The F Blog

04 February 2009

Wacky Wednesdays

Pictures shot on Wednesday afternoons.

Photographer: Jay Van Dam

03 February 2009

Thinking spot: hot chair (cold feet)

Thinking spots: Tamara Reynolds

gruppo F Inbox/ Ken Richardson

31 January 2009

These two photographs seems to be connected in some way. I took them with a few minutes timespan. So it maybe be that, but the more i look, the more convinced i get, that I never will show them separated from eachother.

It is a matter of state of mind I believe.

Brain Cat

30 January 2009

Unisex

29 January 2009

Face to face with Tomek Adamowicz

These are portraits of people who work in places, which are not seen at main streets in my city. You can find them on the backyards in the centre or in the suburbs. But these people and places where they work give the special atmosphere to Warsaw. The project is not finished, but I'd like to know what do you think about it.

photographer: Tomek Adamowicz

28 January 2009

Invited Guest: Roelof Bakker, 365 Days

Invited Guest: Roelof Bakker, 365 Days

365 Days is symptomatic of my serendipitous approach to image making - a collection of 365 postcard images, one for each day of a year, which I exhibited online, in my home and in book form. The project started as a new year's resolution with the aim to create a visual diary of my life in London and beyond. I could photograph whatever I wanted to record on a particular day - the only requirement I needed to fulfill was to take at least one photograph before midnight each and every day of the year. All selected photographs are labelled with the date, time, place, location and postcode and these details are an intricate part of the project.

Sarah Kent writes in her introductory essay 'Close Encounters' in the book of 365 Days: 'Roelof Bakker is not attempting some kind of philosophical resume, yet no matter whether you believe that your encounters and your very life are gifts from God, or merely the result of happenstance, 365 Days encourages you to ponder those moments that you didn't record and didn't even bother to experience fully...365 Days presents life as a series of fortuitous happenings - as beautiful as the chance encounter of a photographer and a broken umbrella in a London square - images, that seen together acquire an almost surreal intensity.'

Out of the 365 images, I have picked one photograph from each month of the year.

26 January, 10.15. Mouse, door, Rosebery Gardens, N8 (image 1)
3 February, 10.44. Little Drummer Boy, Le Louvre, Paris, France (image 2)
12 March, 16.56. Strangers, bench, Hyde Park, W1 (image 3)
2 April, 17.21. Sign, The Perseverance, Pritchards Road, E2 (image 4)
28 May, 19.40. Johnny, men's ponds, Hampstead Heath, NW3 (image 5)
6 June, 18.24. Sticker, door, Hammersmith Road, W6 (image 6)
8 July, 08.03. Alive, bathroom, Rosebery Gardens, N8 (image 7)
2 August, 18.57. Icecream, Rosebery Gardens, N8 (image 8)
23 September, 11.31. Apple, footpath, Chapel Lane, Boxhill, Surrey (image 9)
19 October, 18.09. Bridge, Rembrandt Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands (image 10)
15 November, 15.29. Shoe, toilet, Griffin House, Hammersmith Road, W6 (image 11)
31 December, 11.19. Nick, life, Rijksmuseum, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands (image 12)

At the moment I am planning an exhibition of a night time diary style photography project as well as finalising a work exploring aspects of death.

For more information visit http://www.rbakker.com/

Photos and text by Roelof Bakker

Invited by Darren Hepburn

Polaroid inbox: Joseph Zorn

Invited guest: Mette Muhli

I love silent photography, pictures that doesn’t shout for your attention but humbly invites you to explore them for yourself. The works of Gothenburg-based photographer Mette Muhli is exactly that kind of photography. I’ve had a look in her wonderful artist’s book “nära hem-netoli namu", (wich translates to Close to home in English) and would like to share the experience with you. /markus

Mette writes:

"alone and cold little town. sweet sweet melodies in my ears snow falling.

"nära hem-netoli namu" is a series of 54 photographs and an artists' book shot in the coastal town of Palanga, Lithuania, during the off-season period in 2006 when the photographer fell in love with the silent surroundings."

www.mettemuhli.se