Mass-spotting
photo: m. michelson. republished from the F blog.
11 May 2008
How NOT to take a picture
Apparently, I haven't learnt yet that the 12-24mm's petal lens hood is not compatible with built-in flash.
Photographer: Mirko Caserta
10 May 2008
invited guest: JH Engström (Shelter, part II)
Earlier this week JH Engströms book Shelter (Härbärge in Swedish) was presented on the F blog. As a comment to the pictures Christofer, another F-blog author, said:
"So close and so very very strong! Photographs that really gets under your skin, and like a tattoo will stay there a lifetime."
I totally agree as I can't stop thinking about some of the pictures. Now I am happy to present eight other photographs from Engströms book Shelter, about homeless woman in Stockholm.
Please also look at the earlier posts about Engström and his work on the F blog (here or here) or visit his homepage.
Invited by Fredrik Skott
how to not x 2
Two how to-not-images. One is from my sister's 'studentexamen' (graduation from college) around 1974 and the other image is from yesterday - I made this on purpose. Does it count?
- Jan Bernhardtz
09 May 2008
A beer in the forest by then (1918) And for everyone today..!
They went in a male way of the time; To a bench far (away/from ;) and into the forest. A fotball game was taking place. Picture taken then: with Ortochromatisk film 10 Din 13x18 cm Red blind and yellow unsensetive... but blue aware..! A clever method under the northerly late summer sky.
Photograph taken then by Åke Jonsson
invited guest: Wilma Hurskainen
On the deck
Family pictureGROWTH
Growth is a project in which I reconstructed and re-photographed pictures that my dad took of me and my three little sisters when we were children. I tried to make the new photograph look as similar as possible to the old one: the place and the composition are the same, and so are our positions and facial expressions.
Skansen
Birthday
Drottningholm
In the bathtubI have always been very attracted by the photograph´s ability to cross time and create this kind of comparisons. There is something sad, almost tragic, about looking at old photographs compared to new ones and seeing how people and things have changed or grown up.
After all, it is said that time has been accepted as a common means of measuring life because people are not able nor willing to see the change in themselves. In the pictures it seems as if we were trying to go back to our childhood by adopting the same position towards each other and the photographer´s/spectator´s gaze but we unavoidably fail. We have to fail – there is no return in time.
On the way to school
GrandfatherI am interested in family photographs and the way they are taken, stored and (not so often) looked at. Anyone with any family history can tell that, although the family pictures are supposed to tell a story about a happy, unanimous family, growing up with other people is never simple. Family photographs can be a way of reflecting one´s past and identity, but the pictures conceal just as much as they reveal.
In the cabin
Castle OlavinlinnaIn the comparisons time takes a strange form – it feels as if there was a dialogue between the past and the present moment, like there is in our minds as concerns our own memories A memory is never static, permanent, but changes as we change. By repeating a distant moment something weird is revealed about us as objects of the photograph in the first pictures: the way we play our artificial roles for the photograph. We might not be more than five years old, but we already know exactly how to be in/for a photograph.
The Royal PalaceWilma Hurskainen, born 1979 lives and works in Helsinki. She has graduated as a Master of Arts from University of Industrial Arts and Design in Helsinki. Wilma works as a freelance photographer for newspapers, magazines and companies. Her work has been exhibited in Prague, Hamburg, Stockholm and Santago de Cuba to mention a few of her individual or group shows. You will find more of her work at wilmahurskainen.com or at the Helsinki School.
If I my add something; seeing Wilma´s work was indeed refreshing and a reminder of the importance of family albums and what they can tell. I am a big fan of them too./ulf
invited by ulf fågelhammar
Photos and text © Wilma Hurskainen
Docu 08: faith in the dailylife
once upon a time, when in churches common meetings had been held - the sacred space was even more holy than now. what have happened to the space of faith, the architecture of churches made for our amusement to god? it is constantly changing. tourism and consumerism have changed it forever. i'm still interested in showing what is happening in these boundaries of faith and dailylife.
made in various churches in kraków and warszawa, poland/08
(F)riday's Daily Print!
photo: jeanne wells
This Hand -- today's print. I put a bit of a black border around this one when I scanned it, to show off the rough edges of the handmade paper. I owe a great debt to all you F Blog readers who have been so supportive of this Daily Print project. Thank you!
08 May 2008
invited guest: JH Engström (Shelter, part I)
I am proud to once again present JH Engström, one of the most interesting photographers in contemporary Sweden.
This time the photographs are from his first photobook, printed in 1997 and winner of "the photographic book of the year" prize in Sweden. The fascinating book, about homeless woman in Stockholm, was published in two editions, one with the Swedish title Härbärge and another with the title Shelter. Nowadays the book is sold out. If you are lucky to find it used – buy it!
About Shelter Robert Frank has stated:
"JH Engströms photographs are a remarkable
document about women of our time.
These faces – they ask no questions.
Look at the rooms – think about possessions.
These photographs tell me how sad it is.
It is mostly about the courage to survive.
A glimmer of hope despiteit all.
I can see it because the photographer cares."
In the near future two photobooks of JH Engström are to be published; CDG/JHE by Steidl and La Resicence by Journal. Search the F blog for more of JH Engström's photographs or visit his homepage. And please visit the F blog on saturday for part II of his serie Shelter.
Invited by Fredrik Skott
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