Benoit Paille

As the world becomes more and more digital, the masters of Photoshop and Lightroom become more and more crafted at this art.  The new artists to watch seem to be apart of the virtual world of GTA A, video gaming.  Usually the settings you see on your screen while entering the virtual world is optimized by screenshots and a keyboard.  But let's look at Benoit Paille. What makes Benoit so different? He uses a real DSLR camera and then process the images in Lightroom.  He says his goal is to “overlay a material reality with a virtual one, erasing the border between the two worlds. [...] I want to show that we can use a virtual space in conceptual photography and approach these areas with the same sensitivity as the physical space.”  He, without a doubt, takes his photography very seriously and I can't wait to see more of what he has to offer.  Keep an eye out folks!

Jill Greenberg

  Jill Greenberg                                   The statement that I love things that are new and unexpected is the biggest understatement.  As I was clicking and clicking I came across Jill Greenberg.  Her photos catch your eyes with such artistic elements.  You can't help but stare. An LA art director says, "Like LaChapelle, Jill has pioneered a new style of photography, and her impact can be seen throughout the entertainment industry", with the publication, Brief, itself characterizing her work as employing "distinctive ethereal backlighting." A president of NBC Entertainment Marketing who has employed Greenberg on a number of occasions due to what he terms her "distinct and innovative aesthetic" observed that "many other photographers follow her lead,'." 

Isabel M. Martinez

 

 

Like any other day, I grabbed my coffee and began browsing through Flipboard, an app on Samsung phones.  I looked through the news, fashion, and travel tabs then came across Isabel M. Martinez in the photography section.  I decided to google her and I'm glad I did.  Her photos are phenomenal.  As you flip through them, you have this feeling as if you are dreaming or your mind is lost but happy.  In addition to her incredible exposures, I fell more in love with her artist's statement:

"My work deals with the aspects of experience where the real, the known, and the imagined blend. Perception is a recurring theme within my practice, and has become a foundation from which I explore ideas that reflect on notions of time, space, simultaneity and duration. My interpretations are informed in part by science, philosophy and fiction. Creating juxtapositions that are disorienting or unexpected, my work engages with the uncertain amid the assumed and probes the boundary between abstraction and representation, fact and fiction, order and chaos. Experimentation and process are at the forefront of much of my practice, at times resulting in ambiguous narratives and hybrid exercises."
I find her work facinitaing and I hope you will too! Happy Browsing!