Photographer 16 | Susan Meiselas

Meiselas is a member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She is best known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America, published extensively throughout the world in 1981. 

Meiselas' series, Pandora's Box, catches my eyes when I browse through her portfolio. The dramatic content in the series is in fact a documentary mirror of events occurred in a high-class sex club, Pandora's Box, located in Manhattan. In this series, the common scenes we see are role-playing games that occur in the club. At Pandora's Box, women is holding more power to control men, which is in contrary to the traditional, submissive female role.

This series is done in vibrant colors and high contrast. In this way, it gives strong emotional impact. The blurry effects caused by motion allow audience to feel the movement while it makes the image looks lively and closer to the reality instead of being staged beforehand for shooting. The magical part of these photographs to me is the composition. They look like being framed randomly but the composition looks just right in each of them.

Photographer 15 | David Hilliard

Hilliard is an American fine art photographer, mainly produce panoramic photographs. His works usually apply vibrant colors, with large compositions to include more elements which are narrative. I like the way he splits up the frame into 3 images which are somehow able to tell a story alone while each of the story is connected to one another. As a storytelling, Hilliard explores issues such as intimacy, identity and homosexuality. His sexual development has become his constant inspirations to portray heroic characters and masculinity into the frames. Hilliard's works share similarity with Gregory Crewdson's works in terms of cinematic aspect.

Photographer 14 | Bill Henson

Henson is an Australian contemporary art photographer, focus mainly on portraits. He is well versed in handling light to create a transcendent effect. His works are usually in dark tone, shot under low light with much of shadow, to isolate his subjects.

Henson's subject of work revolves around youth and adulthood, male and female. His work tends to painterly depict some classical romance.

I like the emotions that are being portrayed in his work, which is kind of dark, silent and melancholic. It gives a feeling that the persons in the frames are being alienated from the world while he/she is close to the edge of giving up their life, numb and helpless.