Don't shoot! - pictures from Georgia

Pictures above: From a demonstration held August 10 in the Georgian city Batumi.








Pictures above: August 9, Georgia
Photographer© Levan Kakabadze
Levan is one of the invited photographers on The F Blog, now sharing these important pictures from a country in conflict.
www.levankakabadze.com

Sapa market in the north Vietnam

quả quýt = mandarin orange

gạo Nương = Nuong rice

quả cau = areca – nut

quả thanh long = blue dragon

quả cà pháo = eggplant

uả ớt = chili

All photos © Eugene Neduv

invited guest: Bosse Blomqvist

One of the reasons for me to switch from 135mm film to large format photography was the possibility to start working with glass plates. However, due to the fact that old glass plates are hard to find (and new ones messy to construct) I got stuck with orthochromatic 8x10"-film. But a year ago I discovered Bosse Blomqvist's work, which inspired me to at last start experimenting with exposing and developing 100 years old glass plates. It is a real pleasure to have the opportunity to invite him to the F blog.

Bosse Blomqvist uses glass plates, old ones from the beginning of the 20th Century as well as new homemade ones, 4x5" and 18x24 cm. I find his portraits interesting. Especially the combination of portraying modern people using old techniques is truly fascinating and very inspiring.






Please check out Bosse Blomqvist's Flickr-page. And don't miss Nils Bergqvist's reportage about Bosse and his work (in Swedish).

- Fredrik Skott

Book: Mathieu Bernard-Reymond TV

© Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
"A seductive atmosphere redolent of cinema dominates the digital photo series TV by Mathieu Bernard-Reymond (*1976). Isolated people who seem to be threatened by an unidentifiable danger move along the streets at night. Only upon closer inspection does one realize that the artist has replaced the illuminated windows with television screens. The colorful screens do not allow anyone to look either in or out and are limited to just a few channels. And the “wild” creatures outside the buildings—such as animals of prey on the prowl, half-naked women, riot police, two boxers in the middle of a fight—are merely artificial in nature, constructed out of flickering, blurred television images.

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond’s disturbing photographs symbolize as palpably as they do impressively how—in a reality that is only conveyed through media—all of life ultimately dissolves into a mass of indistinguishable pixels. Texts by Arnaud Claas, Helen Hirsch." (Press Release, Hatje Cantz Verlag)

TV
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
ISBN 978-3-7757-2174-5
Hatje Cantz Verlag

For more information about Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, check out his homepage.

another thinking spot

Photographer: GC

untitled

Johan Emanuelsson

Photos by Johan Emanuelsson

face to face (177)

Photographer: Johan Emanuelsson

Trees-Project

The party's over

Photographer: Viktor Gårdsäter

face to face (176)

Photo: Johan Emanuelsson

invited guest: Phil Bebbington (II)

In these images I am trying to capture the life and the death of Cretan villages. The death in respect of the villages emptying and becoming full of old people or babies. The life in the images…. suggestions to the soul of the place and the people that although gone living on.

I feel in these images that the black and white emphasise the decay and dereliction whereas the colour counter that with a suggestion of life…a window into what was. The colour of personal effects shining through the greyness." - Phil Bebbington

Pictures and text © Phil Bebbington Have a look at Phil's site philbebbington.com and blog terrorkitten.com/iblog

Book: Sarah Moon 12345

From Thames & Hudson I recently got the information that they soon will publish five paperback volumes in a slipcase with more than 400 of Sarah Moon's fascinating images: 12345. Since I first discovered her book Coincidences (2001) I have been inspired by her photographs. Her beautiful images are photography at its best. I really look forward to see Sarah Moon’s new book! Release date is October 13th.

© Sarah Moon
© Sarah Moon
”Sarah Moon is a contemporary photographer of international renown. A former model, she has taken award-winning photos for such magazines as Vogues, Harper’s Bazaar and Nova. The images she has created for several brands, among them Chanel, Comme de Garcons and Cacharel, all share her poetic sense of place and personality. This publication, which includes an example of Moon’s cintematic work on a DVD, is a personal memoir in pictures, evoking her life, friends and fantasies. Distinguished writers – Dominique Eddé, Ilona Suschitsky, Magali Jauffret, Alain Fleischer and Robert Delpire – provide commentaires on her work in still and cinema photography, drawing out her thoughts on colour, contemporaries, influences and, in her own words, her unique approach to her subject. This is a unparalleled celebration of the vision of a gifted and individual photographer.” (Press release, Thames & Hudson)

© Sarah Moon
© Sarah Moon
In October two exciting satellite exhibitions will also be launched in London. ”Firstly the Royal College of Art, will exhibit over 150 black and white photographs and large-scale color works, spanning Sarah Moon’s entire career, and two new film installations, The Red Thread and The Mermaid of Auderville. The Michael Hoppen Gallery will host a separate exhibition, which will include previously unseen fashion photographs alongside the iconic images that established her reputation. The two exhibitions will run concurrently fron 17th October 2008.” (Press release, Thames & Hudson)

12345
Sarah Moon
Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd. Release date: October 13th, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-500-287835

- Fredrik Skott

Exhibition: Anders Ryman - Rites of Life

© Anders Ryman
Most cultures mark important socio-cultural stages of life with rites of passage, celebrated when a person moves from one stage of life to another.

For more than seven years, the Swedish photographer and writer Anders Ryman, has traveled around the world to document these ceremonies. Some of his photographs now form a new photo exhibition. It gives a picture of both cultural diversity and the close kinship of humanity, regardless of cultural origin.

Anders Ryman's work has been collected in an extensive photo book. Stay tuned to the F blog for a review of the book Livets steg [Rites of Life].

The opening ceremony is on Monday, 11 August 16.00 on Raoul Wallenbergs torg, Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition is part of Stockholm's cultural festival and ends on September 28th.


- Fredrik Skott

Exhibition with F:ers

Remember the outdoor exhibition Planket Gbg? Tomorrow, from 12-17 pm, its arranged at Majvallen in Gothenburg, Sweden. At least two F:ers participate: Markus Andersson and Markus Jenemark. Don't miss it!
- Nenne G

Alice

Alice in her party dress
She thanks you kindly, so serene
She needs you like she needs her tranks
To tell her that the world is clean
To promise her a definition
Tell her where the rain will fall
Tell her where the sun shines bright and
Tell her she can have it all
Today

equipment: equipment: hasselblad, tri-x, saliva, ovenpaper, viradon, plastic foil and some inspiration from The Sisters of Mercy.

I have stopped thinking...and let the the senses to explore...!

photo: Tatiana Bitir

Foto8 award

Foto8 Award & Summer Show 2008
We are pleased to annouce that the winner of the Foto8 Award for 'Best in Show' at this year's Summer Show, goes to....Guido Castagnoli for his image: Street to the main station, Shimada City, Japan 2007 taken from the series Provincial Japan.

The judges were impressed by the high standard of all the work but they were particularly drawn to the colouring and mysterious 1950s, bleached effect of Castagnoli’s print, commenting: “This is an image that will continue to be intriguing each time one looks at it. It is both strange and beautiful.”

about exhibition

Foto8

stay tuned for more from Guido in the Fblog, soon....

congratulations!

/from jo-urnalist's desk/

(F)riday's Daily Print

© jeanne wells

Peas!
If you are not a Daily Print subscriber and would like to be, go here to find out more. But of course there are folks who just like to see the Friday F Blog special, and that's so much fun, too --

Thanks all!

Thinking Spots, the uses and abuses of

© jeanne wells

invited guest: Phil Bebbington (I)

"I live in Bath in the UK and spend as much time as I am able on the Greek Island of Crete. I have been visiting for about 10 years and during that time have been trying to record the Crete I love.. The Crete away from the beaches and tourists traps. The real Crete, the Crete that seems to be in decline. The villages there seem to be slowly emptying with the youth of Crete preferring the promise of the city or even the mainland and Athens.






In these images I am trying to capture the life and the death of Cretan villages. The death in respect of the villages emptying and becoming full of old people or babies. The life in the images…. suggestions to the soul of the place and the people that although gone living on.






I feel in these images that the black and white emphasise the decay and dereliction whereas the colour counter that with a suggestion of life…a window into what was. The colour of personal effects shining through the greyness." - Phil Bebbington

It is a pleasure to see Phil's pictures from Crete, where he has spent so much time and thoughts. I am glad to be able to present some of his pictures here. More to come from Phil and Crete in the coming days on The F Blog.
Pictures and text © Phil Bebbington
Have a look at Phil's site philbebbington.com and blog terrorkitten.com/iblog
invited by ulf fågelhammar