Top Photos From 43 Portfolios
On May 19, I announced that the Fine Art Photoblog was accepting portfolios to fill two new spots. In just two weeks, we had 43 outstanding portfolios come through: a few familiar names, and many new ones. This was a larger response than I had expected, and I have to admit that I'm wishing there were fewer portfolios to review!
Now the seven of us currently involved with the photoblog have the daunting task of selecting only two artists to potentially join us. We'll be going through rounds of narrowing the field, defending our favorites, and coming to agreements. We take this task very seriously and it's not something we're prepared to rush in any way. So if you are one of the 43 who submitted a portfolio, please be patient while we work through this.
In the meantime, I wanted everybody to get some of the spotlight because I found this group of portfolios to be particularly inspiring. I've selected one photo (my own personal favorite) from each portfolio to be displayed as a sample. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. The display order is based on the order that the portfolios were received.
The photos below are the sole property of the artist. They maintain fully copyright to their images, so please don't use them without permission.
UPDATE: Aw crud… it turns out we had 44 portfolio entries. One from Dawn Armfield didn't go through with the entry form. Sorry Dawn! We got you in there now.
Niels Henriksen
Joel Witmeyer
Daniel Hellerman
Cesar Tardaguila
William Fawcett
Chica
Stuart Murdoch
Martin Joergensen
Boris Taratutin
John P Sercel
Gilbert Maker
Broderick Smylie
Mathias Pastwa
Bob
Mike Pearce
Scott Ward
Sebastien Noir
Ed Zawadzki
Damien Franco
Alexander Artemenko
Ariel Diacovetzky
Gunjan Karun
Steve Berk
Scott Anderson
Kevin Flint
Amanda Loomis
Allison Jacobsen
Craig Bell
Javiy
Kelly Garnett
Aaron Boot
Dawn LeBlanc
Christian James
Ryan Pennington
Blake J. Nolan
William Rugen
Karola Riegler
Melissa Beach
Jeremy Brooks
Gregor Winter
W. D. Naismith
Zachary Cobb
Vahid
Dawn Armfield
I hope you all enjoy taking a look at these photos and I encourage you to browse through the portfolios.
San Lee
June 6, 2008Great shots! I like your personal favourites. They really do bring out the wonders of life, beautiful characters and places.
Scott Anderson
June 6, 2008Spectacular images everyone! I love the diversity of all the portfolios and high quality photography. Thanks Brian and crew for this post, and great exposure to all your readers.
-Scott
Vahid
June 6, 2008Yay!
Amazing photos.
philippe
June 6, 2008beautiful selection, some are wonderful. Nice work for sharing that!
Philippe
Chris/Aperture Image
June 6, 2008Some fine work to choose from Brian…best of luck!
Mike Pearce
June 6, 2008Some fantastic photos there. I’m pleased as punch to see one of my shots on this most illustrious blog, but I’m also humbled by the quality of work from the other entries.
smiles4angels
June 6, 2008thank you for the feature… discovered new photographers. 🙂
Aaron Boot
June 6, 2008Amazing portfolios here! To have to choose only two from this bunch will not be an easy task, do take your time and good luck. Just knowing that I’m among quality photographers is a good feeling.
Chica
June 6, 2008I’ve browsed all the portfolios already before this post, and am seeing some of the ones that I forgot to fav, so that’s cool. I do not envy being in the judges shoes, it’s going to be a tough choice to decide from all that talent!
Sébastien Noir
June 6, 2008Wow!
Wondeful pictures!
And tough choice for the judges!
Good Luck!
dawn
June 6, 2008Thanks so much for giving us this opportunity. Amazing photographers in this group.
Udi Tirosh
June 6, 2008This is a great selection, Brian. Looks like it is going to be a tough pick.
Jim Goldstein
June 6, 2008I don’t envy your task of choosing your next photographers. There is some great photography represented across those who have submitted portfolios.
W. D. "Nate" Naismith
June 6, 2008Thanks so much to for the opportunity to be considered. Great work by all concerned, and humbling when you see all the skills others have and the quality of their work. Good luck to all!
Cesar Tardaguila
June 6, 2008It is going to be a very difficult choice for the jury. There are some really great pictures there.
Brian Auer
June 7, 2008Wow, you guys summed it up nicely. I really am impressed with the work being shown. You should all be proud of the portfolios you’ve put together and hopefully this was a good exercise regardless of who the “winners” are.
Big 40wt Svetlyak
June 7, 2008Hi, Brian! I very happy that you choose that image. This one is my own’s favorite too! Although like most images which I took with medium fotmat camera.
bill rugen
June 7, 2008great work by everyone to be sure, the ones you gys choose will truly be worthy. good luck everyone.
Lisa
June 8, 2008They’re all amazing photographers, Brian. I’d wish you good luck but you really don’t need it. Can’t go wrong with these choices. 🙂
Kelly Garnett
June 8, 2008LOVE them!!!!
Thank you SO much, honored to be among this talent!
Look forward to hearing who the lucky ones are!
Gil Maker
June 9, 2008As one of the 44 porfolios, thank you for displaying our work. I am amazed at the scope of work these 43 other photographers display. I am glad I don’t have to pick the two new members. Good luck to all.
Gil
karola riegler
June 10, 2008hi Brian,
this is a real amazing portfolio of fantastic photographers,
and it’s an honor for me to share it with all of them.
enjoy the time looking through all these pictures and
good luck to all…. everybody could be the “winner”.
I’m looking forward to the result.
sunny greetings from vienna/austria,
karola
Craig Bell
June 19, 2008Brian,
So many portfolios, so little time! The thought occurs to me that you and the other photographers of the Fine Art Blog must be having some very interesting discussions as you select just two photographers from these really excellent portfolio submissions. Could the generalities of these discussions perhaps be the basis of an item for your blog? What did you look for? Did you discuss “art” versus “photography”? (Now there’s a Pandora’s box!) I suspect your readers include many that have been subjected to the “jurying” process, so an item of this type may be of broader interest than just for the 44 who submitted portfolios here.
Regards,
Craig
Brian Auer
June 19, 2008I’ll see what I can throw together when we announce the final selections, including our process and some of the discussion points.
Daniel Hellerman
June 25, 2008I cannot wait to see the results!