Comparing of two photographers

Penelope Umbrico and Beatric Helg are two female photographers I looked at the very beginning stage of my research for Photography unit. They both construct their images but in a completely different way. They both make a kind of statement by using photography but in different forms and methods.

Penelope Umbrico uses found images on search engines and pictures sharing websites crop the images into the way she wanted, rearrange them to make a large installation. She minimum the importance of the individuals, when they are put together with large number of other individuals, each one becomes one of the large numbers of multiples. Her large installation work raises the awareness that how dramatically increased the use of web-based photo communities. She uses photographs in a completely different way from what we normal do.

Beatric Helg uses found objects especially industrial materials to construct an image as a stage set. She uses a lot of rusted raw and hard feeling materials such as metal and glass as well as geometric shapes. Let lights shine from a certain direction and onto certain parts of the objects, space and perspective created. She transforms the rusted, raw and hard into soft, luminous space. Her photographs feel very still and calm. I feel touched by them.

Penelope Umbrico uses images as a tool to form a large installation while Beatric Helg uses her camera and imagination to create luminous spaces and abstracted images. They both use photography as an art form to make their voice.