Photoghraphy News

13/02/2013

And down here the last works, projects and news. Very busy daysin the last weeks.

The so beautiful and poetic and deep projects of Dorothy Shoes.

I really love her way of working, thinking, feeling. Really.

The wonderful and stunning aerial (but not only) photographs of George Steinmetz.

“Upekkha”, a great and wonderful idea and project, by Nermine Hammam.

“Upekkha is Cairo-based artist Nermine Hammam’s post-examination of the Egyptian uprising-turned-revolution in Tahrir Square in 2011. Hammam took to the streets both on January 25th, the first day of the revolts, and then again on February 5th. She noticed not just the vulnerability of the young Egyptian soldiers but also the feeling that they wanted to be anywhere but there. [..]”

(see it here @ Her website)

Synchrodogs, the amazing works and photographs of Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven.

(see them here @ Their website)

Cinemascapes, a serie of great images by Aaron Hobson.

I really like them. Great way of framing.

(see them here @ His website)

“Floating World”, a really beautiful and poetic work by Brigitte Carnochan.

I really love this way of using the medium of photography. To illustrate poetic writings, in her own way. To further express emotions that were generated from other works of “art”.

Another truly beautiful project by her is Platinum/Palladium (my favourite and loved technique). (here)

(see it here @ Her website) or (here)

“Constellations”, a poetic and really beautiful project by Grace Kim.

I really love the thoughts and feelings that this project gives.
Also her other projects are really interesting, moving through great concepts.

(see it here @ Her website)

I love the works of Hideki Makiguchi. Very thoughtful and inspiring.

(see them here @ His website)

“Kazan”, a really beautiful and poetic project by Mayumi Hosokura.

I love this serie of juxtapositions.

(see it here Or here)

“Days of War: a Pillow Book”, a strong and so beautiful project by Maria Pleshkova.

“‘War’ and ‘Waiting’ begin with the same letter. I’m not a soldier’s mother, neither am I a soldier’s wife. But I know what it feels like when the loved one goes to war. It happened to me – and war became a very personal matter. It became part of my life, of my thoughts and soul. For a while it dominated me. I spent my time waiting, worrying, counting days and hoping for the best. I couldn’t unglue myself from thinking about the conflict zone, I spent days following the news and photos. [..]”

(see it here @ Her website) + (@ IngeMorath)

“Tokyo Hotel Story”, an interesting and beautiful project by Nathalie Daoust.

Also her other projects are really great.

(see it here @ Her website)

“Scars”, a project by India Lawton.

”[..] In spite of the devastating violence, indeed something remains. The photographs, though mangled, wounded and partly incinerated, resist. And they remind us that statistically they can survive any natural disaster far better than man. [..]”

Also her other projects are interesting.

(see it here @ Her website)

“The Best Days”, a personal and intimate project by Yang Seung-woo.

”[..] But Mr. Yang, too, was open. Despite the nature of some images — sex, gambling, alcohol — there was nothing he didn’t want to show. He sought to present an honest visual document, to portray the lifestyle as he’d known it. At the same time, he was working through his own feelings, photographing life as he saw it. [..]”

(see it here @ Jpa)

El Rìo, a beautiful and on-going project by Andrés Medina.

(see it here @ His website)

“Environmental migrants: the last illusion”, a really great and on-going project by Alessandro Grassani.

”[..] The choice of these three countries and cities follows the intention to depict the whole range of climate changes and natural hazards which are affecting social and cultural lives in different geographical areas in order to explain the environmental migration process [..]”.

Also his other projects are great, like “Journey To Iran” or “Behind the doors of the european crisis”. And also “Burmese Days”

(see it here @ His website)

“Standing at the graveyards of e-waste”, an amazing, true and dramatic project by Stanley Greene (from Noor).

”[..] The amount of e-waste we generate is unfathomable, and has resulted in ecological devastation, destroying millions of families, who must harvest whatever is salvageable at great risk to their lives.

The following of the e-waste trail began as a question and in time became a photographic documentary journey that would cover three continents and over 60,228 km, tracking the afterlife of electronic trash, as corporations and governments make irresponsible, yet lucrative, deals, at enormous injury to the world’s most vulnerable citizens. [..]”

(see it here @ Noor)

“Sierra Leone’s Water Of Life — And Death”, dramatic reportage by Mustafah Abdulaziz.

”[..] Abdulaziz spent most of his time in and around Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, which, he writes, was “built to support less than half the current population of 2 million.” The slums are overcrowded, unsanitary and sprawling — the perfect breeding ground for the disease. [..]”

(see it here @ Npr)

A short reportage from Mali, by Dominic Nahr.

(see it here @ Paris Match)

“The Aftermath of an Acid Attack in Iran”, a sight of this terrible reality. By Azadeh Moaveni.

(see it here @ Lightbox)

Photographs and places from Syria, before this terrible civil war.

(see them here @ The Post Internazionale)

“Jeddah Diary”, a really interesting project in Saudi Arabia, by Olivia Arthur.

”[..] The resulting essay, and the subject of Arthur’s new monograph, entitled “Jeddah Diary,” is an intimate, fragmentary portrait of the women she came to know and spend time with in Saudi Arabia, and the borders and social mores that mitigate the level of exposure they are permitted with the outside world. Arthur’s photos invoke those boundaries, careful not to overstep or offend, plying parameters with a trick of her lens: images of women’s bodies blotted out by black marker on supermarket packaging, the bare leg of a bather disembodied by way of a stone wall, or a studied portrait re-photographed and purposefully obliterated by Arthur’s flash, obfuscating an already invisible beauty.”

Her other projects are equally great, about cultural differences and also again about the condition of women around the world. Great works done with a great sensibility and commitment.

(see it here @ The Fader) + (Her website)

“Schwarzenegger is my idol”, an interesting project by Sergey Malnitchenko.

“Schwarzenegger is my idol is the story about the young guys from Nikolaev, who are united by one thing - it is a goal to become the best of the best and they will do everything possible to achieve it. The photos show the young people who engage in athletics, acrobatics, fitness, and bodybuilding. [..]”

Also the serie “Street” is great.

(see it here)

Technically Intimate by Evan Baden. An interesting and really great work.

”[..] In the images that I am creating, I want to contrast the sexually charged poses with the youth and innocence of the character and their environment. I want the viewer to be unsure of what to think of the character in the image, to be torn, to be unsure whether the character is a young girl in need of protection or a sexual object to be lusted after. These are the issues that the viewer is supposed to struggle with. These are the characteristics that make the images I have created for Technically Intimate disturbing, and what separates them from the pornographic fantasy that the found image contained.”

Also his other projects are really interesting, like “The Illuminati”.

(see it here @ Foto Visura) + (His website)

“Graveyard Point”, the new project by Corey Arnold.

(see it here @ His website) + (Interview)

“Two Midnights”, a interesting work by Shane Lavalette.

”[..] Shane Lavalette is the latest inheritor of photography’s devotion to the lyric potential of the barely occurring. He moves through the physical world like the curé in Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest: in love with all of its movements, certain he can save its soul. A northerner, commissioned by a great southern museum (with a big new wing of its own) to make a project about the south, Lavalette took as his point of entry the vernacular music of the region. [..]”

(see it here @ His website)

“37˚57’35”S 57˚34’47”W”, an interesting project by Pablo Cabado.

“This portrait of a derelict amusement park in 400km away from the city of buenos aires, uncovers the lives that remain in the shards of collapsed rides and rusting colors. [..]”

Also “Eclipse 1925”, is a truly beautiful work. Great.

(see it here @ His website)

“African Arenas”, a beautiful project by Thomas Hoeffgen.

”[..] During the rest of the trip, I was amazed at the creative use of space in Lagos: In a city crammed with more than nine million residents, football was played on practically every block, with fields shoehorned into even the tiniest open areas. Empty football pitches—with their infinite possibilities—have always had a particular fascination for me. I decided then and there to start shooting empty African pitches and to exhibit them side by side—viewers would be free to imagine their own games on them. [..]”

(see it here @ His website)

“¡Patina O Muerte!”, a nice project about skaters in Cuba, by Ashly Stohl.