Week 8 – Artist – Addario-Cardiff-Miller

    -  Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who regularly works for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. In the late 1990s, she began freelancing in New York city for the Associated Press, where she worked consistently for three years before moving to New Delhi, India, to cover South Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, and Houston Chronicle. Over the past 15 years, Addario has covered every significant conflict and humanitarian crises of her generation, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, South Sudan, Somalia, and Congo. She specially like to document life of hardship, war time of these countries. Every photos of Addario was honest, illustrating how the environment looks like at the present time, or tell the emotion of people. 

   -  Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are Canadian artists who live and work in British Columbia. They are internationally recognized for their multimedia sound installations and their audio/video walks, that create transcendent multisensory experiences which draw the viewer into often unsettling narratives. They both had numerous shows at international venues and have been recognized with many Prize for their works. 
    -  The similarity of Addario and Cardiff-Miller's works are both telling stories of an event at a particular place with different people. 
   -  The differences between those two artists were the kinds of works that they used to tell a stories. Addario used a nonfictional photos to describe the most honest stories, her photos tell the most vividly the emotion and what really happened during the event. Whereas, Cardiff-Miller's work used multi media sounds, or audio sounds of walk to create a fictional stories. 
   -  As my personal perspective, the gritty edge of real-word stories is more important than whimsy and inner-monologues, and whimsical mind explorations merely are amusing. Because the photos which describe most vividly real-world events tell the audiences what the stories that the artist have been through, and it was the real stories. For example, the Cal-Fire albums of Addario did tell the real stories of the women firefighters battling flames in California, how they sweat, struggle through the danger of forest fire, how their works were recognized just as like the men firefighters. 
    - If I decided to pick up cameras and microphones and pursue a career in storytelling, I would prefer a career like Addario, because her work was more documenting of a meaningful events and stories in the real world. It was a amazingly artist way of expressing the stories with every people in the world.