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Photo: Jan Berhardtz
12 April 2008
invited guest: Evgeni Neduv
Nitescapes, New York City
As the boiling summer explodes in New York City, downtown takes upon a grotesque dimension reminiscent of Dickensian world. At night syrupy air acts like a photo developer and makes a bizarre pattern of cracks that emerge amid melting asphalt. 
Piles of omnipresent garbage bags and other waste surround dingy buildings and welcome droves of rats. Eternal construction seems to bring even more confusion to the pattern of deterioration that prevails. In the light of murky lanterns sculptures made up of thrown out objects live a peculiar sort of life under graffiti covered walls.
Evgeni Neduv was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, where he lived until he was 17 years old. He has been taking photos since childhood and learned to develop prints as a teenager. Based in New York City since 1992, Evgeni has also lived in Moscow, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro. He has traveled extensively throughout Italy, Spain, France and Germany. Evgeni photographs street life and is also interested in studio portraiture.
Evgeni NeduvThis series from New York, summer 2006. taken with Contax 35mm camera, are toned silver gelatin prints. Evgeni still develops and prints his own photographs. For more of Evgeni Neduv´s work have a look at www.eneduv.com / invited by ulf fågelhammar
11 April 2008
Trinidad Carillo preview
After many years in Sweden photographer Trinidad Carillo returned to her native country Peru in 1996. Opening on 17 May in Kulturhuset, Stockholm, her exhibition "Braiding" is a project that started in 1997 about her experiences in South America and Europe merging the fantastic with everyday life events.
Photo: Trinidad Carillo
(F)riday's Daily Print
Once again, it's Friday, and here's the Daily Print! I thank all the F Blog authors and readers who have been so supportive of this project. It's hard work and a lot of fun and so gratifying to see the prints going off to their homes around the world.
And also, this seems like an apt image to dedicate to our dear Urbano. He's large; he's got more energy and enthusiasm and more ideas that most of the rest of us put together. He'll say he isn't the F Blog, but he is. He keeps this place fueled, day in and day out -- and the F Blog isn't a 15 inch monitor, it's people. many many people, and he keeps us rollin rollin rollin -- amazing!
Thank you Ulf, and may you have the happiest birthday ever, and a year filled with gifts!
10 April 2008
Jim Harrison, Writer
In 1996, I attended a writing conference in Key West whose guest authors included Rick Bass, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane, John Nichols, Doug Peacock, Peter Matthiessen, and Gary Snyder. Snyder and Matthiessen were prevented from coming by huge winter storms that stopped air traffic west of Colorado. I had looked forward to seeing them, though I had met Mr. Mattiessen several times before. Still, the conference was a hoot, and Jim Harrison and his old friend, Tom McGuane, stole the show. It was by sheer dint of intelligence that they were able to do so. They are geniuses, that much was evident and clear, each in his own way.
McGuane, handsome and intense, seemed focussed and irritated as he listened to other authors speaking while Harrison seemed laconic and bored. Just when you thought that he might have fallen into sleep, however, he would espouse some learned gem that made the afternoon worthwhile. Harrison wore the same jacket and t-shirt each day, both frayed and dirty. He was large, leaning toward amorphous, but there was a broken power in his presence that seemed, even in its diminished form, greater than mere mortal.
I took this photograph just before a very frail, elderly lady introduced herself. It was John Steinbeck's widow, and she had been in the audience for a number of days, unrecognized and unnoticed. I had only my Olympus XA with its attached flash, and the automatic exposure caught something in the foreground, so the picture I took turned out to be unprintable. It was an historic occasion and it is lost.
There is nothing intimate about this portrait, nothing to recommend it but the fierce presence of this author. We see him here a gourmand and a glutton, plagued by gout, limping as he walked with the aid of a cane, his famous wandering eye pointing toward some distant star, his fierce passions at last overtaking him. He once said, "I no longer know if I am thinking or writing." I look into that one good eye and begin to understand.
Text and photo: Wiliam Schmidt
If you want to know more about Jim Harrison, this interview in The Morning News (2004) could be a good start.
09 April 2008
Gliwice House of Photography: My world, my reality
Gliwice House of Photography is honored to invite to vernissage of two projects: “My world, my reality” and “My world, my city” were realized by group of handicapped artists from the Center of God’s Mother in Knurów, under supervision of Krzysztof Gołuch with help of volunteers (Marcin Liberski, Arkadiusz Gola, Adam Hiltawsky, Krzysztof Szewczyk and Staszek Heyda).
Authors of photos: Krzysztof Wyszyński, Krzysztof Piszczelok, Damian Cięciek, Marek Skrzypek, Jacek Krzemiński, Henryk Pawełczyk, Janusz Przyklenk, Robert Mioduszewski, Michał Hein, Antoni Klon, Adam Sadlak.
Authors of photos: Krzysztof Wyszyński, Krzysztof Piszczelok, Damian Cięciek, Marek Skrzypek, Jacek Krzemiński, Henryk Pawełczyk, Janusz Przyklenk, Robert Mioduszewski, Michał Hein, Antoni Klon, Adam Sadlak.
Projects „My world, my reality” and “My world, my city” were realized by group of handicapped artists from the Center of God’s Mother in Knurów. Genesis of those projects comes from simple question how does the world looks in the eyes of disabled people.In the first project “My world, my reality” disabled artists were showing their internal world of the Center, in the second project they went out with cameras to picture the city where they live. All of the works in the projects are full frames to show complete picture of the world seen by handicapped photographers.Those photodocuments were already shown and impressed the viewers, press titles speak well about the feelings of the guests of this exhibition: “See to understand”, “Handicapped artists are showing themselves without ornaments and avoiding stereotypes”, “We are all the same”, “I’ll show you who I really am”. Those headlines are free from compassion and protective tones. Authors of those photographs became active creators of art, full right members of artistic and social community.Another, perhaps even more precious value which left after those projects – this is the magic curiosity of the world injected to our handicapped friends…/Krzysztof Gołuch
photo: Jacek Krzemiński
photo: Krzysztof Piszczelok Vernissage will take place in Fabryka Drutu, April 11th 2008 at 17:00h (Dubois 22, Gliwice, PL). Exhibition will be open till April 27th all the week at 16:00-19:00h, except Mondays.
Exhibition was organized thanx to help of Mrs. Grażyna Grzesik from Gliwickie Centrum Edukacyjne HALO!GEN
www.domfotografii.org
www.halogen.org.pl
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08 April 2008
Exhibition: Markus Jenemark and Christofer Grandin
We invite you all to this exhibition taking place in Uppsala 26/4 - 17/5. You are all most welcome! For more info please check out uppsalafotografiska.se.And yes, there will be snacks and beer at the opening. Maybe wine to for Dr Tarkini...
07 April 2008
Kulturhuset this summer: Gunnar Smoliansky
Nalen 1959
Södermalm 1959
Stockholm 1978Gunnar Smoliansky, born 1933, is one of the most influential Swedish photographers of our time. He has practiced his "slow photography", "subjective photography" or whatever you may call it for around 50 years, mostly exploring the surroundings of Stockholm.
The exhibition "One image at a time" will open on 14 June. It is a major retrospective exhibition of Smoliansky´s work and will be on show until 14 September. Gunnar Smoliansky is a favourite among many of us working with the F Blog. He was one of the students at Christer Strömholms legendary Fotoskolan. If you love photography then Kulturhuset, Stockholm is the right place to be this summer. Also visit the site of Gunnar Smoliansky.
all pictures©Gunnar Smoliansky
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