Visiting artists
Nikki S Lee is a Korean photographer who visited the University in October of this year. She specializes in the influence of subcultures in our society and depicts them with photography. Ms. Lee lived in Korea until she was twenty four years old, she states that this is one of the greatest assets to her work. While living in Korea she did not see much variance and diversity in the people around her. When she moved to New York she saw so many people living differently and she found it interesting. She became the different sup cultures to better understand them. When she had emerged herself in every aspect of the culture she would start to document them with photography. Her complete emergence in the culture really allowed her to grasp the important facets of the group. In every photo she really looked like she belonged in the setting and attached herself to the people around her.
Mathew Coolidge is a photographer who is focuses on land art. To him the events of the United States have left many marks on it. Many of his photographs are of actual artist’s pieces where a landscape or large object was used as a medium. Other pieces were of industrial or human influenced land. The pieces showed how the people and economic situations of the area influenced the sight of the land. In many cases his peaces were not just captured on film but also he would set up tours or exhibits at the locations to encase the medium. His Greenland excursion captured the artifacts of the cold war and showed them in an almost documentary format, however it still showed through as art from the way it was shot.