Nomada Q : creativity

Today with an image processing application anyone can achieve excellent photographic results, perhaps what makes the difference is that subjective nuance, in the end the psycho-affective elements provided by the photographer.

And therefore the skills deployed in the creative process and the technical knowledge that the photographer possesses. David Hill is an example of the above, his photographs in HDR, meet both in its execution, as in its composition, as well as in the treatment of images made in the studio.

Where he sometimes retouches each image to the point of exhaustion, something he does however with the sole objective that each of the many photographs he has taken throughout his long career. It reflects those elements and concerns from which he has created a very particular universe.

BODY LANGUAGE FROM A CREATIVE POINT OF VIEW

Whose visual narrative apart from preserving some signs of identification perfectly recognizable by anyone who approaches his work. In which prevails his vocation that in many of his photographs you do not appreciate the difference with what could be an illustration.

Dave does not make use of a simple Photoshop plugin, with which he retouches those aspects of the photograph until he gives it his particular stamp. Paying special attention to the lights by applying specific filters through which he gets that lighting as localized as realistic.

READ IT IN SPANISH: David Hill un pionero de la fotografía digital

His technique, developed over many years, therefore requires a combination, in which the parameters related to lighting seek a movement of that image that in principle is immovable and that comes to life through that action that is perceived. Creating a highly seductive narrative. In the following link you have the opportunity to follow the process of applying the HDR technique.

David Hill is a commercial photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in 1979, he grew up in San Diego. His love for photography has evolved over the years, and now it has become his obsession. David Hill is one of the biggest names in the photography business.

Bottles that transform into hedges, records that become a menacing dark wave of oil, thousands of pill bottles that form part of the design of a lamp, yogurt pots that pile up to draw the skyline of a big city.

Or more everyday things like peculiar alphabet books whose origin are obsolete keyboards that become a woven fabric with thousands of words. Almost any object in the hands of the artist Jean Shin can be recycled and given a new expressive opportunity, preventing it from being definitively lost or ending up polluting the tempestuous waters of the ocean.

The merit of Jean Shin's installations resides not in the fact of demonstrating his ability to transform waste into artistic material with which he creates ingenious sculptural pieces with which he transmits his concern for the environmental deterioration that is leading us as a civilization to a dead end, from which it is increasingly difficult to escape.

But in being able to articulate a coherent language that contains both an aesthetic and plastic lecture, through which he can articulate a discourse with empathetic capacity. As to seduce the viewer and subjectively transmits a specific idea on a particular topic that in the background creates a reflective aftertaste.

BIZARRE SCULPTURES WITH A MESSAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DENUNCIATION.

That allows him to create an opinion about, for example, the effects of living in a society where more and more voices criticize the unbridled consumption in which we live. Another of the qualities of his sculptures is that the observer is not limited to maintain a passive attitude to the work, inviting him to debate, challenging him to take an active stance, in this sense the touch is an elementary element as well as specific in the dialogue with the work enriching the information he perceives.

Although born in Seoul, South Korea, she spent most of her childhood in the United States, attending the Shin Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999, after the completion of which she received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He currently resides and has his studio in New York. Where he has become one of the most relevant names in the art scene, regularly participating in exhibitions organized by the galleries of the Big Apple.

READ IT IN SPANISH: El arte reciclado y activista del artista Jean Shin

In this sense, his work has been widely exhibited in major national and international museums, including solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona (2010), the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC (2009), the Fabric Workshop and the Philadelphia Museum (2006), and retrospective exhibitions such as the one dedicated to him by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2004).