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Today we take a look at Tom Bejgrowicz interesting style of photography. I’ve always been a fan of those who partake in urban exploration and Tom has explored many locales. His work in the Lancaster Stockyards is phenomenal. He states “Lancaster Stockyards, located on the edge of the city in Lancaster, PA, was incorporated in 1895 and quickly became the largest stockyards east of Chicago. What remains is a maze of buildings, animal pens and rotting ruins awaiting razing.”

I enjoy this image the most out of his series due to the viewpoint he is allowing us to see in the photograph. I imagine that he had to lay down or crouch practically on the trash-ridden floor in order to take this shot. The focus is interesting and helps to tell a story. Perhaps overconsumption and consumerism?

The processing of the film is excellent and the gritty colors blend well with Tom Bejgrowicz’s subject matter.

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The photograph Manager’s Way, by “Pawel Wewiorski” is an incredible black and white image that subtly confuses the eye. The longer I look at this image, the more I feel it was hand drawn. Then I take a step back, look at it closer and it is a photograph again. This idea that the photograph could be viewed as a drawing is what makes this piece interesting to me. The rich tonality of this black and white photograph are incredible.

The architectural ideas presented in this piece bring about feelings of destruction, fire, and perhaps war. The crumbling building looks to have been burned in a fire perhaps not too long ago. Graffiti covers the walls as a testement to the people that have been there. The arches of the building interact nicely with the diagonal created by the crumbling brick wall. There is a figure walking/crawling up the broken, decaying wall looking forward and up to the ceiling. I think that this might be the artists way of expressing hope in a forlorn environment.

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Jean-Francois Dupuis’ conceptual photograph of “Pears” is taken in a refreshing new light compared to many of the other still life images out there. The selective use of cool and warm colors compliment each other nicely and allow a large amount of freedom for the artist to contrast the two pears. Blue and yellow tones set the mood for this image, which makes it seem dream-like and relaxing when I view it.

The two pears are central yet off balance just enough to create a dynamic composition, and I like the partial diagonal created by the yellow pear going from upper right to the center of the photograph. The background of the photograph remind me of something I would see if I were able to travel to an alien world, mixed with planet Earth’s autumn.

My favorite part of this piece is definetely the sharp contrast and focus of the yellow pear and the very shallow depth of field for the blue pear. The use of yellow is also interesting to make the yellow pear stand out more. It took me about a minute to actually realize the blue color towards the bottom of the photograph was a pear. Something about the muted blue made it almost invisible. The subtlety and beauty of this piece are what interest me about “Pears”.

Tea Garden Massacre has a very visceral quality to it with the paint spatters, acrylic red blood, and seemingly “sharp” metal surrounding the page. This piece is very dynamic and in your face using a mixture of acrylic, spray paint and mixed materials. I enjoy the “in your face” aspect of the artwork and I like the subtle interaction of the metallic spraypaint with the actual aluminum that has been mounted on the board. The light shading on the bamboo lends to the illusion of depth, and I’m interested as to why the artist Benjamin Abell chose to seperate the bamboo from a background. Perhaps that is a question that cannot be answered…

Looking closely at the piece the artist has made the background texturized and I wish I could actually handle the piece and touch the variations on the surface. Scratches, paint blotches, metal shards, and even bullet holes riddle the surface of this artwork.

According to the artist, “This painting was done on 1/2 inch concrete board. The background was done with metallic blond spray paint, and the bamboo and “blood” was done with acrylic to make it stand off the substrate, the trim and accents are done with 1/8 aluminum with bright green highlights. When the painting was complete I set it up at a range and shot it with a 22cal. rifle and 38-special revolver in order to achieve the authentic bullet holes I wanted. Yes I could have simulated bullet holes by hand or by shooting it with a nail gun up close, but where’s the fun in that.”

A very cool work of art and the story behind it makes it all the more interesting. An interactive Tea Garden Massacre.

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