jan von holleben

hey, he's not exactly my taste, but he's got a huge body of work. i would suggest you guys looking through it. he does have some nice techniques

http://www.janvonholleben.com/?page_id=488

Daniel Jackson

Daniel Jackson is the photographer I chose this week. I've seen his work in Vogue and I've followed his career since. I believe all of his work to be very stylistically similar. It's very simple with muted tones and most of the time he shoots against a plain backdrop. This sort of style really appeals to me because it allows the viewer to really concentrate on the model. I'm not sure if he has a website,  but if he does I can't find it. Here's a link to a website with some of his work...

Daniel Jackson

Joshua Hoffine

The artist responsible for the images above is Joshua Hoffine, a photographer interested in the psychology of fear. I first learned about Hoffine while discussing various horror photographers with a senior in the photography department, and since checking out his website and the images he's produced, I have been highly influenced by both his concepts and his visually convincing scenarios. 

According to his autobiography on his website, Hoffine intends for his viewer to empathize with the child and feel their vulnerability. He continues, through both his autobiography and his images, to remind us that there is no certainty to existence and horror arises with that uncertainty. The images above especially exemplify his intended concept, where childish horror fantasies are brought to life. If you thoroughly stalk his website, I think you'll find a few of his images that ultimately, don't compare to his more successful ones. There are some where the concept is confusing, or various props becoming distracting to what the main focus should be. Overall though, this guy is really talented in both representing horror through movie-like sets, and accurately and clearly presenting an overall concept to the viewer. 

Look for more at JoshuaHoffine.com

Olivia Arthur

Olivia Arthur is a British photojournalist and an official Magnum photographer. Her book, Jeddah Diary, depicts the private lives of young Saudi women.

 

http://www.oliviaarthur.com/

Here's a short interview of her I found. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ3wlKV2Mlc

Before I watched the interview though, I made the observation that she seemed to have found a way to recede into her surroundings and allow her subjects to act freely in her presence. The photos from the series I mentioned above with intimate pictures of young Saudi women (who rarely allow their photograph to be taken) are a great testament to her ability to make relationships, make people feel safe and comfortable,  and then really take her time shooting...something I really admire. It's very clear to me when a photographer has taken all the time they need with the subject versus trying to get it over with quickly.

James Mollison

James Mollison free lance/commercial photographer that was born in Kenya but was raised in England. I discovered his work through Vice’s Picture perfect series and was drawn to his book projects. One of his series that spoke to my interests the most was “Where Children Sleep”. In relation to recent interests, I’ve been fascinated with the connection between humans and their tangible environment and how people coexist with traditions in modern times along with the inherent circumstances that either inhibit or endorse a person’s actions. Whether it be studying cultural or geographical effects, I find that it's powerful to examine the epoch of childhood.  Link: James Mollison - Photographer

Daniel Sannwald

Daniel Sannwald is a photographer based between London and Munich. He does do some altered images, but his work that really captured by attention was how mixes conceptual and fashion photography.

Andres Gonzalez

http://andresgonzalezphoto.com/

As I've been looking at work lately I've had a certain interest in work that is centered, dead-pan, and simple. I have often steered myself away from this style of work and to be completely honest never cared for it till recently. I think that my personal work is at a point where exploring more work in this style would benefit me as an artist. 

Andres Gonzalez is a photographer and educator who spends much of his time between Istanbul, Turkey and Portland, Maine where he teaches at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. His work wether it be portrait, landscape, or still life tend to feature centralized subjects and dead pan emotion. 

Andrew B. Myers

Andrew B. Myers is a photographer / image maker based in Toronto, Canada. He focuses a lot on small scale narratives and interaction with objects playing with pastel colors, geometric shapes and clean designs, and touch of humour. 

Of his work, he writes, ‘I admire (and am jealous to an effect) of the sheer control painters have over the imagery they produce, lacking a lot of the external variables that photographers deal with all the time. I guess I like taking this sensibility to my work, using these variables that photography has to offer but bringing a very tight element of control in terms of colour and composition. I’m not quite sure where I became so obsessed with washed out colours, sunlit shadows and negative space, but it must have something to do with how much I fetishized warm weather, the beach, and open areas during the summer in the remote area I come from, which I mostly remember as freezing and covered in several feet of snow’.

Bernd & HIlla Becher

Bernd & Hilla Becher have been working in collaboration for more than 40 years, up until Bernd's death in 2007. They first started collaborating in 1959 to document Germany's disappearing industrial architecture. They are famous for their monochrome typology work. It is easy to see how they approach their subjects in the same manner. The key to creating a good typology is to photograph each subject in the same exact manner, otherwise the angle gets skewed and there is the possibility of the viewer getting a "skewed" interpretation of the work. Creating a series that is stylistically similar that uses different subject matter and environment in each photo is difficult. However, that is not to say that it is the only way to create a cohesive body of work. When your ideas get complicated, try and photograph them in a simple manner.

Jonathan Ducruix (aka Me&Edward)

These vaguely menacing evolutions are all from Jonathan Ducruix (aka Me&Edward)'s series Metamorphosis. They all share a theme of mutation and constant evolution of the human form, as well as very similar lighting and colour palettes. Superficially speaking, they are also similar because they involve pretty extensive manipulation.

A bit about the Artist (From his website):

Holder of a diploma in 2D and 3D Computer Graphics, he doesn’t perceive photography as an end but rather as a source, a potential for creation. He’s always been attracted to the world of fashion and design, something we can detect from his work which has a certain refined style and touch. Photography becomes a means of expression much more efficient than words and acts like a mask that Edward uses to let his emotions show through.

He also had a pretty interesting answer to a question about his alias:

I like to think that everyone hides behind a mask. In my case, I wanted to dissociate the I- as a photographer from the I-as a sensitive human being. The second conveys an emotional capacity, and this is the one you’ll find in the photographs. It becomes more than a simple human body, it’s a symbolic figure.

Maurice Seymour

Maurice Seymour was a Celebrity/ Ballet photographer from Chicago in the 1920's.  His work has two strains of similarity.  A lot of his work is like the photo above of a Ballerina.  He had a way of just freezing the dancers in way that did not limit their movement.  His photos are breathtaking and are portraits worth taking a look at!