01 September 2008

Invited Guest: Alek Lindus, Greece

equinox

firstly
many things through many images

secondly
few things through few images


thirdly
few things through many images

finally
many things through few images [artemidorus - the oneirokritika]








time is contained in the space between frozen moments, it need not be linear, it need not be known like that any longer. Even as story lines are being suggested organically in cinematic terms these days, the word line is becoming irrelevant. in a photograph the past the present and the future can combine, in a series of photographs

the spaces tell stories.
its an exploration of this notion

These pictures are a continuation of Alek's Summer Solstice series. The first part of the series is here

Photos © Alek Lindus

Invited by Rhonda Prince

The Gruppo F site

Please have a look at the brand new Gruppo F site. You will find Gruppo F news, posters, profiles and more to come! There is a permanent link in the sidebar as well.

Exhibition: Vintage - Early Photography


Vintage - Early photography
6 September - 12 October 2008
Hasselblad Center, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg

Diffused Trees






Photos by Eduardo Guerra

Face to Face (188)



Gtbg just got better

It's all about F.

31 August 2008

Tatiana Bitir new author of the F Blog

When I am travelling on Photography Dr., sensations are at the forefront and not the thoughts that may be crossing my mind.

Conjuring up an image where poetry and mystery mingle, as in City Girls, where nature inserts itself incongruously above the veil of a hat: tree branches, clouds, we get a sense of freedom; the breath frees itself from the stranglehold of the fabric covering the face.

I try to pursue the mystery that lies between light and shadow, to reveal the boundless solitude of human beings hanging in midair, precariously balanced between Heaven and Earth, on the verge of an imminent fall: Suspended, under a sun that scarcely lightens up, but remaining the sole witness to their presence.

Bodies exist in anticipation: frozen in the unchanging time, a woman at her window. Waiting; another one clumsily makes vague dance steps in a disembodied space: Dancing with the Light.

Illusion and Joy: In another syncopated dance, a child whirling around a green ball and its shadow, in glorification of a magic-sized world of fantasy.












A woman zigzags along a path – a distant figure with an umbrella, whose destiny we will never know: Path.
There are those I meet on the streets, who smile at the camera, I feel they are on the border between the outer-normal-world and the inner-madness-world, a place where the limits are undefined and constantly changing.

The absence of landmarks inspires me to move towards the unknown, stress differences that can lead to a humorous, melancholic, fantastic representation, and uncover, behind the façade, the ‘weirdness’ of things and beings.

Face to Face (187)



Photographer: Andre Lindholm

R is for Rowland


Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end." (Richard Bach)

Best wishes Bea!

-R

Feliz cumpleaños, Reina !

El rey

A rebus in French

A common french phrase, two words, sorry GC you can't guess! :)

30 August 2008

High Hopes from The Division Bell by Pink Floyd

CDG/JHE

Soon JH Engström release his new book CDG/JHE, published by Steidl. Now, on wednesday (3 September), it's time for signing/release at the bookshop Konstig at Åsögatan 124 in Stockholm. Don't miss that! And stay tuned to the F blog for more info and check out JH's earlier contributions to the F blog (here, here and here).

- f. skott


more thoughts about bicycles

Captive

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
(Angelus Silesius)

27 August 2008

Invited guest: Piotr Koszczyński

Piotr Koszczyński: I'm a fan of photgoraphy. Like to watch black and white photos, sometimes also to ramble around the city by myself with a camera. My favourite photographer is Elliot Erwitt. His pictures are telling so lyrical and equisite stories. My pictures are made on chromes, maybe because I'm amazed by lights like in the theater and density of colours in this material. I like analog technic because of it's manual pulling of shutter, the smell of grease. I like to put a film into the analog camera. Like the ring of shutter, the sound of film passing and "click" of the measuring the diaphragm... I like to roam through the city, to observe people, to get in their worlds. I like to see the negatives, to watch the slide on the enlarger, like to touch and watch the pictures developed on the bromine's papers.
I definitely dislike pictures made by digital cameras and the cameras itself. I can't find all this magic of photography in digital technics. I like this photographic process and it's final outcome - the image. I like watching exhibitions, but dislike openings.

invited by joanna kinowska

Stay cool Catman

Happy Birthday Christian!
/Nenne Gulden

Happy Birthday Christian!



photo: Jeanne Wells

There's a fabulous birthday gift waiting for you behind door number 2!