America As We Know It
Ash.
Artist Hero One
Stan Raucher, was born in Michigan, and didn't start seriously taking pictures until 2003, but had taken pictures before then but didn't assume they would amount to anything. This is his series "Metro" that he had started in 2007 and he made it around the world from Paris to New York ending up in Shanghai. He had taken pictures of people doing everyday ordinary, daily activities. He works had been published in magazines and articles all over the globe! "I enter a metro station it feels as though I’m in a magnificent theater with a diverse cast of characters performing an unscripted play on an ever-changing stage." he is interested in the simple world and the "ugly" parts of the cities, which is what my pictures are consumed of. He has no certain plan when he goes out and takes pictures, as I do the same, if i see something that I find beautiful and different I capture it. He has no certain angle to take his pictures from, as you can tell in the 4th picture and the 6th he doesn't care if it's from a low point of view. All his pictures are from different cities but still have a connective factor of where are these people going to or leaving. He takes a picture of a main focus and you can see the whole subject matter even though chaos is going on around it. For my next concentration I plan on still take street photography, and urban decay, but add a couple of pictures of people doing their daily life (such as pointing out world problems). I do not want to stray away from what I normally photograph, I do not fully know what I am, or what these photos could lead to, I pick up a camera and never look for anything certain except just look out and see what could possibly become of going out and taking pictures. I do not plan to edit my pictures much that is not who I am as a person, I don't find the picture to be a picture after it is edited so much.
Concentration
Urban, let's explore it. The crappy parts of the city that no one ever likes or find beautiful. To everyone else this is cruddy and not appealing, but look at the colors and the stories held behind the photographs. You don't know what was with in the area before it rusted and decayed down, but you can get an idea. Why can't the ugly be pretty? I did not edit the pictures much I switched the levels a little on a few of the pictures, but I did not want the picture to lose it's natural beauty and color so I kept them the way they are. Captured in these photos are vibrant colors, shape and the law of thirds, not knowing what I composed in the moment but later looking back at it seeing the true beauty within these places.I simply just drive around and I see something so broken down I feel inprised. What can I say, I love the chaos.