Artist Statement

 My photography styles are mostly about people doing things that we rarely see.  I took photo shots based on the photographer that inspired me, Josef Koudelka.  At points I do like to take photos of people doing something that everyone does, but this time I took shots to make them unique and different. I take the photos with light and also a little dark side to it. 

Many people take photos of random things but making people pose, and telling what they have to do.  While I was taking pictures I would wait for my friends to be doing an odd thing and making my photography more interesting and unique from many others.  Also I learned not to take picture slanted or in any other way it doesn’t bring out the photo like you wanted it too, I take them either long way or just like you would take any normal picture. Your suppose to make people get their attention to it and for them to get inspired on your work, and that’s what I’ve been doing on mine.

To edit my photos I had to work on it from Photoshop. I could desaturated and or add text or anything else I wanted for people to get their eye to my photography.   Also on my photography I had to work with ‘typography’. On only couple photos I would add text to it that actually fit the image I had. 

No other photographer is the same or nearly the same to Josef Koudelka. He inspired me and his photos were different and unique. Like I’ve said before this photographer always had something different in his photos that made it seem strange. On some photos I would add a person or anything for the picture to make it more interesting than what it already is.  I would crop people into the photos or crop people out of the photos and then make the image turn into the color it’s suppose to be.

Life Through A Lens

Annie Leibovitz came back to the U.S.  and signed up for a job with the start-up rock music magazine Rolling Stone. Annie had developed her style and started to accomplish everything she has done. Every photo she would take she would take it to a whole different level.

Annie Leibovitz  takes photos using crops and creatives things that will surround the person. For example this photo Annie used bright yellow blocks to make the photo more interesting and to make it seem different than anybody else's photos. 

Connie Wanek

Homage Photos

I took pictures based on my photographer. I tried taking them in some way that Josef Koudelka did.  The photos are simple and in some of them there is something interesting around them.

Helvetica

Helvetica was made around the 1960's. Helvetica was used a lot in many different things and places. People would fix letters on to the same area that other words are. IT made me want to use it more now, whenever I type on the computer instead of using other different fonts.

One Road Homage

Josef Koudelka takes many photos of people doing different things. Also tries to take them while they aren't looking at dirrectly at him.

My thing was to do the same thing as Josef Koudelka would do. I took a picture of a classmate walking towards me and another friend behind him. I'm taking photos while there is something interesting around them. The photo has to have something that will bring your eyes to it imidiately and that's what I'm doing and taking ideas from Josef Koudelka.

Josef Koudelka

Josef Koudelka was born in a small village of Moravia. He got his degree at a Technical University in Prague as a aeronautical engineer in Bratislava and Prague from 1961-1967. Josef Koudelka started to take pictures of his family and things that were happening around him. Koudelka began photographing theater productions on a old Rolleiflex Camera. In 1968 Koudelka's project started to extend to the gypsy community in Rumania. Josef Koudelka had once said he didn't know why he started to photograph the gypsies, but apparently he does know that he could not stop.

In 1975 Josef Koudelka had published one of his major projects such as Gypsies and in 1988 he prublished the Exiles. Every work he was doing was getting support by Anna Farova. Koudelka's ability is to capture the spirit of humans and dark landscaping.