Photographer #425: Bohnchang Koo

Bohnchang Koo, 1953, South-Korea, is a fine-art and conceptual photographer based in Seoul. He first studied Business Administration at Yonsei University before studying photography in Hamburg. His work is often about impermanence, the passing of time, the disappearance and heritage. For his series Vessel he photographed rare porcelain ceramics of the Korean Joseon dynasty. He traveled to museums around the world to find and document the white objects against a white backdrop in soft light. As an "old family album" he tries to bring the objects together and retrieve the lost Korean heritage. Koo has been called "one of Korea's most influential photographers." Not only due to his photographic art, but also as an educator and exhibition planner he helped shape and promote Korean photography to a wider audience. He released a large number of monographs and his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world and is found in public collections as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. The following images come from the series Interiors, Vessel and In the Beginning.

Website: www.bckoo.com

Photographer #180: Tony D'Orio

Tony D'Orio, 1953, USA, is a commercial and portrait photographer. His interest in photographing characters started while he was shooting the streets of Chicago and the people he found there. On those streets he developed a love affair with the human face. He has shot various advertisement campaigns for brands like Altoids. Tony's photography is witty, clever and filled with humour. The following images come from his portfolio.

Website: www.tonydorio.com

Photographer #097: Nazif Topçuoğlu

Nazif Topçuoglu, 1953, is a Turkish photographer. He has a masters degree in photography and in architecture. He predominantly makes photographs of staged young women set in period backdrops and engaged in a variety of symbolic actions and roles. His consistency has lead his work to appear at major art fairs such as Paris Photo. The following images come from shoots he has done between 2008 and 2010 and the last photographs below are from the series Curiosity & Experience 2004-2007.

Website: www.naziftopcuoglu.com

Photographer #045: Joni Sternbach

Joni Sternbach, USA, 1953, uses a technique in photography that has been around since the 1850's but not seen very often these days. She makes tintypes of 8x10" and 14x17". One of a kind positives on blackened metal, shot in camera on location and then processed in a portable dark box. (see video) Her book Surfland was released in 2009. Images of surfers along the coastline.

Sternbach focuses on landscapes and seascapes, the series The Salt Effect is an example of her landscape photography.

Website: www.jonisternbach.com