Rosie Hardy is a British photographer whose photos have taken her all over the world. She began photography at 16 as she was intrigued as to why the pictures in magazines didn't look like the ones she took. She slowly learnt how to use a camera through trial and error. Wanting to improve, Rosie took part in the project 365 portraits on Flickr. This gained so much attention that Maroon 5 even asked her to shoot their recent album cover. She has shot for many celebrities in her unique style. Photoshop is a huge aspect of her photos and shes even released a DVD of tutorials for it. She describes her style as 'surrealism in a realistic, relatable scenario'. She likes to have a strong concept as well as her aesthetic. I was curious about this artist as I'd seen her shadows inspired pictures on google search and loved the look of them. Although she shoots a lot of beautiful portraits, I am focusing on her shadows pictures for this project.
Fabrizio Corneli
Fabrizio is an Italian artist, famous for his illusional artwork expressing the power of shadows. He uses folded copper and then shines light below it to create a shadow, these shadows all together create an image. He was born in 1958 and is based in Florence.
Fabrizio's work is admired all over the world for its uniqueness and intelligence it takes to create. He uses mathematics to calculate carefully where each shadow needs to be in order to present the piece of art. Fabrizio graduated at "Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenz‟ in 1980 then studied Semiotics at 'Institudio DAMS'. From the very beginning of his artistic career, Fabrizio had always been intrigued and interested by shadows & light and their border lines.Fabrizio created his work because he feels passionately about the “Confinement between recognising and unrecognising, abstraction and concreteness, simplicity and complication,fullness and emptiness and so forth". He says “Light is energy, which creates form”
Paul Strand
Paul Strand was an American photographer, born in 1890. His work has been said to ‘influence the emphasis on sharp-focused, objective images in 20th century Americas photography.’
At 17, Paul began studying with photography with Lewis Hine, who later became a successful photographer. He visited the ‘291’gallery, began by Alfred Stieglitz. Paul was shown avant garde paintings by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. These works inspired Paul to emphasise abstract form and pattern in his photographs. Such as Shadow Patterns, New York and Wall Street.
Paul felt very strongly in his own photography method, even though there was a lot more popular styles at that time. Paul ignored them and enjoyed created his own unique artwork. He was strongly inspired by natural forms and architecture, and often used them in his photographs.
In 1916, Pauls photographed an interesting photo using shadows. He made several different choices in this work: he abandoned the traditional, upright perspective of the photograph; making the table appear tipped and used shadows to create powerful diagonals. Porch Shadows was included in Pauls exhibition at Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery andappeared in the final issue of Camera Work.
At 17, Paul began studying with photography with Lewis Hine, who later became a successful photographer. He visited the ‘291’gallery, began by Alfred Stieglitz. Paul was shown avant garde paintings by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. These works inspired Paul to emphasise abstract form and pattern in his photographs. Such as Shadow Patterns, New York and Wall Street.
Paul felt very strongly in his own photography method, even though there was a lot more popular styles at that time. Paul ignored them and enjoyed created his own unique artwork. He was strongly inspired by natural forms and architecture, and often used them in his photographs.
In 1916, Pauls photographed an interesting photo using shadows. He made several different choices in this work: he abandoned the traditional, upright perspective of the photograph; making the table appear tipped and used shadows to create powerful diagonals. Porch Shadows was included in Pauls exhibition at Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery andappeared in the final issue of Camera Work.
Kenneth Onulak
Kenneth Onulak is a young animator from Rhode Island. He has graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelors of Fine art in film/animation/video specialising in animation.
Kenneth’s animated short film ‘Paper Dreams’, that was made in 2010 for his junior degree project, found success on Vimeo and has been watched over 3000 times on YouTube.
Kenneth said “"I wanted the animation to have a dream like quality exploring the reality and space in which the dream exists and felt that the cut-out technique fit this idea. Colour was another consideration that I built into the design of the animation to help enhance the dreamlike qualities of the film. From here the idea grew and as I did studies involving birds, umbrellas, water, trees, and other things I was able to refine my idea and break it down to find the core essentials of the film”
Kenneth is currently working an after school program instructor teaching a range of different ages. He still is a freelance animator the rest of his time and regularly posts character designs and other animations on his websites.
Kenneth’s animated short film ‘Paper Dreams’, that was made in 2010 for his junior degree project, found success on Vimeo and has been watched over 3000 times on YouTube.
Kenneth said “"I wanted the animation to have a dream like quality exploring the reality and space in which the dream exists and felt that the cut-out technique fit this idea. Colour was another consideration that I built into the design of the animation to help enhance the dreamlike qualities of the film. From here the idea grew and as I did studies involving birds, umbrellas, water, trees, and other things I was able to refine my idea and break it down to find the core essentials of the film”
Kenneth is currently working an after school program instructor teaching a range of different ages. He still is a freelance animator the rest of his time and regularly posts character designs and other animations on his websites.
Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger is a German film creator born in 1899. She is one of the first and most important silhouette animators. When she was a child, Lotte was fascinated by Chinese silhouette puppetry and would make her own puppet shows for her family. As she became a teenager, she loved the cinema, especially Georges Melies films.
She began making silhouette portraits of various actors and found herself making elaborate title cards Paul Wegeners films, many of these featured her animations too. After her work was successful in Wegeners film, she got admitted to the Institute for Cultural Research. She then began directing her first films.
Lotte would cut paper to create characters and scenery then animate them at 24 frames-per-second creating feature length films inspired by operas and fairy tales. She drew all her own story board too. Lotte worked with her husband, Carl, also an animator, who opertated the camera. Her animations were accompanied by famous music, such as Mozart and operas.
Her most famous films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) and Papagendo (1935)
Lotte died in 1981 at 82 and although not many of her films are around today, she remains one of the most memorable animator for her creativity and talent.
She began making silhouette portraits of various actors and found herself making elaborate title cards Paul Wegeners films, many of these featured her animations too. After her work was successful in Wegeners film, she got admitted to the Institute for Cultural Research. She then began directing her first films.
Lotte would cut paper to create characters and scenery then animate them at 24 frames-per-second creating feature length films inspired by operas and fairy tales. She drew all her own story board too. Lotte worked with her husband, Carl, also an animator, who opertated the camera. Her animations were accompanied by famous music, such as Mozart and operas.
Her most famous films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) and Papagendo (1935)
Lotte died in 1981 at 82 and although not many of her films are around today, she remains one of the most memorable animator for her creativity and talent.