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L.A.TIMOZ
I sat there on the strip, next to the beach in Los Angeles. It was in late spring.
Four guys were playing ball against the wall. Their bodies were covered with tattoos.
They looked like they did not care.
I knew the more I waited the harder it was going to be, to get contact.
So, I walked up (with my black sunglasses on) to the one I thought was most friendly.
– Can I take your picture? He looked at me, started to walk away from where I was standing.
His friend looked at him and said – Was up?
The first guy answered, – I don’t know, was up! This guy; he thinks he’s a fucking FBI or something like that.
Then it happened. The first guy started to smile. The icebreaker, the connection that I was looking for.
I took up the camera then spent the afternoon with them. /.../
A bit later two beach cops showed up. The guys left fast.
Initially, I was in Vancouver to shoot for Absolut Vodka. This was only for one day, so we had 7 days off. Then my assistant came up with the idea—to take a drive to Los Angeles. I looked at him with a funny face and said – That’s far! The next morning we sat in the car. Four speeding tickets later, we were there.
Some time after, I got home to Sweden. A couple of guys were about to open a club at Sturehof in Stockholm. They wanted to do an art show with the pictures I took. The only thing was, I had no background information on these guys. So, my college; the Journalist Johan Lindberg came up with the brilliant idea—to lie. Then to name the art show “LATIMOZ” taken from Latin and Moz (a nickname for Steven Patrick Morrissey). The four guys I shot became immoderate “The Smiths ” fans, like that.
This was later reviewed in art magazines, as it was true. Frankly, maybe it was.
DANIEL SAHLBERG PHOTOGRAPHY © 2011
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Links: Daniel Sahlberg PhotographyPrevious work by Daniel on the F-blog: Fat fringes and A pedestrian display of affection.
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Dan Isaac Wallin
In the creative aspect of his work, Dan Isaac Wallin has a love of Polaroid. He prefers to work with a simple SX-70 or Polaroid 180, using long expired Polaroid film. Wallin gently and carefully treats and mistreats the Polaroid film while it is developing, until he gets the soft ‘other-world’ look, that is the signature style of his work.
This series will show mainly outdoor motifs from the Swedish countryside. The colours and expressions change with the seasons, and behind these beautiful images there rests a serious, calm and poetic sensitivity.
Wallin presents journeys from the places of childhood. His memories become dreamlike sequences; from the blue of Bohuslän to the black and white of Israel. Mystery cuts through the nostalgic imagery and awakens questions within the viewer.
Links: Dan Isaac Wallin.
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