Joan Myers
Myers started her profession in photography in the early 1970's, with her work becoming a major focus for three Smithsonian exhibitions, more than fifty solo and eighty group shows, and eleven books. She started off her career as a large-format platinum-palladium printer whilst exploring the relationships between the land and people. For the 2002-2003 austral summer Myers was awarded an antarctic artist and writers grant to photograph McMurdo stations the surrounding field stations, historic huts, and the South Pole. She entitled the series as “Wondrous Cold: an Antarctic Journey” it was opened in May 2006 at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
Myers creates a narrative in her work by rediscovering the past by visiting internment camps that have been abandoned, throughout this she visited the ten remaining Japanese - American internment camps that were created in the 1940's, She photographed the remaining objects or marks left behind from those who were living there.
Susan Rankaitis
Susan Rankaitis photographs the ongoing evolution of photography whilst linking it to science and technology at the same time, she uses light sensitivity to explore further and convey the deeper side to photographys past and present. Rankaitis uses multiple negatives and prints to bleach, tint and also brush photographic chemicals on large sheets of light sensitive paper to create her pieces of work these usually fill entire walls or hang from ceilings.
what i like about Susans work is that her images arent something you would see everyday they are very unique and she hasnt just gone out and taken a landscape she has gone and played around with different techniques to create huge pieces of work that are unusual the the human eye.
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