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17 August 2008
16 August 2008
invited photographer: Thobias Fäldt
Thobias Fäldt is an interesting Swedish contemporary photographer. He has won Scanpix big photoaward and soon Steidl will release his photobook Year One. About his work Steidl wrote: "Thobias Fäldt collects photographs and compiles them, like notes in a diary, into stories and narratives. It is never clear whether they are his own images and experiences or simple collations of found imaginery. Together they culminate in a one fictional year of a life, Year One"
I discovered his photographs some months ago, thru his homepage, and find his work fascinating. Therefore I am happy to present Thobias on the F blog, with a serie from the forthcoming book Year One.
Photos © Thobias Fäldt. Stay tuned to the F blog for more info about Year One. And please check out Thobias homepage.
Invited by Fredrik Skott.
the stars are....for markus...happy birthday
"the stars are optical nerve endings of the eye, which the universe is"
text from "The stars are beautiful" a film by Stan Brakhage, 1974
15 August 2008
invited photographer: Brian David Stevens
Doggerland
"Doggerland is the former landmass in the southern North Sea which connected the island of Great Britain to mainland Europe during the last ice age. Geological surveys have suggested that Doggerland was a large dry land area that stretched from Britain's east coast across to the present coast of the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and Denmark.
The land was likely a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period. Commercial trawlers in the North Sea have dragged up mammoth and lion remains, among other remains of land animals.
Doggerland is a land that is lost to us, but still exists buried and hidden. In this essay I try to find my own doggerland, buried and hidden but still there, at least to me."
Text and photos © Brian David Stevens
Find out more of Brian's work on driftingcamera.blogspot.com
invited by ulf fågelhammar
14 August 2008
13 August 2008
12 August 2008
book review: En blues från Landskrona
En blues från Landskrona.
Photo: Thomas H Johnsson.
Text: Jonas Bergh.
Published by Kulturföreningen JB23, 2007.
Out of stock.
ISBN: 978-91-85629-12-1.
A few days ago I received En blues från Landskrona [A blues from Landskrona] by Thomas H Johnsson (photos) and Jonas Bergh (text). Subsequently, I have read the text and looked at the photographs not once, but several times. The book touches me deeply.
The photos are close, intense and often dark portraits of people in Landskrona, often of individuals on the fringe of society. "Immigrants" and "Swedes" include: an old man secretly drinking behind a fence, a young boy with his gun, someone using his stiletto to turn his hamburgers when having a barbecue on his doorstep, a man showing his knocked-out teeth, another man with needle marks in his arm, an elderly woman on her way to an anonymous residential quarter, a burned-out car.
Engelbrektsgatan © Thomas H Johnsson.
Timmermansgatan © Thomas H Johnsson.People who, in one way or another, stand outside society are an important theme in Thomas H Johnssons's photographs, as well as the difference between the inhabitants of Landskrona. But the joy, freedom and, above all, the pride of the people portrayed aren't missing but are an important element in his portraits. The photographs breath punk; a movement that has obviously inspired Johnsson and Bergh.
Thomas's photographs are presented with the personal and brilliantly written texts by Jonas Bergh. In a sense, therefore, the reader gets two stories about the life in Landskrona. The combination of the text and the photographs is exceptionally successful.
Rådmansgatan © Thomas H Johnsson.
Rönnebergsgatan © Thomas H Johnsson.The images, usually just named after the street they are photographed in, are captured in Landskrona, but they could be taken anywhere. The same applies to Bergh's text. The book could have been titled A blues from Säffle, A blues from Jönköping or a blues from any Swedish city. In many respects, through Landskrona, they give personal, political and very important portraits of Sweden of today. At least that is how I see it.
- Fredrik Skott
The review is also published in Swedish, here.
Isaac Hayes
Yesterday Isaac Hayes passed away at the age of 65. Many will associate him with South Park or Shaft etc. Others will, like I did, remember his songs recorded on Stax Records in Memphis in the 1960's. Like this one: Isaac Hayes -- I just don't know what to do with myself
11 August 2008
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
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