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trævəl

2012-01-29T15:14:00.002+01:00

trav·el /ˈtrævəl/ noun, adjective, verb (used without object)
1. to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
2. to move or go from one place or point to another.

3. to proceed or advance in any way.

4. to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.

5. to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.

Balcerek project

2012-01-15T21:22:00.001+01:00

tomorrow, 16.01.2011 in Czytelnia Sztuki in Gliwice will take place a meeting summarizing documental project "Balcerek" organized by Gliwice House of Photography with help of Museum in Gliwice and Faculty of Sociology of University of Silesia in Gliwice.

During year 2011 group of photographers (Maga Sokalska, Bartek Spyra and me) documented atmosphere of perhaps last months of existence of Balcerek bazaar, one of the last one of such in Poland.

At the same time group of scientist and students of sociology under supervision of dr. Agata Zygmunt and Andrzej Górny performed sociological research.
Both groups were supported by Museum in Gliwice.

Bazaars like Balcerek were created in early 1990s when economical plan of prof. Leszek Balcerowicz was implemented - plan of transformation of Polish economy from real-socialistic central planned economy into free-market reality.

Balcerek bazaars were created suddenly, almost from day to another, also in scale of few days in our cities started to appear products and goods we knew only from legends of those who travelled abroad (to the West of course).

We can openly say that thanks to those hundreds of brave and practical people who often decided to quite their jobs, change their lives and became sellers in Balcereks, Poland radically moved in other direction and made civilization leap.

Today, after 20 years Polish reality is completely different, full of fancy shopping malls, boutiques and restaurants.
Balcereks placed in very hearts of the cities, on most expensive area for urban development, with built ad hoc 20 years ago temporary, today half-destroyed structures are not fitting to this new reality.
Municipal and regional authorities tend to close and re-qualify those areas. It meets usually protests of Balcerek's workers and customers who are used to make shopping there for last 20 years.

Gliwice's Balcerek is one of the last ones, due to regional planning of building Inter-Silesian express road and plans of revitalization of this part of the city, the market supposed to be closed very soon.
Social protests delayed already this fact for few years, but it seems, we witness last months.

Balcerek project finished with the book shows the history and today's reality of the bazaar, shows the fates of people, their opinions, relations between them, their fears and hopes connected with unknown yet future of their place of work.

Czytelnia Sztuki, 16.01.2012 at 18.00h

Willa Caro
ul. Dolnych Wałów 8a
44-100 Gliwice, Poland
czytelnia@czytelniasztuki.pl
www.czytelniasztuki.pl

Street photography here and now. Still there!

2012-01-02T15:56:00.000+01:00

ŚwiatosławWojtkowiak, Somaliland, 2005 / courtesy of the artist

Street Photography Now. Street photography here and now.

Street photography is in fact a report. It can also be a memorial snapshot, or one taken straight from a family album. It does not need to be taken in the city, in the street – it can as well be shot in the depth of a forest, or in the middle of nowhere. Nowadays this photographic trend – certainly documentary and totally true, although sometimes it’s hard to believe – is a strong attraction for the photographers from all over the world.

The exhibition shall present works of such well-known authors as: Christophe Agou, Narelle Autio, Maciej Dakowicz, David Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Thierry Girard, Andrew Z. Glickman, Siegfried Hansen, Nils Jorgensen, Martin Kollar, Jesse Marlow, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Mimi Mollica, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Paul Russell, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang, Nick Turpin, Alex Webb.

The exhibition of more than 30 world’s best street photographers – selected by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, authors of an album on street photography – shall be accompanied by a presentation of works by Polish photographers.

„Street Photography Here and Now”. We do not wish to claim that “street” was invented by us, nor that it is our national trend. We just notice that plenty of people take photographs in the street. Paradoxically, not all of them are called street photos.

Capturing amusing moments of the daily life, catching people red-handed and at moments of oblivion, pointing out absurdities – this is what street photographers do. The spectators can laugh, can see a haiku-like concise story, but most of all they have the pleasure of looking at scenes which they pass in the streets. Common. Everyday. Unnoticeable when they occur.

Feel invited to get to know the Polish variety of street photo. Next to foreign photos, taken abroad, we show ours (and not only ours) backyards, streets and alleys – through the eyes of mostly young people, not necessarily professional photographers. Some of them feel they continue in the footsteps of Eliott Erwitt or Robert Doisneau, others claim to be unsullied like Henri Lartigue. Yet others leave their desks at 4:00 PM, when the sun shines its magic, and yield to the rhythm of their cities.

The exhibition is organized in cooperation with Third Floor Gallery from Cardiff, University of Wales in Newport and with the Thames & Hudson publishing house.

Authors of Polish-part of the exhibition: Michał Adamski, Piotr Bułas, Kuba Ceran, Rafał Chojnacki, Damian Chrobak, Maciej Dakowicz, Kuba Dargiewicz, Tomasz Desperak, Mariusz Forecki, Magda Galas, Paweł Głogowski, Wojciech Grzędziński, Robert Jaworski, Anna Kłosek, Piotr Koszczyński, Kacper Krajewski, Włodzimierz Krzemiński, Tomasz Kulbowski, Adam Lach, Marek Lapis, Nel Lato, Tomasz Lazar, Jerzy Łapiński, Michał Macioszczyk, Zbigniew Marczewski, Bartosz Mateńko, Michał Mentel, Szymon Michna, Krzysztof Miller, Paweł Olejniczak, Krzysztof Panek, Kacper Pempel, Marcin Płonka, Bart Pogoda, Przemysław Pokrycki, Paweł Piotrowski, Rafał Rafalski, Paweł Repetowski, Sylwester Rozmiarek, Piotr Rygielski, Tomasz Rykaczewski, Katarzyna Sagatowska, Mateusz Sarełło, Rafał Siderski, Michał Skrzypczak, Konrad Smolak, Agnieszka Sym, Szymon Szcześniak, Tomasz Szerszeń, Jacek Szust, Przemysław Wajerowicz, Jan Wajszczuk, Aleksander Wasilewski, Magdalena Wdowicz-Wierzbowska, Tomasz Wiech, Andrzej Wiktor, Artur Alan Willmann, Światek Wojtkowiak, Mateusz Zgliński, Bartek Wrześniowski & Jarek Zuzga.

JeffMermelstein, Untitled, New York, 1995 / featured in Street Photography Now, published by Thames & Hudson.

MaciejDakowicz, Pink Hat, Cardiff, 2006 / featured in Street Photography Now, published by Thames & Hudson.

GusPowell, Putti from the series Lunch Pictures, New York, 1999-2007 / featured in Street Photography Now, published by Thames & Hudson.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY NOW – Street Photography Here and Now.
The exhibition continues until January 15, 2012 opening hours: Thursday, Friday 3 - 8 PM / Saturday, Sunday 12 - 8 PM
Organized by: THE MUSEUM OF PRINTING IN WARSAW - a branch of the Historical Museum of Warsaw and Fundacja .DOC
Location: „Galeria Muzeum Drukarstwa Warszawskiego w budowie” (Gallery of the Museum of Printing in Warsaw Under Construction), Marszałkowska street no. 3/5, Warsaw

PawełPiotrowski, Munich, 2003 / courtesy of the artist

Marcin Płonka, London, 2011 / courtesy of the artist

TomaszWiech, Cracow, 2007 / courtesy of the artist

TomaszLazar, Niechórz, 2008 / courtesy of the artist

There are workshops with Przemysław Pokrycki (7.01), Mimi Mollica (8.01) and Bruce Gilden (14-15) and some lectures and discussions.
Thanks to Magda Wajda-Kacmajor for translation. Curators of "international" part are: Maciej Dakowicz, Joni Karanka and Bartosz Nowicki: Third Floor Gallery. Curator of Polish part is Joanna Kinowska. Hope to see you here :>

30 year ago

2011-12-12T21:03:00.003+01:00

Andrzej B. Górski, untitled, 1981/82

Summer . . .

2011-11-18T17:49:00.002+01:00

Era of the bellows

2011-11-13T00:19:00.002+01:00

2011-10-03T18:52:00.001+02:00

postcard from Kyoto

Invited guest: Hanna Källebo Neikter

2011-09-08T17:11:00.003+02:00

Hanna Källebo Neikter is a freelance photographer, stylist, dancer and applied artist from Stockholm, Sweden. She likes to experiment with pictures and walk astray in unknown cities.

August

2011-09-02T10:56:00.002+02:00

a holiday snapshot

2011-08-15T21:38:00.000+02:00

F reminds: after some sweet & lazy time in the woods, don't forget to take a picture!

Warsaw loves you, Mr. Ruff

2011-07-31T23:04:00.003+02:00

Nest

2011-06-29T21:20:00.002+02:00

6x6 alumitype

blue

2011-06-20T13:18:00.000+02:00

Teletubbies

2011-06-17T23:02:00.000+02:00

I’ve always found the world of the teletubbies a bit scary, with speakers popping up in the middle of nowhere, telling them what to do. Just like 1984 for kids!

Hello summer

2011-06-05T22:34:00.000+02:00

2011-06-02T20:10:00.003+02:00

The Travellers

2011-05-27T15:56:00.007+02:00

A short story about commuting.
Of a series of hallos and goodbyes.
Everyday life.

Sleet life

2011-05-26T15:21:00.005+02:00

In a world far away from the fado life in Porto.

Fados das Sextas in Porto

2011-05-07T10:48:00.001+02:00

Vernissage on 7.05.11 at 21:30h
Associação Cultural "A Cadeira de Van Gogh"

Rua do Morgado de Mateus, 41 - Junto à FBAUP - Metro Campo 24 de Agosto

Porto, Portugal

Paweł Piotrowski

2011-04-14T10:28:00.000+02:00

Paweł Piotrowski

Afonso Malato de Sousa - Scenes from American West

2011-04-09T11:36:00.000+02:00

Afonso Malato de Sousa is Portuguese photographer, starting his work in 1970s. Studied in Portugal, France and USA. Since that time he published seven books.
Material show in last one "Scenes from American West" were collected for 28 years of his travels along American West and never meant to be published.

Currently he lives in Cascais in Portugal, continuing his photographic passion mainly in Europe and America.

invited by Marcin

night on earth

2011-03-29T09:56:00.001+02:00

Paweł Piotrowski

2011-03-22T22:02:00.001+01:00

Paweł Piotrowski

Fado das Sextas

2011-03-18T22:15:00.001+01:00

exhibition in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. F.8 Atelier. 19.03.2011 at 16.00h

happy birthday, Markus!

2011-03-04T16:05:00.002+01:00

we're all here to sing "happy birthday" to you! :)

Like Kazimir then...

2011-03-03T20:12:00.001+01:00

Stefan Nordström - Interludes

2011-02-23T14:47:00.002+01:00

2011-02-15T09:02:00.002+01:00

kulört

2011-02-11T16:14:00.002+01:00

Two windows

2011-01-30T17:36:00.002+01:00

L.A.TIMOZ

2011-01-12T19:31:00.016+01:00

I sat there on the strip, next to the beach in Los Angeles. It was in late spring.

Four guys were playing ball against the wall. Their bodies were covered with tattoos.

They looked like they did not care.

I knew the more I waited the harder it was going to be, to get contact.
So, I walked up (with my black sunglasses on) to the one I thought was most friendly.
– Can I take your picture? He looked at me, started to walk away from where I was standing.
His friend looked at him and said – Was up?
The first guy answered, – I don’t know, was up! This guy; he thinks he’s a fucking FBI or something like that.

Then it happened. The first guy started to smile. The icebreaker, the connection that I was looking for.

I took up the camera then spent the afternoon with them. /.../

A bit later two beach cops showed up. The guys left fast.

Initially, I was in Vancouver to shoot for Absolut Vodka. This was only for one day, so we had 7 days off. Then my assistant came up with the idea—to take a drive to Los Angeles. I looked at him with a funny face and said – That’s far! The next morning we sat in the car. Four speeding tickets later, we were there.

Some time after, I got home to Sweden. A couple of guys were about to open a club at Sturehof in Stockholm. They wanted to do an art show with the pictures I took. The only thing was, I had no background information on these guys. So, my college; the Journalist Johan Lindberg came up with the brilliant idea—to lie. Then to name the art show “LATIMOZ” taken from Latin and Moz (a nickname for Steven Patrick Morrissey). The four guys I shot became immoderate “The Smiths ” fans, like that.

This was later reviewed in art magazines, as it was true. Frankly, maybe it was.

DANIEL SAHLBERG PHOTOGRAPHY © 2011

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Links: Daniel Sahlberg Photography
Previous work by Daniel on the F-blog: Fat fringes and A pedestrian display of affection.
Invited by Anders Blomqvist

Vulnerable

2011-01-09T23:13:00.001+01:00

photo: abeku

Postcard from: Gdansk

2010-12-28T20:47:00.000+01:00

photo by Kamila Kulik

2010-12-24T12:27:00.001+01:00

Sent i november

2010-12-01T21:01:00.001+01:00

Långeruder

2010-11-23T22:57:00.002+01:00

Straight Story

2010-11-22T06:50:00.002+01:00

camera: sx-70
film: polaroid 600 expired

Photographer: Attila Floszmann, Hungary

Hedemora

2010-11-21T16:42:00.001+01:00

Meniscus lens/GP3 film

Romanian Times

2010-11-20T10:30:00.002+01:00

Needful Peace

2010-11-19T22:48:00.000+01:00

part I / Vilnius 2010 by Dominik Miklaszewski

A park bench.

2010-11-19T11:19:00.000+01:00

A park bench is such a popular photographic topic. Show me yours?!

Dan Isaac Wallin

2010-11-19T10:08:00.009+01:00

In the creative aspect of his work, Dan Isaac Wallin has a love of Polaroid. He prefers to work with a simple SX-70 or Polaroid 180, using long expired Polaroid film. Wallin gently and carefully treats and mistreats the Polaroid film while it is developing, until he gets the soft ‘other-world’ look, that is the signature style of his work.

This series will show mainly outdoor motifs from the Swedish countryside. The colours and expressions change with the seasons, and behind these beautiful images there rests a serious, calm and poetic sensitivity.

Wallin presents journeys from the places of childhood. His memories become dreamlike sequences; from the blue of Bohuslän to the black and white of Israel. Mystery cuts through the nostalgic imagery and awakens questions within the viewer.

Links: Dan Isaac Wallin.

Invited by Anders Blomqvist

A PEDESTRIAN DISPLAY OF AFFECTION

2010-11-14T20:59:00.015+01:00

Daniel Sahlberg Photography 2010 ©.

The city of Toronto. I feel favoured to walk these streets. The people, the architecture, the smell, the taste; the life.

I was in Toronto first time in 2007. First days, I remember wanting to go home so bad. It was late October and was raining sideways. But then after a few days, I never wanted to leave.

I was traveling together with a very dedicated Creative Director, on commission for the Swedish Absolut Vodka Company. It was full schedule. The only day off, I went to the Andy Warhol Art Show; Stars, Deaths, and Disasters. Curator; David Cronenberg (film director). I remember standing there, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (this is Frank Gehry building today) listening to Dennis Hopper’s thoughts about Andy Warhol’s relation to Jackie Kennedy – That, he actually wanted to be her.

I got inspired by all this creativity and wanted to depict the city. But I did not have the time, I had to catch a flight the next day. Nevertheless, two years later I had the opportunity to go back to see a friend. /…/

Finally, this is TORONTO.

Daniel Sahlberg

Links: Daniel Sahlberg Photography, Daniel previusly on the F-blog >>.

Invited by Anders Blomqvist

2010-11-11T08:17:00.002+01:00

photo: Mindaugas Azusilis

A Ghost I Became

2010-11-11T05:12:00.003+01:00

Photo: Florian Fritsch

Inspired by the tune A Ghost I Became by Richmond Fontaine.

http://www.hobokollektiv.net

Dance Me

2010-11-07T16:49:00.002+01:00

from 2004 -- Inspired by leonard Cohen's Dance Me to the End of Love

Fast Car

2010-11-05T20:02:00.006+01:00

I just received a mail from Lina, asking for pics related to music. Well, I thougt that it would be a good theme here on the F blog too.

So, please send your pics to us and label them music and provide a link to the tune!

These images are inspired by the Tracy Chapman song Fast Car

Revisit Rewind

2010-11-02T21:33:00.002+01:00

I'm working on an exhibition and a photobook called Revisit Rewind along with another photographer, a poet and a musician. The book and exhibition is scheduled for feb 5th 2011 but here's a sneak preview:

Revisit Rewind

Gruppo F inbox: Fredrik Skott

2010-11-02T08:59:00.002+01:00

Exhibition: L A R G O

2010-10-27T06:17:00.004+02:00

In music Largo stands for a slow tempo,
we thought it also could represent the way we see things.

Welcome!

For more information please visit: www.fotokompaniet.com

shall we play?

2010-10-24T19:38:00.000+02:00

xpro/palermo

.................

2010-10-21T09:28:00.000+02:00

2010-10-19T22:19:00.003+02:00

Autumn

2010-10-17T14:29:00.007+02:00

Simon's hand

2010-10-17T14:18:00.002+02:00

Meeting Charles Fréger

2010-10-13T18:49:00.000+02:00

Charles Fréger, Vatican 6, from the series Empire, 2007 / courtesy of the artist

Joanna: You’ve grown up in analogue photography, now you work with digital. How does this affect your work?

Charles Fréger: It’s a question of editing. The main problem with the analogue is that the great producers like Fuji or Kodak are not experimenting anymore. So they are not improving the quality of the films anymore. So I found it pointless. It’s more difficult to find the lab to produce some analog prints of good quality, there are less and less labs. They still do that, but still often the solution is to get the scan of the film. (…) I work in series so I have a lab-series, interactive lab. I’m more flexible now about…

J: A quantity?

Charles Fréger: Not about the quantity, because when I was working on films, I had the same quantity of pictures. It’s more that I’m the only one to interact with my pictures, only one person decides how to print my pictures. And this is really difficult, it took me one year to find the way how to print my pictures.

Charles Fréger, from the series Water-polo, 2000 / courtesy of the artist

J: Because of the control of the material?

Charles Fréger: The picture you get, the RAW you get from the digital camera, a very high quality camera, the picture is very average. You neet to – kind of – optimize the colours, with greys, blacks. It’s a decision of making digital piture, being used to analog, my eyes are used to analog, I have to find kind of a compromise with the pure digital.

J: Why do you choose to make colour photography?

Charles Fréger: It’s not a choice. I’ve worked in black&white for 2 or 3 years, and then I’ve jumped on color photography. Color works better with my subject. There’s no “why”. I just like colour photography for my work, I like it to be in colour.

J: I believe it’s common for photography today to go beyond boundaries, out of cliches and styles. Out of specialization. And you specialise in portrait photography, how do you feel about it?

Charles Fréger: I think it’s easier, it’s a choice. Like I’ve said before to one of the students, I’m not happy when photographer is going in many directions. I mean it’s not that exactly bad. I prefer to be specialised in portrait, than trying to do a lot of other stuff at the same time. Portrait is like a door open, through portrait I do something else, but it’s always starting from portrait.

J: And now are you going to specialise in performing arts?

Charles Fréger: No, no! I just push the portrait experimentations like the idea of getting into the group, sometimes experimenting on myself in wearing the costume, but the main story is always the portrait.

J: Have you ever experienced the closeness of the group, the lines and rules you simply can’t cross?

Charles Fréger: Always, actually. I always get to the limits of the group, like the passion of the group, there are some steps they don’t want me to photograph. I like to compromise with that, there are some strict rules of the groups and I can’t jump over them.

Charles Fréger, San Marino 1, from the series Empire, 2007 / courtesy of the artist

J: You’re making some sort of anthropological research. Do you feel like modern anthropologist?

Charles Fréger: No, I’m not. My work is used by some anthropologists and sociologists. There are many, many kinds of people that are using my work: fasion, costume makers, some uniforms specialists. Sometimes they are using my work as a documentary, kind of research on community. But that doesn’t make me anthropologist. It is used by anthropologist, but I’m really not one of them.

J: How do you find your groups?

Charles Fréger: It’s just like that I sometime meet somebody who tells me about something, and this is exactely what I wanted to photograph. Actually I can’t define what I want to photograph, I know what I want, but I can’t define it in words. At the moment I’ve pushed some research in Indonesia. And there is someone making research for me. I cannot say I want to photograph this and that in Indonesia. It’s more that she’s making the research and telling me what I can do there.

Charles Fréger, from the series Wilder-men, 2010 / courtesy of the artist

J: Where you found the idea of making “The Wild Men”?

Charles Fréger: I was invited by a choreographer who was making a show about that. In her show was two “Wilder mann”, heroes called “Krampus”. This was extremely fascinating! So I asked what is was, she told me about the tradition in Austria. So I decided to go to Austria and photograph these “Wilderman”. When I got there I discovered that there were plenty other groups like that. I decided to accumulate them.

J: In the end of this series, are you going to make your own costume, too?

Charles Fréger: During my next trip, I’m going to reproduce some gestures to create some costume, I’m on my way to some countries, I need to stop on the road and try to get something. But this doesn’t mean I would show this. This is more like a personal experience.

Charles Fréger as LU QIAN REN, Nang Jing Opera, 2009 / courtesy of the artist

J: What is your favorite way to contact the viewer: in a show, exhibition, a book, a website?

Charles Fréger: Books are really important objects for me. More and more I like the meetings, conferences, workshops, where you can really exchange the ideas. The traditional show I like to twist, to make it different, I try to find different way to interact with people.

J: When you make a collection of pictures, you make some sort of inventory, it’s very categorised and objective – sort of objective photography, as much as possible. And then you’re crossing the line, you’re becoming part of the group, you have personal attitude towards the group. What is more important afterwards: objective or personal?

Charles Fréger: I don’t care about objectivity; I’m fed up with objectivity! It’s not necessary to be objective. It’s more about the experience around it. When I go to some places I can have a zero experience and still I can do good images. Maybe now, the experience is more important to me, in my way of living with my photographic work and my research in general...

Charles Fréger, Hereros 16 (up), Hereros 28 (down), from the series Hereros, 2007 / courtesy of the artist

J: Your pictures are typological, to make some categorisations. What does August Sander means to you?

Charles Fréger: It’s more about the way of working, an attitude, more about that ethic. First, Sander is very close to us because he used this very typological approach in his portraits. But also the attitude toward a person, a certain ethic, the representation of humanity, and so on. For example to photograph everybody in the same way was really important. It’s extremely problematic how the photographer is treating the poor and the rich when he photographs them. Like with the rich he will be really carefull. I think it is important to be the same for everybody.

J: Please, tell me more about Piece of Cake.

Charles Fréger: It’s a network of photographers created in 2002. I created it, because I didn’t appreciate the fact that photographers are working alone and not sharing their work. I invited 25 artists to join me for a first workshop in my hometown… And from that first workshop, we really developed POC as network, with a real family spirit. We started to find a way to interact with each other. We meet twice a year now, in different capitals of Europe for three-five days. We discuss our work. We exchange our information and technical problems. We share our experience about being a photographer/artist.

J: Sort of photographical family?

Charles Fréger: Yes, you can call it like that.

J: Is there anything common within artists in Piece of Cake?

Charles Fréger: All the photographers have in common the use of something “documentary” in photography. The majority of members have something to do with documentary and also poetic work. And it evolves: the new members bring some change, of course.

J: I’ve read in interview with you that you wanted to make a film on “Majorettes”. How is it?

Charles Fréger: It was two years ago and the film is not done yet. And I’m not sure I’d be able to do it. It’s a long, long, long preparation and we have still some money missing. In three months I will know if I can do it or not, but I’m really pessimistic about it.

J: I’ll keep my fingers crossed for this! Thank you.

Charles Fréger during the lecture in Warsaw. 1/10/10 photo: JK

http://www.charlesfreger.com/

Piece of Cake: http://www.pocproject.com/

Charles Fréger was invited to run workshops on portrait photography by Akademia Fotografii school in Warsaw. Thanks to Katarzyna Majak for coordination and help. Thanks to Magdalena Wajda-Kacmajor for editing. 2.10.10 / Warszawa

Threesome

2010-10-12T17:48:00.005+02:00

lazy sunday, sunday afternoon.

2010-10-12T11:51:00.000+02:00

anybody have an idea of the spot in the background?

Eleven birds

2010-10-12T11:48:00.000+02:00

thunder

2010-10-12T11:25:00.002+02:00

October

2010-10-10T15:39:00.001+02:00

crossroads.

2010-10-10T10:10:00.005+02:00

was looking for a nice picture for 10/10/10 at 10.10. here it is. sort of crossroads. of course in xprocess/Warsaw

sunday afternoon

2010-10-08T14:40:00.001+02:00

lazy one. xpro/Warsaw

here comes the autumn, again

2010-10-07T14:40:00.000+02:00

/xpro/Warsaw

Apple Tree

2010-10-07T03:49:00.002+02:00

a 6x6 tintype

Back to the shadows.

2010-10-05T21:10:00.002+02:00

Bumblebee

2010-10-05T18:38:00.002+02:00

Marta Sofia Nunes: Silences at surface

2010-10-04T14:24:00.004+02:00

Travelling with family

2010-10-04T11:51:00.000+02:00

Clytemnestra in Agamemnon's bathtub

2010-10-02T18:11:00.002+02:00

(oilpainting)

leftovers from this summer...

2010-10-02T16:39:00.003+02:00

Ofcourse you are right Marcin...

there will be no winter

2010-10-02T11:07:00.002+02:00

at least in our hearts :)

icescapes

2010-09-30T08:39:00.002+02:00

street photography NOW!

2010-09-29T09:47:00.000+02:00

the book and the exhibition, soon!

3rd floor gallery from Cardiff, run by our friends: Maciej Dakowicz and Joni Karanka, is preparing for the new exhibition: "Street Photography Now, produced by Third Floor Gallery in collaboration with the publishers Thames & Hudson, brings the best of the milestone photobook of the same name from the page to the wall."

about the exhibition in the 3rd floor gallery

book-site in Thames&Hudson and on facebook.

Participating photographers:

Christophe Agou, Arif Asci, Narelle Autio, Polly Braden, Bang Byoung-Sang, Maciej Dakowicz, Carolyn Drake, Melanie Einzig, George Georgiou, David Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Thierry Girard, Andrew Z. Glickman, Siegfried Hansen, Markus Hartel, Nils Jorgensen, Richard Kalvar, Martin Kollar, Jens Olof Lasthein, Frederic Lezmi, Jesse Marlow, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Mimi Mollica, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Bruno Quinquet, Paul Russell, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang, Alexey Titarenko, Nick Turpin, Munem Wasif, Alex Webb, Amani Willett, Michael Wolf, Artem Zhitenev, Wolfgang Zurborn.

let me hear you scream...

2010-09-28T12:18:00.002+02:00

scream, cause it's autumn, again.
well, the best ask for scream ever here

WARNING this is not a photography

2010-09-28T10:42:00.000+02:00

it's a drypoint ;)

After a season of growth . . .

2010-09-27T19:55:00.001+02:00

the mighty cabbage appears.

love raster

2010-09-27T17:03:00.000+02:00

scanning from books gives something extra for the old pictures, old masters. this one is a special effect on Stanislaw Rodecki, photographer from Lwow and his picture from 1870. are'nt they lovely?

10 LoFi - samlingsutställning

2010-09-23T08:49:00.005+02:00

Den drömlika och poetisk atmosfär som kan skapas med hjälp av en lågteknologisk kamera är resultatet av ett speciellt förhållningssätt till omgivningen.

Man behöver aldrig oroa sig för att en bild ska bli dålig – ljus som kommer in på fel ställe eller bilder som blir suddiga är små olyckor som LoFi-fotografen inte bara accepterar utan till och med uppskattar som en del av det konstnärliga skapandet.
The dreamlike and poetic atmosphere that can be created by means of a low tech camera is the result of a particular attitude towards the world around us.

You never have to think about the possibility of an image being sub-standard -light sneaking in at the wrong places or blurry images are little accidents which the LoFi photographer not only accepts but even appreciates, as part of artistic expression.

Tio fotografer, som lärt känna varandra via gruppen Toycamera på fotosidan.se, bestämde sig i början av 2009 att samla ihop till en utställning. Efter ett och ett halvt års förberedelser har reslutatet blivit 10LoFi, ett manifest för den lågteknologiska fotografin.

Britt Aximon, Jan Bernhardtz, Daniel Björkert, Kristoffer Bratt, Madelene Johansson, Johan Kauppinen, Lena Källberg, Ulla Larsson, Christer Törnkvist och Li Östlund har det gemensamt att de använder sig av verkligt enkla kameror, hålkameror eller plastkameror, sådana som brukar definieras som leksaker, toy cameras. Men man kan inte riktigt kalla dem leksaker, för de är gjorda för att fotografera med. De är framställda med den största brist på respekt för teknologi, ofta tillverkade i plast, från objektiv till bakstycke. Som bildskaparverktyg kan de däremot vara väldigt kraftfulla, med sitt alldeles egna synsätt och sina individuella skavanker.

10LoFi-manifestet har också blivit en bok, som kommer att finnas till försäljning i begränsad upplaga i samband med utställningen.

Vernissage 2 oktober 11-16

Öppettider:
tis-fre 10-18
lördag 11-15
sön-mån stängt
http://10lofi.se/Webbplats/10lofi.html

wishing you something nice!

2010-09-09T21:30:00.000+02:00

happy B-day, Marcin!

flowers from Umea.

2010-08-27T10:26:00.003+02:00

the photo was taken in a studio by Tor Ekholtz in Umea, Sweden. some, long time ago.
Dear Swedish friends, can you tell me more about Bertil Ekholtz? he was a son of Tor? and any ideas about the habit of taking pictures of sailor (?) with flowers?

Markus Jenemark exhibition in Hjo

2010-07-29T22:24:00.006+02:00

Hjo Konsthall exhibits black and white photographs by Markus Jenemark from the 10^th to the 22^nd of August. The exhibition includes both a documentary series of photos of twin brothers Arne and John from Tiveden, and more intimate, poetic images of Markus's family and his hometown Hjo and the surrounding areas. Opening night is Tuesday 10^th of August at 5 – 8 pm. Wine, cider and snacks will be served. Welcome!

Hjokonsthall.se

markusjenemark.blogspot.com

city de noir

2010-07-15T09:23:00.000+02:00

from the series "city de noir" by Ireneusz Luty

Inbox: Niklas Korte

2010-07-14T15:30:00.008+02:00

From the series 'My 2009' by Niklas Korte.

www.niklaskorte.com

commuters

2010-07-10T02:15:00.000+02:00

from the series "commuters" by Ireneusz Luty www.ireneuszluty.com

Russ Martin: Hosta Project

2010-07-06T12:03:00.004+02:00

Russ Martin "Hosta Project" - an exploration of the common landscape plant. "I have been working on this now for about three years. There is no end in sight as new pathways keep revealing themselves. I find photographing plants contemplative and personally rewarding. Recently, images from "The Hosta Project" have won:

2009 First Place Nature Non Pro, The Prix de la Photographie Paris, PX3

2009 First Place Nature/Flowers, Non-Pro, The International Photography Awards, The Lucies

2009 First Place, Reader's Gallery, B+W Magazine (UK), November

2009 Third Place Portfolio, International Garden Photographer of the Year, London,

2008 First Place Nature/Flowers, Non-Pro, The International Photography Awards, The Lucies

2008 Gold Award, Plants/Flowers, Black and White Magazine, Single Image Contest".

more form Russ Martin here: www.RussAndMarciaMartin.com

inbox: Urban Legends.

2010-07-06T11:42:00.003+02:00

from "Urban Legends" series by: Remigiusz Jendrych www.priorytetprzeslony.blogspot.com

cigarette

2010-07-05T20:12:00.001+02:00

from the series "cigarette" by Ireneusz Luty www.ireneuszluty.com

In the garden

2010-06-30T22:02:00.003+02:00

photo: abeku

F: feels like home.

2010-06-28T19:28:00.001+02:00

F. Falenica. the last district of Warsaw. circa 1km from it's end.

Invited guest: Wojciech Moskal: "Park"

2010-06-24T16:37:00.000+02:00

Wojciech Moskal: These pictures come from my early project – “The Park” which has been taken for 18 months in the most famous and biggest park of Warsaw. This is also my diploma of European Academy of Photography.

http://www.wojtekmoskal.blogspot.com

Invited guest: Wojciech Moskal

2010-06-23T16:42:00.002+02:00

Wojciech Moskal: The rough industrial landscape of Sosnowiec, the place I grew up in, had a big impact on my visual perception. Perhaps that’s why it’s natural for me to see the world as a b&w picture. When I look at the city I see the unique poetry of it – people going about their everyday business, empty spaces full of mute emotions, hidden, abstract gems go unnoticed as we pass them by. In my pictures I attempt to capture Warsaw with and without make-up – this is what has captivated me from the beginning. I hope to convey the emotions that I felt while taking these pictures.

http://www.wojtekmoskal.blogspot.com/

Invited guest: Daniel T. Braun

2010-06-23T16:29:00.005+02:00

ID no.8, 2008, ca. 80x115cm, Lambda-Print, 2+1 AP

Crackling Palm, 2003, ca.170x106cm, Rocketogram/Colorphotogram, unique

Shoot No.3/after H. Edgerton, 2006, ca. 110x140cm, c-print, 2+1AP

AP1, 2009, ca. 180x240cm, C-Print, 2+1 AP

Rafael Shafir, 2006, ca. 180x130cm, Rocketogram / Color-Photogram, unique

Bl no.6, 2008, ca. 100x120cm, C-Print, 2+1 AP

Daniel T. Braun a young german emerging artist uses the media of photography in different ways.Sometimes he builds a model or sculpture to photography, sometimes the picture is the result of a performative act, near in the manner of an action paintimg, like burning rockets on photographic paper at night ( " Rocketogrames "). For more information visit his vuluminous website: http://www.daniel-tobias-braun.de/

Untitled

2010-05-28T09:20:00.003+02:00

postcards from Skärplinge

2010-05-16T07:03:00.002+02:00

Inbox: Anna Edlund - The Days

2010-05-15T11:46:00.007+02:00

Anna Edlund sent us some photos from her ongoing project Vardagar/The Days. Enjoy!

Inbox riddle: what does this image is saying?

2010-05-14T17:10:00.000+02:00

by David Averbuch

suburbia gone wild

2010-05-13T12:13:00.001+02:00

Martin Adolfsson, Millennium Park, Moscow

Martin Adolfsson: Suburbia, the word alone calls up images of monotonous perfection. More than a place, it is an identity. This one-size-fits-all existence and its pandemic spread around the world fascinates me.
For the last two years, I have photographed model homes and their landscapes in the newly emerging cities of the world: Bangkok, Shanghai, Bangalore, Cairo, Moscow and Johannesburg.
I will finish my examination with Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
www.suburbiagonewild.com

A smaller splash.

2010-05-02T16:54:00.001+02:00

a very humble tribute to Mr Hockney.

Invited guest: Joe White

2010-04-28T11:31:00.003+02:00

Exteriors
The project looks at the concept of a passing sense of presence within a photograph, left buy a person(s) without physically having a human life in any image.

Interiors
My interiors are the documentation of student housing, capturing living rooms to convey the immediate past. By using this method I have created a frank and honest portrait of the students themselves.

photos by Joe White