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Alice Hargrave was born in England in 1983 and studied art and agriculture. She went to the University of Illinois in Chicago to learn about abstraction and representation, along with the relation between photography, painting, and the sublime. From what I could find, Alive Hargrave seemed to become a photographer to raise awareness of the loss of biodiversity and loss of habitat. She is raising awareness about the effects of climate change and now teaches at the very school where she learned about photography. Four of my favorite of her pieces are listed below.
Spray
2015
Pigment Print
Untitled (family pictures); blue skies #5
2013
Pigment Print
Untitled (expeditions); salmon sky
2014
Pigment Print
Untitled (family pictures); blue skies #9
2012
Pigment Print
Scott Fortino was born in the United States in 1952. He also went to the University of Illinois in Chicago along with Colombia College in Chicago. Scott then went on to become a police officer. Due to the fact that he could get access to a lot of "off-scene" places, he would take photos of scenes he came across during his line of work. Most of his photos are focused on showing us the psychology of confinement and protection, but not all. He does take photos of other subjects as well, including the ones below focusing on dusk skies and selective focus objects. Not all were named or given information on, hence why two photos have no context below them.
sunflowers
200609
(lake/weather)
Alice Hargrave
Alice Hargrave
Alice uses low-key lighting in a lot of her photos, taking them from a higher angle while haveing her subject in the middle of the frame, if not close.
Scott Fortino
Scott Fortino
Scott Fortino takes most of his photos using high-key lighting, with his angle laying straight ahead. He utilizes rules of thirds and keeps a nice high horizon line.
Both have similarities in thier photos as well. The subject in both is of an in-focus plant. You do have some selective focus of a sort in both of them. While Scott straight up blurs out the front sunflower, Alice just darkens the uneeded parts to direct ones attention mainly on the big fern.
Critique: Not directly related to compare and contrast photos
Alice Hargrave
What I like about Alice's work is mostly her subjects, but also some of the composition as well. I am quite fond of nature or sky-themed photos, and she has a whole page on her website where she takes photos just like that. In some cases, her low-key lighting photos are almost too dark, but yet it still fits anyway. What I don't like about some of her work is her abstract-looking pieces. They just don't make sense. Why take a photo of something that looks like wallpaper, how is that a good piece of work? All in all, I did not choose her because I felt any connection in any way, her low-key lighting and sky photos just really caught my attention.
Scott Fortino
I absolutely love Scott's dusk water/cloud photos. The way that the colors blend so smoothly together, and how the water just fades into the horizon line is so satisfying. He does have some photos however that I really quite despise. He has this whole subpage that is just full of blurred photos called "uncertain outcomes", a fitting name if you ask me. You know what the subject is supposed to be, but he took the photo as if he was shaking his camera up and down while doing so. Some of them have a touch of selective focus where you can clearly see part of the subject, but overall those photos do not appeal to me. Just like Alice, I did not choose Scott because I felt a connection, it all came down to his smooth photos blending water and the horizon.
Alice Hargrave
Alice Hargrave
Inspiration Photo
Inspired Photo
Inspired Photo
Scott Fortino
Scott Fortino
Inspiration Photo
Inspired Photo
Inspired Photo
Artist Statement:
This assignment was the Contemporary Photography project, where the class was given a list of different photographers who dabbled in different fields of photography to choose from. We each had to choose two photographers whose work stood out to us in some way, whether it was one photo or their whole collection. Once you had chosen who you liked, the next step was research, looking into those photographers' pasts and looking for what got them into taking photos, what their message might be. Finding the message of their photos was the most complicated part, for neither of the ones I had chosen outright said it, leaving me to infer.
Anywho, after the research was done, compare and contrast was next, making you choose one photo from each and find the similarities and differences between them.
The last step was to choose a photo from each of the photographers to be an inspiration for yourself. You had to go out and take a photo that could either resemble or be inspired by the photos you had chosen. I ended up recreating their photos in a way, but both came out so nice that I stuck with them, after all, I may not have taken those photos, or even been in the places that I had been if it was not for the fact I was out trying to be inspired.
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