“To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.”

Sally Mann (b.1951) is a master of candid portraiture, celebrated for her deeply personal work often depicting those closest to her. The American photographer gained prominence in the late 1980s with her series ‘At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women’, capturing the children of friends and relatives in her home state of Virginia. However, it was her series ‘Immediate Family’ that truly propelled her career. Moving, controversial, and now iconic, this intimate collection predominantly features her three children against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia. Released as a book in 1992, it remains a seminal piece of fine art and documentary photography, continuing to influence and provoke debate today.

Man Ray was an American avant-garde artist known for his influential role in the Dada and Surrealist movements, working across photography, film, painting, and sculpture. He pioneered photographic techniques like the Rayograph (photogram) and solarization, creating iconic images such as Le Violon d'Ingres and Object to be Destroyed. A collaborator with Marcel Duchamp, Ray spent significant time in Paris, where he developed a successful career in fashion photography and explored the expressive possibilities of his chosen mediums

The photograph that grabbed my attention first was__________________ because 

Julia Margaret Cameron's work stands out in the photography world because _________________________________

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I like / don't like Julia Margaret Cameron's' photography because _____________________________________

What can you learn by looking at her photos and apply to your own photography?