Workers

No... I did not go to China or to the Middle East to take these pictures. In fact, all of them were taken in my father's fields... where we grow green onions, and where workers from different nationalities who live in Montreal come everyday to work for my father.
Nevertheless, I like pretty much the effect of these pictures... And I think the one with the chinese woman is one of my best shot ever.
See, you don't have to go far away to make good and eotic pictures!

Trees are Beautiful

These dynamic diagonals photographs are those of Devon.
Personnally, I like them because of the dead trees. As for Patrick's camping pictures, these are not things you see that often in the city. It seems thay have been taken in the forest.
So, maybe because of their natural aspect, or because I lived in the country and I just find trees beautiful, I pretty much like these pictures.
I also have some trees pictures that I will post later... so you will benefit again of the beauties of nature...

Nudes!

Here are Nude Photographs from Marco. What we can say it's that here again, those are Winners! In fact, Marco has a really good eye for composition... and to choose subjects that will interest people... As you can see, he also likes to play with darkness, which means that sometimes his pictures are printed too dark. However, he told me he did it on Purpose: according to him, it makes the picture more interesting since you have to look at it carefully to see the details.

Perfect Models

For my integrative project, I took pictures of my step-brother Guyslain and his girlfriend Angeles who was pregnant at this time. In fact, I already posted one of these photographs before (see "I Won!").
Actually, both of the pictures above go together as one piece that is named: "Waiting for You to Kiss Me." In fact, what I wanted to show is the real love relationship Angeles and Guyslain have. However, before I captured it, I was not sure it was going to work since even if Gusylain is my step-brother, I had never remarked how their couple was strong.
Suprisingly for me, when I started to take pictures of them, they revealed themselves as Perfect Models, which means that they were not scared by the camera and did not care at all about me. It was like if I was spying them, penetrating and capturing their intimacy on films.
Models have a lot to do in photographs, and I think what made Angeles and Guyslain so good is how they stayed natural during all the time of the shooting. Usually, I find it hard to get this with adults since they often try to present themselves in a certain way, but I really get luck this time...

Repression

This photograph is one I am especially proud of. Here again it represents a child, one of my nieces in fact, but it also shows how children and adults interact and it shows the contrast between them too: the softness and the whiteness of the child contrasting with the firmness of the adult.
I called this photograph "Repression", but it depends of how you see it. For me, it was a good representation of how adults try to control their children, and to stop whatever they do that could differentiate them from their parents. However, it could also be only a child playing, or trying to get protection in the arms of her mom... What do you think?

James Natchwey: War Photographer

Since I have been interested by international journalism for a long time now, it was just natural that I became interested in war photography when I started developping a passion for photography.
I discovered James Natchwey when we watched the movie made about him, "War Photographer" in my Camera & Society class. And after I did some research about him, he literally became my model concerning photojournalism (as Sally Mann is my model for domestic photography).
Natchwey became interested by war photography looking at photographs from the Vietnam war. Having studied Art History and Political Science, he had a series of little jobs while he was teaching himself photography.
His first contract occured in 1981: he had to cover the North Ireland conflict. After this, Natchwey has been everywhere around the world. He covered famines, war, genocides, civil conflicts, poverty, people suffering from AIDS... He is always working, and for him, his work is really important. It is a Mission he has to inform people and make them react to the atrocities lived by others.
Till now, he had won dozens of prizes such as the Robert Capa Gold Medal five times, the World Press Photo Award twice, and the Magazine Photographer of the Year seven times.
He has a lot of sympathy for the people he photographs, and he knows how to approach them so they will let him be part of their privacy. That is why he succeeded to even have photographs of rebels or commandos in conflicts such the ones in Kosovo or Bosnia.
He is also really professional and would never stop shooting, for him it is a ResPoNsAbiLitY when you have a camera and are the witness of such sufferances to capture the events so they would become real for the rest of the world... and this, even if you would rather wish to run away than to see such atrocities.
Amazingly, he has only been injured for the first time in Irak, in 2003, and nevertheless, he kept taking photographs of the people injured around him till he passed out.
Unfortunately, there are not a lot of his pictures on the Web, and so, those posted here are not the best ones... at least, according to me. That is why I suggest you to rent or buy his book Inferno... a really great and huge book that will show you how Natchwey is an amazing photographer, and how his work is worth our attention to international problems.

The Perfectionist

Here are some photographs from The Perfectionist Matthew in my Photo II class. Seriously, he really wants to reach perfection when he is printing his photographs, but as you can see, maybe due to all the work he does for it, he is a ReAllY good photographer.
Till now, I have seen a lot of photographs of people from him. The one with the girl has been taken in the Photo Studio at Vanier, and since Matthew is really careful when he does Studio, I think it is why his studio photos are so great. Much greater than mine in fact since I have no patience for such things... I think he also had a good model to do this picture... she does not seem to be intimidated by the camera and she seems to like posing...
Finally, I also think the photo of the child is really nice. The expression of his face is just so natural...