Student Profile: Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee is a junior studying film and photography at LMU.Hometown: San Mateo
Favorite Artists: Chuck Close, Ian Johnson, Simon Norfolk, Mark Jayson Quines, and RembrandtFavorite Book: Blankets by Craig Thompson
Favorite Film: Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
Quote: "I am a part of all that I've met." -Alfred Lord Tennyson

Student Profile: Justin Manzano

"My photographic ideas begin in my dreams. Numerous abstractions are created [within my dream] and my conscious mind is left to decipher and transform the random thoughts into concrete images and organized ideas."

Hometown: San Diego
Influences: dreams, the United Kingdom, muses, Modernism
Favorite Book: Sartori in Paris, Jack Kerouac
Favorite place in LA: Main Street, Santa Monica
Favorite Artists: Avedon, Demarchelier, Arbus, Testino, Hirst, Koons, & Hokusai

Student Profile: Malia Prietto

Malia Prietto is a graduating senior majoring in Psychology and Photography.

"My photographs stem from an interest in people and their story. I
photograph portraits, focusing on each individual and their unique
identity and personality. I often draw from my studies as a
psychology student for new ideas and inspiration. I like to explore
the way in which people change when they encounter new experiences
throughout their life. I try to express the emotions that come with
these new experiences."





Hometown: Laguna Beach
Favorite Place in LA: Venice
Influences: All forms of creative expression, family, music, psychology
Favorite Artists: Sally Mann, Lauren Greenfield, Gregory Crewdson, Mark Rothko

Student Profile: Ryan Hopkins

Ryan Hopkins is a senior studio arts major originally from New Jersey and Danville, CA

"Unlike many photographer's, I don't have a story of picking up my first camera at 3 years old, instantly falling in love. Photography fell on my lap, on accident. I had the choice to take painting or photography, and I don't have the patience for painting. Little did I know that it would turn into a passion, that almost never exits my brain. I'm always thinking of crazy ideas that have an extravagant factor, i.e. I can't afford it or I don't know how to do, yet I always come out with something that is cohesive with my original idea. I learn more every day, venturing out to try new techniques and I enjoy it even more than I could have ever imagined."

Favorite Artists: Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Patrick Hoelck
Favorite Movie: American Beauty
Favorite Place in LA: Topanga Canyon
Quote: "The most wonderful thing about Tiggers, is Tiggers are a wonderful thing"

Student Profile: Kirsten Harkonen

Kirsten Harkonen is a junior studio arts major originally from San Francisco concentrating in painting and photography.



FAVORITE ARTISTS: Kiki Smith, Joseph Cornell, David Hockney, Jeff Wall, Melanie Pullen, Weegee, Banksy, Goya, Andy Goldsworthy, Salvador Dali, Eva Hesse, Kelli Connell, Tarrah
Krajnak & Wilka Roig, Shomei Tomatsu, Ian Francis, Terry Winters, Helen
Frankenthaler, and Rothko


INFLUENCES: childhood memories, family, Melanie Pullen, Weegee, Lori Nix, Cindy Sherman, and renaissance paintings

FAVORITE PLACE IN LA: Downtown

FAVORITE BOOK: The Awakening by Kate Chopin



For more information, visit Kirsten's blog: http://art-chatter.blogspot.com