The main thing that I like about Levitts work is how natural all of her photographs are, as you would expect with a documentary photographer. Her presence seems to be 'in the right pleace at the right time' and with this she captures some truly beautiful photographs.
Charles Fregar
Charles Fréger is a French photographer born in 1975. He tirelessly continues his “Portraits Photographiques et Uniformes” project, including a catalog of pictures of legionnaires, water polo players, English school girls, Finnish synchronised ice skaters, ex-communist scouts from Budapest, majorettes, Japanese sumo wrestlers, beauty contestants in Singapore, young Vietnamese Buddhists, Roman Corazzieri, Vatican Swiss guards, Spanish penitents, Northern Irish Orange men, and Pekinese opera singers. His portraits, although poetic, are far from psychological. There’s nothing picturesque about them either. He photographs his subjects like an entomologist pins his insects. There’s also a touch of sociology and ethnology with his inexhaustible inventories of the most extraordinarily diverse social groups, many of which are slowly becoming extinct. These archives of social bodies, in a state of mutation, these families of mankind, if you like, are documented on a human scale, and free of embarrassing sentimentality; they form the inventory of this 34-year-old French photographer.
His photographs have a pantingly like look about them, as though the people look almost fake. Due to his choice of subjects, some social groups that are declining these days, I think that the pantingly feel about the photographs backs up that one day the groups will be a thing of the past/ imaginary.
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