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Monday, May 23, 2011

installment three: dark secret's award winning photographer, mike baker

sorry it has been so long, bulb-ers!
i've been busy with, well, life
and art! (updates to follow)

here is the last installment of award winning images
from the dark secret challenge.
this "dark" collection belongs to mike baker.
he tells a story of either a really good night...
or a really bad night!

enjoy the images and decide for yourself!

By day, I toil in a software factory. Its a good living, but while one lobe of my brain is solving logic problems, the other is taking photographs. Photography is a creative outlet, which I also hope to apply towards environmental and social projects in the future.

This project about night life and debauchery was done as a class exercise in my on-going and never-ending education of art and imagery.

-Mike Baker

image by mike baker

images by mike baker

image by mike baker

Sunday, April 10, 2011

installment two: dark secret's award winning photographer, liz poulin

here is the second post exhibiting the work of the photographers
who were selected by sean carroll in the ...dark secret challenge.

below you will find the lovely & thoughtful work of liz poulin.

liz is exploring photography through historical alternative processes, as well as, digital technologies.

please feel free to leave constructive comments here on the blog,

but also know that you can reach liz through her own blog.

My name is Liz Poulin I am from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I am now finishing up my third year at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I am working on my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in photography. I enjoy exploring all aspects of the medium.

Liz Poulin
http://lizpoulin.blogspot.com/

Liz Poulin. Fixate. Digital Print. 2011.

Liz Poulin. From The Body Image series. Scanned Polaroid Transfer. 2010.

Liz. Poulin. Multiple Personality Self Portrait. Silver Gelatin Contact Print. 2010.

Liz. Poulin. Abandoned. Silver Gelatin Print. 2010.

Liz. Poulin. Repeat. Silver Gelatin Prints. 2010.

Friday, April 1, 2011

installment one: dark secret's award winning photographer, graham morrison

this is the first of four posts that will showcase

the work of the photographers who were selected by sean carroll in the ...dark secret challenge.

below you will find the energetic, colorful photographs of graham morrison.

please feel free to leave constructive comments here on the blog,

but also know that you can reach graham personally through his website or his facebook page!

I am from a small town; a really small town.

When I was growing up, I felt like photographs were my connection to the world outside of my town.

I started exploring my own world through photography when I was quite young.

My mom bought me a green Polaroid camera.

I didn't have any human models, so I would pose my toys,

stuffed animals,

my sisters Barbies,

whatever I could find.

Those are my earliest memories of working with models in front of my lens.

Interestingly enough, I am basically doing the same thing now as professional adult!

People fascinate me more than anything else and

I love creating images that share that fascination with others.

-Graham Morrison

http://www.grahammorrisonphoto.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Graham-Morrison-Photography/210344113899

graham morrison

Sunday, March 27, 2011

dark secret: the results

and here are the results of the dark secret challenge...

I enjoyed seeing everyone's 'dark secrets'. Dark secrets, unlike gossip, are those that no one really knows about; the ones that are so secret that we only reveal them to our closest companions, if at all. They are told in code to help maintain their secrecy and are hidden in the deepest part of our minds. Of the works submitted, I gravitated torwards those pictures that represented a secret held, but not revealed. Some of the more literal approaches were exciting. In the end, I wanted to spend more time with the selected works and continuously question the nature of the secret being depicted. I pondered my own deep secrets and how they are manifested in my life.

- sean carroll

thanks to everyone who submitted images & congratulations to the following photographers: