Single Image response (by me)

Max Earey

Max Earey is the most dominant motorsport photographer in the world.
He captures a range of motorsport such as BTTC, F1 and WRC.
I find his photography to be a great view into that sport, he captures the excitement, adrenelin rush and spirit of the sport.
I particually like the motion shots he takes using a car mounted camera, the low angle and prolonged exposure time delivers a powerfull view of speed and raw power of the 'machine'.
He's my favourite photographer, Im obsessed with fast cars and motorsport myself, and from his work i can tell he is too. His dedication to his job is inspiring and i'd love to follow in his footsteps.

Justin Quinn influence (by me)

I experimented in the style of Justin Quinn, by using solely the letter 'E' to form an image.
I created a tonal image of myself by using 3 different sized symbols repettitively (The E's).
Im impressed with the outcome, the process and technique adds so much more to the image compared to using a threshold for instance.

Justin Quinn

I find Justin Quinn's artwork astounding.
He works with type to create highly detailed, and what can be described as 'wild' illustrations.
Quinn uses the single letter E almost constantly in most of his artwork, he describes it as the surrogate for all letters in the alphabet, it's the most frequently used letter in the English language, has a visual presence that interests him greatly and has become a primary starting point in his works. Quinn compiles hundreds of E's into abstract compositions through various systemic arrangements.
I like how Quinn's illustrations are crammed with detail, and how they are constructed with hundreds of letterforms which arn't supposed to say anything; the E's are used solely as shapes, rather than type/language. I feel that Quinns work is quite personnal to himself, his fascination with the letter E and how he shows it expanding and exploring off the page really inspire me to make my work more personnal to me and to continue to develop my own style.

Saatchi & Saatchi

The famous design consultancy; Saatchi & Saatchi, follow one rule in their practice;
To produce great ideas.

They have become one, if not the most famous design consultancies in the world today.
Their most recognised work includes advertisements for Toyota, T-mobile, Visa and Carlsberg.

I think they have quite a broad style, they use different media, techniques and processes for every piece of client work, however, they always have the strong idea which makes the advert work. This is why I find them inspiring, they are continually generating new exciting ideas that make people think.

TV Advertisement for Toyota


TV Advertisement for T-mobile

Cindy Sherman - Photographer

In Sherman's distinctive self-portraits, she is 'in costume' and made to portray many different figures in society, except one person; herself.
She says her art deals with female stereotypes, and they are portraits not of how she sees herself, but her view of how men see women and the roles men categorize as belonging to women.
Over the years her portfolio of images has included movie stars, centerfold nudes, fairytale characters, victims of disasters and historical figures. Some of her portraits have produced comic or grotesque effects, using plastic body parts, dolls, and her own 'edited' body.

Today, Cindy Sherman is one of the highest earning female artists in the world.

I find her idea, of constantly changing her identity interesting, it gives her photography and edge which other photographers don't have. All of her most famous photographs can be separated by a different female stereotype, from a stay at home mum to a young aspiring business woman, they all have meaning and deliver the same message of stereotyping women, Sherman shows how in some ways people can become all the same, another stereotype.
Sherman's work has inspired me to be different in mine, and to think out of the box more often.

John Van Fleet

John Van Fleet is an illustrator who specialises in graphic novels. Some of his most famous works include Ray Bradbury, DC comics and The Matrix graphic novels.

I like his very distingctive and original style of illustration. Fleet uses mixed media and an original process;
Fleet hires actors to pose and be photographed in the correct actions and angles in the comic. With these images, Fleet works with acrylic paints and the aid of a lightbox to illustrate the photographed actors in a highly detailed and skillful manner.
Fleet then sources imagery for the backdrops of each box in the graphic novel, for this he uses 'real-life' photographic images, which very few comics use.
I think this aspects makes Van Fleet's work much more interseting and I find the images he creates have a strange quality to them, somewhere between being 2D and still-life images, they have great detail and depth than any other graphic novel images.

"The Dancing House"

The building was the weirdest thing, it looked false, as if it wasn't possible to build something like that; twisted, elegant and almost organic.
The image was captioned "The Dancing House", I did a Wikipedia search and found loads of info about it.

It was originally called "The Fred & Ginger", after the two architects who built it (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), however, the public applied a different name as time passed, due to the structure looking strikingly similar to a couple dancing together, it gained the name; "The Dancing House". The house stands out among the Neo-Baroque, Neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous.

Built in 1994, the very non-traditional design was controversial at the time. Czech president Václav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had supported it, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity.

On the roof is a French restaurant with magnificent views of the city. The building's other tenants include several multinational firms. (The plans for a cultural center were not realized.)


(Bibliography;
Wikipedia.com)