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Flash & Fuse Magazine
Issue #02
Curated by The Brothers Riff & Co.
www.thebrothersriff.com
Conway, SC
Mission Statement:
Flash and Fuse is dedicated to empowering artists through publication. Each
month, Flash & Fuse will showcase a handful of talented visual artists currently
in an undergraduate or graduate program whose work we find inspiring, unique
and innovative. Flash & Fuse aims to inspire young, creative minds to take on
their craft and follow their passion. A majority of the monthly proceeds will be
given directly back to the contributors to help fund their creative processes.
Harnessing the power of community and crowd funding, Flash & Fuse will act as
an incubator for creative visionaries and watch as they spread their wings and
soar.
Melanie Costanzo
Cuyahoga Community College
Website: melaniecostanzophotography.com
Instagram: @mel_costanzo
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (440) 623-3555
Melanie Costanzo
Cuyahoga Community College
Website: melaniecostanzophotography.com
Instagram: @mel_costanzo
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (440) 623-3555
Literacy Comes To Life
"Literacy Comes To Life originally started as an assignment for my photography
class. I needed to depict a movie still-scene based off a piece of literary work. 13
Reasons Why, a book written by Jay Asher, tells the tale of a young girl’s tragic
demise which results in suicide. There was a specific image (the girl in the
bathtub) that needed to translate from my camera to the prints and, once my first
idea was developed, an explosion of new creations followed as seen in the series.
Natural light played a rather big role as well. The viewer should sense the
subjects quiet pain. The light on the body and the monochromatic color and
texture help the image come to life. The deep red of her quiet lips draw the eyes
of the on-looker into focus, leaving the question open; 'Could she still be alive?'"
- Melanie Costanzo
Sarah E. Borst
Savannah College of Art and Design
Website: www.sarahelizabethborst.com
Instagram: @sarahelizabethborst
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (704) 995-1008
Sarah E. Borst
Savannah College of Art and Design
Website: www.sarahelizabethborst.com
Instagram: @sarahelizabethborst
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (704) 995-1008
410 East Gaston
"410 East Gaston shows my dear friend, Diana Rogers, within the environment
of her Victorian Mansion. Fifteen years ago, Diana moved to Savannah and
nested in on East Gaston Street, working as a performer at Vicks on the River
and The Ol’ Pink House. I met Diana through a local health food store, where I
have worked part-time for the past three years while completing my
undergraduate degree.
Working in the community has been an essential part of my photographic
practice because it has given me the ability to instill trust in and build
relationships with my subjects. Arguably, the most intriguing thing about Diana
is not only her home, lovingly littered with vintage dresses, fur coats, feathered
hats and perfectly curved martini glasses, but also, the stories she has shoved
into her closet, nestled between fur coats and white gloves. Through a
documentary series involving visits over the course of ten weeks and countless
jalapeno martinis, Diana began to reveal herself to me by sharing her life story,
and eventually, the current low country gossip of Savannah, in which she has
become a main fixture."
Artist Statement
Sarah Elizabeth Borst is a senior at Savannah College of Art and Design studying
to get her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Photography. A recent finalist in the
2014 Lucie Awards, Sarah is an internationally exhibited photographer, having
had work shown in Budapest, New York, Colorado and Savannah, Georgia.
Finding brilliance in seemingly banal, everyday occurrences, she is intimately and
obsessively drawn to situations that stimulate the documentary portrait. Sarah’s
mother will tell you that she does not know a stranger. With adoration for
humankind, people become characters and characters become her subjects. She
thirsts to understand and relate to their condition through making their picture.
Sarah believes it is the event of the Americana tradition that sparks the
unveiling of the human condition. Interested in exposing the every day for how
wildly exotic it actually is, Sarah seeks subjects that are strikingly honest in their
vulnerability. For Sarah, photographing is an approach to process, understand
and explore questions about America and the social gallery we have oh, so
carefully and comfortably constructed for ourselves.
Amanda Davies
Maryland Institute College of Art
Website: behance.net/ajdavies
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (978) 844-2992
Amanda Davies
Maryland Institute College of Art
Website: behance.net/ajdavies
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (978) 844-2992
Elements of Visual Thinking
"Some people will classify taking portrait photos as the act of trying to capture the
person or subject’s essence. I am trying to capture the person in that moment;
who they are in the fraction of a second it takes for my finger to hit the button.
No one acts the same in front of a camera as they do walking down the street.
Some people think being in front of a camera is more pressure than a set of
human eyes staring at you. The persona of someone in front of a camera is often
not naturalistic. For me, photography is about capturing moments; holding onto
that fraction of a second within a frame. When taking a portrait, you can try and
capture that person’s true form or create an entirely new character. That’s the
allure behind photography that I’ve grown to admire."
- Amanda Davies
John Dionisio
Burlington County College
Instagram: @john.dionisio
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (856) 383-4630
John Dionisio
Burlington County College
Instagram: @john.dionisio
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (856) 383-4630
The Decisive Moment
"My work captures the ability to acquire the 'decisive moment' that is both
spontaneous and transitory. This concept is what each and every street
photographer emulates when taking pictures. We need to recognize with
confidence when to click the shutter. Being able to showcase the raw characteristic
of what life can offer is what drew me in to this style of photography."
- John Dionisio
Cameron Hanley
Maryland Institute College of Art
Website: portfolios.mica.edu/cameronhanley
Instagram: @cameroniiii
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (443) 226-2174
Cameron Hanley
Maryland Institute College of Art
Website: portfolios.mica.edu/cameronhanley
Instagram: @cameroniiii
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (443) 226-2174
Order/Chaos
"This series is called Order/Chaos and it was produced for my Landscape
Photography class. Order can be found within the calm, quiet and almost soft
nature of the clouds as they move counteracted by the chaotic need for humans
to build structures that ultimately block our view from the world around, and the
beauty of the sky. The photos are a way of showing the tension between humans
and the Earth that we feel. The need to develop and destroy so we can
accommodate the growing population is expressed in these photos. The series is
also an investigation of the power of vertical images and the play between
manmade structures and the sky. Vertical images can change the space that you
can capture in an image, giving more room to expand vertically rather then a
conventional horizontal image. Stressing the idea of negative space and what it
can do to change the reading of a photograph, these photos strive to show the
viewer how the eye can be tricked to put oneself in the space to have a better
understanding of how the image was composed. "
- Cameron Hanley
- Cameron Hanley
Artist Statement
My name is Cameron Hanley and I’m photographer from Baltimore, Maryland. I
am currently studying Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art and
will graduate in the spring of 2017 with a BFA in Photography. I have been
taking pictures for as long as I can remember, always being interested and
connected to the wonders of photography, but never got serious about it until my
junior year of high school. I have four years experience with digital photography,
and three with 35mm film photography.
The photographs I take cover a wide range of photography as a source of
exploration of the physical, mental and emotional. I tend to deal with man made
forms/spaces/architecture, as well as natural forms found in nature.
Zeina Zeitoun
Maryland Institute College of Art
Website: behance.net/ZeinaSZeitoun
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (703) 655-5477
Zeina Zeitoun
Maryland Institute College of Art
Website: behance.net/ZeinaSZeitoun
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (703) 655-5477
Artist Statement
"As a growing artist, I am constantly learning more about myself and what style
of photography I value. The world is a living, breathing machine. Having a Middle
Eastern background, I feel compelled to bring forth issues that continue to arise
in unknown parts of the world. Society today tends to turn their heads when
they see evil happening, whether it's on the streets or in the news. I want people
to look at my work, stare at my work, talk about my work, and remember my
work because in order to make some sort of difference, the viewer must realize a
difference must be made. "
- Zeina Zeitoun
Mentor Artists
Malik Beser
Ray Ranoa
Maranie Staab
Joanne Jankowska
John Dionisio
Mentor Artists
Malik Beser
Ray Ranoa
Maranie Staab
Joanne Jankowska
John Dionisio
Malik Beser
Seminole State College of Florida (Alumni)
Website: malikbeser.com
Instagram: @malikbeser
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 90-532-565-2224
Malik Beser
Seminole State College of Florida (Alumni)
Website: malikbeser.com
Instagram: @malikbeser
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 90-532-565-2224
"I realized my interest in photography when I was 19. Without any knowledge of
the logistics, I started to take photographs with my Minolta X-700; the only thing
left from my beloved grandfather after he passed away.
I started doing work for a magazine out of Orlando, Florida in 2008 and soon
realized I had found my calling. Two years later I moved to New York City to
accomplish my goals. I had no idea how to deal with studio set life and produce
professional work. I tried to get in touch with professional photographers in New
York City, but they kindly rejected me since they already had assistants and were
already established. I purchased my own lighting equipment and created a studio
in my own garage at home. I used to take about 1,000 photographs everyday
and played with different lighting setups.
My goal is to be featured in Vogue, Elle, or any other well-known fashion
magazines. No one, even those close to me, thought I could do it. No one
believed in me and then in 2012, one of my works was featured in Vogue. It was
a lot of hard work and a huge accomplishment I admire, but I’m still working
towards a bigger goal. I now work out of Istanbul where fashion is a hot topic.
Photography is universal; photography is bilingual. Each photographer
approaches photography in a different way. I pioneered a path for myself. I
basically tried anything to see what I liked about photography. At last, I realized
my passion for fashion. I love what I do here as a fashion photographer. My
parting words: follow your dreams till the end. "
- Malik Beser
Ray Ranoa
East Sydney Design Studio (Alumni)
Website: rayranoa.com
Instagram: @rayranoa
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 61-411-069-088
Ray Ranoa
East Sydney Design Studio (Alumni)
Website: rayranoa.com
Instagram: @rayranoa
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 61-411-069-088
"My desire to create comes from a sense of purpose and joy.
Invest time in the development of your ideas.
Work with like minds, initiate projects, generate opportunities.
Seek inspiration from what fulfills your desire to create."
- Ray Ranoa
Maranie R. Staab
Coastal Carolina Univeristy (Alumni)
Website: maranierae.com
Instagram: @Maranierae
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (412) 979-6187
Maranie R. Staab
Coastal Carolina Univeristy (Alumni)
Website: maranierae.com
Instagram: @Maranierae
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (412) 979-6187
"My work is an observation of the world as I see and experience it with an
intent to uncover and communicate stories of people and issues that
are seldom covered by popular media. I consider myself a documentary, street
and travel photographer. While photography has always played a role in my life,
it is only within the past several years that it has become my primary and
preferred way to communicate what I see, experience, feel and believe. Images
are a universal language and as such it is my hope that by sharing my work I
can do my part in increasing an awareness of people, issues and places.
Everyone approaches photography differently; I offer these comments as simply
my approach and thoughts on the subject. Whether at home in Pittsburgh or in
a foreign country I am drawn, more than anything, to the people. As someone
more famous than I once said, "human moments” triumph all; to that end, I
strive to pull the humanity out of any situation. Photography is largely about
relationships, about doing your homework, about respecting the people and the
place and to being able to make a person comfortable enough that they are
willing to open up their life to you. I do my best to always keep in mind that I
am privileged to be where I am and fortunate to have access to that situation;
everyone has a story and if you show respect and genuine interest they are
often responsive.
...
Too much can be glossed over and unappreciated when speeding around in a
vehicle. I have found that some of the most compelling scenes and people have
been found in the least expected streets and alleys. Explore, wander, and don’t
let your curiosity fade.
I believe in intuition and investing time in people and situations. Persistence and
hard work pay off. My biggest advice is that if you love photography for what it is
to continue pursuing it with all that you have. Reach out to those who know
more than you. Be open to seek critical feedback and take the type of images
that make you feel alive. Whatever direction you choose to go, I encourage you
all to cling to a passion for the work, a love of the journey and remain relentless,
with camera in hand.
These images are a collection of some of the people that I have been fortunate to
encounter and meet over the past few years. If interested in talking photography
or life don’t hesitate to contact me.
- Maranie Staab
The University of Lower Silesia (Alumni)
Website: invisiblemartyr.tk
Instagram: @invisiblemartyr
Email: [email protected]
Joanna Jankowska
The University of Lower Silesia (Alumni)
Website: invisiblemartyr.tk
Instagram: @invisiblemartyr
Email: [email protected]
Joanna Jankowska
"I am unapologetically in love with art. My journey with photography began over
8 years ago, and in the last 4 years I have realized that taking pictures gives me
a lot of satisfaction and freedom.
In 2011 I graduated from The University of Lower Silesia with a degree in
Journalism and Social Communication, defending the diplomatic ideology of
'Gothic trend in modern versions of creative photography'. In 2014 I completed a
Masters degree of Photography in multimedia.
I want my work to mirror emotion and show my inspiration of various media. My
work focuses on the darker aspects of human life; the topics most are too afraid to
touch on. I value looking into the deeper parts of a persons soul. I try to capture
human emotion as a tangible thing; that’s what interests me the most.
I'm willing to work with anyone who likes my art and my style. I am always
available for commercial work upon request."
- Joanna Jankowski
Who's Next?
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next issue of Flash & Fuse Magazine:
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Curated By - The Brothers Riff & Co.
Founder/Creative Director - Daniel Riff
Head of Design - Drew Smith
Written Content Editor - Eden Halevy
Head of Marketing - Jacob Riff
Maryland Institute College of Art:
Director of Recruiting - Cameron Hanley
Assistant Director of Recruiting - Amanda Davies
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Special thanks to this issues Mentor Artists:
Joanna Jankowska
Maranie Staab
Malik Beser
Ray Ranoa
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