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The Day – to – Day life of Albert Hastings

Photographs By Kaylynn Deveney

Text and Drawings by Albert Hastings

Kaylynn Deveney is a photographer explore storybook ranch style, his photos are full of stories. I really like this book because all the photos are taken in the same neighborhood.  Kaylynn Deveney was 85 years old and he moved next to his small flat in Wales. (his name is Bert) Photographer is actually trying to understand Albert’s life and learn about aspects of his life. It helps his photos to be more meaningful and have his own stories. Furthermore, if you observe carefully you can see that the handwriting actually changes a little bit as you look through the book it’s actually getting worse and worse (age). Through this book, Kailyn explains Hastings died shortly after the work was made so this is also sort of chronicling the end of the life of this old man.

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Torsten Hattenkerl

Auto portraits

Text by Stefan Nagel

Torsten Hattenkerl 1963, lives and works in Kempen am Niederrhei and Zurich. Auto portraits is a body of work that has 37 pictures showing people standing in front of their cars. Torsten Hattenkerl ‘s book auto portraits from Fotohof is a very successful combination of street and conceptual photography. All of his photos are taken on the street with a standing person in front of their car. I really like this book’s style, every people standing in front of their cars are as modern as they are retro. If you look carefully you can see from people’s face that shows all the details about their clothes and expression.

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Lickshot

Ben Watts

Ben Watts is born in 19 January 1967, he is an English photographer mostly working in New York City. Also, his work has been published in various international fashion magazines such as Elle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair… Lickshot is a highly personalized scrapbook and travel diary. “A triumph of lo-fi style, its pages are a delirious pastiche of gritty photographys, wonky Polaroids, and hand-scrawled graffiti, held together by slashes of colored tape.” (issuu.com) This book is really attractive and interesting because of various color, so it makes his own style.