Good work this one from Ren Hang, a Chinese photographer, born in 1987; who also writes poems.
Here is an images selection, but you can see many more photos, and also some of his books, through his website.
And, I want to share an interesting video about the making-off of his shootings, and about how he works, what he thinks about his own photographs or what success means to him.
I discovered the Roger Minick work not long ago, but I was so impressed! He has been photographing the American experience for nearly half a century. His photographs are included in permanent collections at The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan, The J Paul Getty Museum and many others. How could I ignore this fantastic photographer?!
One of his series I like most is “Sightseer“, in which Minick shows the work he did during more than 20 years in different typical tourist places; like Yosemite National Park, Cadillac Ranch, United States Capitol, Statue of Liberty, Bridal Veil Falls or Bryce Canyon National Park. “Sightseer” is an historical archive, cultural, anthropological, sentimental…It is like a poignant time-capsule of the American people at the end of the 20th Century.
He initially began the project shooting in black-and-white but quickly shifted focus to color because he felt the irony and humor between the tourists’ attire and the landscape needed a color palette. Gooood decision!
I read in an inteterview about “Sightseer” that for Minick, getting people to pose was easy, as he was often asked to take pictures of people because, with his equipment, he looked the part of a professional photographer. “Often I would use this opportunity to take a photograph with my camera, either working with the group as they had posed themselves or nudging them into a different pose. Other times I might simply take a picture of the people photographing themselves, unaware of me, and with or without the person [who was] taking the photograph in the frame.”
“Taking pictures is the number one thing people do when they go sightseeing, because there is something about being at the overlook often surrounded by lots of people; a group psychology takes over, if you will, that makes people more uninhibited in front of the cameras and in front of mine as well.”
“The Woman at Inspiration Point has perhaps been the most widely seen image from the series. I have received many letters over the years claiming that the woman is either their wife or their mother or a friend. They will claim that this person owns a coat exactly like the one in the photograph or they can remember their wife or mother buying the scarf in the Yosemite gift shop.”
I read on his own blog this description about his work, and I think it’s a perfect way to introduce him to you.
Matt Henry photographs stories are inspired by the 60s and 70s like photographic ideograms. Three decades of an addiction to American cinema and television have led him to create a world where narrative fiction draws the viewer in. All his photography is shot in the UK, but it’s American-inspired so he builds sets using props he has sourced from America to recreate that US feel.
PS: You can also read an interesting interview here.
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