Photographer Report - Annie Leibovitz (Disney Series)

I had the chance to see an Annie Leibovitz gallery in Balboa a couple years ago, and was mesmerized by her work. Most of her images seemed to focus on celebrities and pop culture in general - to me, there were a lot of sensationalized images.


As a big Disney fan, I was surprised to find out that 1) Annie Leibovitz was going to doing a series of images combining celebrities and classic scenes from Disney animated films, and 2) I even knew who Annie Leibovitz was. Really, it made me feel cultured, if even only a little bit.

On the surface this is consumerism in its prime, but me being biased towards Disney, I find the charm in the series. I think there's something otherwordly about them - two worlds that really shouldn't exist in one, yet they do. They are jarring, yet somehow natural.

Photographer Report - David Michael

David Michael, or "darkbeer" as he is known online, is a theme park photographer, best known for his work on the website www.miceage.com. His is job basically to provide images to narrate editorials by online Disney insiders who dish on the latest news stories regarding the future of the theme parks. Through his work, Michael frequently deviates from this and captures random images from the park - often small details that the everyday parkgoer would overlook, like an oddly placed statue or a mother duck with her ducklings in the Rivers of America. For all that is artifical in the Disney theme parks, there is actually a good amount of wildlife who choose to take up residence in Disney's manmade landscapes.

He has also found a good hobby in creating a library of downloadable windows wallpapers, most.y comprised of images from the parks. He can be found on darkbeer.smugmug.com.