Photographer #195: Tony Kelly

Tony Kelly, 1975, Ireland, lives in Barcelona and works all over the world. He makes sexually charged photographes that are so bright in colour that they resemble candies that might either be sweet or sour. His carreer started as a papparazzo and later as a warzone photographer. Now Tony is all into the fashion photography, although most of the work evolves around nude women. Tony likes to shock a little, but it needs to be a shock with a smile. Humour is one of the key points in Kelly's photography. As a photographer that prefers working on location as to a closed studio it is no wonder he is slightly in love with the plastic, sunny and "cultureless" Los Angeles. The following images come from Toy Story, El Pais Miss World and Hollywood.

Website: www.tonykellyphotography.com

Photographer #194: Sonja Braas

Sonja Braas, 1968, Germany, lives and works in New York. In her series The Quiet of Dissolution Sonja shows us various natural catastrophes, but in a way that we have never seen before. The viewer begins to wonder how she got so close to the disasters and how she continuously get's a certain serenity in her photographs. Sonja actually builds the scenes herself in a studio as idealized models of reality. In her series You Are Here she took pictures of zoological gardens and natural science museums and put them alongside images of real landscapes. This confuses the viewer when attempting to figure out what is real and what is not. The following images come from the series The Quiet of Dissolution, Forces and You Are Here.

Website: www.sonjabraas.com

Photographer #193: Ross McDonnell

Ross McDonnell, 1979, Ireland, is a photographer and filmmaker. In his series Joyrider he documented the youngsters in Ballymun, a suburb of Dublin where the infra-structure is lacking, showing the transition of anti-social behaviour to criminality amongst the young people living in the shadows of these Ballymun towers. In the series Turkana, Ross focused on the impact of climate change on the people living in the Northwestern part of Kenya. In Turkana food-aid has become more reliable than farming. The following images come from the series Joyrider, The Afghans and Turkana.

Website: www.rossmcdonnell.com

Photographer #192: Carl Kleiner

Carl Kleiner, 1983, is a photographer from Sweden. He is most known for his still-life photography. For Ikea he made the images for a cookbook called Hembakat är Bäst. The images show exactly the ingredients and quantities that are required for the recipe. Carl's photography is colorful, graphic and experimental. He doesn't limit himself, he uses materials ranging from paper to eggs and from clothes to dolls. The following images come from Ikea, X Y / Goran Kajfes and Cafe M - Beirut.

Website: www.carlkleiner.com

Photographer #191: Irene Andessner

Irene Andessner, 1954, Austria, has been focusing on the self-portrait since 1988. In the beginning she realised her portraits through paintings, but from the mid-90's in tableaux vivants, photography and video stagings. She gets into the roles of various women such as the Black Madonna, Rachael from the movie Bladerunner or Marlene Dietrich. Not only women are being portrayed, in 2006 she interpreted the traditional but questionably authentic portrait of Mozart. She released the Book I Am Irene Andessner which shows her works between 1995 and 2003. I Am (present tense) because she herself gives absolutely contemporary expression to historical figures. The following images come from the series Citylights [Vienna], Ida/Artemis/Merian and Donne Illustri.

Website: www.andessner.com

Photographer #190: Marco Grob

Marco Grob, 1965, Switserland is a portrait and fashion photographer. He has photographed countless celebrities, from Obama to Clinton and from Samuel L. Jackson to Jeff Bridges. His work has appeared in Vogue and Time amongst many other magazines and he has shot for clients as Nike, Tag Heuer and Louis Vuitton. Marco's portraits are stylish and classic. The following images come from his portfolio's Portraits, Portraits Archive and Editorials.

Website: www.marcogrob.com

Photographer #189: Nirrimi Hakanson

Nirrimi Hakanson, 1992, Australia is a very young photographer who started with photography at age 13. She is very productive, which is visible when looking at the various websites she has, including her weblog filled with amazing images and personal stories of her photographic life. Nirrimi has already done the winter campaign for Diesel in New York. Her work is fresh, youthfull and sexy, but at the same time they are very mature and professional. The following images come from her portfolio's For Love, For Living and For Money.

Website: http://www.nirrimi.com

Photographer #188: Francesco Giusti

Francesco Giusti, 1969, Italy, is a freelance documentary photographer. He made documentary work in many countries, from his homeland Italy to Congo, and from Haïti to Egypt. For the series Sapologie he photographed members of the SAPE (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes). These men dress with a refined and unique style and bring some glamour into their humble environments. In the series Hotel Industria, which was also published as a book in 2006, he focused on ex-industrial areas on the outskirts of Milan that were transformed into shelters by illegal immigrants. The following images come from the series Sapologie, Hotel Industria and Agadez.

Website: www.francescogiusti.com

Photographer #187: Mikael Jansson

Mikael Jansson, 1958, Sweden is a fashion and celebrity photographer. He has shot campaigns for clients as DKNY, Dior and Calvin Klein. He also shoots fashion editorials for Vogue and Interview magazine. Celebrities as Rihanna, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have appeared in front of his camera. Next to his photographic work Mikael also made several commercial video's. The following images come from the portfolio's Fashion Images, Fashion Images 2 and Celebrities.

Website: www.wilsonwenzel.com

Photographer #186: Maxwell Snow

Maxwell Snow, 1984, USA, is a young photographer who's works are not always easy to digest. For his project It's Fun to do Bad Things he made three series, one on latin gang members from downtown La, one on the Ku Klux Klan and one on Black metal musicians from Scandinavia. Earlier this year he presented his series Jesus is Showing me Amazing Things. Each image has it's own story, from burning skeletons at a KKK gathering to an image of a girl who had been locked in her room for many years by her parents. The following images come from the series It's Fun to do Bad Things, Jesus is Showing me Amazing Things and Its Only Castles Burning.

Website: www.maxwellsnow.com

Photographer #185: Nicolas Dhervillers

Nicolas Dhervillers, 1981, France, is a photographer that keeps fooling it's viewers. What appears as reality is actually a fabricated reality. In his series Tourist he has taken night pictures of remote places in which he relights certain parts creating "non-places". He then went on the internet searching for the most banal holiday snap possible. He combines the two images letting the people be tourists in his images. In the series Préfiguration, Nicolas photographed visitors in the Pompidou Centre in Paris and put them into spaces of the building site of the future Pompidou Centre in Metz. The following images come from the series Tourist #2, Préfiguration and Landscape Painting.

Website: www.nicolasdhervillers.com
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Photographer #184: Mike Ruiz

Mike Ruiz, 1964, Canada, is a commercial and portrait / beauty photographer. Many celebrities have been in front of his camera, from 50 Cent to Kirsten Dunst. His images have been on the covers of numerous glamour magazines. In the last few years Mike has appeared in various TV shows as America's Next Top Model. The following images come from the portfolio's Celebrities, Fashion and Beauty.

Website: www.mikeruiz.com

Photographer #183: Nico Krijno

Nico Krijno, 1981, South-Africa, works between Cape Town and London. His photography often contains nudity and has an element of spontaneity and rebelliousness. Nico primarily uses analogue cameras to create his works that capture the raw hedonistic essence of youth and sexuality. He has worked for clients as Nike and Dazed and Confused and is currently working on a monograph that should be titled; On how to fill those gaps. The following images come from various portfolio's.

Website: www.nicokrijno.com

Photographer #182: Sayaka Maruyama

Sayaka Maruyama, 1983, Japan, is an artist that uses various techniques in her artwork. She draws, paints, designs and edits films, but most of all she photographs. She often works together with hair and head prop artist Tomihiro Kono, also in the series Japan Avant Garde, which is based on her feelings as a Japanese living abroad. The images of Sayaka are often dark, mysterious but do sometimes contain bizarre colours. The following images come from the series Japan Avant Garde, Tori-Onna and Silent Conversation.

Website: www.syk-jp.com

Photographer #181: Rune Guneriussen

Rune Guneriussen, 1977, Norway, is a conceptual photographer. He started to work with objects as chairs, lamps and tables in 2005. He makes installations, most of them in nature and photographs them. Rune searches for his locations all over Norway. "It is an approach to the balance between nature and culture, but also a multiple reading of stories." He has been in various European solo and group exhibitions. The following images come from his portfolio's Wall No.1, Wall No.2 and Wall No.4.

Website: www.runeguneriussen.no

Photographer #180: Tony D'Orio

Tony D'Orio, 1953, USA, is a commercial and portrait photographer. His interest in photographing characters started while he was shooting the streets of Chicago and the people he found there. On those streets he developed a love affair with the human face. He has shot various advertisement campaigns for brands like Altoids. Tony's photography is witty, clever and filled with humour. The following images come from his portfolio.

Website: www.tonydorio.com

Photographer #179: Aaron Hobson

Aaron Hobson, 1977, USA, is also known as the Cinemascapist. He grew up in one of the poorest city neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. Today he lives in a small town in the remote Adirondack Mountains near the Canadian border. Since four years he has started taking images. He calls his photography Cinemascapes. They are semi-autobiographical, dealing with old memories together with his current living situation. His panoramic self-portraits are intentionally cinematic to reflect our modern technologically driven culture. His stories are open-ended, but do have an underlying purpose. Writer John Wood wrote about Aaron's work; "that his imagery exudes sexuality and danger, those two narcotics we never seem to be able to get out of our systems." The following images come from his portfolio.

Website: www.aaronhobson.com