postcard from Covilha

Inbox - Freya Najade

It's always a pleasure to check the inbox. Especially when we get mail from such wonderful photographers as Freya Najade.
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1. DENNIS IN HIS ROOM
I have my own house, where I live half of the year. Sometimes I don’t talk for a week to anybody there. In the summer I rent a room in a gay retirement home. I enjoy meeting people of my kind.

"In the project If you are lucky, you get old I capture encounters with the elderly passing by and I tell stories of those I spent time with. To my surprise, the old people I met were not just proud of their age and the fact that they made it that far in life, they were also still falling in love and breaking up. They were overcoming their lifetime partner’s death, living out their erotic fantasies or dealing with the loss of their sexual desire. Talking to them showed that inner growth is ever lasting and that humans above the age of seventy continue to love, suffer, long, dream and have sexual feelings."

2. FIR TREE
I was married for thirty years. I loved my wife very much. If she hadn’t died, we would be still together. After her death I was devastated.


3. DENNIS WITH HIS FLIGHT COSTUME

The thing I regret most is that I didn’t become an astronaut and never went into space.


4. DENNIS IN STOCKINGS
The first time I dressed as a girl, I was eight years old.

5. DENNIS’ WALL DECORATION
I don’t want to be a woman. I am happy the way I am. I just enjoy the kick.

6. DENNIS DRESSED UP

I feel that I am transforming from a caterpillar into a butterfly. Sometimes I go out like this. If people don’t like it, it is their problem.

FREYA NAJADE was born in Germany in 1977. After studying in Bremen and San Francisco, she moved to London, where she currently lives and works. In December 2009 she graduated with Distinction from the University of the Arts London (London College of Communication) after completing a Masters in Documentary Photography. Her work was selected for the 2009 AOP Student Awards and she has had honourable mention in the IPA Awards.

You can see more of here work at www.freyanajade.com and www.freyanajade.wordpress.com

North Country Fair

North Country Fair by Jan Buse

grandma's photo-album.

i was looking for some snaps in the old family albums. and i've step upon the grandma's album. i remember it quite well. from this one i know how my grand-grand father was looking like, i know who's my aunt's cousin, and could recognize my mum at the age of 2, and so on. but this time i was struck by the decoration left between the photographs. and of course, the snaps i was looking for - were found.

well, the thing is...would we have to show something simmilar to our grandsons, or it would be the mix of films, slideshows and thousands of jpgs?

Anna along the E45

the answer is blowin' in the wind

stevie wonder: the answer is blowin' in the wind

breaking the rules part 1

Never ever center your point of intrest, and be careful of disturbing background...


Does anyone see a brännässla?

Motion/No Motion

Exhibition in Hjo

Photo © Bodil Frendberg

Photo © Markus Jenemark

Photo © Christofer Grandin

Group exhibition with Markus Jenemark, Bodil Frendberg,
Barbara Lindell, Petra Gunnarsson, Lisa Östh and Christofer Grandin

Hjo Konsthall

Jane Fulton Alt: Burn

Jane Fulton Alt: The Burn series evolved from my ongoing interest in life cycles. Controlled burns imitate naturally occurring fires by removing accumulated dead vegetation and releasing seeds from dormancy. By opening the woodlands to more sunlight, the fires prepare the soil for new spring growth, and the cycle of renewal continues.
While accompanying restoration ecologists on prescribed prairie burns, I am drawn to the ephemeral quality of a single moment when life and death do not seem opposed to each other, but are parts of a single process to be accepted as a whole.

Jane Fulton blog and site

Bruno Pantone

abracadoo




bachelorette



consolazione



disorder



meaculpa



mutism

Recently I saw Bruno Pantones captivating photography and decided to show some of his work here. .."He gets more satisfaction and inspiration with art photography and the years spent in contact with the people, and often with extreme reality, led him to search the expressions and the forms of our time between faces and human beings.."
See more of his photography here

inbox: Abandonment

"Abandonment" from Lucy Jackson

tooth-pink-brushing.

well, indeed, nice light badly needed while toothbrushing :)*

Toothbrush-scene

You should brush your teeth twice a day, preferably in beautiful light.

New eyes for the new year

I found this box at a local fleamarket and bought 30 pairs. You could always use some more eyes.

about the matter of getting a good start...

from Lithuania with love.

xpro/2009/Vilnius/all the best and warm in 2010!

hat scarf photograph

Säffle

Happy new year!
"Säffle"
Fredrik Skott

from Slovakia with love.

xpro/2009

Polonia and other fables/ Allan Sekula

American photographer, writer, artist and documentalist - Allan Sekula came to Poland for his first solo show at Zacheta. The exhibition is dealing with the best sort of documentary, social goals in photography, treating history, and... Polish origins. You might know his "Shipwreck and workers" project. Here are some pictures from the expo. Worth coming, till 28 of February.


Allan Sekula, Ladies Auxillary Polish Army Veterans of World War II, Polish Constitution Day parade, 3 May 2008, Chicago/press materials/

Allan Sekula, Farmer threshing grass at abandoned airport used by CIA for transport of clandestine high value terrorism suspects, Szymany, Poland, July 2009/press materials/

Allan Sekula, Mother and child - Taste of Polonia festival, Chicago, September 2007 /press materials/


Allan Sekula explaining his solo exhibition at Zacheta / december 2009

more info about the exhibition: "Polonia and Other Fables" at Zacheta/Warsaw.