Gavin Mannino

  A Portrait By: Gavin Mannino 04/29/2022     10:03:00 PM EST                                             Kyle MacLachlan (2014) Antonin Kratochvil    Photo Link: ( Photographer Antonin Kratochvil (etoday.ru) )     A portrait typically has its subject centered and posing in a specific way, usually looking towards the camera as the photo is being taken. The portrait taken by Antonin Kratochvil of Kyle Maclachlan, however, is not what the typical portrait looks like. The portrait is unfocused and has Maclachlan framed in medium close-up composure. How can this even be compared to a regular, run-of-the-mill portrait? Is this even a portrait?     I would say so, regardless of how abnormal the portrait is with breaking the standards and rules of a portrait. I feel this portrait captures the viewer's atten...

Beauty in Horror By Gavin Mannino April 4th, 2022     9:00:00 P.M. EST             Sebastiao Salgado, Spectre of Hope (1994)   Photo Source Credit: ( London Photography Diary Sebastiao Salgado by Nerris Markogiannis | London                                    Photography Diary (london-photography-diary.com)      The  Spectre of Hope  in the Sebastiao Salgado's Migrations photographic series caught my eye almost instantly when I was looking through Sebastiao Salgado's work. The way the dust is illuminated into light rays is beautiful from a visual standpoint, but in context of what is happening in the photo, it is saddening. The phrase that pops into my head is, "There is beauty in horror." Sebastiao documented the mass migrations of different people groups over a seven-year time span, takin...