In Focus: A Dialog on Photography – Occasion Calendar

Jason Masters is a Little Rock primarily based photographer specializing in trend, conceptual portraiture, way of life, and promoting. Jason was born in Dallas and grew up in a small city in Texas. He constructed a house and lived within the jungles of Costa Rica throughout his early 20s. Shortly after transferring again to the states, he met his future spouse in Austin, which in the end introduced him to Little Rock.

Jason’s nearly 30 12 months profession started in Austin working for a movie manufacturing firm that specialised in function movies and commercials. After relocating to Arkansas, getting married and beginning a household, Jason’s profession transitioned from movie to pictures. He remembers the precise day when he fell in love with trend pictures and tells the story usually.

Jason’s favourite work is often impressed by basic movies, storybooks, classic trend, or just a singular or stunning location. His pictures tends for easy, clean-lined portraits captured from a proper perspective.

Although Jason’s identify is often credited as a publishing custom, he’ll at all times remind you that his world of pictures is a collaboration of hair/make-up artists, stylists, artwork administrators, photograph assistants, journal editors, shoppers, snake handlers, and so on, and so on. 

Kat Wilson is an experimental artist primarily based in Northwest Arkansas, the place she obtained her MFA. Wilson’s work is theatrical, participatory, and humanistic and infrequently entails collaboration with others, together with, in lots of pictures tasks, the topics of the photographs themselves.

Early in her profession, Wilson gained nationwide success together with her Habitats sequence of digital images, which, like her present #SelfieThrones and Warrior Women sequence, makes use of centuries-old compositional gadgets to create a way of transcendence.

Wilson’s work has been revealed in Communication Arts, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post, displayed on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and projected on the Louvre, amongst others.