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Photographer: Darren Hepburn
27 January 2008
Łukasz Kuś: Survivors
63 years ago, on January 27, 1945, Red Army soldiers liberated KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This is a documentary project presenting portraits of former prisoners of KL Auschwitz - Birkenau - German nazis death camp, which was located in Oświęcim, Poland during the time of World War II.
The photographs presented in the F Blog are only a part of a very big 'collection' I made in last few years.
It was one of my hardest-to-realize photoprojects. Those people (of course not only, because there is a lot more that survived Auschwitz and other death camps) are the last eye-witnesses of one of the biggest crimes in the world history, so bad that every day there is less and less of them. I hope that my photos can help to remember them.
The photographs presented in the F Blog are only a part of a very big 'collection' I made in last few years.
It was one of my hardest-to-realize photoprojects. Those people (of course not only, because there is a lot more that survived Auschwitz and other death camps) are the last eye-witnesses of one of the biggest crimes in the world history, so bad that every day there is less and less of them. I hope that my photos can help to remember them.
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Wanda Sawkiewicz
Dyonizy Lechowicz
Henryk Mandelbaum
Kazimierz Piechowski
David Lachman
Władysław Bartoszewski 
Bolesław Staroń 
Helena Buczkowska 
Alojza Trembicka-Kleta i Alojzy Kleta Łukasz Kuś, 1984, freelance photographer and graphic designer located in Oświęcim, Poland.
More of his works you may find here. Łukasz was already guest of F blog before, with the Carp Story.
invited by Marcin Górski
26 January 2008
Mississippi Bar-B-Que
photo: Jeanne Wells
Maybe it's a kind of a kiosk or a diner, but most likely, it's a joint.
25 January 2008
Kiosk - a mini project
Welcome to join a mini project called "Kiosk". The pictures above are showing "Sippans kiosk" in Stockholm- it´s been around for ever it seems. The kiosk was built in the early 1950s and is of quite a poor construction. But it is still there. I am very fond of the Pommac and Zingo neon signs.
Wiki has some interesting things to say about kiosks by the way:
In English-speaking countries, a kiosk is a booth with an open window on one side. Some vendors operate from kiosks, selling small, inexpensive consumables such as newspapers, magazines, lighters, street maps, cigarettes, and confections.
The word, which is of Persian origin, refers to an object that acts as a shadow or shade-maker. In fact, more detailed etymological studies reveal that the word "köşk" has the same ancient root as the Turkish word for shadow ("gölge").
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk
Well, I guess you have a lot of kiosks in your archives dear reader of the F Blog. Let us know about them and the people on the inside or the outside.
Pictures by Ulf Fågelhammar
24 January 2008
invited guest: Dariusz Siatkowski
name: darek
surname: siatkowski
height: one meter eighty centimeter
country / city: Cold Poland / Olsztyn
breed: mixed
distinguishing mark: a kitbag with old heavy cameras. On my back. Everyday.
creed: Photo-therapy. Believer.
taking-apart and put together again an old russian camera Smiena 8
two car bumps (only right side)
some broken glasses (hard drink)
three little books with poetry
sleeplessness
Sometimes I'm writing, sometimes I'm sculpturing, sometimes I'm painting, sometimes I'm photographing... sometimes I'm alive. I'm trying to catch a little bit of light, little bit of pictures from books, from lifestory people which I know. I'm collecting sentences about photography, I'm collecting impressions and little delighties. I'm trying to know much less than I know. Knowledge lead us to blind. Let the blindness to lead you.
All of these pictures was took with old classical cameras (like Pentacon Six) and analogue materials (like Fuji Provia 400).
website: www.siatkowski-photography.art.pl
invited by Marcin Górski
23 January 2008
22 January 2008
Invited guest: Joni Karanka
I find it hard to create topics under which to bin or classify my shooting. I just do it all the time, maybe more at night than during the day (I’m not the early bird kind of person) and the only way I can sort it out is by the place where it has been taken or the times at which I’d been dwelling there. I think it must be a bit of that Tom Wood approach. You shoot all the time and at one point go, hey, don’t I have quite a bunch of pictures of Italy at the end of the day? I wish I had those fifteen years of continuous shooting that Wood has, but anyhow, I’ll gather them in, well, a decade or so.
I guess I’m a bit influenced by anybody that looks like disrespecting composition a bit. I sometimes think that I must look as an absolute dumbass myself shooting, at least at night. I’m so clueless at what will end up working in a picture that I sort of throw it all in, but I think that’s the best way not to repeat oneself also. Ha, I’m being too cruel with myself there.
I tried to choose pictures that roughly fall into three sets for accompanying this text. I think they look better than any gibberish I can try to write with this hangover (I haven’t had coffee yet). The first couple are from my nights shooting in Cardiff, where I live. The night shot was recently selected finalist for the first David Alan Harvey fund for emerging photographers (didn’t “win”, though). The second couple are images of Milano. I called the set Milano on the Surface, as it was a fair five day hit-and-run approach to the city. It’s, I think, very true to the appearance of the place. Maybe it’s one of my pranks on people that are really committed into knowing their subject matter… And, well, the last couple of shots are from a local park here in Cardiff. It’s surprisingly shot in medium format, and really hard to shoot handheld with a can of beer in the other hand. It’s fun to hang around with the kids really, some remind me of myself ten years ago. Plus I usually have good tips on bands and photography homework.
Everything is work in progress. And I’m off for coffee.
photos & text by Joni Karanka
Joni Karanka: born in Helsinki, 1981; is now living in Cardiff;
and his pictures on flickr
take a look at flickr to the "hardcore street photography group"
When i'm inviting a photographer here i rarely try to write something by myself. But this time i need to. I asked Joni to join, he've made a selection. And... i may say this selection is not enough, but... any other as well. Joni catches the moments of people's unawarness, nature or how could you call this in other words. He've already catched like a million of these moments... So, everyone now is going to visit his blog and flickr flow, into a fantastic world of human behaviour....and then you'll know what i mean. :)
(invited by Joanna Kinowska)
20 January 2008
19 January 2008
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