International name of photographer: Paul Caponigro (75 years old)
website/folio:
http://www.soulcatcherstudio.com/artists/caponigro.htmlgear details: not sure
what u like about them: i read about him when browsing Black and White magazine on December 2007 issue. He's a legend in his lifetime, and one of the greatest living photographer and in incorruptible connection to the pioneering master of art - Ansel Adam, Minor White friends and mentor.
"Art is essentially heart, and its no secret that my chore, you might say, is to find a means with this tehnological medium of photography to keep poetry alive. The key is to not let the camera , which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well"
"In photography, i discovered that if i could manipulate the light of silver in just the right way without a formulized method - to take the light that was available and find a section in the grey scale the renders the light best - i could let nature reveal itself"
Caponigro once described photographs as "Dream locked in silver"