Rodney Smith

http://rodneysmith.com/blog/

An interesting photographer. His blog has a lot of indepth info into his photographs.

A good example of reflecting on experiences and lead ups towards his work.

Leah Johnson

http://leahjohnston.com/index.html

Her blog

I really like her ideas behind her photographs. The thoughts behind them are really introspective and her images provide enough narrative to make you think and understand her world.

Valley of Regret

"You came to me this evening
In the shadow of a kiss
I thought that I had lost you
To the early morning mist
You took a humble helping
While I took all I could get
You took my heart and hid it
In the valley of regret

I trembled in your branches
Like a newly opened leaf
I was a shipwrecked sailor
That was waiting for relief
Who sacrificed his body
To the ocean in your debt
And took his final breathe inside
The valley of regret

Eclipsed by lust, we reveled in
The irony of youth
I took to magic mirrors
That did not reflect the truth
You took to making altars
To a secret statuette
Who ever would have thought
we’d find the valley of regret?

You damaged me with rainbows.
I ravaged you with rain.
I thought the only way to love
Was through a path of pain
We sang our sappy love songs
As our summer sun was set
Then burnt our angry torches
In the valley of regret

I’m fighting on the battle lines
I’m giving it my best
I probably will die here
But at least I took the test
I’m raging for the glory
And I’m running for the sweat
I’m taking all my chances
In the valley of regret."

"I brace myself for another
repeat.
The inhale/exhale of all things.
I ask myself
If I can handle
The ebb and flow
Which will sustain
And eventually damn me.

Does it matter if I don’t have a choice?

I feed the meter.
I read the scriptures.
I heed the words of my elders
Who tell me
To stitch sturdy knots in the fabric of my potential
Who tell me
To fear the great and inevitable
Consequence.

My skull is seething
I feel my bones begging
For a revolution that may never come
When I may cast off the shackles of polite existence
And go back
To eating berries."

Cycles of Sadness

                                            

                                         Step 1:Reach till it hurts

                                                         Step 2: Break

Zhang Jingna

Her mainsite

Her deviantart page

Her Flickr

 

Images from her Angel Dreams and Forgotten Fairytales series. I really love her work she is one of my all time favourite photographers. It's really amazing how she produces such beautiful work when she has only really been doing photography professionally for 2 years. Her dedication really shines throughout her work. The forgotten fairytale works of hers isn't directly based on her life, but the ideas behind it, the composition and feeling that has been put in to them are quite powerful and link into her dream-like quality she has with her images.
Her Angel Dreams Collection is more personal, it mainly made up of the things that have influenced her and her work over the years, such as the Japanese Culture through music, movies, manga, anime and her stay in Japan. Again her images are really delicate and dreamlike, as she is well known for her images to possess this quality, And through her memories and images it helps you to understand her how this culture has helped to transport her to her own place and create her own little world that has influenced her greatly.



More Info on her Angel Dreams Exhibition HERE.