David Hilliard: Just recently I was struck by Davids work....His images pull you into a narrative and place you in environments that are very personal to him as they deal with relationships and actual recordings of life that he tweaks to make ordinary events seem chaotic. I am influenced by the quality of light he captures and although I am not making multiple frames to create one piece I am very interested in that process and through shooting my project I am now looking at the environment I am photographing my subject in as sections where I eliminate the pieces that show part of the subjects identity and find the pieces that encapsulate the subjects identity as a whole. Davids work is not only influencing my work for projects but also for my Large Format project I am working on.
Sally Mann: I have always been influenced by Sally Mann's work....Although her subjects are family and she already has a strong connection with them I am still amazed with the way she portrays that connection through her photographs. capturing this connection between subject and photographer is my main goal while creating this body of work, I feel to make the portrait more intersting that connection must exist. With my subjects I am not only thinking on a compositional level but also on a personal and conversational level which I feel creates more dynamic in the images I am making.
Aaron Ruell: I just stumbled upon this photographer, he has a ton of commercial images but his portaits and stong attention to color has tweaked the way I think as a I enter my subjects space. There are a handfull of his image where the space is so simplified but in a way still shows his subjects identity and on top of that he creates a narrative. The idea of simplifying the space in my photographs has caused me to focus more on my subject and the color of the environment surrounding them which in return creates a greater connection between the subject and myself.
Other influences:
Andrea Foti
Joel Sternfeld
Alec Soth
Laura Mcphee(portaits of girl)
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