- Sally Mann -

Sally Mann is a photographer who was born in Virginia. I am a huge fan of not only her work but her way of living and working. She is best known for her bestseller book she published in 1992 called 'Immediate Family'. This featured three of her own children at their remote cabin by the river in Virginia where they lived, the scenery is fantastic and mesmerising as the camera that she uses is an old collodion which captured natural outstanding fantasy like atmospheres. I am drawn to her because of a documentary film I watched when I studied her in college, she is a very placid, gentle woman who's completely driven by the beauty and nature around her. Rarely would she position her children in certain places and positions to get the perfect shot, most of her photographs were of her children playing and she would simply tell them to freeze. I love how she does not take influence by other artists or photographers but by her surroundings which proves she is highly talented and has an eye for art.