invited guest: Tatiana Cardeal

Independent photographer visual artist dreamer, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I used to work for the editorial market as art director and graphic designer, but since 2005,
I have been moving my focus to photography, keeping my way close to educational and cultural issues, social development, seeking for inspiring values of humanity.
It's my everyday beginning.

Tatiana was working for major magazines in Brazil such as Elle, Saúde, Placar and four years at the Victor Civita Foundation, a Brazilian educational non-profit organization, she shifted her focus to photography, social and cultural issues and human rights.

Today, she works mostly independent, does her own research and her travels are paid from her own pockets. She occasionally accepts a few assignments, but she still prefers to develop her own issues and follows her own agenda and principles. Tati published her works around the globe from Brazil to Australia, from Germany to Peru. Watching her touching, sociological records of forgotten nations, I have no doubts, why her works find such an attention.

More of Tatiana pictures you may find here.
We will hear about Tati soon at the F blog soon, stay tuned.

Invited by Marcin Górski

invited guest: Amani Willett (part one)

"Sight is often taken for granted: we frequently assume that people interpret a given situation in similar ways. This could not be further from the truth. In reality, people often perceive identical situations in astonishingly different ways. The beauty of a photograph is that it can compel us to re-examine seemingly mundane scenes and events of everyday life."







It´s a pleasure to explore the work of Amani and I am glad to see it at the F Blog. For more, you have to wait for part two. If you can´t wait... go to his homepage and discover some great photography. Amani Willet was born in Tanzania and lives in Brooklyn. In 2003 his pictures were included in an anthology of young American artists called “Re Generation: Telling Stories From Our Twenties.” Isn´t that what we are looking for - the stories from our Twenties? /ulf
http;//amaniwillett.com

images and statement by © Amani Willett

Two Women (of the Sixties)

Photo: Bengt Björkbom

Advent

Photo: Viktor Gårdsäter

Sweet Dreams

a kiss to build a dream on

Photo: Bengt Björkbom

two women with bags

woman and shadow

Photo: Viktor Gårdsäter

Comfortable decay

Getting there, Jeanne!

photo: abeku

Kafé Zenit, Göteborg

Photo: Markus Jenemark
CAFÉ

IC Gliwice-Warsaw 9:26

I travel with this train recently very often, definitely too often...
This is record of one of such a trips: one stop-one shot...

Gliwice 9:26

Zabrze 9:36

Katowice 9:56

Sosnowiec 10:11

Zawiercie 10:40

La Grotta

This is the Serracozzo cave, it is situated on Etna, north flank, at 1900 metres of elevation.
It was formed by the 1971 eruption. The ceiling of the portion showed is about 6 metres high.

photographer: Gianfranco Liotta /IT/

Boys are us - coming exhibition by Maria Friberg

Boys are us is a major exhibition of photography and video created by Maria Friberg during 1998-2008. Opening on 26 January this exhibition will be on show until 13 April in Kulturhuset, Stockholm. Maria Fribergs work deals with masculinity, the myth of power and human relations.
For more of Maria Friberg's work visit her homepage.

Coach

Photo: Bengt Björkbom

Kodak Center Girl

Photo: Ulla Larsson
CAFÉ

Saint Barbara Day

4th December is an annual celebration day for miners in Poland. It is the Saint Barbara Day. She is the miners patron. The biggest attention to Saint Barbara is given in Silesia, where plenty of coal mines are located. During the celebration day miners thank their patron for another safe year without danger accidents and also pray for another lucky year. The prayers are done in the morning at the chapel in Mines or in the Church in the neighborhood during the morning mass. Ordinary day for coal miners in the Silesia looks quiet different, their work is hard and dangerous. Every year couple of them die in accidents underneath the ground. Pictures that I made in the underground coal mine present a small part of the daily hard work of these guys. Regards (Szczesc Boze) Pictures and text ©Grzegorz Lizurek

invited guest: Emilie Hallard

Ludruk Surabaya
Ludruk Surabaya depicts a night time show in a travesty theatre in Java, Indonesia. The Ludruk are marginal and precarious places that are nowadays disappearing from the Javanese culture. Despite their poverty character, these theatres allow the artists to live their homosexuality and celebrate their taboo difference through "improvised scenes" of the daily life, where theatre, dance and song blend, where traditional and contemporary clothes are mixed, where male and female roles appear.























Emilie Hallard is a photographer from France now living in Barcelona. She is very talented - the pictures from Java are tight, strong in expression and she present us to a world unknown to most people. In this, she is not simply a cold observer, but a photographer with the essential human perspective. /ulf fågelhammar
You will find more pictures by Emilie here.

Noon

Photographer: Emese Altnöder

leaves

© Jeanne Wells

THE SMALL FACES - ALL OR NOTHING

Kodak Instamatic Commercial

what´s on?

Photo: Ulf Fågelhammar

John Dittrich

self portrait by John Ditrrich

just today I learnt that friend and inspiration of many of us, John Ditrrich passed away November 23rd. Sensible person, poet of analogue photography, always experimenting with techniques, optical effects, colours and forms. Silent friend, who's presence I always felt, although we never met personally.

We will not see new works of John, but, I believe we will hear of His art.

I salute you John, I will miss you.

You will find His works here.

NOA

Photographer: Gyula Fazakas

Roulette - in black and white

Wikipedia:
"The first form of roulette was devised in 18th century France. The roulette wheel is believed to be a fusion of the English wheel games Roly-Poly, Ace of Hearts, and E&O, and the Italian board games of Hoca and Biribi, and then the name roulette from an already existing French board game of that title. The game has been played in its current form since as early as 1796 in Paris."











A fellow photographer: ....
"As a foreigner, I find your 1960´s and the Roulette series most interesting to me because of its strong documentary orientation. Composition wise, it may be not as sophisticated as your later ones, but I feel there's such an unsual dose of realism that I've never seen among other Swedish photographers' works."











Robert Frank:
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."

All pictures ©Bengt Björkbom