11/13/2007

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.

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10/29/2007

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.
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10/18/2007

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.

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