Kristina Bergey - Five Artists

Emotional - Alina Lebedeva - http://www.alina-lebedeva.ru/
Her expressiveness is conveyed through her use of moody lighting and shadowy contours and dramatic poses, almost giving a melancholy, but surreal painting-like quality that fascinates me and is several calibers above from how I strive take emotive portraits.

Intellectual - Sally Mann - http://sallymann.com/

From her mouth—"The things that are close to you are the things you photograph. And unless you photograph what you love, then you're not going to make good art." 

Regarding her show on her collection of images of dog bones—"So, we do a show of dog bones, and then some cynical postmodern critic will come along and say, 'Oh my god, look at the show of dog bones; what do you suppose it means?' And it means that I want to see what dog bones look like, photographed." 

She photographs what she loves and the things that appeal to her that might not really have any meaning other than experimentation and visual aesthetic. The images I take are what I like. There might be some deeper rooted, subconscious reason for why I'm drawn to photographing certain things that I am not fully aware of, but I'm not going to make up a contrived meaning or reason for why I took those images.

Content - Jake Sargeant - http://www.mn8studio.com/project/photography-compendium

Particularly hard to find a photographer for this one since my work is all over the place, but I did find Jake Sargeant. Most of his photograph are experimental and he shoots pretty much anything and everything, but experiments with lighting, exposure, line quality, depth of field, etc.. This is generally what I'm doing right now. 

Formal - Supabaka - http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbaka/

Supabaka was just a photographer I found on Flickr, but his images were formally and content-wise very similar to my work. Again, shooting anything and experimenting, but keeping a theme of darker shadows. He also does a lot of macro and shallow depth of field work, which are things I like to experiment with as well.

Opposite - Javier Manzano - http://www.javiermanzano.com/

Known for his raw and up-close documentation of the world's most violent regions—Mexican drug cartels, war in Afghanistan, and civil war in Syria. While his images are striking and important, I do not see myself or plan on doing that kind of work for fear of my own well-being.