Linda Li Photographer Styles

Linda Li

Photography 202

Style Paragraphs

3/19/2018

Thierry Bouët—Hotel People

Thierry’s photographs are monochrome. They are environmental photographs with people as his subjects because they do not look into the lens. All the people in his monograph seems caught off guard because he captures them in their environment while they are doing their own thing. For example on the first photograph, the man is in the elevator inclining up to the floor Thierry was on photographing. He looked surprised as he saw Thierry photographing him. On page 9-10, this man is playing the piano while his dog is napping on the floor scattered with paper. This environment looks unplanned and very natural which shows this person’s comfortableness in his own environment. He also likes to capture a moment of his subjects doing their own thing, such as, on page 24, a woman in her gym gear just walking out of the elevator with her mouth slightly open as if she was also caught off guard being photographed. Her right leg is in front go her left, showing motion. On page 31, a man organizing his closet. On page 32, a lady is painting her nails in her room. These are all examples of how Thierry likes to capture people in their environments in his monograph. He uniquely showcases his work by making us the viewer as a part of the photograph as if we are there at that exact moment looking at the people in action. He made sure every photograph looks natural and not awkward to reflect that everyday/natural feel to his monograph.

Bruno Aveillan—Mnemo#LUX

Bruno’s photographs have an elegant and dreamy feel to them. Bruno’s photographs look like he photographed them in the mist or in the clouds. He probably photographed the scenes with an object very close to a corner of his camera to make the transparent colour toned blur to his photographs. He also uses long shutter speeds for some of his photographs where the moving object’s light is dragged into a continuous line. Sometimes he just blurred the whole photograph by purposely un-focusing the whole frame, such as on page 69. He also loves to photograph with light, on page 80, he captured the light coming from outside of the car window into the car. You can see the motion of the light as he made sure the sun is blocked a bit to the point that the lens can capture the lines of the light coming through the car window. Sometimes, half of the photograph is blurred to the point only colours can be told and the other half is completely in focus and crisp. His monograph has a set colour tone to them which is a low saturated, grey, light and dark blue, light brown colours. Colour is an important identity factor of a style so I think he has a strong style that focuses on colours and composition. Since the subjects being photographed are very blurred, viewers can only tell the shapes by their colours and appreciate the overall composition of the shape in the frame.

Dennis Gun

Dennis monograph has a very strong contrast because the photographs are mainly black with highly contrasted white or bright colours as the objects. This emphasized the objects he wanted the viewers to focus on. With a black and empty background, the viewers have nothing else but the contrasted objects to look at. Dennis also likes to have textures to his photographs. For example on page 51, 55, 74-75, 91, coffee beans, flower stems, the rough texture of the road and a tied and wrinkly plastic bag, and a rusted metal surface with flower paddles scatter on it. Since most of the pictures are photographed 90 degrees straight up from the surface, they look flat and do not have a deep depth of field. They all seem like a painting because Dennis made them look 2D. His images are very crisp so the ISO would be as low as possible and every single object in the frame are all in focus. Dennis would photograph some images in 3D form but the background is so dark that you cannot really tell the shadow and therefore also create the 2D effect. Most of the objects in the frame are arranged and planned to create a composition Dennis liked. His monographs are like paintings and they are highly contrasted.