19 February 2009
17 February 2009
Invited guest: Carlos Bravo
Born in Córdoba (Spain) in the early seventies and eventually resided in Castellón, Carlos Bravo, self-taught and passionate of photography began several years ago to practice this discipline. Eager to experience the world of photography and looking for solutions outside the "conventional" Carlos is on the search continues from that point of view of those places that we see every day where you can catch with your camera part cutest, turning the elements of the urban landscape models posing for a magazine of high fashion.
Carlos is a lover of photography, urban and social, architecture, highlighting its work in digital format and also knows the lomografía which is named after the famous Lomo camera.
His photographs stand out in the book Fotografía en la red, has done exhibitions in Córdoba, Benicassim and Castellón. Artist has also been selected for exhibition by the Fund Caja España during 6 months in Castilla y León (Spain) and his photographs now form part of an audio-visual presentation directed by the University Jaume I de Castellón.
Form part of one of the most prestigious photographic groups throughout the country, the Photographic Association Sarthou Carreres.
Images and text provided by Carlos Bravo
16 February 2009
15 February 2009
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09 February 2009
Kerim Aytac
Throughout my practice, I have been drawn to the idea of absence. My earliest projects were clearly influenced by the ‘decisive moment’ philosophy of street photography, but I had already developed a fascination with the traces of the urban landscape that reflect a human presence, rather than the presence itself. Photographs of the urban landscape, of the social, but in absentia. More recent projects have engaged with this concept from different angles. These approaches can be demarcated by different subjectivities, in that they attempt, through different conceptual frameworks, to encompass an individual’s perspective. ‘Pedestrian’, for example, foregrounds these preoccupations by attempting to convey the perspective of a city dweller searching for a form of human contact. Photographed traces suggest this contact is possible, but also emphasize the distance between presence and absence. In ‘Barber’, the subjectivity is gendered. Here, the public space of men’s toilets is explored through evidences juxtaposed with images that connote a very particular masculine identity. This suggests a presence in this absent, public space. 
My subjects can be classified as either still lives or scenes, especially in reference to the established conventions of street photography, for which motion and time are fundamental. Beyond the subjects themselves, I am interested in how a clearly subjective approach interferes with the notions of objectivity such material might engender. My work also engages with discourses of “aftermath” or “late” photography, but through the study of the everyday and its melancholy poetry. Above all, I am keen to find the intersections between photography as a medium-specific form of communication and photography as the Artist’s instrument, a vehicle for the conceptual. I nurture notions of the photograph as an accessible and democratic medium, but often want to push up against its barriers. I believe this to be a fruitful conflict. 
My images have been described as abstract and minimalist, mysterious and cinematic. Although these descriptions hold true, my work seeks to explore the tensions between these terms. The images are abstract in that they do not seek to describe or depict a tangible reality, but they do not seek to pictorialise either. I am drawn to the graphic in photography, especially through the work of Japanese photographers such as Daido Moriyama or Shomei Tomatsu, as well the great Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli. My images are paradoxical in that they use strong compositions to foreground the contradiction between the beauty of an image and the banality of its subject . The opposition between the abstract and the concrete can thus create mystery. Constructed with this in mind, the images both show and hide, inviting viewers to decode a series of fragments or details without necessarily knowing why, crime scenes where no crime has been committed. 
The images are minimalist because information is absent. This imbues the details that are present with significance. The mundane signs of the everyday thus become the language of the images, flawed in its communication but expressive nonetheless. Read in series, the work takes on the mood of a film, during which the viewer engages with image sequences or montages secure in the knowledge that a meaning will present itself. Hopefully it does, but as a question rather than a resolution. 
KERIM AYTAC was born in Istanbul in 1979, and grew up in London whilst studying in a French school. Film was an obsession of his from an early age, and was the subject of his degree studies. Aytac soon found that photography began to offer more creative outlets, which led him to pursue an MA in Photography at Goldsmiths University. Since then he has sought to develop and explore his practice whilst also teaching Film and Media Studies. Aytac has exhibited internationally and lives and works in London.
Piece of me - new exhibition by Sannah Kvist
Sannah Kvist was born in 1986. Apart from being a freelance photographer, she is also the photo editor of music magazine Novell as well as one of the collective owners of the Stockholm gallery 1*1.
I tried to take a picture of Sannah herself, but as always photographers are hard to catch.
Sannah has appeared as a guest on the F blog twice and her clean images have intrigued many of us. In her new series Piece of me she takes her imagery to an even stricter level of hushed down colours and stripped environments. There is only a soft hint of skin tone and the occassional blue that makes the milky whiteness of her images even whiter. This method makes every detail seem important and more than once I found myself staring at birthmarks, indentions in sheets or tiny holes in the background walls. To me, her work is uncanny. The motif, mostly the human body, is presented as something surreal. The human body should seem familiar and the settings homely and everydayish, but there is something about the way she approaches her motives that makes everything seem not homely; uncanny. None of the images show faces or even heads for that matter. We see arms and feet and a hand clutching its owner's back. In Sannah's images things out of daily life seem too real to not be unreal.
When talking about the image shown above, Sannah says that she is very ambivalent about how it turned out. When asked why, she says "I don't know, I guess it's because it looks so much like a typical girl photo" Still, she decided to show it in her exhibition along with a beautiful, intriguing and milky white set of images under the name of Pieces of me
The exhibition is only open for one week, so hurry up and go there!
For more information contact Sannah
www.sannahkvist.se
07 February 2009
About Herreys and the infinite feeling of being wrong...
About 25 years ago tonight. I thought that Herreys tune was the best tune that ever was made...though I was a hardcore Beatles fan at the time...
Well, I fortunatly have changed alot since then... Evolved if you like. Dylan, Young, Zeppelin, Ebba Grön, Smiths, Pogues, the Cure put an end to all that.
But who really knows, maybe I in the future will evolve back to once again love the Diggilo Diggilej Alla tittar på mej...
Time is a great manipulator sometimes.
04 February 2009
03 February 2009
31 January 2009
About Dreams
These two photographs seems to be connected in some way. I took them with a few minutes timespan. So it maybe be that, but the more i look, the more convinced i get, that I never will show them separated from eachother.
It is a matter of state of mind I believe.
It is a matter of state of mind I believe.
30 January 2009
29 January 2009
Face to face with Tomek Adamowicz
These are portraits of people who work in places, which are not seen at main streets in my city. You can find them on the backyards in the centre or in the suburbs. But these people and places where they work give the special atmosphere to Warsaw. The project is not finished, but I'd like to know what do you think about it.
photographer: Tomek Adamowicz
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