Inspiration | Carrie Mae Weems

See Carrie Mae Weems' retrospective at the Guggenheim ASAP.  I cannot recommend this exhibit enough.  Her work is beautiful, moving and cheeky at times.  For those not familiar with her work check out this review in The New Yorker 

Inspiration | William Miller

A photography professor I had recently sent me a link to an article on William Miller's "Gowanus Canal"in which he works with the interplay between man made waste and light reflections in the canal.  I've never seen toxic waste,  poop, and dead animals look so damn good!  Also I die over his "Ruined Polaroids"  in which he used a broken camera to produce brilliant abstractions by crushing polaroid film.  Truly inspiring work TGIF.

Inspiration

Loving works by Abelardo Morrell, Edward Burtynsky, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sally Mann, Francesca Woodman, and Uta Barth among some others.

Inspiration | Uta Barth

A friend of mine just introduced me to the work of Uta Barth and already I am absolutely in love.  I'm bowled over by the way she uses light to achieve abstraction.  She also shoots exclusively in her house enabling her to capture the fleeting ephemeral qualities that exists within the mundane everyday, while still maintaining the sense of wonder which is the true essence of life (or so i believe).  You can find the interview that captured my heart here: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/859/

Inspiration

Fell into a complete wiki hole.  Enamored with André Kertész, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Ruth Thorne-Thomsen