Loretta Lux

"Colours are extremely important to me. I love colours. Colours can be used to evoke feelings or convey certain states of mind. However, recently I have started to explore black and white photography. I am interested in the mental process which translates black and white into colour." Quote from Photo-Wisdom by Lewis Blackwell

James Mollison

"Photography is the most amazing key to the world. I feel very privileged to experience the world through photography, and to have met the people I have because of it. It is incredible to have photography as a witness to my life and what I have done." Quote from Photo-Wisdom by Lewis Blackwell

Erwin Olaf

"In the early nineties I was anti-Photoshop. It changed when I did the project Mature: I had these women who I wanted to give grey hair, and so I had them wear wigs, but I wanted to touch out the underlying hair. A small thing, but it opened up my eyes. What particually attracted me when I started working digitally was that you had good colour management, better than with film. So this allowed me to move from mostly black and white to working with reduced colour. When I first began with the digital I made a series of over-the-top Photoshop images. Nowadays I use it in a more modest way." Quote from Photo-Wisdom by Lewis Blackwell

David LaChapelle

"I think my images have always been big, it's the magazines that got smaller, to misquote Sunset Boulevard" Quote from Photo-Wisdom by Lewis Blackwell

I think its pretty safe to say everyone has been in love with the work of LaChapelle at one time or another.

Andrew Zuckerman

"It is an antiquated idea not to want to talk about how you made things. It comes from a time when people thought they would have their ideas stolen. I am not scared of anybody repeating me because it is impossible, as I am moving forward; I am somewhere else. I am thirty-one years old, in the first section of my career. I have just completed my 10,000 hours practice, as Gladwell would see it. I hope I am getting closer to exposing my DNA through my work and fulfilling my curiosities in my work, and not doing this in a selfish way - I want my work to continue to be broad in its subject and appeal to affect people." Quote from Photo-Wisdom by Lewis Blackwell

Zuckerman is one of those people that really amaze me. Mainly his images of animals, but those of people aswell. His lighting is always exceptional and something that isn't seen so often. Along with the patience that shows in his work with the animal shots. Although this is supposed to be for my people research I got totally carried away with the animals .. so the people are at the bottom!

Ste Peg

Ste Peg

"I love apocaly sceneries, but I also like to find the traces, the magic, the secrets and the treasures hidden in ruins.
What is dead is alive again: the light plays with the shadows, the sun rays invade the rooms making the rust shine and coloring the crusty walls, the rain filters from the holes in the roof, creating surreal mirrors on the floor.
With my pictures I try to capture the essence of that all, in moments when innumerable emotions hit me and what is outside seems to disappear."

This quote from Peg's website http://ste-peg.com/aboutme.html really sums up urban exploring for me. He portrays all of the feelings you get in those buildings extremely well. The thing I find the most beautiful about his work is the peacefulness and tranquility he acchieves in such derelict places. His work really inspires me and makes me want to keep on exploring!