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Mayumi Hayashi was a Japanese American who was born in Arizona in 1945. Hayashi died in 2006 after being shot in her home by her neighbor who was mentally ill. Hayashi graduated from Florida State University in 1975 with a degree in Visual Arts(photography) and also has a M.F.A. degree in photography from Florida State. Her work has been displayed in many exhibitions and galleries. Hayashi is known for her photo collages of panoramic subjects. The subjects she chose always  related back to her personal life. All of Hayashi’s photographs are outside and consist of subjects like landscapes, EPA superfund sites, abandoned prisons, cities, internment camps, and architecture. All of the photographs have beautiful color. Hayashi chose to photograph each one of her images for specific reasons. For example, she photographed the EPA superfund sites because she was personally concerned with the toxic waste sites that existed. She photographed the internment camps because of the time her and her family spent as prisoners in them during World War II. When photographing, Hayashi would thoroughly analyze a location, set her camera up on her tripod at eye level and moved her camera lens 20 degrees with every shot to achieve the panoramic effect. She would then continue to do this at different heights to add and create her photo collage.

Sarah Hobbs is not a typical landscape photographer. She photographs “interior landscapes” which deal with personal issues and mental health. All of her photographs take place within homes. Each photograph is carefully created and are basically of these “sculptures” that she makes. Hobbs was born and raised in 1970 in Atlanta. She has a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Georgia and a masters in photography from UGA as well. Her photographs take mental ideas and give them a humorous touch within the homes. One of her photographs titled “Indecisiveness” is of an empty chair in a hallway where there are thousands of paint color samples on the wall. This is one of the many that prove  how carefully Hobbs sets the scene. While there are no people in any of her photographs you can clearly tell that each photograph is supposed to be of an action done by a human being. All of her images are in color and the color clearly reflects the mood of the photograph. In her “social phobia” photograph it only consists of two colors which makes sense for the concept of social phobia, but in other photos such as “denial” there are a lot more colors to get the point she is trying to convey more clearly across. I think that Hobbs’ photographs are both extremely clever and funny while relating to topics that people don’t always consider that humourous.

Touhami Ennadre was born in 1953 in Casablanca, Morocco and has been living in Paris since 1961. Ennadre is a portrait photographer and has no formal education in the arts. He considers himself a self-taught photographer. His images have been displayed in many exhibitions worldwide and he has received various photography awards.All of his images are in black and white and  the backgrounds in his images are very dark. In some of his images it is easy to see the subject while others he makes the subject dark like the background and it is not as easy to see what is going on. The majority of his images are of people. You can see at least part of a person’s face in every photograph but then he has some photographs that are still of people, but may be of just their hands. Ennadre uses a wide-angle lens at an extremely close length to his subjects to create these silhouette like images with no unwanted shadows and super dark backgrounds. He deals with intense subjects such as 9/11, missing people, deaths, violence, and the homeless. The mood is very dark and mysterious in each of his images.