is about light - natural daylight. The photos show how daylight illuminates the domestic interior, and how it dictated the way the interior was build, used and decorated. This specific light and the atmosphere it creates have their origins in the architecture of the pre-electricity era, when daylight was the main source of light. This kind of light started to disappear from European homes after World War II when the old way of building was abandoned. At this moment few of these homes remain."
Teunissen spend ten years documenting the homes in Europe. A large selection came together in his book Domestic Landscapes, A portrait of Europeans at home. Currently he is expanding his archive of homes in the Eastern European countries. He has also documented homes in Japan. His archive grows with other books such as On the Road, A domestic landscapes travelog. For the entire archive, check out his website.

Website: www.bertteunissen.com

Photographer #008: Thomas Kneub�hler

Swiss born photographer Thomas Kneub�hler, 1963, now living in Montreal, Canada, was fascinated by the mountains full of light that made night skiing possible. He made the surreal landscapes his subject matter. Night photography of mountains that radiate. He calls this series Electric Mountains.

Earlier he worked on a project called Office 2000. Again a landscape arises of surrealism, although it is very real. The pictures become abstract objects of repetition.

Website: www.thomaskneubuhler.com 

Photographer #001: Todd Hido

Todd Hido, 1968, is an American photographer. He is well known for his night photography of houses. Although they have a spooky and lonely feel to them, there is a sense of looking into the lifes of someone. The photographs have a link with Gregory Crewdson's photography, but then without the props, actors and insanely expensive lighting.

Apart from the photographs of houses and interiors, he masters portraiture aswell. To see how Todd works, watch the video below.

Website: www.toddhido.com

Kim H�ltermand Online Portfolio

An interesting online portfolio by Kim H�ltermand and has been featured on the Estetica Design Forum. He also displays his work on Behance.

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