Our Young City

Christopher Nunn’s photographs depict fictional and constructed spaces. He is interested in exploring “the way memory, over the course of time, becomes fiction”. The images are pieced together from a number of partially remembered places that Nunn has experienced and works of fiction connected to them. This includes a visit to Pripyat, Ukraine, an evacuated city that remains abandoned beside the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power station. The ambiguous title was taken from a piece of graffiti seen in the city. Nunn states that the empty and decaying spaces in his images “represent the diminishing nature of memory and its relationship with time and fiction”.

Bio
Christopher Nunn (b 1983) is a UK based photographer whose work deals with memory, time and fiction, often utilising constructed miniature spaces. Our Young City is currently being exhibited at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, England as part of a group show titled Lost In Transit.

Photos and text: Christopher Nunn

Sources: E. Hopper

Photo: Luc Rabaey

Down the Middle

Absence

Having dual nationality may affect the way we perceive ourselves, especially if we have been forced to leave the place where we were born and spent our early years. Therefore, a loss of that feeling of belonging can be the result. You don’t completely belong to the country you migrated to but you don’t know if you still belong to the one you where born in either, especially if you spent a long time away from it.

This project explores my life as an Anglo-Mexican capturing the places I lived in Mexico and in England to help me retrace and discover my roots.

Hulme

Dad

Playground

Sandwiches

Clouds

Bio

Fine art photographer Roxana Allison was born in Manchester, UK (1980) and raised in Mexico City where she lived permanently until 2008. She currently lives and works in Britain. She graduated with a BA Fine Art Degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2004. Since having her first solo exhibition in 2003, she has taken part in several photography group shows in Mexico and the USA. She is currently part of the group show Lost in Transit, held at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK where she is exhibiting her latest body of work, Down the Middle, which explores her bicultural roots.

Photos and text: Roxana Allison

Michelle Marie Roy

Rose

When the F-blog invited me to exhibit a few photographs on the site, I was more than pleased! I wasn’t sure what to show. So I thought of exhibiting a few self-portraits which are typical for some of my older work, and then also some photos from 2 exhibitions I have been working on for Pride, together with artists Cecilia Bivald and Kim Rosendahl. Both exhibitions open this Saturday, July 25th at the Art Concept Stores.

Mirror

Usually my work is rather subjective, often dealing with gender. In my past work, I have frequently used myself as a model, and self-portraits were a way for me to comment on the phase of my life I was going through at the time of the portrait, but also, collectively speaking, self-portraits were a way for me to explore my identity.

Vagina Face III

“The Baby Doll Mythos” series is a good example of this. The work entitled “Vagina Face III” is a self-portrait where I have used red lipstick and face paint to create a vagina face mask. Basically the idea was to make the viewer aware of how I felt about my identity and gender, and how this effected other people’s perception and reaction to me. Sometimes being a woman felt like a burden. I will show this piece at the “Vagina Dentata” exhibition at Art Concept Store. The concept of the exhibition was inspired by “Vagina Face III” So we sent out a call for vagina art work to create the exhibition. We wanted to see how other women (and even men) felt about gender and about female sexuality. And the response was amazing! We received a great deal of high quality work in a variety of media!


Be My Sugar Daddy

Cecilia, Kim and I also wanted to do a photo/video based project entitled “Team: Sexualitet” for Pride. Basically we handed out 10 disposable cameras to people of various sexual orientations, from straight to gay to trans-gender, and asked them to document their sexuality. My contribution to the exhibition has been taking black and white portraits of the participants. This was a challenge for me, because it deviated so much from my usual working process. I usually have an image in my mind that I have to create in the “real world” and then photograph. With the “Tema: Sexualitet” portraits, the challenge was to capture the personality and energy of each individual. So instead of photographing what is internal, I had to turn the camera to the external world.


Miranda & Hanna

The photograph of “Miranda & Hannah” is one of my favorites from the exhibition. Miranda is from Finland and Hannah is Swedish. They met online and the rest is history. During the photo shoot they seemed to be very much in love. They both had such free and easy spirits. I realized how much they must care for one another, and I think it shows in the portrait.

Cake

For more information about my work, you are welcome to visit my website at: www.michellemarieroy.com I will also be at the openings on July 25th from 12 – 18:00 at the Art Concept Stores: www.artconceptstore.se

Strange Fruit

Invited by Jan Buse

Walking on water...

...or stuck in a bubble

spotting the F

untitled

The Malmoe Fence

the fence in Malmoe

The fence-exhibitions are getting very popular in Sweden these days. This time it's the Image group Agitera who's arranging an exhibition in Malmoe. They sent us the following information:
(PS. make sure to read the last part if you like the work of Agitera)


"Press release
Re: The Malmoe Fence
When: August 29, 2009
Where: Folkets Park, Malmoe
Who: 140 photographers (first come, first serve)
Organizers: Agitera – Image Group in collaboration with Galleri Format Website: http://planket2009.blogspot.com
Sign up: planket@agitera.com

History: Last year, the members of Agitera Image Group were asked to carry Malmöplanket on. Then, Jonna at Format called, and a collaboration seemed only natural This year, the location of Malmöplanket has moved to Folkets Park. Saturday, August 29, the photo exhibit Malmöplanket kicks off its second year. The purpose of the exhibit is to get images from an array of different branches of photography into public space. The fence is a place for meetings, not only between photographers, but also between photographers and the public; an office party open to the public, if you will. About

Agitera: The idea of an image group came about sometime around the beginning of the new millennium and was realized in the fall of 2003 when an official organization was formed at our first meeting, at Ölcafeét in Malmoe. Our first project, the exhibit Bilder från Bitola- Macedonija (Images from Bitola, Macedonia), brought several communities together. Young and old, Swedes and immigrants; together they contemplated another reality. They shared grief, anger, tears, and laughter. This other reality, the contrast our images constitute in relation to peoples’ lived realities, is important to us. The success of our previous exhibits shows that the images are not only important to us, but also to many others. Over the years, Agitera has produced multiple exhibits, both traditional and of the “fence type”. It is important to us to show the image outside of conventional exhibition locales. To make the image accessible to those who might not go out of their way to see an exhibit. In essence, taking the image to the people. We have formed collaborations with organizations, institutions and businesses; the Nordic Council of Ministers, Kulturen Museum in Lund, LaLoge Gallery in Paris, Aluma Magazine, and Lexter Sound Productions, to name a few.

Agitera is currently going through an expansionary phase and looking to recruit interesting photographers to the image group. Our goal is to grow slowly, and our rule is to only accept two new members every fiscal year. "

the Agitera Image Group

just another rainy day

I Linnés Trädgård´/ In the Garden of Carl von Linné

Photo: Jeanette Hägglund

Photo: Emile Dubuisson

http://www.emilehyperiondubuisson.com/

http://www.tinyvices.com/emile_dubuisson.html

People, Events, Changes.

People, events, changes. 20 years of photography in Gazeta Wyborcza exhibition is just about to close. sorry for the delay in informing, but was rather busy with it... [It was on 8th May 1989 that appeared the first edition of Gazeta Wyborcza Solidarności, or in English The Solidarity Election Newspaper. In the first edition were to be found only two photographs. ]

The exhibition People, Events, Changes is a multi-theme narrative of the last 20 years composed through the photos of the reporters of Gazeta Wyborcza. We present photos from all over the world: photo journalism, news photography, portraits, and sport and fashion photos.
20 years is 7305 days and over 6 thousand editions of Gazeta Wyborcza. Over this period, almost everything has changed. We have striven here to evoke the most significant events, to recall the people and places of our collective memory. The exhibition has been divided into two main sections: Poland and The World.
Over the last 20 years, there have also been profound changes in the technology of photography.
The beginning of the 90s is a time when a photographer might still use a roll of film on a given event. From this point on, photographic equipment has improved enormously, thus widening the potential for access to an event, and making excellent quality of scanned and printed images the norm. From 2007 on, we can observe the unquestioned domination of digital photography. This exhibition recounts the most recent history of photography and encourages reflection on the contemporary condition of the photo-reporter.

The first sessions of the Senate. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Lech Wałęsa, Bronisław Geremek, 1989. photo Sławomir Sierzputowski/Agencja Gazeta The first round of the presidential elections. Jacek Kuroń with his wife just after announcement of the initial results, 1991. photo Piotr Wójcik/Agencja Gazeta

The exhibition ignores chronology and rejects the traditional exposition mode. Thus it's an anniversary exhibition, it displays the art of photography. Curators focus on what is shared by both the authors and readers: the experience of freedom. This is what we are to rediscover and rethink. The exhibition have many heroes. Among them the greatest Poles: Jerzy Giedroyc, Wislawa Szymborska, Andrzej Wajda. Side by side, there are clerks, teachers, farmers, feminists, Roms, the unemployed, and anonymous passers-by. Our exhibition features its heroes. The main one is the change, stressed by the two-decade-old photographs, which contrast with the contemporary images. The change is recorded also by the amateurs, who post on photoblogs their pictures, although not ideal at times yet honest and immediate. Such works are also exhibited here. Professionals are taken away their exclusive right to take pictures. Today everyone takes pictures on any topic. For that reason, professional photographers pose questions concerning the social meaning of photo-journalism. Some reject the old, seemingly ideal forms for spontaneous creativity. Others return to the roots. Intense collective emotions are another hero of the exhibition: the events connected with politics, economy, religion, and sport and daily lives. The Polish reality, including politics, measures up with the European norms. Many pictures are devoid of the Polish specificity. The transformation was finally a great sucess. But still there is Poland that haven’t changed, and poverty looks quite simmilar from 1989 and 2009.

Having gained democracy, we got access to the world, with the opportunity to meet people of various cultures, religions, and ways of thinking. This has also been used by Gazeta’s photographers. A flamenco dancer in Seville, Arab immigrants in Paris suburbs, Sicilian fishermen, joyful American hippies, homeless children in Petersburg, the king of Romanian Gypsies, Kosovan refugees, Polish Christmas in Edinburgh – these are the people we have met on our way. We also display significant places: Chechnya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, and African countries. We are not blind to human lives marked by wars.

Against this background, the 1989-1990 revolutions in Central and East Europe seem to have been a miracle.

Palestine, Ramallah, 2nd Intifada, 2000. photo Piotr Janowski/Agencja Gazeta

The Bejing 2008 Olimpic marathon. photo Bartosz Bobkowski/Agencja Gazeta

Russia, the "Komiersant" newspaper with blank pages as a protest of the judges of Moscow's Court verdict, 2005. photo Krzysztof Miller/Agencja Gazeta

curators: Dominique Roynette, Piotr Wójcik, Joanna Kinowska
215 photographers: DANIEL ADAMSKI, SEBASTIAN ADAMUS, CEZARY ASZKIEŁOWICZ, KUBA ATYS, PIOTR AUGUSTYNIAK, DOROTA AWIORKO, JACEK BALK, BARTEK BARCZYK, ANNA BEDYŃSKA, PIOTR BERNAŚ, ANNA BIAŁA, MARTA BŁAŻEJOWSKA, BARTOSZ BOBKOWSKI, ANDRZEJ BOGACZ, KAMIL BROSZKO, BOGDAN BUGAJSKI, RADOSŁAW BUGAJSKI, IWONA BURDZANOWSKA, GRZEGORZ CELEJEWSKI, DAWID CHALIMONIUK, IRENEUSZ CIEŚLAK, ŁUKASZ CYNALEWSKI, FILIP ĆWIK, RENATA DĄBROWSKA, GRZEGORZ DĄBROWSKI, PIOTR DESKA, PIOTR DŁUGOSZ, MIROSŁAW DOMINEK, WOJCIECH DRUSZCZ, WOJCIECH DUSZENKO, DOMINIK DZIECINNY, BRUNO FIDRYCH, ŁUKASZ FOJT, DOMINIK GAJDA, ALINA GAJDAMOWICZ, TOMASZ GAŚ, ŁUKASZ GIZA, ANDRZEJ GOIŃSKI, ADAM GOLEC, DARIUSZ GORAJSKI, KAMIL GOZDAN, ROBERT GÓRECKI, PRZEMYSŁAW GRAF, MICHAŁ GROCHOLSKI, MICHAŁ GRZYBCZAK, JERZY GUMOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF GUTKOWSKI, PIOTR GUZIK, WOJCIECH HABDAS, MATEUSZ HALAWA, MARZENA HMIELEWICZ, ANDRZEJ IWAŃCZUK, WOJCIECH JAKUBIUK, PIOTR JANOWSKI, WOJCIECH JARGIŁO, MACIEJ JARZĘBIŃSKI, MICHAŁ JASIULEWICZ, GRAŻYNA JAWORSKA, PRZEMEK JENDROSKA, ROMAN JOCHER, RADOSŁAW JÓŹWIAK, SŁAWOMIR KAMIŃSKI, TOMASZ KAMIŃSKI, WOJCIECH KARDAS, KRZYSZTOF KAROLCZYK, RITA KATANA, BEATA KITOWSKA, TOMASZ KIZNY, MARCIN KLABAN, FILIP KLIMASZEWSKI, DANIEL KLIMCZAK, KRZYSZTOF KOCH, WALDEMAR KOMPAŁA, MACIEJ KONRAD, MAREK KOPEĆ, MICHAŁ KOPIŃSKI, ROBERT KOWALEWSKI, ADAM KOZAK, PAWEŁ KOZIOŁ, PRZEMYSŁAW KOZŁOWSKI, DAMIAN KRAMSKI, WOJCIECH KRÓLAK, ROBERT KRZANOWSKI, MAREK KRZĄKAŁA, JAROSŁAW KUBALSKI, ARTUR KUBASIK, MARCIN KUCEWICZ, BARTŁOMIEJ KUDOWICZ, MAŁGORZATA KUJAWKA, DARIUSZ KULESZA, BARTOSZ KURAŚ, MACIEJ KUROŃ, GRZEGORZ KWOLEK, ANNA LEWAŃSKA, JACEK ŁAGOWSKI, MICHAŁ ŁEPECKI, MARCIN ŁOBACZEWSKI, ANNA ŁOŚ, GRAŻYNA MAKARA, BARTOSZ MAKOWCZYŃSKI, MARIUSZ MAKOWSKI, RAFAŁ MALKO, PAWEŁ MAŁECKI, PIOTR MANASTERSKI, JACEK MARCZEWSKI, ADAM MARKOWSKI, TYMON MARKOWSKI, WOJCIECH MATUSIK, FRANCISZEK MAZUR, PIOTR MAZUR, PIOTR MAZUREK, MIECZYSŁAW MICHALAK, RAFAŁ MICHAŁOWSKI, JANUSZ MICZEK, RAFAŁ MIELNIK, SŁAWOMIR MIELNIK, JUSTYNA MIELNIKIEWICZ, KRZYSZTOF MILLER, GRZEGORZ MISIAK, ANDRZEJ MITURA, PIOTR MOLĘCKI, ANDRZEJ MONCZAK, AGNIESZKA MORCINEK, IGOR MORYE, MICHAŁ MUTOR, WOJCIECH NEC, TOMASZ NIESŁUCHOWSKI, MIKOŁAJ NOWACKI, MIROSŁAW NOWORYTA, MAREK OBREMSKI, WOJCIECH OKSZTOL, MARCIN OLEJNICZAK, ELIZA OLEKSY, WOJCIECH OLKUŚNIK, MARCIN ONUFRYJUK, JAKUB ORZECHOWSKI, JAROSŁAW PABIJAN, DANIEL PACH, SERGIUSZ PĘCZEK, WŁODZIMIERZ PIĄTEK, KAROL PIĘTEK, LESZEK PILICHOWSKI, AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA, JACEK PIOTROWSKI, PAWEŁ PIOTROWSKI, MAREK PODMOKŁY, ALEKSANDER PRUGAR, PAWEŁ RELIKOWSKI, JACEK RENARD, SZYMON ROGIŃSKI, TADEUSZ ROLKE, STANISŁAW ROZPĘDZIK, SEBASTIAN RZEPIEL, AGNIESZKA SADOWSKA-MAZUREK, DOMINIK SADOWSKI, SŁAWOMIR SAJKOWSKI, MARCIN SAUTER, BARTŁOMIEJ SERAFIŃSKI, RAFAŁ SIDERSKI, BARTOSZ SIEDLIK, MICHAŁ SIERSZAK, SŁAWOMIR SIERZPUTOWSKI, KAROLINA SIKORSKA, JOANNA SIWIEC, MACIEJ SKAWIŃSKI, KRZYSZTOF SKŁODOWSKI, GRZEGORZ SKOWRONEK, PIOTR SKÓRNICKI, PRZEMYSŁAW SKRZYDŁO, MATEUSZ SKWARCZEK, PAWEŁ SŁOMCZYŃSKI, ADAM SŁOWIKOWSKI, GRZEGORZ SOCHA, JULIAN SOJKA, WALDEMAR SOSNOWSKI, BARTŁOMIEJ SOWA, PAWEŁ SOWA, TOMASZ STAŃCZAK, ANDRZEJ STAWIARSKI, WOJCIECH STRÓŻYK, WOJCIECH SURDZIEL, KRZYSZTOF SZATKOWSKI, JERZY SZCZĘSNY, JERZY SZOT, GRZEGORZ SZYMAŃSKI, ARKADIUSZ ŚCICHOCKI, MACIEJ ŚWIERCZYŃSKI, MARCIN TOMALKA, PAWEŁ TOPOLSKI, TOMASZ TRUSIEWICZ, PAWEŁ ULATOWSKI, TOMASZ WAJSPRYCH, TOMASZ WALKÓW, TOMASZ WANTUŁA, TOMASZ WASZCZUK, TOMASZ WAWER, TOMASZ WIECH, TOMASZ WIERZEJSKI, ANDRZEJ WIŚNIEWSKI, LESŁAW WŁODARCZYK, AGNIESZKA WOCAL, KRZYSZTOF WOJCIECHOWSKI, MARCIN WOJCIECHOWSKI, ARKADIUSZ WOJTASIEWICZ, JÓZEF WOLNY, SEBASTIAN WOŁOSZ, MARCIN WOŁOSZCZAK, PIOTR WÓJCIK, BARTOSZ WRZEŚNIOWSKI, JAN ZAMOYSKI, ALBERT ZAWADA, BEATA ZIEMOWSKA, MACIEJ ZIENKIEWICZ, TOMASZ ŻUREK , PIOTR ŻYTNICKI

The first pair of pictures: left: Dismantling of the Feliks Dzierżyński monument in Warsaw, 1991. photo Jacek Maerczewski; right: Scyscraper evacuation excercises in Warsaw, 2005; photo Robert Kowalewski; both copyright: Agencja Gazeta

Astrid

With eyes new to the world...tabula rasa

Planketgbg 2009

The fence for this years exihibition

Our friends at planketgbg sent us a mail:

200 meters of fence. 200 photographers. On August 15th, taking place at Majvallen in Gothenburg, the public photo exhibit planketgbg returns.- The point of the exhibit is to get the image into public space, with a mix of all types of photography: commercial, art, press, and amateur, says Edith Camilla Svensson, one of the founders.Last year’s event proved a success. The two hundred meter long fence was filled with everything from beautiful nature shots and exposés to a private photo taken by an unknown photographer in war torn Yugoslavia. The youngest exhibitor was only seven years old.The idea of planketgbg is to give each photographer free rein over a meter of fence space: A single big image or perhaps several small ones, in whichever formats or shapes one so pleases. And anyone is welcome to show their work.Explains the other founder, Mette Muhli:- The fence is a way of meeting across genres and age groups. Regardless of previous experience, whether you happen to be a member of a club or a professional photographer, you can show your images here.Behind the exhibit, just as last year, are the two photographers Mette Muhli, 2008’s Swedish-Finnish artist of the year, and Edith Camilla Svensson, chairwoman of Agitera Image Group. The fence first came to Sweden in 1982 when it was erected in Stockholm, an initiative by photographer Neil Goldstein. But after a few years it died out.Following years of lethargy, new fences are now springing up throughout the country. Malmö, Stockholm, Varberg, are a few examples; and, since last year, Gothenburg.- We want to make it into an annual tradition. It should be an opportunity for photographers to meet in a creative environment, Edith Camilla explains.Planketgbg runs between 11:00 AM and 5:00 PM on the 15th of August. The fence is about 200 meters long, which means that there is space for about 200 photographers. The location is close to Slottsskogen in Majorna, running along Hålekärrsgatan. This year, a sign-up fee has been introduced, and a catalog will be made in conjunction with the exhibition, featuring an image from each participant.
Signing up:Pay 100 SEK in-store at Fotokompaniet, Kungsgatan 6B, Gothenburg.Email you name, email address and catalog image to planketgbg@gmail.comImage specifications::Rename the file with the name of the photographer, without using åäö.300 dpi. 8 bit. Adobe RGB. Max length/width 20 cm. JPEG quality 10. (If you want to preview what your image will look like in print, please download ICC profile, coated, from www.prinfolinderoths.se)
Last day to sign up is July 10th.
Contact information:Kontaktinformation:planketgbg@gmail.com
http://planketgbg.blogspot.com/Mette Muhli, +46 (0) 730-37 55 71Edith Camilla Svensson, +46 (0) 739-77 71 97

Here are some photos from last years wonderful exhibition

photo Lisa Thanner

photo Jonas Borg

about sports

And then we pulled it
all in opposite directions.
Tried to gain that extra piece of ground...

If I had to choose only one sport to symbolize this world
It would be the tug-of-war.

If I had to choose only one sport to symbolize love.
It would be the same.