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Blog Review: FotoFilmic

 

FotoFilmic

Nate Mathews | Chicago IL, USA

 

• Visually FotoFilmic is appealing, the color scheme is simplistic with a white and black theme. I do not like how the site is organized though because the front page focuses a lot on an event in 2014 that has not happened and on selling prints. I wish that the site focused more on articles and information on photography instead of selling prints and advertising events. Fotofilmic is a review for 90 film photographers. First it is a six month online publication then it features 30 prints from the online publications. There is a variety of cash prizes for the winner. So basically Fotofilmic is an online gallery for film photographers.
• The article is first perspective article on information about Nate Mathews. Nate Mathews is an artist, photographer, sculpture, and educator from Chicago. Mathew’s teaches at Northeastern Illinois University. Mathews explains how he uses a 4x5 field camera because images can be more perfected than with digital cameras. Mathews explains how his photography has a “poignant feeling”. I liked Nate Mathews work because of its simplistic but crisp like photos. His color schemes well thought out through all his photos making theme pleasing for viewers. I also like how he uses something that is not a digital camera, and the quality the 4x5 field camera adds to the image.

http://fotofilmic.com/?portfolio=nate-mathews-chicago-il-usa

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Blog Review: Light Leaked

 

 Light Leaked

Sarah Malakoff Monday October 28, 2013

Light Leaked has new material every Monday as well as four photographer interviews by Ashley Kauschinger every month. Light Leaked is a photography blog that focuses on many aspects of photography, including interviews, the business aspect, and photo reviews. The blog editor and founder is Ashley Kauschinger. I like how the sight is visually appealing with the background having a dark color and the words (articles) having a white background. I feel like this reiterates the name light leaked as the articles are leaking light on to the blog.  The sight is easy to access because of the bar on the side that separates the blogs by month as well as the easy navigation bar on top of the web page.

The blog is about Sarah Malakoff’s new photo book Charta. Malakoff was born in Massachusetts in 1972. She is now a widely exhibited photographer and works as the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Malakoff has several awards including being awarded Fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2001 and 2011. Malakoff’s work focuses on how physical items in our home represent who we are. Malakoff also mentions that windows can either be to control our environment or to let views in. I personally enjoyed the blog because I love interior design. I can easily relate to how what we place in our homes representing ourselves because I feel like I represent myself in that way.

 

http://www.lightleaked.com/2013/10/sarah-malakoff.html 

Blog Review: Aperture Magazine Blog

Aperture Magazine Blog

 

• 1/1 Preview: Annette Booth on Rinko Kawauchi  by:Annette Booth October 15, 2013

• Aperture was created in 1952 in New York as a “common ground for the advancement of photography,”. Aperture posts on the blog as a daily blog. Besides posting a blog Aperture publishes four magazines a year and twelve to fifteen photo books. Aperture photography blog is just a small section of the company, many focuses of the company include the magazine, photo books, and photography exhibits. Since Aperture has so many focuses in the company the site can be confusing and scattered on the home page, but once you located the section you are looking for the site is fairly easy.

 

• The blog is a promotion for Rinko Kawauchi’s photograph Untitled(2013) that was featured in a silent auction that occurred on October 28. The blog is written by Annette Booth, Booth discusses how she first discovered Kawauchi in 2006 while doing a project for her mentor. Booth stated that “the mystical beauty of her photographs struck me like nothing else I saw at the fair”. I can relate to how Booth felt because in the large variety of blog posts when I saw Kawauchi’s photograph I was immediately intrigued. The pastel colors popped on the neutral background of the Aperture blog, and stood out among the rest of the blog posts.
• http://www.aperture.org/blog/auction-preview-kawauchi/