Judy Olausen is an artist that makes work similar to mine. She has a project where she dresses up her mom in these extravagant outfits and puts her in these scenes and they are pretty comical. You can see the type of relationship she has with her mother. My work is similar to hers in that you can see the type of relationship between the subject and photographer, but different in that her photos are very planned out and done over the top, whereas I like mine to look more raw and candid.
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Francois Brunelle is a photographer who finds and photographs strangers who look alike. I thought his series was super strange, but interesting. None of the people he photographs together are related by blood, but they just have facial characteristics that make them look similar. He found his first pair just by people he already knew who looked alike, but then the media blasted it out for people to come forward and that's how he has matched the rest of them. I think it's interesting how he chooses to photograph them in a studio setting with more of an intimate feeling with the pose and background. I'm super into strangers looking like they are not strangers based on their interaction. Relationships and body language are very intriguing to me.
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Mark Menjivar is an author and photographer that is well known for his series "You Are What You Eat" which gives us insight to peoples' lives, personality, and eating habits just by looking at photographs of the inside of their fridges. I think it's an interesting concept to be able to see the inside of other people's fridges. For me, I feel like I just assume that everyone's fridge just looks like mine on the inside. Once you see someone else's fridge compared to yours, you realize what kind of person you are in relation to them and what kind of person they might be without even meeting them first. It's a cool concept.
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