Sally Mann y Antonin Kratochvil

SALLY MANN

Obviously Sally Mann was going to be one of my selected authors since she has done so many pictures of women, not just herself or her children (Immediate Family) but her series of At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women. 

I think her work is really interesting in the way she just show something as natural as nudity in children (in her third collection, Immediate Family) while some critics see the twist of child pornography. Once I read, and sadly I don't remember from who, that the shamefulness is not in those who display it but in the eyes of those who are watching. 

The Three Graces (I've chosen this image because I think it's beyond amazing)

In her series of At Twelve I'd like to point the story behind one of the pictures, where she photographed a twelve year old with her mom's boyfriend. She had to crop the girl's elbow because she refused to get any closer to the man. Months later, the mom of this kid shot in the face to this guy because she found out that the guy was partying and harrasing her daughter every night she had to work at a local truck stop.

Untittled

ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL

He is known for photographing Mongolia's street children for the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History and the Iraq War for Fortune.

He has also photographed famous actors an has both black and white and color photography among his work.

There's just a few I was able to find about his biography but that he was born in Czech in 1947.

What I have seen is that he has a lot of series about many other conflicts and issues around the world than the ones mentioned above, such as Blood Diamonds, Burma Heroin, Chernobyl, Haiti, Nigeria, Poverty, San Juan Prision, Vanishing, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Glaciers, IDP in Caucasus...

To be honest, I've chosen this picture of his series Burma Heroin because of the women on it since it was difficult to find women in his pictures.