Photographer #115: Henry Leutwyler

Henry Leutwyler, Switzerland, 1961, works and lives in New York. He is most known for his portraiture, but in the last seven years he has started to photograph objects as "artifacts". Prior to the death of Michael Jackson, Henry photographed a large number of the collectibles from the collection of the King of Pop. In 2009 his book Neverland Lost came out. Leutwyler has had many prominent people in front of his camera, from Michelle Obama to Jean-Paul Gaultier. The following images come from Neverland Lost and his portfolio's Portraits and Dance/Nudes.

Website: www.henryleutwyler.com

Photographer #114: Robin Schwartz

Robin Schwartz, USA, 1957, has two subjects that she has photographed extensively. One is her daughter Amelia and the other is animals. In recent years she has combined both in her series Amelia's World; Animal Affinity. Portraits of her daughter and the relationships between species is what she tries to capture in order to discover the extraordinary. In her series Amelia's World: Imaginary Tales she explores her daughters maturing personality and aptitude. The following images come from Amelia's World: Animal Affinity and Imaginary Tales and from Primate Portraits.

Website: www.robinschwartz.net

Photographer #113: Irene Kung

Irene Kung, Switzerland, 1958, started her career as a painter and with success, but it has only been in the last several years that she has fully concentrated on photography. Her images are dark and isolate the objects or subjects she photographs. She has photographed architecture in several cities in Europe and in New York, but she manages to capture a detailed look that the human eye will not perceive. Next to photographing architecture she has also made pictures of animals, trees and mountains. The following images come from the series Italy, Trees and Animals.

Website: www.irenekung.com
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Photographer #112: Emil Schildt

Emil Schildt, Denmark, 1958, is a portrait and nudes photographer. He uses many different techniques to achieve his final results. Amongst his techniques are bromoil, cyanotypi and photopolymergravure. In his portfolio Paint with Light, we see images that are long exposures while a flashlight is painting the scene. Emil also damages his images by scratching or using sand paper. He calls these images Kill your Darlings. These techniques add an extra dimension to his poetic and symbolic imagery. The following images come from Paint with Light, Angels and Kill your Darlings.

Website: www.emilschildt.com

photographer #111: Julie Blackmon

Julie Blackmon, USA, 1966, is the oldest of nine children. This and the fact that nowadays she is a mother of three resulted in her focus on family life in her photography. For the project Domestic Vacations, which was released as a book, she was inspired by the paintings of Jan Steen and other Dutch and Flemish painters from the 17th century. Her staged scenes tell stories of family life, being both fictional and auto-biographical. Blackmon has been published in a large number of magazines and won several awards. The following images come from her portfolio New Work and from the series Domestic Vacations and Mind Games.

Website: www.julieblackmon.com

Photographer #110: Guido Mocafico

Guido Mocafico, Switzerland, 1962, is a still-life photographer, even though he might use subjects that are alive. He is well known for his colorfull and stunning series called Serpents. Due to the confinement of the snakes they curl up and create twisted shapes. This series, as many others, was also released as a book. In the series Movement, he photographed the machinery behind clockwork. Again the background is kept black, making the watches come out as large marvels of technology. The following images come from the series Serpents, Movement and Nature Morte.

Website: www.guidomocafico.com/index.html

Photographer #109: Andreas Gefeller

Andrea Gefeller, Germany, 1970, is a photographer who works hard to get one single image in the end. In his series Supervisions, he took hundreds to thousands of photographs of the ground, only to put them together in the computer to create one big image. The effect is that these images are so detailed that one can stare for hours and still find new details. To see how Andreas creates his pictures, watch the video below. The following images come from Supervisions, Soma and Halbwertszeiten.

Website: www.andreasgefeller.com