Fashion magazine W sparked a great deal of ridicule recently over the celebrity portraits in its latest Best Performances issue -- photos criticized as being uninspired, of poor taste, technically flawed, and amateurish. That may all be true, but it was also intentional -- that's just photographer Juergen Teller's trademark style...
Argentinian photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg started as a photojournalist before turning to documentary photography and developing his trademark style of shooting under moonlight and using strobes and long exposures to illuminate his subjects. His portrait subjects are asked to remain motionless for long periods of time as he photographs them using a large format film camera. He recently applied his style to a series on residents of Northern Kenya -- a location that's typically photographed under the harsh midday sun.