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25 Under 25 |
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| Up-And-Coming Photographers Volume Two | ||
by Ma'ayan Rosenzweig, July 9, 2008 |
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25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2 showcases 25 more of America’s most promising photographers, 25 years old and younger. Illuminating and sometimes startling, the collection presents work by an emerging generation of photographers at the start of their careers. Published by Powerhouse Books.
Born: 15 September 1982, New York, New York
School: Amherst College, BA, 2004
First Camera: A Pentax K1000
Quote: I always took pictures, but I started to take my work seriously during my senior year in college while I was shooting the Chinatown project.
Born: 30 May 1982, Grand Rapids, Michigan
School: Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA, 2004; University of Wales, Newport, MFA, 2007
First Camera: At thirteen, I started using my mother's old 35mm.
Quote: I have always been a "people watcher," and as soon as I learned photography, it became my ideal way to communicate; it is both a priority and an obsession.
Born: 19 December 1981, Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania
School: Edinboro University, BFA, 2004; Ohio University, MFA, 2008
First Camera: A 35mm point-and-shoot Ansco-for Christmas when I was twelve.
Quote: My family went to see The Phantom of the Opera in Toranto. I was fifteen, and my father let me use his Minolta SLR. Since then I've wanted to be a photographer.
Born: 25 March 1983, Sacramento, California
School: Maryland Institute College of Art, BA, 2005
First Camera: My mother brought me a point-and-shoot camera when I was eleven, but at eight I had already decided to be a photographer.
Quote: Stepping into other communities humbles me. I want my photographs to give people new ways to see others, to gain emotional insight and understanding.
Born: 17 November 1982, Washington, D.C.
School: University of Pennsylvania, 2004
First Camera: I was about seven years old. It was pink. I loved taking snapshots of my family and scenes from the windows of moving cars.
Quote: I've always seen photography as an artistic rather than a purely documentary medium; even as a child I wanted to capture light in images of snow, raindrops, and streetlamps.
Born: 5 November 1982, Oak Parks, Illinois
School: Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA, 2005
First Camera: I got my first camera my freshman year of high school- right after my family moved to Michigan.
Quote: I
wasn't making many friends our first year in Michigan, so my Mom signed me up for a photography class.
Born: 13 October 1981, Kume Island,Okinawa
School: City College of New York, BA, 2006
First Camera: At agetwenty I brought a Lomo LC-A while in Osaka, Japan.
Quote: I only photographed landscaped until "Strangers." It was my first project to look at people, and to do so in such a personal manner.
Born: 23 April 1981, Moscow,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
School: Tuffs University, BA, 2003; Massachusetts College of Art, MFA, 2007
First Camera: A red plastic point'and'shoot (in middle school).
Quote: A self-portrait assignment from my amazing photography teacher in high school launched my photography obsession. Suddenly I felt more together in front of my own camera than behind it.
Born: 31 July 1980, New Haven, Connecticut
School: Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, BFA, 2003
First Camera: A toy wooden camera on my sixth birthday. At age eight, I finally got my hands on a real camera, a disposable one on a keychain.
Quote: As I lay face down on the basement floor of the store I was working at, my hands tied behind my back and a gun to my hea, I was overcome by this indescribable wave that swept through me. It told me that it wasn't my time to die, that I had not yet done what I was put on Earth to do. From then on I have devoted my life to my art and followed this thing inside me that fought so hard that night to live.
Born: 29 November 1983, Houston, Texas
School: Princeton University, BA, 2006
First Camera: A Polaroid camera. I was really young and really excited about Polaroids (I still am).
Quote: In Photographing people I search for that liminal movement that slips underneath spoken words.