18 April 2007
invited guest: Mattia Marchi

I like the pictures of Mattia Marchi. These Holga shots are quite different from
the "mainstream" Holga pictures in my opinion. Sometimes brutal, realistic but
still beautiful.The two first pictures and the last one were part of
Liljevalchs Spring Salon.
invited by ulf fågelhammar






17 April 2007
invited guest: Arkadiusz Gola - Men of Coal
Arkadiusz Gola was born and grew up in very heart of industrial Upper Silesia. Since his early years he was surrounded by specific atmosphere of this land where almost everybody worked for coal mine, cityscapes where formed by coal mine shafts, air crossed by conveyor bridges. He started his photographic life in coal mine Nowy Wirek in Ruda Śląska – when as 12 yo boy went to Photo Club – the mines where not just giving the work for people – mines were giving almost everything to people working there and their families. For generations miners and mines built fascinating world basing on simple values as honor, truth, bravery and respect to others. This is natural that he, as adult photographer wants to talk about this land and its people, especially that this world is passing away day by day. Mines stopped to be “salt of this land”, new economy orders to shut them down and former miners are loosing not just jobs but all of this what for hundreds years was built here by their grandfathers…
Arkadiusz Gola tries to witness and document disappearing world and he makes it following the rules of miners – truth, honor and respect are most important in his documents, I am honored to present piece of his work on F blog.
Arkadiusz Gola (1972). Journalist of “Dziennik Zachodni” (major daily newspaper in Upper Silesia). Studying photography in ITF /Instytut Tvurci Fotografie/ - Opava, Czech Republic. Awarded by many photographic proces, winner of Polish Press Photo 1998 and 2003, journalist of the year 2003.




Gliwice House of Photography: Arkadiusz Gola lecture "Press photography"
Gliwice House of Photography invites for the lecture of Silesian jurnalist and photographer Arkadiusz Gola.
Lecture will take place at Klub Pracowników Politechniki Sląskiej, Banacha 3, Gliwice, 18.04. at 18.00h
16 April 2007
What Are You Longing For?

© Camilla Figenschou
© Leif Claesson
What Are You Longing For?
Two separate exhibitions under a common title
by the artists Leif Claesson and Camilla Figenschou.
at Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm
Vernissage Thursday 19 April, 2007
17 00 - 20 00
read more: www.centrumforfotografi.se
Empty seats by Mattia Marchi



Mattia Marchi sent us this wonderful series of pictures.
See more at http://www.seulcontretous.com
15 April 2007
14 April 2007
I found it!
12 April 2007
Plant Propagation
An "Underground tree" should be treated in the same way as the plant species would naturally.
Hint: When you see a plant in underground - act normally as nothing happens!
Before initiating the process of growing the trees in your underground, tube or even trams, a new solution should be invented, to ensure that the "Plant propagation in communication" is innovative and ready to act in a public space, without the need of every passenger to carry his/her own tree.
11 April 2007
Emigrating
TITLE: Farewell to home--emigrants bound for England and America--
on steamer at Göteborg, Sweden
CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1905.
CREATOR: Underwood & Underwood.
Mr Hepburns picture "Clock" made me think of how over a million people
emigrated from Sweden to America during the last half of the 19th century
and the first decades of the 20th century. Only between 1887-1892 over
250 000 people emigrated from Sweden. They landed in New York and many
moved on westwards.
Sweden had a population of just 4, 8 million in 1890 and most of the
people who left were young, so this was a major historic event.
Clock

The photo was taken in an abandoned house in County Mayo, Ireland. The clock is the one that once sat on the mantelpiece before the house was claimed by the sea. There are also many other houses in a state of abandonment that have been deserted by people emigrating to the UK, US and beyond.
- By Darren Hepburn
10 April 2007
invited guest: Lars Tunbjörk

According to me Lars Tunbjörk is one of the most interesting contemporary photographer’s. His famous book Landet utom sig is both humorous and utterly serious – a truly amazing portrait of Sweden. Now I am proud to present Tunbjörk on the F blog with six photographs from his coming book I love Borås! The photographs are from 1989-1995. I love Borås! is released and photographs from it are exhibited at Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, 14 April 2007, 12.00 and onwards. For more information about I love Borås, see www.maxstrom.se
"Arlanda stad". © Lars Tunbjörk.
"Borås". © Lars Tunbjörk.
"Ullared". © Lars Tunbjörk.
"Lindvallen". © Lars Tunbjörk.
"Orminge". © Lars Tunbjörk.
"Ullared". © Lars Tunbjörk.
Invited by Fredrik Skott


















