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Artists' Jess Allen, Alec Soth, and Stephen Shore inspired me for my series. Even though each of these artists have different approaches to their work, they each guide me in the direction I want to go in for my own series. I'm inspired by the way these artist present their work and allow their viewers to create their own narrative.

Jess Allen is an oil painter from Dorset, United Kingdom. The theme she sticks to is the "Presence through Absence" and is inspired by the Japanese concept of MA (minimalist aesthetic). Although she's not a photographer, I'm inspired by her concept of space and how she avoids text in her work. 

Alec Soth is an American photographer from Minnesota. During his road trips, Soth photographs people and landscapes that are usually in rural or suburban neighborhoods that are often in the Midwest and/or the South. He aims to communicate the weight in a photograph as in the history and time a photograph can carry. 

Stephen Shore is another American photographer from New York, NY. Black and white images from the 1960s and photographs with colors in the 1970s moving forward make up his body of work. Shore revolves his work around the idea of problem solving and the use of natural light in his photographs. He is also known for taking a little images as possible of his subject and does very little editing in post.