Written Report:
Name: Lisa Kristine
Dates of Artist’s Life: September 2, 1965-Present (52 years old)
Personal Background:
Born in San Francisco in the year of 1965, Lisa Kristine found her love of art at a young age. As a child, she always loved to paint, which later turned into a love of fashion and design. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and after, started her 30 year photography career. After the first few years of being a photographer, she was invited to speak at the State of the World Forum in 1999 and 2000, which not only got her work noticed by the world, but ended up helping many different causes including the United Nations. After this, she then was the only exhibiter at the Vancouver Peace Summit, which led to her collaborating with “Free The Slaves”. This is known as one of her best photoshoots, and ended up inspiring her book Slavery, which was published in 2010. Since her original book in 2003, she has published four more books and has been the subject of four. Because of her powerful work centered to make a change, she won the Lucie Foundation Documentaries Humanitarian Award in 2013. In 2014, she signed the declaration to eradicate slavery by 2020. To this day, she continues to work hard not only on her photography, but her passions, trying to make a change and an impact with every picture taken.
Style:
Throughout her career, Lisa Kristine has been known as a humanitarian photographer, but has also included principles of portrait and documentary photography in her work. Most of the pictures that she takes, are closeups of single people, showing them in the midst of their everyday activities. Many of these pictures are based around modern day slavery, or other oppressive practices, which are set in many different continents all over the world. To make this possible, she travels regularly, to give different viewpoints from various cities, countries, and continents with very different ancestry and practices. To show these types of raw emotions needed to make her pictures worthwhile and powerful, Lisa uses very vibrant colors and textures showing the beauty of the people and land in her pictures. As far as the filters or edits used, looking at her pictures, they are very raw and untouched. Because of the natural light used in almost all of her pictures, they all all very natural and clean, making them more believable and relatable. One filter that she does use very frequently, is black and white, which not only makes the pictures look more authentic, but adds more of a solemn and serious mood.
Philosophy:
One thing that makes Lisa Kristine’s work unique, is the raw emotion that is shows throughout it. As she takes her pictures, she prides herself in showing that emotion through the struggles and hard times that she documents. Although there is not a main artist that single handedly inspires her, she seems to find all of her inspiration from the people she takes the pictures of. As she travels all around the world, she spends time with the people she is taking pictures of, to better get an understanding of her topic as well as getting to know them on a personal level. Another big inspiration and goal of Lisa Kristine, is change. In many videos and articles about her, is is importantly noted that her pictures are created to spread awareness and spark change society. To do this, she takes her pictures based on where she feels moved, and chooses scenes raw with emotion and struggle. Her main topics are human trafficking and modern day slavery, although her work is not limited to just these. She not only makes sure that the viewer is able to feel something through her photos, but she makes sure that the viewer is able to learn and be inspired by something as well.
Inspiration:
Overall, Lisa was not influenced by a specific person, although she was influenced by her travels. All of her first pictures were taken of the land and people throughout her travels all around the world. When she became the exhibitor at the World Peace Summit, she met many humanitarians who started to talk about modern day slavery. At that time, she had taken pictures of many people around the world, but she was not aware of the slavery that had been going on in many of the places she had been photographing. She then decided to contact the cofounder of "Free The Slaves" and started traveling with the intention of showing the hardships and brutality of slavery to show the world what was happening. This influence then led to many works for art including books, and photographs helping "Free The Slaves" to raise awareness to the horrors that were happening in other parts of the world.
Name: Lisa Kristine
Dates of Artist’s Life: September 2, 1965-Present (52 years old)
Personal Background:
Born in San Francisco in the year of 1965, Lisa Kristine found her love of art at a young age. As a child, she always loved to paint, which later turned into a love of fashion and design. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and after, started her 30 year photography career. After the first few years of being a photographer, she was invited to speak at the State of the World Forum in 1999 and 2000, which not only got her work noticed by the world, but ended up helping many different causes including the United Nations. After this, she then was the only exhibiter at the Vancouver Peace Summit, which led to her collaborating with “Free The Slaves”. This is known as one of her best photoshoots, and ended up inspiring her book Slavery, which was published in 2010. Since her original book in 2003, she has published four more books and has been the subject of four. Because of her powerful work centered to make a change, she won the Lucie Foundation Documentaries Humanitarian Award in 2013. In 2014, she signed the declaration to eradicate slavery by 2020. To this day, she continues to work hard not only on her photography, but her passions, trying to make a change and an impact with every picture taken.
Style:
Throughout her career, Lisa Kristine has been known as a humanitarian photographer, but has also included principles of portrait and documentary photography in her work. Most of the pictures that she takes, are closeups of single people, showing them in the midst of their everyday activities. Many of these pictures are based around modern day slavery, or other oppressive practices, which are set in many different continents all over the world. To make this possible, she travels regularly, to give different viewpoints from various cities, countries, and continents with very different ancestry and practices. To show these types of raw emotions needed to make her pictures worthwhile and powerful, Lisa uses very vibrant colors and textures showing the beauty of the people and land in her pictures. As far as the filters or edits used, looking at her pictures, they are very raw and untouched. Because of the natural light used in almost all of her pictures, they all all very natural and clean, making them more believable and relatable. One filter that she does use very frequently, is black and white, which not only makes the pictures look more authentic, but adds more of a solemn and serious mood.
Philosophy:
One thing that makes Lisa Kristine’s work unique, is the raw emotion that is shows throughout it. As she takes her pictures, she prides herself in showing that emotion through the struggles and hard times that she documents. Although there is not a main artist that single handedly inspires her, she seems to find all of her inspiration from the people she takes the pictures of. As she travels all around the world, she spends time with the people she is taking pictures of, to better get an understanding of her topic as well as getting to know them on a personal level. Another big inspiration and goal of Lisa Kristine, is change. In many videos and articles about her, is is importantly noted that her pictures are created to spread awareness and spark change society. To do this, she takes her pictures based on where she feels moved, and chooses scenes raw with emotion and struggle. Her main topics are human trafficking and modern day slavery, although her work is not limited to just these. She not only makes sure that the viewer is able to feel something through her photos, but she makes sure that the viewer is able to learn and be inspired by something as well.
Inspiration:
Overall, Lisa was not influenced by a specific person, although she was influenced by her travels. All of her first pictures were taken of the land and people throughout her travels all around the world. When she became the exhibitor at the World Peace Summit, she met many humanitarians who started to talk about modern day slavery. At that time, she had taken pictures of many people around the world, but she was not aware of the slavery that had been going on in many of the places she had been photographing. She then decided to contact the cofounder of "Free The Slaves" and started traveling with the intention of showing the hardships and brutality of slavery to show the world what was happening. This influence then led to many works for art including books, and photographs helping "Free The Slaves" to raise awareness to the horrors that were happening in other parts of the world.
Photographs:
"Whispy Dreams"
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Compare and Contrast:
Overall, I think that my picture looks a lot like Lisa Kristine's.To make sure that it did, I wanted to have my subject wear the same outfit, and have mostly the same hairstyle because I think both are very important to the picture. In terms of setting, I wanted to make sure that they were as similar as possible, although because of the difference in environments, I knew it was going to be hard. Looking at my picture, I think that they look pretty close, except for the obvious color difference. If I was able to take this in the fall it would have been easier, but the blur tool really helped me make them as close as possible. Finally, I think that the position I put them in was pretty close, although Lisa's image was more straight on then mine was.
Overall, I think that my picture looks a lot like Lisa Kristine's.To make sure that it did, I wanted to have my subject wear the same outfit, and have mostly the same hairstyle because I think both are very important to the picture. In terms of setting, I wanted to make sure that they were as similar as possible, although because of the difference in environments, I knew it was going to be hard. Looking at my picture, I think that they look pretty close, except for the obvious color difference. If I was able to take this in the fall it would have been easier, but the blur tool really helped me make them as close as possible. Finally, I think that the position I put them in was pretty close, although Lisa's image was more straight on then mine was.
"Drops of Sorrow"
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Compare and Contrast:
Looking at these two pictures side by side, I am pretty happy with how similar they look. The main obvious difference that I see is with the subject, but even though they look different, I knew that I still wanted to photograph my brother. Although I knew that I the water drops would be hard, I knew that I wanted to try them, and I think that although they are less visable because there is less contrast, I think I did a pretty good job. Another part of this picture that I knew I had to work for was the background, making it the same type of tunneled blur that Lisa created. Looking back on it, mine is a bit darker and had more texture, but I actually think it works better with the rest of my picture. Overall, I think that my pictures look pretty close, although mine looks a bit more cut out than the original. I think if I had been able to blue it when I did the picture it would have looked a bit better, but I did not have the resources to make that happen.
Looking at these two pictures side by side, I am pretty happy with how similar they look. The main obvious difference that I see is with the subject, but even though they look different, I knew that I still wanted to photograph my brother. Although I knew that I the water drops would be hard, I knew that I wanted to try them, and I think that although they are less visable because there is less contrast, I think I did a pretty good job. Another part of this picture that I knew I had to work for was the background, making it the same type of tunneled blur that Lisa created. Looking back on it, mine is a bit darker and had more texture, but I actually think it works better with the rest of my picture. Overall, I think that my pictures look pretty close, although mine looks a bit more cut out than the original. I think if I had been able to blue it when I did the picture it would have looked a bit better, but I did not have the resources to make that happen.
"Blue Red Black-India"
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"Family of Colors"
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Compare and Contrast:
Out of all the pictures I took, I think this one was the most challenging, although I do think the final products look a lot alike. The one main difference I that I see in the pictures is the lighting. I took my picture at night when the sun was just going down. This allowed my picture to have the darkness that was shown in the original, although it does not have the bright section in the upper right corner. One similarity that I se is the same colors with the same positioning throughout the picture. It also is in mostly the same environment, although I think that there is more water/liquid throughout her picture than there is in mine. Looking at these pictures side by side, I am very happy with how it turned out.
Out of all the pictures I took, I think this one was the most challenging, although I do think the final products look a lot alike. The one main difference I that I see in the pictures is the lighting. I took my picture at night when the sun was just going down. This allowed my picture to have the darkness that was shown in the original, although it does not have the bright section in the upper right corner. One similarity that I se is the same colors with the same positioning throughout the picture. It also is in mostly the same environment, although I think that there is more water/liquid throughout her picture than there is in mine. Looking at these pictures side by side, I am very happy with how it turned out.
Artist Statement:
Overall, when I first was looking for photographers, I knew that I wanted to do someone that would have a big influence on my and my work. I wanted to choose someone very inspirational to not only me but the rest of the world. Overall, I feel that her work has taught me a lot about how to be a better photographer and how many different ways there are to make your photography successful. I really like her pictures, and my favorite part about them is the emotions shown. I feel that this is very important to photography and I wish I could add the same emotion to my photos as she does to hers. Another way her work influences me is the fact that she is able to inspire a change through her art. There are many causes that I am passionate about, and I think it would be cool if I could help through my photography. When I look at my pictures, a lot of them don’t have a deeper meaning to them besides what I had to do for the class, so I think it would really help to use them towards helping a cause I believe in. Finally, a third way that she inspired me is that she is able to add so much visual variation to her work. She is not only able to show many different places, but she is able to show many different angles and scenarios of one place.
Looking back on these pictures, all of them not only show the picture they are based off of, but show something that is important to me. When I first saw "Free Child-India", I knew that I wanted to show my friend Grace. I have known her since preschool, and she has always been there for me whenever I need her, even if it is for a picture in photography class. The second picture, I knew I wanted to do my brother, because we are very close, and I think this shows a very emotional and shy side of him that I admire. The last picture, I used the hands of my mom, dad, and brother because I wanted to show our strong bond and love for each other. These pictures not only show the people that are important in my life, but show how truly thankful and lucky I am to have people like this to support me in life.
In terms of taking the photos, I found it challenging, although I accepted the challenge and had fun with it. Through taking these, I learned to pay very close attention to contrast and lighting, as well as one of the most important things, position. While taking other pictures from this class, I learned how important contrast and lighting is to make a good picture, although I never knew how important position of the subject and the camera is. If the position is off, it will not only create a visual difference in the image, but will create an emotional difference because of how much the position can add to the mood of the story. I learned how hard it is to not only figure out how to take the picture itself, but where and what time. I endured many trials and errors through the creation of these images, but overall, I think I did the best that I could, and I am happy with how they turned out.
Overall, when I first was looking for photographers, I knew that I wanted to do someone that would have a big influence on my and my work. I wanted to choose someone very inspirational to not only me but the rest of the world. Overall, I feel that her work has taught me a lot about how to be a better photographer and how many different ways there are to make your photography successful. I really like her pictures, and my favorite part about them is the emotions shown. I feel that this is very important to photography and I wish I could add the same emotion to my photos as she does to hers. Another way her work influences me is the fact that she is able to inspire a change through her art. There are many causes that I am passionate about, and I think it would be cool if I could help through my photography. When I look at my pictures, a lot of them don’t have a deeper meaning to them besides what I had to do for the class, so I think it would really help to use them towards helping a cause I believe in. Finally, a third way that she inspired me is that she is able to add so much visual variation to her work. She is not only able to show many different places, but she is able to show many different angles and scenarios of one place.
Looking back on these pictures, all of them not only show the picture they are based off of, but show something that is important to me. When I first saw "Free Child-India", I knew that I wanted to show my friend Grace. I have known her since preschool, and she has always been there for me whenever I need her, even if it is for a picture in photography class. The second picture, I knew I wanted to do my brother, because we are very close, and I think this shows a very emotional and shy side of him that I admire. The last picture, I used the hands of my mom, dad, and brother because I wanted to show our strong bond and love for each other. These pictures not only show the people that are important in my life, but show how truly thankful and lucky I am to have people like this to support me in life.
In terms of taking the photos, I found it challenging, although I accepted the challenge and had fun with it. Through taking these, I learned to pay very close attention to contrast and lighting, as well as one of the most important things, position. While taking other pictures from this class, I learned how important contrast and lighting is to make a good picture, although I never knew how important position of the subject and the camera is. If the position is off, it will not only create a visual difference in the image, but will create an emotional difference because of how much the position can add to the mood of the story. I learned how hard it is to not only figure out how to take the picture itself, but where and what time. I endured many trials and errors through the creation of these images, but overall, I think I did the best that I could, and I am happy with how they turned out.
Bibliography:
“About Lisa Kristine.” Lisa Kristine, www.lisakristine.com/about/about-lisa-kristine/.
“Biography.” Lisa Kristine, www.lisakristine.com/about/biography/.
Slaves, Free the. “Why I Free Slaves - Photographer Lisa Kristine.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 20 Dec. 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-i-free-slaves-photographer-lisa-kristine_us_5a3a6ba5e4b06cd2bd03d6bc.
Tattly, et al. “Interview: Photographer Creates Instant Connection to Cultures From Halfway Across the World.” My Modern Met, 21 May 2018, mymodernmet.com/interview-intimate-expanse-lisa-kristine/.
all-about-photo.com. “Lisa Kristine.” Jay Maisel Photographer - All About Photo, All-about-Photo.com, www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=248&name=lisa-kristine.
“About Lisa Kristine.” Lisa Kristine, www.lisakristine.com/about/about-lisa-kristine/.
“Biography.” Lisa Kristine, www.lisakristine.com/about/biography/.
Slaves, Free the. “Why I Free Slaves - Photographer Lisa Kristine.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 20 Dec. 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-i-free-slaves-photographer-lisa-kristine_us_5a3a6ba5e4b06cd2bd03d6bc.
Tattly, et al. “Interview: Photographer Creates Instant Connection to Cultures From Halfway Across the World.” My Modern Met, 21 May 2018, mymodernmet.com/interview-intimate-expanse-lisa-kristine/.
all-about-photo.com. “Lisa Kristine.” Jay Maisel Photographer - All About Photo, All-about-Photo.com, www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=248&name=lisa-kristine.