22/04/2013
And here are the last news and works.
“The Kingdom of Dust”, an amazing work by Matt Black.
“Rising from the remnants of what was once a vast inland sea, California’s Central Valley is an agricultural empire unparalleled in the history of the world. Covering an area larger than ten US states, it is home to America’s richest farms and generates close to $20 billion dollars’ worth of fresh food each year, nearly half of the US supply.
Though this wealth comes from the earth, there is little natural about how it is produced: the Central Valley is a place not so much rural as it is empty-urban — a thoroughly industrialized farm landscape whose once undulating plains have been tractored into table-top flatness, whose streams have been dammed and whose lakes have been drained. [..]”
(see it here @ His website)
Wonderful works and photographs by Lottie Davies.
All are rich and beautiful and full of sensibility and thoughts.
(see them here @ Her website)
The amazing works by Marie Sjovold.
All of them are really great and emotionally strong.
(see them here @ Her website)
“Heal” a project about Syria and hope by Davide Tremolada.
”[..] The wild animal, in this environment, without the conscience of what has really happened there, represents the quietness, the end of the violence.
No animal can stand quiet in a place, while feeling the presence of imminent and actual danger for its life. Bringing them into these warzones, represents the possibility of this war to end, and that peace can be there again. The peace here is the nature, the wildlife coming back into a place where human beings and life were chased away. [..]”
(see it here @ His website)
Bare Handed, an interesting work by Holly Lynton.
”[..] I sought out individuals who make themselves vulnerable in the face of nature and attempted to capture the meditative, transformative state they achieved while working with a potentially dangerous animal or in an uncomfortable environment.”
Also his project “Solid Ground” and “In Between” are great.
(see it here @ His website)
“Imaginary Wars”, a great project by Harlan Erskine.
”[..] The settings include wide landscapes that dwarf the child actors within each image. Children appear small in this big world, swallowed by the larger landscape of adults. They play games in which they imagine themselves in adult roles that they may not fully grasp. Their smallness contrasts with the expanse of the landscape. [..]”
(see it here @ His website)
“Axiom & Simulation”, a very interesting work by Mark Dorf.
“AXIOM & SIMULATION examines the ways in which humans quantify our natural surroundings through the use of scientific and digital means. As a developed global culture, we are constantly transforming elements of our physical environment into abstracted non-physical calculations in order to gain a greater understanding of our complex surroundings. [..]”
(see it here @ His website)
Beautiful photographs by Berta Vincente.
(see them here @ Her website)
“Subterranea”, by Sarah Oxenham.
(see it here @ Her website)
Wonderful daily life photographs by Muhammed Muheisen.
“I move around from one place to another looking for scenes that we pass by everyday — a quiet scene or a dynamic scene showing the life of people living in conflict or lives not shattered by war,” he explains. “Some of those scenes bring joy, others sadness and issues to be aware of. Even in the middle of the conflict you can see that life goes on.”
(see them here @ Lightbox)
“Carpathian shepherds”, a wonderful serie by Yurko Dyachyshyn.
“This is a story about shepherds, Gutsuls, living in the Ukrainian Carpathians, their everyday life, household and seasonal work in the Carpathian meadows, called polonynas. They ride herds high in the mountains producing cottage and brinsen cheese, just like their ancestors did hundreds and hundreds years ago. The Ukrainian Carpathians border with Romania, partially with Poland and Slovakia. [..]”
All the images inside this work are really great. The perspective, the use of black and white, impressive.
(see it here @ His website)
“Resistance Isn’t Futile”, a selecion of strong images.
(see them here @ Foreign Policy)
Beautiful reportage and works by Natan Dvir.
(see them here @ His website)
The Artic Spleen, a long and interesting project by Pier Casotti.
Also his other works are beautiful, like “Run away train”.
(see it here @ His website)
Great reportage by Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini.
Amazing, strong and dramatic works.
(see them here @ His website) + (Commented slideshow by Aleppo @ Aljazeera)
“The Veils of Aleppo”, a strong and dramatic serie by Franco Pagetti.
(see it here @ Lightbox)
Creative and beautiful works by Olivier Valsecchi.
(see them here @ His website)
Emotional and strong portraits by Jenn Violetta.
(see them here @ Her Flickr)
Creative photography by Rob Woodcox.
(see them here @ His Flickr)
Great nude photography by Ruslan Lobanov.
(see them here @ Photosight)
Nereides, a beautiful fashion serie by Andrey Yakovlev.
(see it here @ Behance)
Fashion photography by Sandra Freij.
(see it here @ LundLund)
ARTICLES:
- “A barbaric war throws up a horror story that makes villains of all”, an interesting article by Robert Fisk. (here)
- “In Love With My Planet”, an interview with Salgado about his last project, “Genesis”. (here)
- “The Lens Rises in Stature”, museums and photography. (here)
- Genius in colour: Why William Eggleston is the world’s greatest photographer. (here)
