Emir Ozsahin

I chose to post about this artist for two reasons. One, he's not a very well known photographer, just a random guy I found stumbling around flickr. Two, because the composition includes an element that I've been meaning to experiment with. I like the idea that it is unnecessary to compose the face of a person in focus or visible in a portrait. Sometimes perhaps using body language instead and having something blurred in the foreground can convey the meaning of the portrait or personality of the person better. It sort of tricks us, because I think that we are naturally inclined to looking at faces before anything else in a picture. This picture isn't necessarily the best example of a marvelous composition utilizing this distractive element, but it does convey emotion and mystery by letting the body language of the child and the shadow coming from the person standing behind him speak. It gives me an eery feeling that this is not considered a portrait at all. 

 Here are some other exampled of his work.

(side note: this is not flipped the wrong way)