this photograph is one in a photograph set called <Mother Michael Goes to Heaven> by photographer Lilla Szasz. It’s about the story of a 3-persons home who are prostitute pimp and fetish separately. But in February 24, 2010, Michael killed himself and this family in slum of Budapest was broken ahead of time, leaving each other. But their lives were all recorded by her, Lilla Szasz. She is a kind of documentary photographer, who is always focusing on immigration, identity, gender issues and the living situation of the people lived at the bottom of the society. She always likes shooting people in misery, but still try to show the hope of life at the same time.

The photograph is from <The Honeymoon> taken by a young photographer called Juno Calypso. This image was taken when juno went to her own honeymoon, a honeymoon hotel in Pennsylvania. She described this picture as ‘This picture is why we look ugly. We look at the mirror, but we see the gargoyle. We saw a monster. We spend a lot of time in the bathroom to wash away dirt and shave hair, just to clean up this fear.’ And I think most of the work in this photo album is to show audiences an ugly side – the mainstream aesthetic view held by the world. Too many people take selfie to show their fake life just like an actor. But juno tried to take this series of photographs to remind us.

This is one of the photographs about the love between couples taken by Lara Gasparotto. She served as a photographer for some magazines in Brussels, capital of Belgium. She also likes recording her life in the way of taking pictures of her friends. But the image I chose is a photograph about the moment when the lovers are surrounded by love. Her photos would not be too clear and textured, and she wanted to make the picture have a feeling of untouched. Only the story in that photograph was the main purpose of her work.

These three are all my recent favorite photographers with some elements of documentary photography.

1, Live in the world of the senses and grow unscrupulously，Mp.weixin.qq.com，https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3MDc5NTk0Nw==&mid=2247496674&idx=1&sn=bc04fca7a968ccd804ff1079781a7e7a&chksm=9f35e426a8426d3080f7aee7c525e8dd7f1e04adad0a3fdeca05bcf72b76b94492bfef466d18&scene=38#wechat_redirect

2, Lilla Szász: Mother Michael Goes to Heaven, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_46PpUfLGTk

3, Nell Frizzell, ‘I sounded like I was having the best sex’: Juno Calypso’s one-woman world tour of honeymoon hotels, the Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/02/juno-calypso-tour-honeymoon-hotels

Liu Xinyi