Reid's Photography

Alexa Meade is an artist and photographer who has made a unique way of combining art with photography. She does this by painting on human bodies and also the backgrounds before photographing them which give an illusion of different dimensions. This kind of technique is known as trompe l’oeil, a style of art first developed in ancient Greece, but the name itself originated in France. The term can be defined as a painting style which depicts realistic details from photography. Meade’s work of art looks so real that in the photograph it stands out more than other people in the photo. In her photography she paints on people and photographs them in a way that they look like statues. Each piece of art exhibits a different story based on the backgrounds and the color the subjects have been painted. Meade paints the backgrounds in a way that gives an illusion of different dimensions that go beyond our Mundane 3D world, which might have been inspired by supernatural shows. In addition to people...

DANA SCRUGGS      Dana Scruggs is a photographer and director who is known for focusing her work on movement, abstraction, and evoking emotions based on the bodily form of her subjects. She became a photographer while she was going through a time of severe depression. In her career, she made photography a collaborative process between herself and the subject. For example, in her photograph of Mecca Mozelle, the photographer gives the subject the opportunity to show off their emotions by using different facial expressions and poses. The subject within the picture wears different colored makeup to different backgrounds to help create the mood of the photo. All the specific elements of the visual outcomes from the photos became statements within her work. One statement within her work appears on the cover of an issue of The Washington Post magazine where there is a picture of activist Stacey Abrams covering her eye with an emblem of the US flag. This shows that Abrams is con...