Photographer #308: Jake Verzosa

Jake Verzosa, 1979, Republic of the Philippines, is a successful commercial and editorial photographer based in Manila. Amongst his clients are McDonalds and Nike. Due to these commisions he has been able to travel around Southeast Asia and work on his personal, documentary photography. Recently he has photographed elderly women in the Cordillera mountain range of the Philippines. They are the last women that have the traditional tattoos that hold values of women's strength and fortitude. Due to the influence of western interpretations of aesthetics the perception of beauty has changed amongst the younger generation. Earlier, during his travels, he was already photographing various indigenous peoples throughout Southeast Asia, resulting in the project Communal Identity. The following images come from the series The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga, Communal Identity and Manila's Railside.

Website: www.matanglawin.ph

Photographer #307: Jake Chessum

Jake Chessum, 1967, UK, is an editorial portrait photographer who lives and works in New York. He did a foundation course at the Central School of Art and received a degree in graphic design at the St. Martins School of Art. Jake was already concentrated on the photographic medium during his studies which resulted in him solely focusing on photography during his third year at St. Martins. After doing a vast amount of small jobs, slowly climbing the ladder, he finally moved to New York in 1999. Today Jake has had an amazing amount of celebrities in front of his camera, from Robert De Niro to 50 Cent. Amongst his clients are GQ, New York Magazine and Paper. He released two books; The New York Look Book, images on the streets of New York and Rubbish, photographs of discarted items at various locations around the world. The following images come from his portfolio People and his books Look Book and Rubbish.

Website: www.jakechessum.com

Utah Mini-Sessions, Summer 2011

Photographer #306: Francesca Galliani

Francesca Galliani, 1962, Italy, is a fine art photographer who lives and works in New York City. At the age of 19 she moved to the United States and received a BFA at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington. She does not limit herself merely to the photographic medium and could be described as a mixed media artist. To intensify her strong images she uses the methods of painting and collage. She writes words or short sentences, adds paint and other visual objects onto the original photographs. Francesca's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world and has been published in a vast amount of magazines and numerous catalogues and books. The following images come from the series Transgender, Nudes and Asia.

Website: www.gallianiphoto.com

a peek at Hope | OC Newborn Baby Photographer

More of this little sweet pea coming soon! 

Photographer #305: Frédéric Delangle

Frédéric Delangle, 1965, France, is a conceptual photographer based in France working with a large scale camera. In his ongoing series Pourri, we see large still-lifes of decaying food and other natural products. Coït is a project in which he photographed the act of love-making. The lens was open during the entire act of love-making and the people involved shut the lens when they were finished. It created abstract images that trigger our imagination. In his project Nyctalope, meaning "to see the night", he made night-scapes at rural locations using the headlights of his car as a lightsource. In 2005 and 2006 he also photographed at night in the city of Ahmedabad, India. The shutter was open for periods of 5 to 10 minutes. In the city crowded with people and vehicles, it was the only moment to actually photograph the city itself. The following images come from the series Pourri, Nyctalope and Ahmedabad No Life Last Night.

Website: www.fredericdelangle.com
(Video in French)

Photographer #304: Federico Cabrera

Federico Cabrera, 1981, Argentina, is a fashion photographer and designer who works and lives in Helsinki. He left Argentina at age 18 and is based in Finland since 2005 and has been doing various projects ever since. In the last two years he has focused mainly on his own works amongst which is a project called Sect et Sept, building a conceptual fashion house, collaborating with other creatives and using fabrics and trash. The clothes featured in the shoots are build from scratch and they cannot be bought. Gilles et Dada is one of his other projects including photography and graphic design aswell as Who Said We Can't, an online art gallery for young upcoming photographers. He "cut and pastes" within his pictures creating bizarre and fantastical effects. The following images come from The Emperors Black Rose, We Will All Burn / Sect et Sept and The Infamous Infant Prodigy / GD.

Website: www.federicocabrera.com