500 Photographers: Photographer #054: Dave Anderson

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Photographer #054: Dave Anderson

Dave Anderson, USA, 1970, is a photographer that sees beauty in the less pretty sides of life. Poverty, disaster and racism. His believe that there is something beautiful in everyone made him go to Vidor, Texas many times. Vidor is known as a stronghold of the Klu Klux Klan. He photographed the people in this town and his book Rough Beauty was released in 2006. Make sure to watch this video about Rough Beauty by pressing here.

This year his book One Block is coming out. A non linear story on the rebuilding after the Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

Following images come from his travels to Mali.

Website: www.dbanderson.com

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The target of this website is embedded in its name; to post active image-makers until we reach 500 photographers. The photographers can be from any discipline within the photographic range, but they have to be at the top of their game. When we get to number 500, we will have a deep database of great photographers.

500 photographers is done by Pieter Wisse (1980, The Netherlands). He has a very clear and distinct vision of what great photography should be. Since 2007 he has become a centipede in the saturated world of image creation and represents an example of a 21st century player active in the visual field; both on and offline.

In the past twelve years he has ventured into projects ranging from artistic leadership of a photography festival, curatorial projects for various institutions worldwide, publishing books and a magazine, running a bookstore and gallery to creating the internationally acclaimed 500 Photographers project. He has done countless amounts of portfolio reviews, given masterclasses and judged a large number of competitions.

Due to the variety of endeavors and years of studying and speaking to photographers he quickly recognizes the features he believes to be of the utmost importance to be a successful photographer in this day and age.