somewhere between dusk and dawn

photo: christofer grandin

gruppo F inbox - Dancers by Johan

Photographer Johan Eriksson Uppsala Sweden

My passion in photography lies in capture feelings and light. In dance I find solitude, love, passion, melancholy, anxeity and joy of life. Dance capture with its tender and sometime provocative movements all great emotions in life. I am very thankfull of having the oppurtunity to collaborate with some of the best up-coming dancers in Sweden o fullfill my passion in photography of dance. I could write how it all started but I keep that for the future to tell the Saga. Meanwhile I would be very happy if you turned to my webpage to explore more about my dancephotography,

Malin: "- this is not me..."
Tom. "- but it is!"
Malin: "- is it..."

a salute to the ordinary

Photo trouvée is a book by Michel Frizot and Cédric de Veigy where
you will find 285 pictures of anonymous amateur photographers.
The photos where found in flea markets and antique shops.
You will find some more information at Art MoCo mocoloco.com/art/

and another little teaser . . .

this is a "second" the real thing is in transit and will be hanging in Eskilstuna very very soon.
I'm so honored to be coming to your country, and to know that I will be met with love and gratitude, and in the spirit of kinship that this art form calls us to form.

a...teaser....

....well there is a man and his body,,,

Häxhammaren

Typical bandphoto, or what?
Swedish drum/organ-band named Häxhammaren

Marooned

An unwilling sailor adrift from Arctic waters. As the water gets warmer my iceberg gets smaller...

and a schadograph

You are perhaps familiar with Man Ray´s rayographs, but have you ever seen
a schadograph? Well here is one, made by German artist Christian Schad.

Christian Schad. (German, 1894-1982). Amourette. 1918.
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print, 2 1/2 x 3 1/2"
(6.3 x 8.9 cm).
The Museum of Modern Art
www.moma.org

invited guest: Peter Ragnarsson

Imprints
On a shelf in my graphic workshop there was a paintbrush in a rack.
I tried to scan it in my flatbed scanner. It came out surrounded in black.
The flat light and shallow depth of field gave me an impression that the
object was half buried in the black, like a fossile in black granite.
I transfered the image to a photopolymer plate and printed it like a black
and white photo gravure. I liked it and it made me continue with other
objects in the same mode.

All objects have one thing in common - something is broken or something
is missing. Small details, easy to fix. I will not do it today, but perhaps
tomorrow...

The photo gravures in this serie will be exhibited in my work shop on
25-28 May in Hemse, Gotland. Open 11-18. For more see my
site "Intermezzo Grafik".

The exhibition is part of an event called Gotland's Open Studios
(info also in English)

I had three animals that I loved dearly - a dog and two cats. At the age
of 18 they died one after another. When I dug the third grave the spade
broke on the third cut.

Pictures from top
(Photogravures, photopolymer process, limited edition)
1. Carbonizer, 13x18cm
2. In the Rack, 10x18cm
3. Pistol , 18x18 cm
4. Parts (from printer) 10x18cm
5. Kick 12x18cm
6. Bullets 11x18cm
7. Rifle 25x18cm
8. Broken 18x28cm
text and pictures by Peter Ragnarsson
invited by ulf fågelhammar

two men on a bench

picture by Bengt Hanson

run to the water...

oh desert speak to my heart. oh woman of the earth. maker of children who weep for love. maker of this birth. 'til your deepest secrets are known to me. i will not be moved."don't try to find the answer when there ain't no question here. brother let your heart be wounded and give no mercy to your fear".adam and eve live down the street from me. babylon is every town. it's as crazy as it's ever been. love's a stranger all around. in a moment we lost our minds here and lay our spirit down. today we lived a thousand years. all we have is now.run to the water and find me there. burnt to the core but not broken. we'll cut through the madness of these streets below the moon. these streets below the moon and I will never leave you. 'til we can say, "this world was just a dream. we were sleepin' now we are awake". 'til we can say.in a moment we lost our minds here. and dreamt the world was round. a million mile fall from grace. thank god we missed the ground. / "run to the water" - live / from Bill Viola's exhibition at Zacheta / for Mikael

Preview from exhibition "Street Photography"

Vernissage 19 May in Abbekås, Skåne.

Pictures from top:
Alf Johansson
Krister Kleréus
Conny Lundberg
Bengt Björkbom
Krister Kleréus
Ulf Börjesson
Alf Johansson

Lazy day in Newburgh

The Art Motive in Photography

Paul Strand
White Fence
1916
courtesy of Masters of Photography

The last issues of Camera Work edited by Stieglitz and Steichen were
dedicated to the work of Paul Strand. Strand was also writing essays on
photography. This article "The Art Motive in Photography" published in
The British Journal of Photography, Vol.70,pp 612-15, 1923 is interesting,
and has not lost its actuality:

"The unintelligence of present-day photographers, that is of so called pictorial
photographers, lies in the fact that they have not discovered the basic
qualities of their medium, either through the misconceptions of the past
or through working. They do not see the thing which is happening, or
which has happened, because they do not know their own tradition."

Read full article here

I'm wiser now

To: Jeanne, really sorry to miss you here, maybe maybe something could be done anyway. /Dr C.

Three

dreaminess and mist

“I don’t care about making photography an art. I want to make
good photographs. I’d like to know who first got it into his head
that dreaminess and mist is art.”
Edward Steichen, 1923

diffrent...

lunch conversation

picture by Bengt Hanson

naiveté

picture by Ulla Larsson

It's just the nearness of you

invited guest: Mariusz Forecki - BlueBox

BlueBox is TV technique, which uses blue background. Person filmed at this background is then digitaly cropped out and pasted into totally new reality.
For many years we lived in well known world. And suddenly, everything had changed.

I am honoured to present Mariusz Forecki - one of most important Polish photographers, person who writes subjective chronicles of Polish transformation.

Mariusz Forecki is interested in social photography. He documents the changes of Polish reality since 1990. Mariusz realized many projects: New religions in Polnd – Krishna belivers, New wonderful world, Close to us, BlueBox and Outside Paradise.
Mariusz work was many times noticed and awarded in most important in Poland contests (several times Polish Press Photo, Newsweek, etc…) and by most important photographic institutions.
Mariusz works at self-created TAMTAM Agency.

Rest of Blue Box series you may find here.

Invited by Marcin Górski supported by Staszek Heyda