Photographer J. Bennett Fitts lives and works in LA. His series entitled No Lifeguard On Duty has this kind of modern, artificial landscape look and one can feel his responsibility to document these parts of LA culture with his own eyes. The subject of motel and public pools is influenced by the likes of Jeff Brouws‘s and Ed Ruscha‘s photographic work.
“While I’ve always been interested in landscape photography, I have never been drawn toward creating heroic imagery. I have instead been drawn to the subtle and banal work of the new topography movement and photographers like Lewis Baltz and Robert Adams. The sense of quiet and isolation that pervades their work is a quality I hope to bring to my own. And yet I set out to achieve an aesthetic beauty that they were less interested in,” says J. Bennett Fitts.
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Joel Evey is a Designer based in Philadelphia and being Urban Outfitters print art director for a while now. He’s the man responsible for some fancy and high quality print products for them. Evey combines well thought out considered design and typography with images to create exciting pieces of work. PROFILE Name: Joel Evey Age: 29 [...]
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