Photographer #136: Tamara Dean

Tamara Dean, 1976, is an Australian photographer. She is part of the Oculi photographic collective (devoted to illuminating the real lives and stories often overlooked by mainstream media) and works as a staff photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her most recent series of images is This too shall pass, Australia. About the project she says: "These pictures come from the hem of life. From a city broken down. Subjects un-grown-up. I feel as though I am conjuring something in these photographs." Her work has been exhibited at leading galleries in Australia. The following images come from the series This too shall pass, Australia, Divine Rites and Ritualisms.

Website: www.oculi.com.au  & www.agencevu.com

Photographer #135: Xing Danwen

Xing Danwen, 1967, China, currently lives and works in Beijing. She has been taking photographs of maquettes since 2004. Xing then takes pictures of herself playing various characters to add them to the image of the maquette. The prints are more than two meters wide, that's when the viewer can see the stories that unfold on the photograph. To see detail examples go to her website. The following images come from the series Urban Fiction, Duplication and Disconnexion.

Website: www.danwen.com

Photographer #134: Myoung Ho Lee

South-Korean photographer Myoung Ho Lee, 1975, photographs trees. He frames the trees against white canvas backdrops, seperating the tree from it's original surrounding. Although the images might seem simple, to get his result requires a production crew and heavy cranes to install the canvases. Afterwards he removes the ropes or bars that might still be visible by minimal digital retouching. The trees are photographed using a large-format camera. The following images are all from the Tree series.

Unfortunately Myoung Ho Lee does not have a website, for more information go to: www.yossimilo.com/artists/myou_ho_lee/

Photographer #133: Yann Gross

Yann Gross, 1981, Switzerland, went to Uganda in 2008 and 2009 to document the only Skatepark in East Africa. The skatepark was build by the youngsters themselves from Kitintale, a suburb of Kampala, without support from the government or NGO's. The series Kitintale is released as a book. Earlier he released the book Horizonville. He went on a motorcycle through the Rhône valley in Switzerland to find a community that wants to live and look like citizens of the USA. Although most of them have never been there, "they feel a sense of belonging to another culture that they don't really know." The following images come from the series Kitintale, Horizonville and Agreste.

Website: www.yanngross.com

Photographer #132: Seba Kurtis

Seba Kurtis, 1974, Argentina, studied journalism and became a political activist. He grew up under the dictatorship regime. In 2001, during the political and econimocal crisis in Argentina, he left for Europe. He spend over 5 years in Spain as an illegal immigrant. This experience have been the founding blocks of his work today. Seba has focused on the immigration of Mexicans in the USA, Egyptians coming to Italy and Africans going to the Canary Islands. The following images come from the series 700 Miles, A Few Days More and Drowned.

Website: www.sebakurtis.com

Photographer #131: Stacy Kranitz

Stacy Kranitz, USA, 1976, has done an impressive amount of projects. Amongst her series are stories about Cock fighting, blues singer T-Model Ford and the Dakou of Beijing. The story called The Island is about the Isle the Jean Charles that is slowly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico mainly because of man's choices made in the past. Stacy has been published in various important magazines with her stories and her portraits. She has had various celebrities in front of her camera. The following images come from her portfolio People and her projects The Lurkers and The Island.

Website: www.stacykranitz.com

Hererra Family | OC Family, Baby Photographer

I first met this family earlier this year when I took Isaac's newborn photos...it's so fun to see how he's grown up over the last 8 months! We did this session at Tewinkle Park in Costa Mesa, and tried to re-make one of their wedding day photos that they took on the bridge. I love doing sentimental things like that! Wouldn't it be fun if they did this every few years to show how their family has grown since their wedding? I love this idea... My family needs to take a drive up to the LA Temple and try to re-make one of our wedding photos! Anyway, enough babbling! Enjoy peeking at their session!