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Ori Gersht is an Israeli photographer and video artist. He is known for his use of photography and video to explore themes of memory, history, and conflict.
Gersht's work often involves the use of slow-motion and high-speed video, which allows him to capture the ephemeral and fleeting moments that are often overlooked in daily life. He also uses a range of photographic techniques, including still life and landscape photography, to create images that are both beautiful and haunting.
Some of Gersht's most famous series include "Time After Time," which captures the moment of a bursting flower, and "Liquidation," which explores the destruction of historical objects. He has also created video installations that examine the history and memory of the Holocaust.
Gersht's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, and he has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the field of photography and video art. He continues to produce new work and is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary artists working today.
Richard Learoyd is a British photographer. He is known for his large-scale, camera obscura photographs that capture incredibly detailed, lifelike images of people and objects.
Learoyd studied fine art painting before transitioning to photography, and his work often blurs the lines between photography, painting, and sculpture. He constructs his own camera obscura by building a room and attaching a large, convex lens to one wall, which projects an upside-down image of the subject onto a sheet of photographic paper. He then uses traditional darkroom techniques to develop and print the final image.
Learoyd's photographs often feature portraits of friends and family members, as well as still lifes of everyday objects such as fruit, flowers, and animals. His work has been exhibited widely and is included in the collections of many major museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Learoyd has received numerous awards and honors for his photography, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a commission to create a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II for the Diamond Jubilee of her reign.
Vera Mercer is a German-born photographer who lives and works in France and the United States.
In the early 1960s she became part of the artistic avant-garde in Paris, which later became known as the "New Realists" (Nouveau Réaliste), photographing movie stars and avant-garde artists of the time. Later she found a new inspiration.
Mercer creates extraordinary large-scale photographic still lifes of food. With the right lighting and carefully chosen compositions of china, cutlery, fruit, seafood and game, Mercer's photographs resemble still lifes in the Dutch Baroque style. With burning candles and artful arrangements, the paintings, flooded with mystical light, are also a reinterpretation of classic vanitas motifs.
