Postcard from: Yngveland
10 March 2008
invited guest (docu 08): Kevin C. Downs
This work is of the Chinese New Year's parade in New York's Chinatown. A community that was devastated after 9/11 and is slowly bouncing back. They are part of a series of ongoing projects I am working on about the disenfranchised working class of New York City and their struggles to survive in a hostile environment that is ravaged by high rents, high cost of food and lack of services. In my projects, I try to always show the dignity of the people I am shooting and make you feel that you are in their presence and you can hear them share their stories of their life with you.
Kevin C. Downs
invited by Joanna
Postcard from: an undisclosed location
photo submitted by Nurse Rabbit, who is on safari in a very dangerous place which cannot be revealed.
postcard from: Stockholm
Inviting you to send postcards from the city, town or village where you live. So, no postcards from your holidays, please. This project will be labelled "postcard from:" and will probably exist as long as the F blog exists? Stay tuned to F - the world wide channel.
09 March 2008
Neighbours
"It's the house facing my windows, in the backyard. I must have taken hundres of images of it, some for trials, some others ... I can't say. It's there right now, while I'm writing this message, under heavy rains. The fabulous thing is that for a bunch of days my house at dawn cast its shadows on it.
What I only realized few days ago is that the silhouette of my roof matches with the countour of its windows."
photo: Tiberio Fanti
Jan Bernhardtz, photographer
"I find it difficult writing about myself. There is nothing special about my life. But I'll give it a try. In the beginning of 1960's I borrowed my father's camera to learn how to use one and to understand how to expose a film. I started to explore the art of photography. I spent some time at the photographic school where Christer Strömholm was headmaster."
When trying to make a living as a photographer I discovered that it was more important to be a skilful businessman than an artist and I was a lousy businessman. I earned my living working at a hospital and later for an electronic company. For many years I hardly touched a camera. Most of my images presented here were made in the years 1968-73.
Now I feel a period of revival regarding photography. A political awareness mixed with humour are important ingredients and I suppose many of my images contain a certain amount of bizarre surrealism.
I sometimes think about the images I never took during those years..."
/Jan Berhardtz
You may have seen the Bengt Björkbom Archives or the William Schmidt Archives here on the F Blog. This is our way of presenting photographers or photos that will not fit to just a single blog post or as a guest invitation. We dedicate the "Archives" to longer series or to an extended presentation of a photographer that we appreciate. I am glad to see Jan Bernhardtz taking part in this effort, and I hope he will share a lot more of his work here./Ulf
08 March 2008
Houses - a mini project
I could be a shelter...a castle... or a house. We invite you dear reader of the F blog to share your photos of houses. We are looking for houses that mean something to you, that have caught your attention. Perhaps because they are beautiful, curious, ugly, cosy...well they should have something that make them special. Or maybe they lack everything that makes a house special. "This is not a house, it is a home" - I think Bob Dylan said that. Well perhaps something in that spirit. As always we rely on your imagination and ability to interpretate the subject. Just one thing...this is not about "Architecture". This is about houses.
Stay tuned to the F blog - the House Channel.
All houses above are photographed by © Lina Nääs
La cocina de Rosita
La alimentación básica el mexicano, el "maíz y la tortilla", esto es una cocina, LA COCINA DE ROSITA, en el Municipio de Zinacantán, Chiapas, México.
Photographer: Raùl Ortega
I was very glad to receive these pictures from Raùl, one of our invited guests. It´s about the basics of the Mexican kitchen photographed in Chiapas region just recently. /Ulf
07 March 2008
This is the Wilds now; pt I
She came to me crying before we left the room screaming at the top of our lungs.
We saddled our horses, and rode out of that accursed sunset.
I yelled; "Hi ho silver!" as we left it all behind.
And we rode far away from everyone that we had called our own. Nothing fading, but everything becoming clearer
Suddenly, when the shadows of our former friends were nowhere to be seen, she leaned in and spoke to me...
"This is the wilds now."
Ze kwam huilend naar mij toe voordat we schreeuwend uit alle macht de kamer verlieten.
Wij zadelden onze paarden, en reden weg van die vervloekte zonsondergang.
Ik riep; "Hi ho silver !" terwijl wij alles achter ons lieten.
En wij reden ver weg van alles en iedereen dat we het onze hadden genoemd. Niets vervaagde, maar alles werd helder
Plotseling, toen de schaduwen van onze vroegere vrienden nergens meer te zien waren, leunde ze naar mij toe en ze zei...
"Dit is de wildernis nu."
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