More Artists Of Today (And Yesterday)

It’s about time I pos­ted a fol­lowup to the first of this series about artists, pho­to­graph­ers, and cre­at­ive people that I have dis­covered while brows­ing vari­ous sites and for­ums. Today I’m con­cen­trat­ing on pho­to­graph­ers that I have dis­covered / redis­covered over the past few months.

Bo Wang

Bo Wang is a Chinese pho­to­grapher cur­rently based in New York. With a BS and MS in Phys­ics from Tsing­hau Uni­ver­sity he is now study­ing pho­to­graphy, video and related media at School Of Visual Arts, New York.

He cur­rently has a show — Het­ero­scapes — at Gal­lery 456 (end­ing 5th of Feb­ru­ary), I feel that his artist’s state­ment describes his pho­to­graphy best:

HETEROSCAPES is a por­trait of China’s con­tem­por­ary urban spaces and land­scapes in a period of intens­i­fied trans­ition. Through­out the past 20 years of an eco­nomic boom, this trans­ition has shif­ted the social power struc­ture and sub­ver­ted once com­mon val­ues, dra­mat­ic­ally alter­ing the func­tions and even the con­crete­ness of land­scapes and urban structures.

Bo Wang is rel­at­ively new to the pho­to­graphy world, but I feel he will be one to watch in the com­ing years.

Ihei Kimura

Ihei Kimura (1901 — 1974) was “one of the most cel­eb­rated Japan­ese pho­to­graph­ers of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury”. Born in Tokyo, he opened his own pho­to­graphic stu­dio in 1924 and soon became well-known for the informal pho­to­graphs he took with his Leica.

A chair­man for Japan Pro­fes­sional Pho­to­graph­ers Soci­ety, fam­ous for his doc­u­ment­ary spirit and pho­tos of Japan and Europe, he still remains pop­u­lar in Japan, with dozens of books pub­lished since his death and the Kimura Ihei Award — for new pho­to­graph­ers — set up in his honour.

Julia Galdo

Julia Galdo is an Amer­ican pho­to­grapher and a fre­quent col­lab­or­ator with Cody Cloud. Her dreamy fash­ion pho­to­graphy on Behance imme­di­ately caught my atten­tion and made me want to find out more about her, I espe­cially love her day-to-day work on Flickr.

Eii­chi Scart

Eii­chi Scart is a man whom I haven’t been able to find much about. Born in Japan, he has an amaz­ing col­lec­tion of cam­eras and the abil­ity to use them all well.