28 May 2010
16 May 2010
15 May 2010
14 May 2010
13 May 2010
suburbia gone wild
Martin Adolfsson: Suburbia, the word alone calls up images of monotonous perfection. More than a place, it is an identity. This one-size-fits-all existence and its pandemic spread around the world fascinates me.
For the last two years, I have photographed model homes and their landscapes in the newly emerging cities of the world: Bangkok, Shanghai, Bangalore, Cairo, Moscow and Johannesburg.
I will finish my examination with Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
www.suburbiagonewild.com
02 May 2010
28 April 2010
Invited guest: Joe White


The project looks at the concept of a passing sense of presence within a photograph, left buy a person(s) without physically having a human life in any image.
My interiors are the documentation of student housing, capturing living rooms to convey the immediate past. By using this method I have created a frank and honest portrait of the students themselves.
photos by Joe White
26 April 2010
24 April 2010
20 April 2010
Aleksandra
Aleksandra is selling tango shoes from Argentina in her shop in Warsaw
by Tomek Adamowicz /previously in Fblog/
19 April 2010
18 April 2010
17 April 2010
Where are you Lotti?
There are things that are not that easy to explain.
Like Springsteen.
I normally don't like him very much.
I think he has become an american Lill-Babs.
He has become to popular, to mainstream, to kind for my taste.
But yet, when I listen to Rosalita from -73.
Then I forgot about those things.
Damn.
'Windows are for cheaters, chimneys for the poor
Closets are for hangers, winners use the door
So use it Rosie, that's what it's there for'
Has anyone said it better than that?
Ever?
13 April 2010
09 April 2010
07 April 2010
exhibition: Identity Proofs - scene 2
Anyone who comes across Gliwice in April, please be welcome to visit the exhibition I'm opening tomorrow.
Identity Proofs – scene 2
Aneta Grzeszykowska / Joachim Schmid
Identity Proofs is a photographic exposition presenting works of artists dealing with the issue of identity. Four artists were invited to present individual projects at the Art ReadingRoom – new space created next to the Museum in Gliwice. In the first edition, which took place in March, we had a chance to see the works of Dita Pepe and Jerzy Lewczyński.
For the second edition, which will start on April 8th, we invited a young Polish photographer, Aneta Grzeszykowska, and German artist-sociologist, Joachim Schmid.
The April exposition is supposed to focus the visitors’ attention on the problem of identity perceived through our ‘visual quality’, our personal appearance. Presented will be a series of illusional portraits of non-existent people by Aneta Grzeszykowska. Through digital manipulation of the image, the artist creates fake persons who are very convincing in their detailed appearance. This cycle will be juxtaposed with the work of Joachim Schmid’s, in which, as in most of his creation, he uses found photographs. Old, torn apart studio portraits – probably made for IDs’ – are organized in the way that produces new, double portraits. Combined features of two different people create a disturbing image of some new, unknown identity. Confronting the works of Schmid and Grzeszykowska should arise doubts and destroy our confidence in what and whom we actually see.


letf: Aneta Grzeszykowska, from the series "Untitled People",
rigth: Joachim Schmid, from the series "Photogenetic Drafts"
06 April 2010
back to back.
how not to make a photograph? hey, watch your back!
http://fotoartaddict.blogspot.com when you enter gallery or a museum with a camera, i'll be after you.
03 April 2010
baby blues.
meet Tadeusz and his father /reading 'baby blues', awesome comic, kind of survival guide for young parents/
29 March 2010
Inbox: Susanne Willuhn





"I am an autodidacte and began to take pictures a few years ago as way to express and explore myself.
When asked what my photography is about I usually don't know what to answer. Maybe it is because I don't have any special motives or themes.
For me my pictures are all about my personal daydreams, longings, the memories i like to hold or regain, reminiscences and so on.
My photographic approach is mostly intuitive. It's about the secrets of everyday life as it is in its authentic form, without arrangements or other alterations made for the pictures. I seek to show the potential ambiguity of everyday settings and the spirit of the people involved. Imaginary worlds and shifting moods are meant to become visible."