I went to the Nasher this weekend to check out their Color Balance show and ended up spending most of my time in their permanent collection. Nothing against the exhibit or anything, it’s just I never really need more than 10 minutes in a color field exhibit before I’m satisfied. What really caught my attention that day, were a few large format color prints (including the piece above) by Burk Uzzle that were recently added to the Nasher’s permanent collection. His use of composition and color balance is mesmerizing. Take some time to check out his ‘Just Add Water’ + ‘All American’ series on his site. He also happened to photograph a little get together in the 60’s featuring naked hippies listening to music in the mud…

P.S. If your name is Kristy Martino, then you’re probably going to want to check out the ‘John Hermann House’ series…  altars and obsessive collections galore.

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Tim Simmons is a talented photographer from across the pond who shoots some seriously stunning photos. He is a man that truly understands the importance of preparation. His work is a mixture of proper lighting, staging and a ton of prep work that creates all these CG-like photos. He does a great job of taking something recognizably natural and twists it to appear almost alien.

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This morning Woody turned me on to local Raleigh photographer Tim Lytvinenko, whose portfolio I am already (at 11) moderately obsessed with…

There really isn’t a whole lot of information on this gentleman in his bio or elsewhere on the web but take a few minutes perusing the galleries in his portfolio and you’ll get it.

In a world where 95% of the photo portfolio’s I come across online consist of staged hipster portraits with excessive lighting or gritty, “street”, documentary style photos (usually by suburbanites recently transplanted to their romanticized city of choice), Tim’s the natural.  He feels at rest around his subjects, lucid, and there’s a real ease that comes across in the work.  There isn’t much fat here; you get a story you can understand immediately via the capture of the exact, correct moment.

“…photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event, as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.” -Bresson

Take a moment to poke around Tim’s excellent (and funny) website, I would especially recommend checking out the “Jill Libby” gallery.

What do you all think of Tim’s work?  As excited as me?