James Fee Photography

Website of photographer James Fee. Disturbing images, from a very personal view on a dream-like America to portraits of celebrities, but always with the very peculiar look of Fee.

J. Kevin Dunn Photography

In one of the last entries in this weblog, I had mentioned J. Kevin Dunn's website, saying about it that it "(...)may not have a very attractive look, but the photos it shows are quite worth a careful look."
In a nice e-mail, Kevin Dunn himself tells me that the website I mentioned was an old version and that his new website, with more complete galleries and some of his last work, is now at http://www.jkevindunn.com/. This website has seven different galleries, including "Railways", his newest work that deserves to be seen and felt like a long trip through the Canadian prairies.

Joyce Tenneson

Website of American photographer Joyce Tenneson, an exceptional portraitist who also creates other types of images - check her flowe still lives, for instance. This site has several galleries full of great images, prints for sale, a list of the books published by Tenneson, a small biography and the list of workshops in which she participates.

J. Kevin Dunn Photography

J. Kevin Dunn's website may not have a very attractive look, but the photos it shows are quite worth a careful look. I found the work of this photographer through the publication of his "My Life As A Dog" portfolio in an old number of Lenswork magazine, which is certainly a sign of quality. In his website, Dunn presents us with three portfolios: "Canadiana", "Canine" e "Wedding", always in beautiful black & white and with a unique look on everything around him.

Jan Saudek

«At the field of Photography, as same as in Love, everything's allowed.
You can do anything you desire!
You're permitted to shoot your pictures from the respectful distance, you may use various gimmicks, overpay your models, you can come very close (with the camera) to your adored objects, sink to the water (don't forget to emerge!) you can "forget" to pay your model and to short her wages, you may develop your films in river, in hot soup, in fixer - you can run naked and drunk all over your studio, can use all existing types of cameras, old papers, expired films, bad, weak light - you can lose your good manners, hopes, insight - you can fall to sleep during session, overthrow the tripod with the camera, forget your Hasselblad in woods oranythingg you want - but still there are 2 things you must to avoid: you are not allowed to lie - and you mustn't be boring.
That point 1 I try to avoid really carefully - one shouldn't lie at all.
And, as for rule #2: it's up my respectable viewer to tell if I don't...»
(Jan Saudek)

Burton Pritzker

Official website of American photographer Burton Pritzker. It shows three series of photographs, "Texas Rangeland", "Artifacts" and "Watermark". I discovered Pritzker's work in Lenswork #43 (Oct/Nov 2002), where part of the "Texas Rangeland" portfolio was published. Pritzker has the ability of transforming what he photographs into something different, creating his own world through the abstraction he gives to shapes and textures (take a look, for instance, at the almost unreal images of bulls and horses in "Texas Rangeland"). A vision quite different from what we're used to, worth knowing.

Jazz & Blues

"Jazz & Blues" - my first solo exhibition will start at the end of next week. It will be held from the 27th of September to the 1st of November at the Catacumbas Jazz Bar in Lisbon.
This exhibition is comprised of 16 photographs taken at rehearsals and gigs of Jazz and Blues bands and it tries to connect my own personal vision of the peculiar mood of these musical genres with a space dedicated to them - the Catacumbas Jazz Bar.
If you'd like to have an idea of what the exhibition will look like, you may visit its website, here.

Catacumbas is at Travessa da Água da Flor, n.43, at Bairro Alto, Lisbon. Show up for a drink, I'll be around...

Xposure Photography

The website that presents the work of Portuguese photographer Pedro Guimarães. Includes his biography, information and contacts for commercial works and his artistic portfolio. This last one is divided in 6 thematic galleries - "Angels", "Europeans", "Pilgrimages", "S.Bartolomeu do Mar", "Singles" and "Beach" and each one of them has beautiful pictures with Pedro's very own ambiance. The "Europeans" portfolio, under the name "A descoberta de um turista" ("The discovery of a tourist") has recently won the Center/North zone award in the first FNAC New Photography Talent award (in Portugal).

Czech + Slovak Staged Photographs

A website that gathers the work of several Czech and Slovak photographers that have in common the staging of their images as a way of better expressing their personal vision. The site has several interesting galleries and deserves a careful visit to become better acquainted with the conceptual work of these authors.

Flux + Mutability

Finally, Luis Farrolas's website! A personal friend and one of the people that was more directly responsible for my interest in photography, Luis presents his work in these pages, in six galleries that show well the versatility and the undeniable quality of his vision, which deserves being shared in a global way.