The F Blog

16 September 2008

F celebrating - two year anniversary

photo: Joakim Sebring

Rafal Siderski wishes us Happy Birthday

nice feeling to wake up and see the present to unwrap, thank you Rafał

15 September 2008

start preparing...!

better get dressed and find some gifts...

tomorrow there's a big F-birthday party!

use our inbox to send us F-birthday pictures.

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Work underway for tomorrow's event...

we're folding the napkins...

fencing of areas...

...waiting for the big moment!

14 September 2008

Backnang, Swabian District, Germany.
"My experience here is almost finished. I'm feeling sad.
I know I won't have other chances to be here again,
alone with myself and my thoughts.
I've found this place, in a corner of a schoolyard
and soon felt as it was my "thinking-spot" here.
How strange ... Everywhere I go and spend more than a couple of days,
I make that place part of my imaginary homeland.
I can't explain: I must either be a nowhereman or citizen of the world"

Face to face - Cecilia

Face to Face: Chricel E. Portela

13 September 2008

invited guest: Kuba Kamiński

Typical situations,

typical people,

typical places.

those are Kuba's response for the words describing his photography. It took him a longer while to say those words. Kuba is one of those photographers who rather demonstate their work then talk about it, words come more difficult then making pictures.

It seems that the photography of Kuba is like him, simple stories by simple means closed in simple forms. Serious, framed with mathematic precision pictures.

In the selection which Kuba prepared for us (his off-stream) we may see however different, smiled face of him and the cities he photographs.

Kuba comes from Strzelce Opolskie. His adventure with photography started with cinema workshops, where he learnt measuring the light and framing. Now he studies photography in Wrocław.

more pictures of Kuba you may find at his website >

invited by Marcin Górski

12 September 2008

Flow

Hip hop a'la France

The show must go on (close by Sacre Couer)...

Thomas where are you?

invited photographer: Thomas H Johnsson

As I think Thomas H Johnsson is one of the most interesting Swedish photographers, I am very happy to present him as an invited photographer at the F blog. The photographs are from his photobook En blues från Landskrona, which I strongly recommend (here is my review of the book).

"Landskrona or Sweden's crown, as it was once thought of, is a small working-class coastal city where the Social Democrats have always governed. It is a city best known for its black and white striped football team and its ship building. Now days, it gets media attention due to its crime and unemployment rates. In 1980 the Board of the Öresund shipyard declared that it was impossible to compete with Asian shipyards and following the announcement, Sweden's largest shipyard was closed.Two thousand five hundred people were sacked. The same year, in the final match against IFK Norrköping, the football team Landskrona BoIS, the city's pride, fell to defeat. The city was in crisis and in the middle of this I stood; an ordinary, eight year old boy from the working-class.

Twenty five years later, I am here again. I am somewhat older, of course, and shaped by my roots. I am going through contact sheets of negatives taken mostly from the '90s to the current day. I feel obliged to take the photos from a drawer and to exhibit them; they are pictures of a city totally transformed but exactly the same city as in that time. It is here where I have become the person that I am. And I love this small town. That is why I am exhibiting the photos." (From En Blues från Landskrona. Written by Thomas H Johnsson. Translated by F. Skott and Bea Rowland).

Please check out Thomas H Johnsson's homepage and, if you can read Swedish, his very interesting blog. And don't miss his exhibition i Jönköping, Sweden.

All photos © Thomas H Johnsson.
Invited by Fredrik Skott