Connor Albaugh

 April 19th, 2023  Matt Black  By: Connor Albaugh             If there is one person that I am excited to write a blog about and analyze photographically, its the photographer by the name of Matt Black . Black is a US born photographer “born in 1970” (Article #1). He grew up “a vast agricultural area in the heart of the state” which happens to be “in a small town in California’s Central Valley” (Article #1). On behalf of photography, he began “at a young age” (Article #1). He was given an opportunity for his first photography task, which happened to be “working for his hometown newspaper” as a newspaper photographer (Article #1 and #2). This job was important for him, and decided that he wanted to pursue higher education. Black “studied Latin American and US Labor History” at “San Francisco State University” (Article #1). Ultimately, photography wasn’t necessarily a well known subject in his family. He was the only photographer in h...

 April 17th, 2023  Sebastião Salgado  By: Connor Albaugh             Salgado is a much different photographer that I am not used to seeing or researching about. He was born in the year of 1944 “in Aimorés, Brazil” (Article #1). Interestingly enough, not only was he born in Brazil, but he was born on a farm. This farm “was more than 50 percent rainforest” as Salgado “lived with incredible birds, incredible animals, swam in small rivers with caimans, and everything produced on the farm they consumed” (Article #2). Unfortunately, Salgado left his home town to pursue a better life for himself despite the presence his environment had on him physically and emotionally. Before “photography in the early 1970s,” Salgado had “trained to be an economist” (Article #1). He chose to attend São Paulo University where Salgado would graduate in 1968 “with a master’s degree in economics (Article #1). After his master’s, Salgado still wasn’t finished ...

April 4th, 2023  Zine Narrative Project By: Connor Albaugh