Chuck Close // Siri Kaur // Erwin Olaf

Chuck Close was a photorealist photographer who placed grids over his photographs and then replicated each square through different mediums such as painting or stamps. He was originally a painter and had excellent brushwork but decided to make art 'hard' for himself and ditched his brushes in hopes to find new ways to paint. He states "I chose to do things I had no facility with. The choice not to do something is in a funny way more positive than the choice to do something. If you impose a limit to not do something you've done before, it will push you to where you've never gone before." His grid work copies of photos are what he is most known for.

Siri Kaur applies color filters and chemical drawings to both the photo negatives and positives. She distinguishes what is represented from what might represent it - as her images transform from distant celestial objects into light and ultimately back into physical form. Also she believes a good portrait really comes out when the subject is relaxed since then all of his character comes out. She shoots portraits of people in their own environment doing what comforts the person best instead of taking a subject into her studio which is a foreign land to the subject. 

Erwin Olaf was born in Netherlands and studied at the school of journalism in Utrecht. He takes outstanding studio/location lit photos that show more then just interesting subjects but more of a humorous or strangely set composition. Olaf is more then a photographer, he is a director and sometimes a subject in his own photos. His personal work is what he is best known for because of the imagination and curiosities he captures.

 

http://www.erwinolaf.com/