Phil Decker

from documents on migrant farmworkers,

to Oregon crop festivals, 

from Extra "Ordinary" Moments with family, 

to exploring urban landscapes while hiking concrete trails,

from good ol' street photography,

to traces of my family's roots on the Lower East Side.

I'm glad to still be able to savor the light.

Born:1961
Lives in: Salem, Oregon

The Day Job:  elementary school principal
Latest exhibitions: curated and exhibited in "Creating Abundance" at the Salem Art Association.
Inspiration (photographers): Lewis Hine, Sid Grossman, Nicolas Nixon, Milton Rogovin, Patt Blue.
A quote I actually can remember:  "You can never step in the same river twice." ... Heraclitus.  

Film, digital or both: film in the past, digital in the present
Website: www.phildeckerphotos.com

Blog:  http://salemnationalforest.blogspot.com
Email: phildecker6@gmail.com

Maurizio Cimino

i started photography 18 years ago - i'm an anarchist, a daddy, a photographer. i'm in love with my french princess. Cunoaşte-i înainte să-i judeci!

Website http://mauriziocimino.com

Born 1969 in Washington D.C, I graduated in Italy from Federico II University in political science. I'm Photo Lab Technician and research assistant at University of Naples Audiovisual Research Center Main research subjects are ROM's identity, urban daily life, street photography, live music, theatre, performing arts.

Last exhibitions:

Esfoto 12,  El Salvador 2012

Re-visualizing the city (IVSA), New York 2012  

PICS Festival ,London 2012 (multimedia)

Tekne‘ Arte Contemporanea, Potenza 2010 

Galerie 88, Paris 2010 

GiuBox Gallery, Naples 2009

Centro Cultural Rojas, Buenos Aires 2009 

Casa della Pace, Milan 2009

 Parcours Artistique du 3e, Paris 2009 

Galerie 52, Paris 2009

Istituto Italiano Cultura/Altrimenti, Luxembourg 2008

N.est-Madre Museum, Naples 2008 

Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples 2007 

Apparamment Cafe‘, Paris 2007 

Institut Francais de Naples, Naples 2006

Universita‘ Federico II, Naples 2006 

Museo di Santa Chiara, Naples 2005

Mikael Jansson

 

I love to tell a story in my photos and I enjoy being served a great story in photos, I can sit for a long time just imagining the set around the photos and the people in it.

Hope to be able to serve you some good stories and emotions both from me and from other photographers here in my space!

Born: 1968
Lives in: Stockholm
Latest exhibition: 9 photographers - 9 visions in Uppsala 9.9 2006
Inspiration (photographers): Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Miguel Rio Branco, Paul Hansen, Steve McCurry, Salgado and many more
Inspiration (other): Interesting People
Film, digital or both: Both
Quote: The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. Ernst Haas
A favourite photograph: Gourma-Rharous, Mali, 1985 by Sebastião Salgado
Homepage/contact: http://mikael.carbonmade.com/

Email: archangelse@gmail.com

Robin McAulay

Independent photographer, creative and camera geek. Passion for all formats
of photography, video and experimentation.

Lives in Copenhagen 
www.mondo-rama.com

Walter Neiger

Born: 1951
Lives in: Basel, Switzerland
Inspiration (photographers): Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka and many, many more!
Inspiration (other): literature, music, painting
Film, digital or both: both
Blog: walterneiger.blogspot.com

James Friedman

Like many of my generation, I began photographing at an early age. And, like many American families in the 1950s, we had a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera and that was what I used. The first time I looked through the camera's viewfinder as a five year old, I was hooked: the world, as translated through the lens, appeared balanced and harmonious, traits that provided much needed comfort to me as a child and throughout my life.

While still a student, I recall my teacher, Minor White (1908-1976)  telling me during a critique of my photographs that "It takes at least twenty years to become a photographer." I had no idea what he meant (I pretended that I understood the meaning of his assertion and I realized that his comment was a criticism of my work) but, as an obtuse twenty two year old, I believed that already I had earned the right to call myself a photographer.

After completing school and beginning to work on self-directed projects while teaching at an American university, slowly I began to understand what Minor White had tried to tell me: that it would take years of immeasurable study and unending practice to comprehend how to adapt photography's inherent idiosyncrasies to my particular way of picturing the world.

However, I find it curious that some of my most enduring work (and photographs to which Minor White responded positively) was done in the earliest stages of my involvement in photography without having spent years refining my craft. I never had the opportunity to ask Minor White about that.

www.jamesfriedmanphotographer.com

Gordon Chapman, GC

GC, Gordon Chapman
Born: 1952
Lives in: Stittsville, Canada

Beatriz Rowland

Born: yes, 1948
Lives in: I'm semi-nomadic but currently in Salem, Oregon, USA
Latest Exhibition: summer Project Space 2010, Salem, Oregon
Film, Digital, or both: currently digital
Quote: Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.  Lao Tzu
Photo Inspiration: reportage, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Robert Frank, Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Roger Ballen...too many to list but recently inspired by Hungarian photography.
Other Inspiration: people, air, light, sound. and the painters: Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, Goya, Velasquez. Almost all music. Movie directors: Tarkovsky, Herzog, Wenders, von Trier.
Website

Kerstin Kuntze

Born 1965 in Cologne - now living in Frankfurt (Germany).
I'm a freelance Graphic-Designer and Mother of 3 children.

Picturemaking was always an inward urge.
Starting as a kid with "always drawing" - now using
photography melted with graphic infusion.
Trying to find something inside that wants to see the light.
My pictures show emotions from deep black to glowing red.
Sometimes they are really disturbing - sometimes really smooth.



Why do you take photos? ‎

Because you want to remember...what life is about? Or to forget...the grey? ‎
Because you want to create...something new? Or to destroy...illusions?
Because you want to discover...yourself? Or to loose....yourself?
Because you want to find....the truth underneath it all?

Or just because it is the only language to let your soul speak?

Whatever the reason maybe - it will enrich your life.

Maybe looking at pictures can do the same.

Kerstin Kuntze

just click on it

"her eyes like flames" exhibition on 591

kerstin kuntze homepage

kk on facebook

kerstin kuntzes blog

Valeria Prieto

Valeria Prieto
Born: 1982
Lives in: Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
website: http://valeriaprietophoto.blogspot.com

Valeria Prieto
Graduate degree in Graphic Design at the Institute of Architecture, Design and Art at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

She served as a fine arts teacher, theorist and photography since 2001. She is a collaborator from 2001 to the present in several short films along with visual artist Javier Ventura.

Valeria Prieto has presented work in countries like Canada, Serbia, USA, Argentina and Mexico.

Born in 1982, based on USA.

Paul Boocock

Born: 1959 in London, England

Lives in: London, England

Last exhibition: 2008, several pictures in Photomonth exhibition in London, previously exhibited in LIP exhibitions.

Inspiration: Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus, Martin Parr, Alexander Rodchenko, Lewis Hine, André Kertész, Jaques-Henri Lartigue and others!!

Inspiration (other): people

Film, digital or both: both but I have a preference for film.

Quote: "I never took a picture I intended, they are always better or worse!" - Diane Arbus

Website: http://www.boosnaps.me

Blog(very occasional): paulboocock.wordpress.com

Email: paulboo59(at)gmail.com

Emese Altnőder

ABOUT

Born: 1977

Lives in: Budapest, Hungary

Latest exhibition: Exhibition Poszt 2008

Inspiration (photographers): Several artists

Inspiration (other): I think everything :)

Film, digital or both: Skolnyik and digital

A favourite photograph: several artists

Website: http://skolnyik.blogspot.com/

Email: futureemese@gmail.com

Ulf Fågelhammar aka Mr Urbano

 

About

Founder and editor of 591 Photography Blog

Born: 1951

Lives in: Stockholm, Sweden

Latest exhibition: Branten autumn 2007. Photographs exhibited outdoors in the neighbourhood about the people of the neighbourhood by a photographer living in the neighbourhood.

Inspiration (photographers): Alfred Stieglitz, Eugen Atget, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Christer Strömholm

Inspiration (other): the light

Film, digital or both: film

Quote: "Don't be talked into anything. Check for yourself! What you do not know yourself you don't know." /B.Brecht ( Mother Courage)

Website: 591 Photography ( 2008-2013)

Email: mrurbano@591photography.com

Mr Urbano on 591

Observed by Mr Urbano

Ulf Fågelhammar (aka Mr Urbano)

mrurbano@591photography.com

Tiberio Fanti

About

Italian engineer, globetrotter. Among the first contributors of 591, joined the blog crew in January 2010.

Born: May 1967

Grown up in: Tivoli (30km East of Rome)

Lives in: Graz, Austria

Occupation: electronic engineer, digital design manager.

Inspiration photographers: Weston, Steichen, Bourke-White, Blossfeldt.

Inspiration (other): poetry, music, water, friendship & loneliness, love, il Giro d'Italia, "la buona cucina" and my footprints left behind.

Film, digital or both: digital born, digitally grown, doomed to a digital death.

Exhibitions: waiting for the first one to come.

Quote: "Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus" (Lucio Anneo Seneca)

Website: tiberiofanti.it

Personal Blog: What the thunder said

e-mail: info(at)tiberiofanti.it

Anita Balogh

Balogh Anita
Born: Year of  the Woodstock :)
Lives in: Fertőd, Hungary
Film, digital or both: Zenit, digital
Inspiration (other): fine literature, jazz music, human  milieu
Inspiration photographers: Jan Saudek, Bruno Bourel,Susan Burntine  and many other..:)
Quote:" Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
Website: http://10804.portfolio.artlimited.net/

Vera Fehér

ABOUT

Born: 1983

Lives Hungary 

Grown up in: Kecskemét

Occupation: arts teacher, designer, graphic, photographer, free-lance journalist

Inspiration photographers: contemporary experiments

Muse: life

Film, digital or both: both and other techniques

Latest exhibition: The errorism, Székesfehérvár 2012

Other project: errorism: www.hibaizmus.hu www.hibaistaklub.blogspot.com 

Quote: there are no mistakes, even mistakes can make art.

Website: www.fehervera.blogspot.com

Email: veratska@gmail.com