Two Way Lens and Greg Friedler

Two Way Lens proudly presents Greg Friedler.

I am very happy that Two Way Lens continues with another great master of photography.

Greg Friedler is an internationally renowned visual artist and one of the most prolific photographers working today.

He received his BA in Political Science and French from the Universityof Colorado at Boulder in 1993 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography and related media in 1996.

Greg's work has been featured in almost every international magazine and exhibited around the world. He is the creator of five monographs and his work has been included in 7 anthologies to date. 

His projects Naked New York, Naked Los Angeles, Naked Las Vegas and Naked London received lots of attention all around the world.

To see more of Greg's work, please visit his website.

His Projects Naked can be found here.

His interview with Two Way Lens can be found here.

from the series portraits

from the series Still Lifes

from the series Still Lifes

from the series Abstracts

from the series Naked

© copyright all images Greg Friedler

Jeff Seltzer

Jeff Seltzer is a photographer based in the Los Angeles area. He earned a BA in Communication and a MA in Rhetorical Theory.

His work is quiet, structured, very well composed and has a wonderful subtle color palette. He documents our every day urban surroundings, isolates his subjects and excludes people. The result is a terrific collection of photographs who look like contemporary still-lifes. They are captivating, irritating, beautiful and memorable. 

Jeff writes about his work:

My photography reveals the effect of human occupation within the landscape of contemporary environments. My pictures are made to document a time and a place, static treatments of our everyday modern urban landscape. These anonymous, sometimes featureless structures and locations exclude people but at the same time show the effect of human occupation and interaction. I isolate my subjects, creating a head-on, cold and detached Kubrickian symmetry. My images allow viewers to see beauty in the everyday and show harmony in the ordinary and mundane that we take for granted.

Please visit Jeff's website and see more of his work.

His blog Only a Picture can be found here.

  

Drive Thru

Empty Parking Lot With Cone

A Tree

Classroom

Restroom

Shopping Cart Incongruity

A Bush

Tree, Shadow and Arrow

© copyright all images Jeff Seltzer

PMS 485 C

José Carlos Marques is the founder and editor in chief of a new project called PMS 485 C

Josè writes about his project:

PMS 485 C is an online platform dedicated to supporting and promoting Emerging Art Photography.

This project based in Portugal serves the art community by showcasing and publishing the work of new artists who use Photography as their primary medium of communication.

PMS 485 C aims to become an international resource for those interested in Photographic Production.

I am very happy to be a part of this wonderful project together with a great line up of fantastic photographers from all around the world.

Please visit PMS 485 C and take some time to browse the portfolios.

Two Way Lens and Jesse Burke

Two Way Lens proudly presents Jesse Burke.

I am very happy that Two Way Lens continues with another great photographer.

Jesse Burke is a conceptual photographer working primarily with themes related to masculine identity. 

He received his BFA from the University of Arizona and his MFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design.

Jesse's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and internationally, including The Haggerty Museum, the Perth Center for Photography, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Print Center in Philadelphia and the Lishui Photo Festival in China. His work is in many private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Art, Houston.

Burke’s photographs evoke a deep lushness with images of velvet black darkness, blankets of pine needles, blood, love and sadness. He photographs the natural world around him as well as the men who are a part of his life, whether family members or friends, to explore the vulnerability of masculinity. He is drawn to moments where a rupture or wound is physically, emotionally or metaphorically inflicted. He employs concepts such as male bonding and peer influence, masculine rites and rituals, and man’s connectedness to nature in order to expose these instances.

More of Jesse's work can be found on his website.

His blog can be found here.

And of course his interview with Two Way Lens can be read here. 

 Bleachers, from the series Intertidal 1

 Spring Training, Nils, from the series Intertidal 1

 Net, from the series Intertidal 2

 from the series Clover

Hay Hill 3484, from the series Blind

 Simulacrum, from the series Blind

William II, from the series Blind


© copyright all images Jesse Burke

Pioneer Kaserne Hanau, Part II

Here are more images from the former Pioneer Kaserne in Hanau

© copyright all images Michael Werner

Pioneer Kaserne Hanau

The former Pioneer Kaserne and Housing in Hanau was once the home and base for many hundreds of American soldiers. 

It was a time when the whole area was like little America in the middle of Germany. People loved the American lifestyle and the feeling of being surrounded by their American friends. 

In 2008 the last soldiers left Hanau and since then the Pioneer Kaserne is deserted and the nature takes over everything. 

The photos below are impressions from outside the fence, taken with my iPhone.

© copyright all images Michael Werner