THIAPS Featured Photographers

Philippe Mougin

2012-01-19T08:07:48Z

My principal objective is to capture a serene and mysterious world, where places are minimalistic, and where each image shows the imprint of man on that particular place. I'm deeply interested in the way each human being's experiences influences their own
perception of the environment, and in tempting viewers to stimulate their own imagination

Actually most part of my work used a customized plastic analogic Holga Camera . I often use long exposure also with this camera. I work with ilford Delta 100 film and kodak Tmax 400 that I process at home with ilford Perceptol. Print are done on Museo Portfolio Rag Mat paper.

Born in Paris but lives in Switzerland.

by: Philippe Mougin

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Jan Scholtz

2012-01-19T07:13:26Z

Originally from Hamburg, Germany - I live and work in Brussels, Belgium. I started portrait and fashion photography in April 2006 as a spare time activity - as a creative counterweight to my job - and this is still the same today. I love photography for being able to create my own world inside my pictures and express myself on a level I could not with words. My work and way of working is not very conceptual or following a certain plan. Instead I am guided by a more intuitive approach.

After making my first steps digitally I soon moved onwards, and now enjoy using large and bulky manual cameras loaded with film. I currently use 8x10", 4x5", medium format and 35mm cameras. The different formats provide different looks, but more importantly demand a different way of working. This forces me to challenge my own way of working over and over again. I would probably claim that using large format cameras has taught me most of what I know about photography - it has influenced my work with other formats quite considerably. I am shooting mostly black and white and for indoor/low light situations I use Kodak Tri-x, for outdoor I prefer Fuji Acros. When using color film I like the Portra films of Kodak and Fuji's PRO 400H

by: Jan Scholtz (Belgium)

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Michael Massaia

2012-01-16T08:02:47Z

"Seeing the black dog"

"Seeing the black dog"

"Seeing the black dog" is a saying truck drivers use to describe hallucinations that occur as a result of sleep deprivation during cross country runs. When they see the "black dogs" scampering across the highway they know to pull over and get some sleep. The moment they make that decision is when I sneak up to their trucks while they're in the cabs sleeping and capture the moment the dogs melt away. All of the images were taken between the hours of 2am and 6am along the New Jersey Turnpike.

by: Michael Massaia (USA)

All of the image were taken with 8x10 camera and black and white film developed in pyro. I'm handmaking large 34x44 platinum prints for all of the images.

Born In New Jersey, 1978. Michael Massaia is a fine art photographer and printmaker whose work focuses on New York City, and New Jersey Life and landscape.
Michael specializes in large format black and white photography and large format Platinum / Palladium printing. All of his images are true "one shot" scenes that have been pushed to their limit via film developing and printmaking techniques to reveal the true way each moment was felt.

For his Afterlife portfolio go here

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Daryan Dornelles

2012-01-11T08:40:36Z

"I love people and I love the interaction with them."

Arnaldo Atunnes

Claudia Dorei

Criolo

Dado Villa Lobos

Dominguinhos

Eduardo Coutinho

Grazi

Guti Fraga

Karin O.

Karina Zeviani

Daryan Dornelles is a portrait photographer who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
He works for major publications like Rolling Stone, Bravo Magazine and Marie Clair.
More than 100 album covers have his photography on it.
Daryan was featured in the UNLIMITED GRAIN book PORTRAITS
Shoots his work mostly with a Hasselblad 500CM on Fuji Acros.
"I love people and I love the interaction with them."

by Daryan Dornelles (Brazil)

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Andrey Belkov

2011-12-06T08:02:41Z

I prefer two genres of photography - still life and landscape. If you have a main work and need to relax sometimes both of them are all you need. There is magic interaction between photographer and subjects he looks at. Subjects speak with him, he speaks with subjects. I guess only in this dialog a great photograph may be born.

by: Andrey Belkov (Russia)

Hasselblad 500CM, Planar 80 f\2.8, with Astia, Ektar, Velvia and Acros
Scans on Nikon 9000

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Toshiya Watanabe

2011-12-05T07:28:41Z

Tokyo Bay, Landfill No. 13

Tokyo is the world's most fluid city, shot through with dynamic change.
Pieces of the city die daily like human body cells, soon to be replaced by
new living structures. My passion is to document the metabolic change.

Ginza, full of high-end boutiques, is Tokyo's major shopping district. Just
a few kilometers away, there is a desolate space that began as the Tokyo
waterfront subcenter. For a host of reasons, the economic crisis chief among
them, development remains incomplete. Mystery fills the shared space between
vacant lots and modern buildings. I stand within the vertigo of this place
and wonder whether I am witness to the locus of a birth or one of
disappearance. These pictures constitute a series, a record of the Tokyo Bay
Landfill No. 13 and its vicinities.

by: Toshiya Watanabe (Japan)

Mamiya6, 400C

A series of huge disasters; gigantic earthquake, tsunami, and　nuclear power plant accidents; hit Japan on March 11. My hometown is only 8 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. More on Critical Mass Top 50, 2011.

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Diane Kaye

2011-12-04T20:59:48Z

Lith

There are many ways to back off from the overwhelming amount of "photo-reality" of GSP prints. The dreamy, often evocative prints obtainable in lith printing drew Diane to want to learn the process. After reading Tim Rudman's book about lith, she decided there were too many potentially frustrating variables at work, so even as a very experienced darkroom printer, she traveled to meet Tim for a weeklong workshop.

Lith is a most exciting process to work with, because the specific characteristics you will get from any one batch of developer will continue to morph the longer you work with that batch, each one a surprise. This happens because each piece of paper that goes through causes the chemistry to change. It's tempting to work at least 5 hours at a time, because the developer keeps getting better and better. Only particular paper emulsions work, and the viable papers keep changing as some disappear. The real miracle is that strictly black and white materials will produce colors at all.

Currently Diane is making a lot of lumen prints (also color from BW materials), and looking forward to returning to more solarization and photogram research, and to learning chromoskedasic printing. But lith printing will continue as an ongoing passion.

by: Diane Kaye (USA)

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Jacqueline Roberts

2011-11-04T13:02:05Z

"Kindred Spirits"

These photographs are part of a series called "Kindred Spirits". They are portraits of my children: Madoc, Malen and Emrys, who were born on the same day. This series explores their individuality as it unfolds. I love to photograph them as individuals, rather than children, with all their dignity. This is what I want to remember and pass on to them.

by: Jacqueline Roberts (Germany)

Self-taught mother and photographer

Used a Kodak Master View 8 X 10, and Ilford HP5

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Timothy Sandstrom

2011-11-01T08:37:36Z

a slow contemplative approach

These are scenes from my incessant wanderings to the quiet places near
the California coast. I use large format film cameras, which - by
their somewhat ponderous nature - induce a slow, contemplative
approach. I seek places where I am moved, where I *have* to stop,
tugged by my heart. They are anywhere and everywhere, and I try to go
without pre-conception, to be open to the beauty and character of
where I visit. At my best, I hope to remind others to find their own
special places of meaning.

by: Timothy Sandstrom (USA)

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Jacek Gasiorowski

2011-11-01T08:03:38Z

heartbeats

"Looking for emotions, forms, moods, heartbeats, something between his dreams, which always not recognized and real flood of life, which sometimes makes some pain for us.
Interested for photography as a balsam for his soul and indications for next life."

Started with a Kiev 88 and now shoots with a Hasselblad 500CM.
The film is Kodak Tri-x and Kodak Portra

Jacek is a self-taught photographer, art director and computer graphic designer.

by: Jacek Gasiorowski (Poland)

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Milo Montelli

2011-09-07T06:54:38Z

"Not Only Summer"

Milo Montelli was born in 1982. He's a psychologist and he started casually to take pictures in 2001. After a short experimental period with digital cameras, from 2004 he uses only analog cameras (most of all medium format).
He loves to spend time in his darkroom developing and printing his pictures.

His photographic work moves in difference directions, trying to get involved with environment, exploring interactions between human presence vs. absence and feelings.
He's inspired from great masters like Luigi Ghirri, William Egglestone and Stephen Shore

These pictures are part of a project called "Not Only Summer";
I think that these words can better explain the mood of my work:

"After all, every time we visit places we bring along with us this load of what has already been experienced and seen, but the effort we are called upon to make every day is that of finding a way of looking that forgets and erases habit; not so much seeing with new eyes, as something due to the need to orientate oneself anew in space and time"
-Luigi Ghirri-

by: Milo Montelli

Pictures taken with Hasselblad 500CM and Mamiya7.
Film: Kodak Portra 400NC self developed with c41 tetenal kit

His book Fragments here

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Guy Sargent

2011-09-05T06:03:31Z

Probably the most important series of my photographs, "What Lies Beneath the Surface" is perhaps a lifelong work. Its basis upon European history, geology, geography etc holds enough scope for a vast body of work. Most of the photographs seen here are from this series.

Landscape & architecture dominate the work, with most of my landscape work being made along the coastline; living on an island (the UK) its importance cannot be ignored. Architecture from both past and present are a constant source of inspiration.

History, Geography and the passing of time inspire my work... I use a large format (4" x 5") camera with one lens and shoot colour negative film.

I live in London, United Kingdom.

Robert Kalman

2011-08-26T07:55:31Z

Face New York

Ben

Clayton

Emily

Josefine

Officer Rafel De La Cruz

Phil

Robert

Stu

Sumati Mohan

Tziporah

These formal New York street portraits using a 4x5 view camera were made on the Lower East Side, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, and in Washington Square Park, a 9½ acre parcel of land situated in Greenwich Village. Two hundred and twenty-one people (and seven dogs) agreed to stand, present themselves and collaborate.

It was rare for anyone to turn me down; the few who did usually begged off for lack of time. Two notable exceptions: The chief drug dealer in Washington Square clearly had no interest in a possible appearance in a book, and an evangelical Christian gentleman passing out literature declined my request by informing me that Jesus had already taken his picture.

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James Wigger

2011-07-20T07:36:58Z

Perfection is not the goal. I have found that what I am looking for is chaos. Maybe it isn't really chaos, but the introduction of elements that I have little control over. Mood, emotion and texture tend to be my main goals.

After a fitful career as a graphic designer I have in the past year started to take photography seriously. I have always been into photography, but only taking photos in fits and bursts (I've gone years without taking a single photo). In the purge of all things analog in 2003 I bought my first pack film camera at a thrift store, a Polaroid 250. Little did I know at the time the slippery slope that small and innocent purchase was to begin. Next thing I know I am using a (semi) ancient 4 x 5 camera and a slew of dusty lenses.

Being able to manipulate processes has always been at the center of my love affair with instant film. The beauty of instant film is that there is always something that you can do to it before, during and after a shot. At present I shoot mainly with Fuji's FP-100C45 instant film. I don't shoot for positives but rather for the negative that is hidden in the goop side of the pack film. It is a pain to get to, noisy, textured, flat and crappy, but I love the possibilities (and hurdles) it presents to me. I use Photoshop as a digital darkroom, highlighting what I like while relegating to the shadows what isn't important. Liking the challenge of being able to shoot ideas in-camera, I don't move pixels around other than for touch-up.

I am shooting with a 1951 Graflex Speed Graphic while mainly using a 1941 Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm f2.5 lens. Other lenses include a horribly dusty lens from an old and extremely cheap projector and a couple of magnifying lenses. In addition to the C10045 film, I have also recently begun shooting with expired film such as Fuji 50D (expired 1987 - it is wonderfully inconsistent).

by: James Wigger (USA)

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Kiriakos Korakis

2011-07-12T06:47:10Z

ATHENS OUT

The project for this gallery started when I read an interview that the famous French photographer Raymond Depardon gave to "Reponses Photo" magazine.

When R.Depardon was in New York in the early '80s with his girlfriend he wandered and photographed the streets of the city. Because at the time he was too shy to photograph directly the people, as he was walking on the street he he held his camera at the height of his chest and triggered the shutter.

He used a Leica M6 with the 21mm f3.5 lens loaded with Kodak TRI-X pushed to 800 ASA in order to achieve a shutter speed at least 1/500 sec to freeze the human movement.

As he said in the interview,he processed the films,made the contact prints and ... locked them all in his archive's drawers because he never believed that there would be any good images in them, until 28 years later when Steidl editions decided to publish this project,called Manhattan Out.

I felt really inspired from this idea and decided to do the same in my city here in Athens.
Of course I don't have any illusions, Athens is not New York and I'm not R.Depardon,but I think the results are interesting,at least.The project is still open.

I'm Kiriakos Korakis, I was born in Athens, Greece in 1967 and this is my city where I live and work. I took my first photographs in my early teens but I was more seriously involved in photography since 2000.
I have done almost all kinds of photography, and street photography is my main subject the last years, although other projects are active at the same time.
You can see my recent work here. And some older work here .

Kiriakos Korakis (Greece)

Most of his work is shot with a Contax RX or a Contax G2 on Kodak Tmax 400-2

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