in the limelight

mark chien

this is a photographer friend of mine who spent the course of three years at the academy of art along side of me. he is talented at lighting and especially talented at photoshop manipulation. i enjoy his concepts and ability to make the model so comfortable behind the camera. that is a huge challenge when shooting. once the technical issues are learned, such as lighting, then the next obstacle is creating a connection between the model and the camera. everyone has their own techniques as to how to engage the subject of the photograph. mark was a master at this. unfortunately, mark has moved back to taiwan to pursue his photographic career, but we will see him back in sf again, hopefully soon. he is missed.

in the limelight

jr

This last photo is particularly cool because the eyes make up the rest of the faces when the train passes through.

jr - photographer

this artist really inspires me on so many levels. i think he is doing what people only dream to do. he puts large scale portraits of people onto buildings in communities all over the world. his choice of subjects is quite simple: people that he finds in urban ghettos. 

in his bio on his webpage, he describes himself as "an undercover photographer [who] transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries of our streets."

here are some examples of his work!