Robert & Shana Parke-Harrison

I watched a program called Art Close Up on AETN tonight. The program featured a photographic couple named Robert & Shana Parke Harrison. He and his wife Shana actually work as a team when producing the work. She acts as a director and they both work on the concept and execution together. They work in a staged photographic format rather than a candid format, and though I am less of a fan of staged photography, I find this work to be quite beautiful and poetic. The program presented an art critic who described the work as representations of the "every man" and his struggles. I'm not sure this assessment quite encapsulates the broadness of interpretive possibilities but it is a good start. There are also statements about mankind's relationship to the environment within the photographs. The program was particularly insightful because it revealed their process(es) which they apparently have kept guarded for some time. If you're a photographer intrigued by layering and collage, staging, and process in general, this couple of artists are the ones for you.

It's hard to pick a favorite one from the site,
but this piece called "Forest Bed," comes pretty close for me.