#40 Portfolio Link

Assignment1: http://www.coffeekang.com/#/theselfconflict/
Assignment2: http://www.coffeekang.com/#/centimental/

#39 JAMES CASEBERE | Miniatures

James Casebere, a photographer currently living in New York. 

http://www.jamescasebere.com

He usually builds up a table-top scene, mimicking some places, to photograph. In his photographs, you see a new realm, which you feel very familiar with, however different to the reality. It's hard to define he is a photographer, a landscape designer or a sculpture maker. “Photography resonates with me because it manipulates our perception of the world around us," he says. "I am interested in how photography creates and reconstructs reality." As for the reconstruction, he goes really far with recreating a space. Looking at these pictures, you begin to reconsider the places you have gone for real, and what's the difference.

#38 ERICA SIMONE | Nue York

Personally, i don't like this series of work. There are too many 'artworks' using nudity as a controversy to earn eyeballs. However, art is not always about doing crazy things that others don't do, art does not have to be illegal, art is not just things you suddenly feel like doing. Of course, art can be just bare and wild, and should be. But nudity is something that too many people try and it becomes something no longer controversial but annoying somehow. 

 I admire her courage though, i would never have the guts to do so, but so sorry, i dislike 'Nue York'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/femail/video-1168446/Nue-York-Photographer-explores-city-buff.html

#37 ERNESTINE RUBEN | Nudes

Ernestine Ruben

http://www.ernestineruben.com

#36 MICHAEL WOLF | Tokyo

Michael Wolf, born in Germany, raised in US, Canada and Europe, and now living in HK. 

http://photomichaelwolf.com

He is very famous by his work in HK, especially the <Architecture of Density>, where the buildings in HK all becomes mere repetitions and looks like a matrix. From his quite recent work in Tokyo, once again, i am amazed by the expressive depth of cities in his photographs. The eye gazes through the windows on the train, and their squeezed body gestures, the sticky humidity on the glass, all provide a feeling of stress and loneliness in a bustling city. 

#35 LUCY HILMER | Birthday suits

Though photographers mostly take pictures of others, sometimes it's also quite interesting to see themselves with their cameras. 

Lucy Hilmer, began to take a picture of herself with no clothes but a white underpants o her 33rd birthday and ever since. Now she is already in her 70s, and she is still doing this project. By looking at her pictures, you notice the gradual change of her body and different people playing a part in her life, like her husband and her daughter. 

And this project is extremely interesting for me, because i just had my birthday this Monday, and my girlfriend and i are planing for a break-up in Death Valley this coming December (I know it's weird but people always plan for marriage, why not break-up?), where she took her first picture on 33rd birthday. So maybe i should also do a series of break-up anniversaries, start with the first shot in death valley.