http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2025279_2199295,00.html
Free photography workshop at slakthuset.
19/10 Fotoworkshop på Aktionskammaren!
Nyköpings fotoklubb kommer och pratar foto, ger tips & trix och svarar på era frågor. Kl. 18.30. Gratis.
Malmö Gallerinatt 2010
Will be most definitely be checking this out tonight. Right up my alley.
WALTER SCHELS OCH BEATE LAKOTTA
LIFE BEFORE DEATH 25/9 – 5/12
Fotografen Walter Schels och journalisten Beate Lakotta tillbringade över
ett år på olika hospice i norra Tyskland för att porträttera människor vars
liv var i ett slutskede. De porträtterade fotograferades kort innan döden
inträffat och strax efter. Utställningen undersöker de döendes upplevelser,
hopp och rädslor under deras sista tid i livet.
Photographer Walter Schels and journalist Beate Lakotta spent over a year visiting different hospices in Northern Germany to do a portrait of peoples lives that were about to end. Portrait photographs were taken just before death and just after. The exhibition explores the dieing’s experience, hope and fear during their last minutes.
http://www.konstframjandet.org/malmogallerinatt/format.html
Color photos from late §930′s and 1940′s
My question is how did they preserve them so well. Are they digitally enhanced? But, who knew there was so much color. I always thought it would be brown and earthy.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/
Frame Work LA Times
Here is yet one more site with photographic inspiration, The LA Times Framework.
Framework, the photography and video blog of the Los Angeles Times, celebrates the power and explores the craft of visual storytelling. The blog highlights the work of Times photojournalists who, frame by frame, document the drama, the emotion and sometimes the humor of life. Framework also aims to serve as a resource hub for photography, multimedia and video enthusiasts who share our passion….
Engadget-Polaroid is back in production.
Or at least some of it is. Yipee now if I could only afford it.
Small little comment from Engadget
Ansel Adams negatives found and worth 200 Million dollars.
Ansel Adams‘ negatives were found at a garage sale just 10 years ago and are now authenticated. Bet that guy is doing somersaults!
Self portraits discovered and revisited-Laurie Tumer and Barbara and Michael Leisgen
Just a little something to browse for inspiration. People throwing themselves into the landscape. What I like about these works is while the concept is similar or identical the feel and execution are largely different and unique.
Laurie Tumer
First on the list is Laurie Tumer. I really like to show her work in my classes. I really like the way she takes something so simple and usually so wrong and makes it really work. Her image Ailanthus, 2000 is probably the best shadow portrait I have ever seen and believe me I have seen this type of shot over and over again. That is the key making it pop and she really does. To see Ailanthus click on the link. It’s 3rd on the left. Enjoy!
Ailanthus, 2000
http://www.laurietumer.com/html/portfolios/planted/page1.html
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Barbra and Michael Leisgen
Here you have a series of portraits/self portraits in which this couple simply added themselves to the contours of the landscapes. It is also very simply executed. This concept has been used since with great success by a Scandinavian photographer. Exaclty the same concept, but entirely different feel.
Unfortunately I can’t remember his name and can’t find him on google. If you know who I am talking about please post his name, he showed a few years ago at Malmöhus.
http://lebranche.net/lemag/2010/06/mimesis-by-barbara-and-michael-leisgen/
Sloppy sloppy fake photo.
Just one more reason we should be skeptical of today’s photography.
BP Oil Spill manipulated for the PR.
Food for thought for the creative mind for the creative explorer.
On TED Ken Robinson speaks about education and the need for change in the way we perceive and structure education. In particular our need to embrace creativity.
We have every reason to add creative endeavors into our lives and daily experience. In my opinion this will do more than just make us more creative and productive people. It will most importantly enhance our empathy and understanding towards ourselves but also towards others. We will be more forgiving of people who do things different. We will see the potential that different has, we will see the needs of different and be more accommodating as we will see the riches different can promise, its unique value. We will be less inclined to try and squeeze people into the box we (society) deems correct just because. We will judge differently and hopefully more honestly towards ourselves and to others.
So whether it is photography, painting, engineering, medicine…. be more creative dare to be more you!
