Randi Rosing-Schow

Photo Blog for ART 117 - Digital Photography

Portrait Photographer - Dave Anderson

Dave Anderson worked in a lot of other fields before he became a photographer.  For the past three years he has worked full time as a fine art and commercial photographer.  

He has done a project called Rough Beauty where he photographs people in the South that are marginalized.  He wants to show that these people are worthy of our attention and that beauty can be found in their harsh lives.  However, he does not try to purposefully beautify their lives.  Anderson aims to explore how a community can be branded by its history and he tries to display the beauty that is hidden within a struggling community. 

These are examples from the Rough Beauty project: