Let me be the one who brings you back to the light III
Essential listening: Coil - The Ape Of Naples
25 October 2006
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Photo: Urbano (the postman´s bicycle)Welcome to send pictures! Or why not send us a text about photography or a related subject? Your submission will be posted under label "Gruppo F inbox".
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On The F Blog you will various featured projects and also three major projects running all of the year 2008. You are of course welcome to send contributions on other subjects as well. However, there is no guarantee in publishing everything we receive. Welcome to participate!
Practical Hainting for Beginners
photo: Jeanne Wells
Lesson one: Dinner is Served. Dead bird on paper plate -- always a big hit!
All these ghostly figures from the past make me want to be one -- My hat is off to all those who do self portraits with large format cameras. Every possible thing that could get screwed up here, did. I almost threw away the negative because it was just a couple of dark blobs on a light field. Then I looked more closely. Then I printed it. Now I think it an honest portrait of who I am. Or who I may be one day . . .
Print is split developed in lots of crazy chemicals, including instant coffee and washing soda and glycin, then split toned in selenium and gold. Just playing, seeing what would happen next.
24 October 2006
Guest: Sandra Andersson
I am glad to present Sandra Andersson and her pictures.
I saw them just recently and they really stayed in my mind.
Enjoy The Hour of the Wolf by this talented photographer
at The F Blog were you will find good photography around the clock.
-Ulf Fågelhammar
”Gränsland”
I was walking around in the suburb one dark and early
morning. I had this strange, ambiguous feeling, a feeling
of exposed loneliness, wrapped up in a beautiful and quiet
atmosphere. Between 4 and 5 in the morning, a special hour
occurs - the hour of the wolf”. The human body is preparing
to come awake, the REM-sleep starts. During this hour most
births and deaths take place, we are extremly vulnerable,
both physically and mentally. It really fascinates me, this
uncontrollable condition between dream and reality, sleep
and awakness. / Sandra Andersson
Visit me at: www.sandraandersson.com
23 October 2006
Camera Obscura
This is the first known illustration of the camera obscura, published
in a work by the Dutch scientist Rainer Gemma Frisius; De radio
astronomico et geometrico liber in the year of 1545.
A fine collection of links about camera obscura
Here is a site about pinhole cameras (fascinating stuff), recommended by Mats.
Let me be the one who brings you back to the light
A year ago I got this box with hundreds and hundreds of old glass plates. Think it´s time to bring some of them back to life.
One more for the Light Leak Chronicles
photo: Jeanne Wells
This is the real deal -- the back of my camera was not closed tightly and I was wandering around in full sun. I think of this photograph as having something to do with motion & great speed. Maybe John Prine's "Speed of the Sound of Lonliness?"
Guest: Michael Kenna
Photo: Michael Kenna
His graphic style and feeling for composition, ability to find beauty in all kind of places even the industry areas are some of the reasons why his work fascinates me. You may see more of his work here
Invited by Jeanette Hägglund.
22 October 2006
Guest: Kay von Aspern
I came across Kays work at photopoints.com, and really like them, love the composition and mood, and the play with light and shadow.
Kay writes:
"I enjoy taking shots from so called normal life. I don't need any
special events, any extraordinary places or something likate that. I go
outside, explore the places where I am and look. Better say observe :-)
For me a good picture is founding on studying environment. I try to keep
environment and people together. Sometimes the result is a kind of
humour. Another time maybe there is a melancholic situation. A third
time there is a surreal aspect I like to make the picture. Photography
means amusing myself. And although I am looking for some interesting
moments, I don't want anything. If you want it, you don't get it ;-)
Thank you for being your guest in Gruppo F!"
See more of Kays work here or here email: kay@von-aspern.de
Invited by Mats Äleklint.
Kay writes:
"I enjoy taking shots from so called normal life. I don't need any
special events, any extraordinary places or something likate that. I go
outside, explore the places where I am and look. Better say observe :-)
For me a good picture is founding on studying environment. I try to keep
environment and people together. Sometimes the result is a kind of
humour. Another time maybe there is a melancholic situation. A third
time there is a surreal aspect I like to make the picture. Photography
means amusing myself. And although I am looking for some interesting
moments, I don't want anything. If you want it, you don't get it ;-)
Thank you for being your guest in Gruppo F!"
See more of Kays work here or here email: kay@von-aspern.de
Invited by Mats Äleklint.
21 October 2006
In the middle of the street
All of a sudden there was a guy taking pictures in the middle of the street.. I think he was just as surprised as me.
Photo: Mats Äleklint
20 October 2006
Guest: Payman Hazheer
They say 21 gram is the weight of your soulWhat if you´re half the man that you used to be
The time has come and i wish you well
Love like an invisible bullet sucking me down, im falling, yeah i´m falling - i got seconds to live
I stumbled across Paymans pictures a couple of years ago at the
Swedish fotosidan.se. His sincere, unpretentious and genuine approach
in making pictures has inspired me greatly ever since I first saw his work. You can see more of Paymans photos here.
Swedish fotosidan.se. His sincere, unpretentious and genuine approach
in making pictures has inspired me greatly ever since I first saw his work. You can see more of Paymans photos here.
Invited by Alf Johansson.
19 October 2006
Guest: Jonas Andersson
"Mythos"
Untitled
"In the heart of your heart"
As I stated in a previous post I consider Jonas Andersson
to be a master of digital monochromes.
Here are some of my favourites among his work.
Invited by Markus Andersson.
As I stated in a previous post I consider Jonas Andersson
to be a master of digital monochromes.
Here are some of my favourites among his work.
Invited by Markus Andersson.
18 October 2006
Guest: Joy Goldkind
Joy Goldkind is one of my favourite photographers. Joy uses the historic bromoil process. Within this process a bromide silver gelatin image are bleached to remove the silver content. Lithographic inks are then applied with brushes to replace the silver. I really love her pictures and are, as an amateur bromoilist, deeply inspired by her magical work. Therefore, I am honoured to present three of her photographs on the F blog.
Photos by Joy Goldkind, USA. Image courtesy of the John Stevenson Gallery. Invited by Fredrik Skott.
'The b side' - The dub side
(Click here for music, music2)
[part one]
Dub and politics on Jamaica was intimately intertwined, especially towards the end of the seventies. The music exploded on the dancehall scene at the same time as the neighbourhoods exploded in violence.
As the reggae historican Steve Barrow expresses it; "Dub music represents 'the other side' of things figuratively. There is always a front page and a back side, an 'a side' and the 'b side'. The world is divided. Dub is the 'b side'."
Crossroads
Dub, while being born out of reggae, is at the same time the early dark roots of hip hop as well as influencing the second-wave ska music. Dub being born from turmoil, became breeding ground for new music, creating a kind of musical crossroads.
The last track of King Tubby's record was a unnamed dub version of "Satta Massa Gana", the famous single track of the Abyssinians (1969). It was informally known as the national hymn of the rastafari religion. Somewhat incorrectly translated from amharinijan it meant something like "thank and praise Haile Selassie". In the backgroundof the melody was the phrases "longing for the far-away far-away country".
King Tubby drastically cut down the hymn into a pulsing base and a distinct snare drum. The base beat was skewed and shifted out of both tone and position. The drums were like exploding thunder. The mirror world he created echoed the dissolving alliance between the Jamaican rastas and the Social Democrats. The utopia had been robbed by the gansters and left to die in the alley's of Trenchtown.
It was the music of hostile cross fire. Dub embraced the circumstances. It was everything at the same time. Dub was declaring, distorting and disengaging, all within the samebeat. It gave an embracing and fragmented voice to all the terrors the Jamaican nation could not express openly.
Photography?
How does this connect to our photography then? For me personally, I'm interested in our concern for fragments, shadows, traces and spaces of life and people that is so present in our pictures. This links to the lack of order in the dub music, how the original tunes are twisted and extended to show something more than the plain object. We are creating an impressionalistic view of what we want to communicate, not an objective reflection. A favourite photo that might illustrate this by Ulf is busskuren blev en fängelsehåla or this one by Tiro Leander called 'free falling' at photopoints.com.
So - do you agree that we have a streak of dub in our 'photography'?
Next: Ska music and Thatcher's Ghost Town.
Links and sources:
www.Dub.com
Lee 'scratch' Perry (at Furious)
King Tubby history (at Furious)
King Tubby Discography (at roots-archives.com)
What is dub? (by EnchantedForest)
Can't Stop Wont Stop (by Jeff Chang)
Photo of King Tubby linked from Furious.com)
Text: partially reworked from sources, partially written by author.
Moon snail
photo: Jeanne Wells
The first day Tom was here in Portland, we went off to the beach. I always say I should never shoot at the beach, but I do it anyway. . .
17 October 2006
My first picture
I invited Susanne to share this lovely picture with us. Here is the story in her own words: "This is one of my first pictures. I was four years old and my father had just bought me a plastic camera. I carried the camera in my hand when we left the shop. And there it was! The most fantastic lorry I had ever seen. So I pointed at it and shot this picture!
My old father has never enjoyed that picture :))"
invited by ulf fågelhammar
Photo: Susanne Wahlgren
See more of Susanne´s pictures here
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