Rock & Roll is Here to Stay
11 July 2007
10 July 2007
09 July 2007
Arakimentari on Klarabiografen
Travis Close, film director from New York filmed Nobuyoshi Araki during his
walks through the hectic Tokyo night life. The film, Arakimentari (2004) will
be on at the brand new cinema "Klarabiografen" in Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
In another room of the building you will find Araki´s exhibition. Opening in
September. Stay tuned to the F Blog for more about this story.
- urbano
Cuba - everyday life
I am glad to be able to publish some more pictures by a great
photographer; Bela Doka from Hungary. He was living for 4 years
in Cuba and made many important pictures. You will be able
to see some of them here at the F Blog. -urbano
All pictures by © Bela Doka
08 July 2007
reality vs imagination
sometimes reality brings more unreal images then those created by our minds equipped in sophisicated tools.
sometimes reality suprises us with things we'd never imagine, we just have to dare not to pass them away
07 July 2007
Hard times
Hard Times (by Stephen Foster)
As we pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
Let us all taste the hungers of the poor.
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears:
Hard times, come again no more.
It's a song and a sigh of the weary.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.
As we seek mirth, and beauty, and music light and gay
There are frail forms fainting at the door.
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say:
Hard times, come again no more.
It's a song and a sigh of the weary.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.
It's a song that the wind blows across the troubled wave.
It's a cry that is heard along the shore.
It's the words that are whispered beside the lowly grave
When hard times will come again no more.
It's a song and a sigh of the weary.
Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.
(This picture was taken with the Lucky film I bought several
months ago. Thanks to Ulf and Anders for their developing
advice. The rodinal never worked so I used hc-110.)
-Rhonda Prince
Hello Everybody
I would like to thank you very much for invitation.
I hope that things which I will publish on this blog will inspire you much.
Since a long time the photography has become for me not only the goal itself
but it just accompanies me through my life.
The photography is a very personal way to express myself which touches all
aspects of my existance I come across in my life.
Picture which I show comes from the new story I am working on. This is picture of my friend who, just like me, finishes an important stage in his life. Each of us thinks “what’s next?”. Peter maybe will become pharmaceutical sales representative or will start work in marketing department in motor company. This can be the future.
The photography stays in the past. Even though the picture can tell the story about somebody's dreams or about important and universal moments in our lives.
06 July 2007
One photo at the begining..
Hi, Thanks for inviting me to F Blog.
I would like to say hallo by showing you an old photograph of my Grandmother as a young girl.
I'm looking at the picture and I see my fathers' face. It gives me the sense of nostalgy, but also allows me to remember something (someone) I really didn't know.. That's again when I realize what a great power photography is.
It's all obvious of course, but you have to admit that it can give us a great sense of affiliation.
Funny - being a photographer myself I'm not interested in author of a photo above. Only picture touches me.
05 July 2007
04 July 2007
Invited guest: Bela Doka
"It's happening in a small village in the Hungarian countryside ,
where I photographed my girlfriend's family. It's a kind of reflection,
how a family from the big city having a real "wellness" feeling
in a small village." - Bela Doka
I am glad to see Bela Doka as our guest. His pictures are a joy to explore.
I can sense his passion, his love of photography whether it be in pictures
from Cuba, Eastern Europe or the Holga journey showing Belorussian faces.
Visit Bela Dokas site to see for yourself; www.beladoka.com
This series showing his family is an excellent choice to show here in my
opinion. So warm and inviting. Many thanks Bela! -urbano
The text that goes along with the pictures is written by Adele Eisenstein.
Village Wellness Imaginary(?)
Paradise 2005- Hungarian countryside
The photographer usually turns his lens on the other, as he is shielded
behind it, and we only get a feeling about him/her through the visions
we see through his eyes, and his perspective upon it, yet there is
always a screen “protecting” him from personal exposure. In this
case, this is the most personal and intimate of views, where we
actually get to see the photographer himself, and the idea of hiding
from the viewer does not even enter into speculation. Yet what is
most interesting in this personal exposure is that the shots that
most directly “expose” the photographer are not actually those in
which we see him – in one case, looking directly and openly into the
lens, and thus, into our eyes, but rather the images recorded of
the people around him – his most direct and closest circle of his
personal and intimate life.
It is clear that the younger woman appearing in a majority of the shots
is his love interest and takes on the role of a sort of muse in many of
the shots. We rarely see her face – though we see a great deal of her
perfectly fit body.
The older couple is most clearly her parents – which is most clearly
revealed in my favourite of all the series – again, faces almost obscured
– mother and daughter – this is one of the clearest examples of a time
machine I have ever seen outside the realm of science fiction. Both women
are facing into the setting sun, which projects dramatic shadows, and
their posture as a means of protection against the strong rays hitting
their eyes is virtually identical.
As the perspective leads into the past, we might miss the male character
practically hidden in the shadows. He is busy shelling walnuts, oblivious
to the revelation cast in bright light and long shadows before him.
Yet, in other takes, he is visibly reaping the most joy of his Garden
of Eden – not imaginary, but very real.
This series seems to provide solace to the photographer, or rather
photojournalist, who is most often focusing his lens on the most
dramatic moments, on the split-seconds between life and death, on
the tragedies and inequities of the world, current events, the “developing”
world. Here, we find no dramatic moments at all, but rather the true
banalities of daily life – Sunday life.
These are the moments when the members of a family, each in their
own way, try to gain an inner peace, a healthy balance to their hectic
everydays in the city. Village Wellness – of course, there is a kind of
irony to the title – a simpler answer to the needs of modern man, a
reminder to return to our roots – to the original Paradise.
And if we take the time to enter into these vignettes, to be sensitive to the
subtleties, we will find a poignant side of life, one that doesn’t come out and
hit us immediately. There are even a couple of shots that seem to be strangely
surreal – but they are real, and natural. Almost idyllic, but always with a
little twist.
And finally the most idyllic shot of all – almost impossible that this is a
photograph, and not an Impressionist painting: a kind of Eve in a paradise-like
field of poppies, looking toward a vista of blue mountains – but once again, we
are brought back to reality – not with a jolt, but just a nudge: the electrical
power lines that lead our eyes to the horizon.
All pictures by ©Bela Doka
Text ©Adele Eisenstein
invited by ulf fågelhammar
03 July 2007
Invited guest: Wojciech Jastrzębski
Wojciech Jastrzębski was born in eastern Poland, upon the Bug river. His fortune brought him to the city made of concrete.
The photographies of Widzew – one of the biggest “sleeping-districts” in whole Poland, from the 120 thousands citizens’ city of Łódź – is the first conscious photography work by Wojtek. These are for document the remains of the “golden days” of PRL (People's Republic of Poland 1952-89). http://www.fullframe.pl/
invited by Joanna Kinowska
Planket
Picture by Ulla Larsson
From 1982-1994 "Planket" was a major event, where Swedish photographers
showed their work. And Planket is back! On June 30 people came from all
around to enjoy some great pictures by 80 photographers. The exhibition was
according to the tradition held in Vitabergsparken, Stockholm.
On a 70 meter long wall each photographer was provided with a fixed space
to hang their work. As you can see from the pictures by Mikael and Ulla it
was raining (Swedish summer) but people who where there reported that
they had a really good time.
The F Blog is happy to receive the news about the revival of Planket. Some
of the participating photographers have been guests on our site like
Micke Berg, Gunnar Smoliansky, Lars Tunbjörk, Gerry Johansson,
Sanna Sjöswärd, Paul Hansen, Bengt Björkbom and JH Engström.
See our list of all invited guests.
02 July 2007
01 July 2007
30 June 2007
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