Gruppof Inbox: The Window of Past Kings (by Kim)
© Kim DauerA view from Kungsör, May 07
04 May 2007
invited guest: Ann Texter - Serendipity in Polaroid
I am happy to show finally works of many F-ers friend for many years, fantastic, one of most creative photographers I know - Ann Texter. Ann loves to use old or non-conventional techniques and she is always able mark her pictures with her sensibility. Her pictures are telling short stories about surrounding her life, paints Texan reality in so suggestive way, that when I think of Texas I automatically see cowgirl shoes and the skull on the fence. I belive you will also fall in love in Ann's pictures as me.
ser·en·dip·i·ty [ser-uhn-dip-i-tee] –noun 1. an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.2. good fortune, luck.
An answer or great idea discovered entirely by accident “a happy accident” as it has come to be known…
Serendipity is my favorite word as well as something I believe is present in our everyday lives. I feel it leads us from one point to the next, in an always surprising manner, moving us closer to our own personal destiny, or fate.
My series, “Serendipity in Polaroid” is just that, a never ending path of “happy accidents”. This set of Polaroid Image Transfers has become a photographic documentation of my personal serendipitous path over the past three years. It’s a combination of my artistic eye, my passion for photography and my love of the unexpected. Each image itself is unique with its own delightfully unpredicted outcome.
After seeing a Polaroid Image Transfer for the first time, I instantly knew that it was a process I had to learn and try within my own work. The beautiful irregularities put to watercolor paper seemed to transport an image from just a photograph to a timeless image that could encumber feelings or emotions. The images in my series come from personal memories, feelings or just straight from my heart. I love that the image from my mind, rather than what was seen through the lens of my camera, can be captured to view time and time again.
Not only has this process ignited my love and passion of photography in a new direction, it has taken it to another level completely. It has inspired me to expand my photographic ideas and has unveiled my passion of the historic photographic processes.
Although my series is of a personal nature, I love that it can be viewed by others, and perhaps stir their own memories or feelings. If someone is able to take away their own particular emotions from my work it is a huge sense of accomplishment for me.
Although my series is of a personal nature, I love that it can be viewed by others, and perhaps stir their own memories or feelings. If someone is able to take away their own particular emotions from my work it is a huge sense of accomplishment for me.
Madonna ©Ann Texter
Birdcage ©Ann Texter
Field, sky - diptych©Ann Texter 
Church©Ann Texter
Real Cowgirls Die With Their Boots On ©Ann Texter
Western ©Ann TexterMore of Ann's works you may find on her web site http://www.anntexter.com/
Ann will show her works today on the exhibition Tunnel Vision: Parading Down the Isle at Volitant Gallery in Austin, Texas
invited by Marcin Górski
Invitation: Volitant Gallery - Tunnel Vision:Parading Down the Isle
Who: Ann Texter, Faustinus Deraet, Polly Chandler, Joy Goldkind, Jackie Alpers, Alicia Cargile, Amy Griffin, Richard D. Griffin, Herman Krieger, Melissa Ladd, Chris Moseley, Dana Rossini, Hrvoje Slovenc, Andrew Sterling
What: Group Photography Exhibition: Opening Reception
"Tunnel Vision, Parading down the Aisle"
When: Friday, May 4th 6 - 9 PM
Where: Volitant Gallery, 320 Congress Avenue, Suite 100, Austin, Texas
Why: To see some fine and dandy photography, visit with friends, meet new people or just feel fancy for an evening!
Hope to see y'all there!
F blog strongly recommends
03 May 2007
02 May 2007
Video Photography Stockholm, VIPS
The Sally Mann exhibition in Kulturhuset is closing this week and has
scored a record of around 90 000 visitors. It´s the most visited
exhibition of photography in Sweden so far.
Kulturhuset wants to create a large meeting point for photography in
Stockholm and are concentrating large parts of its exhibition activities
on photography and video art through the platform VIPS (Video Photography
Stockholm)
We have seen e.g. "Walker Evans meets Sune Jonsson" in
Kulturhuset last summer and coming up during 2007-2008 are
among others Nan Goldin, Martin Parr and Nobuyoshi Araki.
www.kulturhuset.se (also in English)
01 May 2007
Staszek Heyda: Białystok - one day
May 1st 2004 was a special day for Poland and 9 other countries of Eastern and Central Europe - first day in European Union. Group of recognised Polish photographers, motivated by Grzegorz Dąbrowski, and supported by several institutions decided to document this first day in EU on BW negatives. Action called "Białystok - one day" was lasting 24 hours. Photographers spent whole day portraiting the people, the city, the atmosphere of this special day - 3 years ago already. Today they say - it was worth to make this document.
I am happy to share with you part of this project, historical pictures made by one of the participants of this event: Staszek Heyda
invited by Marcin Górski
Polish longest ever weekend
Polish longest ever weekend just started, theoreticaly today, but for majority it started last Friday 27.04 and it will end 7.05. Don't you worry, after 7.05 we will start to think about Euro 2012
30 April 2007
29 April 2007
Nurse Rabbit in Sweden (preparations 2)
grass is already painted green, army - almost ready and youngest citizens are training throwing carrots to Nurse Rabbit. All of the Scandinavian (and Polish) carrots are stored for the right time - children are forced to train with potatoes.
28 April 2007
invited guest: Svend Videbak
I am glad to have Svend here on the F Blog. He is a great photographer.
And hey Svend...there are big white ships leaving for Stockholm every
day. Hope to see you around. invited by ulf fågelhammar
In my earliest memory, I am making a picture. I’m perhaps five
years old. Sitting in my little chair, hunched over my little table,
I’m drawing with crayons on a piece of foolscap and I am delighted
with myself. The room is sunny, warm. My drawing is sunny, warm.
I love the sensation of the crayon sliding over the paper, leaving
a trail of itself under my imperfect control.
I’m 39 now and nothing has changed. Some years ago I borrowed my
father’s old Leica, which he had bought brand new in Copenhagen in 1956
– thanks to a friend of his, a press photographer, who acquired the camera
for him at a steep discount. (“Otherwise, forget it! Too damn expensive!”
was how my father punctuated the story.) I thought that since my father
wasn’t using the old camera (he couldn’t see to focus anymore) I’d give
it a try, fool around with it, see what happened. Thank God I did. The
old Leica opened the door into my visual imagination, a door that had
been closed for too long with depressing consequences.
I love to see and think photographically, imagining how something will
look when photographed. I am gaining greater and greater control over
the medium all the time, and yet accidents still happen and I welcome
the magic they bring. Increasingly, I am thinking about themes, stories
and ideas and how to express them visually with photography as just
one picture-making tool in a toolbox containing drawing, painting, graphic
design and computer programs. I have no objective, really, other than
pleasing myself. I’m still five years old, sitting in my little chair, hunched
over my little table, drawing with my crayons on a piece of foolscap. 
Titles from top:
- St Tropez frolics
- What is creativity? (1)
- What is creativity? (2)
- What is creativity? (3)
- What is creativity? (4)
- The solitary cyclist
- Night field
Pictures and text©Svend Videbak
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