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Adam Jason Cohen (b. New Jersey, 1986) is a photographer currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois documenting the social landscape and human condition with a focus specifically on the South and West Sides of Chicago. After attending the BFA-Photography program at AIB-Lesley University he soon found himself at home in Chicago, where he has lived the past seven years. His work has been showcased in print and online in local and international publications. He also produces his own small-run limited edition books documenting his work in Chicago and is currently working on a number of larger scale bodies of work soon to be published.
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Nathan Pearce (born 1986) is a photographer based in Southern Illinois. He also works in an auto body repair shop.
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Anja Bruehling is a German-born photographer, who resides in Chicago. Anja's passions are people, diverse cultures and the human condition. She makes her observations thru her eyes, heart and camera. She wants the world to see and remember places, prosperity, beauty, love, people and the socio economic problems they face. Anja studied with late Mary Ellen Mark, who was a mentor and a friend.
"India is a fascinating place and a true microcosm of human life. Spanning the entire spectrum from joy to sorrow, from extreme wealth to extreme poverty, from top notch medical care to non-existent, from hunger to extreme gorging, from healthy to the sick. India is a place where every single idea about human living, about life and its associated philosophies, about political systems, about law and order can be explored. You can come away extremely sad, depressed and rejecting of everything that is India. Alternatively, you come away with an exhilarating feeling to explore more, do more, try more, and live more in every facet of one’s life. This is driven simply by taking a look at how even the lowest of the low, the poorest of the poor are driven to work hard, live hard and take life in its stride with all that it has to offer."
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Our world’s cultures are rich, societies differ in mannerisms, and peoples celebrate life (and lives) in vastly diverse ways. Working quietly with inconspicuous Leica rangefinder cameras, in a “street photography” or “decisive moment” style is my preference in pursuit of honest views of humanity.
“Images which reflect quirkiness in society, mixed with spontaneity and some humor, are what I strive to create. From a young photojournalist, through decades of sports coverage, advertising commissions in adventure /lifestyle, and back to pure documentation (now including documentary cinema), have influenced the style of this and other long-term photographic projects I’ve produced. An on-going endeavor, “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) is a historical view of the Mexican/ Latin culture honoring their loved ones who have since past from our world.”
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For 120 years the steel industry dominated a landscape where marshes, prairies and wooded terrain had thrived; an ecosystem that has reemerged after the last shuttered mill, to circle back as an example of urban ecological survival. “Along the Edge” documents nature’s return within the city limits of abandoned industry, rail yards, neighborhoods and Indiana’s border on the southeast side of Chicago.
"I’ve been photographing since the late 70s: people on streets, solitary places and arbitrary things. A roll of film and the willingness to continue have resulted in exhibits throughout Chicago, with portfolios in the Museum of Contemporary Photography (1995-2004) and works displayed at Photokina World’s Fair for Imaging."
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Olivier Meyer is a contemporary French photographer born in 1957. He lives and works in Paris, France. His photojournalism was first published in “France-Soir” Magazine and subsequently in the daily France-Soir in 1981. A selection of his black and white photographs of Paris were produced as postcards by “Éditions Marion Valentine,” beginning in 1989.
His inspiration came from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Édouard Boubat, Saul Leiter. His portrait of Aguigui Mouna sticking his tongue out like Albert Einstein, published in postcard form in 1988, and subsequently as an illustration in a book by Anne Gallois served as a blueprint for a stencil work by the artist Jef Aérosol in 2006 subsequently reproduced in the book VIP. His photographs have been exhibited in Paris in April 2008, and again in January 2010, together with photographs by Ralph Gibson.
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A self-taught photographer from Minsk, Belarus, Kirill Polevoy first started making photographs with an old Russian "Zorki" film camera in 2003. In 2010, he switched to the digital format and primarily works in black and white. Mr. Polevoy currently resides in Chicago, where he concentrates on street photography with occasional landscape.
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Sarah Filipi hung up her paralegal cap for an artist sombrero in 2013. Sarah is a nature-loving, adventure-seeking photographer based out of Minneapolis. Her free-spirited, environmentally conscious and optimist soul seeks beauty. She operates on instinct and chance. She has bold ideas and ignites influential change in others.
"I found myself running one bright, warm and crisp fall morning. While running, I spotted something shinny on the path. As I got closer, I discovered a crushed Mountain Dew can. I picked it up, examined it and carried it home to recycle, thinking, 'Today, I’m going to make a difference.' For the next 365 consecutive days, I kept a promise I made to Mother Nature and myself. I would pick up, photograph and document one piece (often several) of trash I found interfering with nature. Thus, my project, R-365, became a personal undertaking to leave the places I visited more beautiful than I found them."
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David S. Bush, Ph.D. is a double board certified neuropsychologist, based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He has over 30 years of professional experience and specializes in providing expert consultation in civil litigation cases, which involve claims of traumatic brain injury and other types of mental damages. He has testified in hundreds of legal proceedings, and authored several book chapters, book reviews and journal articles on forensic and general neuropsychology.
“The act of taking a street photograph involves a rapidly coordinated sequence of perceptual, affective, cognitive, and visuomotor responses, all of which hover just below and right around the threshold of awareness. Becoming conscious of these mostly automatic and semi-automatic processes represents a special type of self-examination that deepens awareness and expands creative choice.”
The images that comprise Calle Habana were made across visits to Cuba in April 2013, February 2014 and April 2015.
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Don Getsug studied photography at the University of Minnesota under Jerome Liebling and R.Smith Schuneman. His first job was with Merle Morris Studio, Minneapolis. which specialized in corporate and advertising. He did everything from editorial annual report shoots to shooting pies for Pillsbury. In 1965, Mr. Getsug joined Rapho Guillumette Pictures, working for magazines: Life, Time, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, National Geographic and Look. By the 70’s he concentrated more on advertising, working out of his Minneapolis studio. He began to get work from Chicago, where he moved in 1981. Since then he has maintained a studio here, and continue to photograph.
