Photographers
MARTHA COOPER
Martha Cooper is a photojournalist specializing in art and anthropology. She is among the handful of photographers who methodically documented subway graffiti during the 1970s and 1980s. Her body of work is the most extensive and significant of its kind.
Martha Cooper @ 12ozprophet.com
JEREMIAH GARCIA – N10Z
Jeremiah grew up surrounded with art and creative influences, often being exposed by his mother and close relatives to many forms of art and culture. Visual creativity has always been an integral part of his life, folding its way into his education as well. Beginning as early as junior high, Jeremiah was involved in commercial arts, concentrating mainly on graphic design with his school’s news publication. This involvement carried through into high school as well, where he studied commercial arts and graphic design, also being heavily involved with the news publication. Finding a love for this industry and excelling in it, Jeremiah went on to study advertising and art at Pepperdine University.
Transplanting to Malibu proved to be a new creative experience providing completely different surroundings and types of people, as well as affording the opportunity to study in Florence, Italy on several occasions, including with an international assemblage of art students and professors at Studio Art Centers International. Since earning his Bachelor of Arts at Pepperdine, Jeremiah has synthesized the many techniques and creative influences of his life into his own artistic voice that speaks thru eyes that have seen both the beauty and decay of the world. Jeremiah’s work is a hybrid of the graphic design that has become his lifeblood and the street art that represents the beauty and decay that is both a blessing and a curse of modern society.
MEADAURA
I do this for fun. As a photographer, I look for the small details, the different, and the quirky. Everything I’ve learned about the art of photography I’ve learned on the street, by lots of trial and error. My results are grander, more colorful than regular life. That’s the point of preserving a moment! The shots I produce come out more like caricatures than standard portraits. I do believe the camera steals a little bit of your soul, so if I’m going to shoot you I am going to find the best in you.
TONY OZEGOVICH
Being in Miami brings about color, culture, and a sense of style you feel no where else. This is what I strive to show in my photography and to have others desire; I love to be able to take part in many different cultures and the variety of events that take place here…it is an amazing experience to be out of your comfort zone of what you are used to feeling I think. Miami is such a unique place and all i want to do is show it off, all the while adding my creativity and imagination into where it fits. My ignition to the scene was brought about 2 years ago, when I was getting into urban art and my mother had bought the dvd set for miami vice the tv series. I would watch the show with her and get those goosebumps I get while I ride around Miami in my car. It just seemed like I was themed to be The Real Miami Vice. Since then, I have been a self taught photographer and not taken one class, but I have had much help from other professional photographers and friends. I spend most of my hours at work going through Deco Drive and 944 magazines or surfing the web on different sites studying photography. The more I evaluate myself, I feel like im at the threshold of where I want to be. In reality, I want to to be able to take a photo and have someone say,”I want to be there” or “That is The Real Miami Vice!”
therealmiamivice {at} hotmail(.)com
RIAN FIKE
Rian Fike is a Chaos Magician hidden as an Art Teacher. He had a one-man show at the University of Miami in 2001, but most of his recent work has flowered all over the interwebs. As an instructor he had the good fortune to teach a few of the MSG and TCP street art luminaries, now he is snapping photographs to make them timeless.
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