www.mikeephotography.com
www.instagram.com/mikeetog

Never Edit says, “Watching people has fascinated me since childhood... the variety of their looks, behaviour, expressions, and emotions. I tried to memorize what I saw, using my eyes as camera and my brain as hard disk. When I first heard of street photography a couple of years ago, it felt like I found "home". 

Saving that split second forever not only in my memory but as a photograph is what I've become addicted to.

When I go out, I have nothing specific in mind, I just shoot whatever I find interesting, and I prefer the candid spontaneous shot anytime over picture-perfect or posed photos.

My portraits are always taken in the street, with permission if up close, or else candid."

www.never-edit.com
www.instagram.com/never.edit

Norman Aragones says, “The main paradigm in my photographic art revolves around the concept of depth (having some level of meaning within the photo and thus attempting to elicit a viewer's reaction through deliberate imagery). My hope is that the viewer comes away with some feeling, idea, and/or perspective from seeing my photo(s). 

The techniques I use in creating photographic images are not something specific. I just try to work diligently in creating something in particular (that I had envisioned previously in my mind's eye).”

Photos for Sale-

Grandmother Praying
16" H x 20" W
Acrylic
$300 
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back


Expectations
16" H x 24" W
Metal
$400 
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back


Cancer
20" H x 24" W
Metal
$400
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back


America
16" H x 24" W
Metal
$400
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back


Distorted Generation
16" H x 24" W
Metal
$400
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back


I, Too, Am America
20" H x 24" W
Metal
$300
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back

Contact: Norman Aragones
norm560478@yahoo.com
 

"My name is Patricia Fortlage and I am a documentary and fine art photographer.

My goal is to create work that moves people, work that inspires change, especially for women. Studies have shown that if you invest in women, entire communities will be raised. I seek to do just that.

For the past 17 years I partnered with programs in developing countries to document their work, the issues they face, and how they are addressing those issues. Alongside this, I have also created bodies of work here in the US to advocate for women.

Even now, with a progressive diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis and the physical limitations that that entails, I continue to create work to improve the lives of my sisters everywhere.  Even my fine art work seeks to tell a story and inspire change.

My latest project is a series sharing my own journey with chronic illness. It is titled, “Lemonade,” and it is a project I have wanted to do for a very long time. I would like it to serve as a love letter to the chronic illness community… especially the women who are most gaslighted by medical professionals and others in our communities at large. This is a photographic fine art series with careful attention to raising women up in the process.

My hope is for the viewer to have an immediate emotional reaction to my work, as opposed to an intellectual reaction, one that will move them and inspire them in how they themselves move in the world. I hope to sometimes educate and inspire with my work, sometimes shock and surprise. At its most poignant, I would like to hope I have inspired positive change."

Patricia Fortlage is an award-winning documentary and fine art photographer.  From her core belief that if you invest in women and girls, entire communities will be raised, Patricia has focused much of her documentary career working with organizations doing just that.

From her powerful piece covering the female-led Othakarhaka Foundation in Southern Malawi to the stereotype breaking, female empowering Wonder, Girl! campaign, to an ongoing project depicting the often life-long after-effects of sexual assault on women, Patricia has promoted female empowerment one project at a time.

She has documented conditions and shared stories of struggle and success, helped to promote tourism in the poorest of nations, and overall, devoted her artistic work to furthering community development.

She began her career by studying a degree in political science and international relations; however, she changed her focus to photography when she realized that change can also be affected through this medium as well. Her contributions in humanitarian aid and photography have taken her to over 50 countries, witnessing extreme poverty, unthinkable disease, violence, and destruction of life.  

She has also experienced beauty of spirit, resilience, optimism, and a human kindness that knows no boundaries or borders.  This beauty has inspired her to relay those stories.

Patricia learned a lot during her work overseas.  She learned that no matter where one lives, everyone is doing the very best that they can, and that most welcome support and ideas and collaborations where they can find them.  She learned about the generosity of others, especially those in the medical profession, who give of their time and skills freely and fervently to save lives.

She learned that her documentary skills as a photographer, while honed, paled in comparison to the real life-saving work performed by locals and foreigners united by shared visions.  She is humbled to have partnered on this treasured work.

Patricia also learned that in addition to love, food, and health, art is sustenance.  In so many cultures, art is revered… it is savored.  Whether that art be music, paintings, weavings, sculpture, photography… the list goes on… art is contentment for the soul, it inspires change, it brings joy. This has led to an alchemy of her own work, transitioning more towards fine art photography in recent years.  Her work has been published internationally and she has widely exhibited in solo and juried exhibits across the globe.  

IMAGES FOR SALE-

Resilience - 20"H x 16" W
Archival Pigment Print
$600 unframed
Stamped for Authenticity and Signed on Back


Grief - 16"H x 20" W
Archival Pigment Print
$600 unframed
Stamped for Authenticity and Signed on Back


Slipping Mask - 16"H x 20" W
Archival Pigment Print
$600 unframed
Stamped for Authenticity and Signed on Back


The Breath - 16"H x 20" W
Archival Pigment Print
$600 unframed
Stamped for Authenticity and Signed on Back

 
Sorrow - 20"H x 16" W
Archival Pigment Print
$600 unframed
Stamped for Authenticity and Signed on Back

 
Troubling Thoughts - 16"H x 20" W
Archival Pigment Print
$600 unframed
Stamped for Authenticity and Signed on Back

Contact: Patricia Fortlage at  patti@patriciafortlage.com
 

www.patriciafortlage.com
www.instagram.com/patricia.fortlage

Paul Braverman says, "Walking down the street and looking from sidewalk to sidewalk, I’m alternately excited, depressed, inspired. But I’m always in love with the visual world. And I want to take all that richness, and all those emotions, and cram every one into my photographs. 

But that’s not how to succeed as an artist, say the experts on the subject. The key, they say, is to create a consistent, identifiable body of work. Art which people can look at and recognize as a Braverman. 

Those experts are asking a lot. Don’t get me wrong. I want to be successful. But it’s hard to be consistent in a world exploding with contradiction. How can I be identifiable when everything is so mysterious?

If you look around this site a little, you’ll see a lot of people. If I can be identified with any particular strain of art, it’s probably the portrait. If done well, a simple portrait conveys unmatched complexity. That simple portrait can reveal both a person’s past—if you accept Coco Chanel’s line that you get the face you deserve—and the present, what she is thinking and feeling right now. A face alive in its environment—at work, in love—is even more powerful. 

To me, Shelby Lee Adams is the exemplar in the field. My all-too-brief art education includes a week-long seminar with Shelby, who taught me lessons I carry with me to this day.

Look a little deeper, particularly in the “Transformations” section, and you’ll see familiar objects that have transformed themselves into something unknown. The portraits and these transformative pictures are the two most important currents in my work. 

The Transformations got their start one night when I saw that a window in my living room was admitting a circus of light from an array of sources that I had always taken for granted—streetlights, passing cars, whatever. These lights were playing all over the ceiling and the back wall. When this most familiar of spaces became something unknown I knew enough to grab a camera, lay on my back, and capture what seemed as fleeting as the Northern Lights. 

From that day forward, I kept my eyes open. A display like that is rare but it only takes the occasional bite to keep you fishing. Edward Weston made a career out of showing routine objects transformed into something unknown. Weston, somehow, could do it at will. I’m not quite there yet.

Obviously, my work goes far beyond the two categories mentioned above. Worshippers at church, athletes on the playground, buildings rusting where they stand. I love it all. That love for the visual world—even the visual world at its most sad and distressing—is the one indispensable quality for a photographer. I have that love in spades and I’m working on the techniques that will enable me to communicate my vision to the world. If I can put the combination together . . . Watch Out!"

Photos for Sale-

In Fort Greene Park—16x20
Fine art paper
$350 unframed
Edition of 10


East Village Woman—16x16
Fine art paper
$350 unframed
Edition of 10


Afterwards—16x20
Fine art paper
$350 unframed
Edition of 10


Vietnam Veteran—16x20
Fine art paper
$350 unframed
Edition of 10


Community Books, Brooklyn—20x16
Fine art paper
$350 unframed
Edition of 10


God's Only Demons M.C.—16x20
Fine art paper
#350 unframed
Edition of 10

Contact artist at paul@paulbraverman.com

https://paulbraverman.com
https://www.instagram.com/paul.braverman

Paul Matzner says of his series, ‘Facing You/Facing Me’, “We pass people on the street every day without making eye contact or even acknowledging their presence. We are connected to our music, our phones, our technology, but not necessarily to the people around us. 

I have chosen to share a momentary, public intimacy with those passersby so that I can gaze longer at their faces and value their humanity. We need each other in this world.

My passion is to make images of people just being themselves, relating to each other or their environment. I admire Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose work has been called “the poetry of human encounters on the street.” That’s a beautiful description which serves as my inspiration. Life is full of discovery and connections...that is what my photography is about.

Father, husband, dog owner, photographer, music lover, ... I have lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin all my life but have traveled to the South Pacific, Western Europe, South America, and 48 states of the USA. I also spent time in New York City each year from 2008 - 2018 to do street photography, which culminated in my book, Seeing You In New York.

I am honored that my fine art photography has been juried into numerous shows, and my work is in the collection of the Racine Art Museum. My stock images have been licensed through Alamy for many publications, textbooks, and corporate websites.

www.paulmatzner.com
 

Philip Ringler says, 'American Wax' is a visual lamentation and conceptual exploration of the current and historical American political landscape. Melancholic, melting figures from the depths of the uncanny valley slump in embarrassment and despondency. Distressed wax hands thread through uncomfortable representations of the patriarchy’s myopic gaze. Faceless, alien, Divine Feminine forms endure the endarkened lurking intensity of the founding fathers and their contemporaries. 

This series is inspired by Hiroshi Sugimoto’s portraits of wax figures. Instead of using black and white to enhance the illusion of humanness, I allow some of the sickly, garish colors of these characters to activate existential biliousness. I intentionally made the work noisy, murky, and slightly desaturated to further dislocate the images from their source: The President’s Hall of Fame, a mildewed, nearly forgotten roadside attraction in Central Florida. The work is not about the place itself, it’s about an idea. 

This work is an act of desperation. It is an artist’s attempt to make sense of the looping, confounding thoughts of “what is happening in this country?” It is meant to be printed large, allowing a full body relationship between the viewer and the thing viewed. The ultimate goal of this work is to enable catharsis, inspire conversation, spark communication, and hopefully, elucidate solutions."

Philip Ringler has been working as a photographer since he was 18. His career spans over 30 years working as a professional artist, photojournalist, and commercial photographer.

Philip has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from California State University, East Bay and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from John F. Kennedy University’s Arts and Consciousness Program.

His primary love is fine art photography, especially conceptual photography and exploring work about simulation, artifice, and the philosophy of “reality” within photography. Politics and cultural criticism are also key components of his current work. His studies in philosophy, art history, and art theory, along with living and traveling internationally, informs much of his work. 

He served as Director and Chief Curator of a University Art Gallery for 15 years and now works as an independent curator.  He worked over a decade as a business owner and commercial photographer, photographing art and sculpture for well known artists such as Stephen de Staebler and William T. Wiley.

He was a primary photographer for the comprehensive de Young Museum monograph, Matter and Spirit: Stephen de Staebler, published in 2012 by University of California Press.

His photographs have been published in Wired, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Express, SF Weekly, San Diego Reader, San Diego Union-Tribune, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Black and White, Maximum Rock N Roll, and Thrasher Magazine.

Philip’s artwork appears in collections, galleries, and museums all over the world.

He constantly creates new ambitious work and exhibits at art fairs and private galleries. 

He recently self-published a book entitled, This Exhibit is Closed., available for purchase on this website. He currently teaches photography at University of Central Florida, and lives in Orlando with his partner Anna, and cats, Penny (calico) and Carl (cow cat).

Images For Sale-

Philip Ringler
from American Wax series

American Depression 
Premium matte photo paper
24"x36"
2024
$650 unframed
edition of 10


American Gaze 
Premium matte photo paper
24"x36"
2024
$650 unframed
edition of 10
Signed on back



American Hands 
Premium matte photo paper
24"x36"
2024
$650 unframed
edition of 10
Signed on back


Signed on back
Contact: philip@philipringler.com
 

https://www.philipringler.com/
https://www.instagram.com/philipringler/


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