Debbie Carlos. Beautiful images, pictures with soul and identify.

© Debbie Carlos

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Light & Composition, a new online – free – photomagazine.

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Susan Barnett is a fine art photographer who has couple of very interesting series in her website. The first one,”After Neon“, are images of storefronts and reflections, with a mix of colors, patterns and simple forms that are visually compelling.

“Not in Your face” © Susan Barnett

The second series is more interesting and original. Entitled “Not in your face“, she photographs the back of T-Shirts of people she finds in the streets. In similar ways, both series share the beauty of patters and patterns interrupted and speak about regular life and experiences. In the second case, the patterns on T-shirts. Visually, the sequence of images forms a line of storytelling, a form of biographic self-identity of the subjects.

In the series “Not In Your Face” the t-shirt is starkly evident but the photographs are not about the t-shirt per se. They are about self-identity and validation. Each one of these people reveal a part of themselves that advertises their hopes, ideals, likes, dislikes, political views, and personal mantras. They wear a kind of badge of honor that says “yes, I belong to this group not the other.”

“Not in Your face” © Susan Barnett

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Bela Doka is a Hungarian photographer that is releasing a new limited edition book, “The Sundays in Life“, distributed by Schaden. I could not find images from that series of work but I wanted to refer to his photography in this post. What I find most fascinating about his style is the ability to present people in ways that are intimate and causal but striking. His images have energy and passion, immediacy and originality.

© Bela Doka

© Bela Doka

© Bela Doka

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Exquisite and imaginative, the work of spanish photographer Chema Madoz. Stretching the visualization of reality with creative perspective and all without “Photoshop”.

© Chema Madoz

© Chema Madoz

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© Maureen Drennan

Sorry for the lack of postings these days. Being very busy on my side of the world. I will try to grasp again and hold the time to keep the blog moving along with more frequency. I like to refer today to the work of Maureen Drennan. I found her work very interesting, a nice mix of portraits and locations that blend very well together.

© Maureen Drennan

© Maureen Drennan

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Nadav Kander is a comercial photographer, and perhaps one of the best portraitists in the world today. But he also has extraordinary work beyond portraits at both his assignment and personal portfolios. Here I share few images that I like quite a lot, for their simplicity, colors and composition, if give a sense of the quality of his work. If you visit his website take a look to the series “Bodies”. To browse his work when you load the website see on the top left corner the access to open a flash based gallery.

© Nadav Kander

© Nadav Kander

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There are many ways to photograph the sky at night, and most place it within the context of the landscape. This is a different view, the series One Month, Weather Permitting by Sharon Harper, snapshots of pieces of sky at night with long exposures so the starts become like lines on a blackboard. The surrealism and elegance of the images is very pleasing.

The other series Moon Studies and Star Scratches is even more creative and appealing to me. Not sure how the images are done, but probably it is a play of multiple exposures that create images that are credible and surreal. And beautiful, of course.

© Sharon Harper

© Sharon Harper

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The minimalist landscapes of Alenxander Gronsky are superb. These type of images require masterful composition of lines and elements so the subject blends from the small to the large context in ways that creates a whole and complete experience for the image. Very beautiful work.

© Alenxander Gronsky

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The work of Francesco Giusti is fascinating, specially the portraits. It has been a while I was so captivated looking at portrait photography.

© Francesco Giusti

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© Adam Bartos

Sorry for the gap in posting here the last week. It has been quite hectic for me these days. To compensate I share with you the excellent work of Adam Bartos. His work is exceptionally elegant, he has the keen ability to compose  the different elements of the image in ways that create the perfect perspective.  It is the elegance of visualization the quality that I love most of his images.

© Adam Bartos

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Dide Magazine, edited by Mohammadreza Mirzaei. The first issue is out with beautiful work by Mohammad Ghazali and includes an interesting interview with the photographer. It is bilingual, and it is a great effort to showcase the work of Iranian Photography to the world.

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Normally, we try to focus our attentions toward the world of fine art; grotesque, whimsical, or otherwise undeniably eye catching. Over the past year, our exhibitions and entries have reflected this interest. This April we’re doing something a little different! Our very own, Danielle Ezzo, had the opportunity to create a unique exhibition that attempts to bridge often disconnected realms of art fine and commercial worlds – art and fashion.

Anagnorisis Fine Arts, Pixelspace, and Station Digital are pleased to announce the exhibition and silent auction, Distorted Beauty, a collaboration between artist and retoucher D Tyler Huff and a select group of cutting edge commercial fashion and beauty photographers, proceeds of which will benefit the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center.

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This week I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Mona Kuhn at the MoPA in San Diego, where the artist described her work, starting with earlier projects like Evidence where she photographed her neighbors and friends in a cottage in France where the people walk around nude. It is interesting – as you can listen in the lecture – how she describes the difference between being nude and being naked and the relationship she establishes with the subjects so they feel fully conformable being photographed.

The audio #2 and #3 concentrate in her more recent work, when she went back to Brasil and photographed both the nature and the people, work that has just now been published with the name “Native“. The last audio #4 is a very interesting Q&A between the MoPA director, Deborah Klochko,  and Mona Kuhn.

I have to say that her work is fascinating and the lecture was captivating.

• Mona Kuhn #1: audio 1
• Mona Kuhn #2: audio 2
• Mona Kuhn #3: audio 3
• Mona Kuhn #4: audio 4

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In case you did not hear about  The Photography Post, it is a great way to follow up updates from photography blogs …

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Remi Thornton is selling a limited edition print at very affordable cost and he is also starting a new show at the Mahan Gallery in Columbus, Ohio.

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Quite remarkable. Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder captures Afghanistan using his iPhone (don”t miss the audio by the photographer). Most of all, the images are fantastic.

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Laura Pannack: On ””Young Love”” from Contact Editions on Vimeo.

It is my pleasure to introduce here Contact Editions, a new organization that is selling prints by emerging photographers at very affordable prices, a great choice for anyone interested in collecting original prints at reasonable cost. The most recent work featured by Laura Pannack, Young Love, is quite extraordinary.

Besides selling prints, Contact Editions also publishes video interviews (see above) with the photograhers providing a nice context to the significance of the photograph as view by the photographer.

Our aim at CONTACT is to create a community around photographic talent, to support photographers in the ongoing progress of their personal work. Contact will support photography at all levels; providing opportunities for those already producing work to self-fund through the sale of editioned prints, and a hand up to those embarking on their first personal projects, through informal crits, online advice and competitions. We see CONTACT as a way of creating a network and community between photographers, galleries, collectors and image lovers.

Go and take a look as well to their  blog where you will find very interesting work and commentaries.

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Bill Mattick has a number of interesting projects at his website, but “the Gardens of Los Angeles” is particularly interesting to me. Love how he captures he space and the symbolism of the images.

© Bill Mattick

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Missy from Straw Hat Visuals on Vimeo.

Bill Frakes has been working with multimedia (video and still images) for a while and some of his work can be seen at Strawhat Visuals (see example above for a very touching story where the voice, images, and video coalesce to blend into a touching story).

Manfrotto is sponsoring a webminar where he will talk about the use of video and still images with a DSLR to capture music concerts. See the information here for free registration.

Webinar with Bill Frakes

Register for FREE

Date: April 1st

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Title: Multimedia In The Music Business: Combining Stills And Videos Shot With A DSLR For Maximum Impact.

Description: This webinar, hosted by David Fisher, Manfrotto product manager, and featuring multi-award winning photographer Bill Frakes, takes you behind the scenes of Bill’s recent shoot of the band Backyard Babies music video “Abandon.” Backyard Babies is one of the most popular rock bands in Sweden and Bill, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, World Press Award and many others, used at least a 12 camera set up, live performances, studio shots, and a wonderful setting in the frozen Baltic Sea to create this hit music video. Attend the webinar to uncover the secrets of the band’s video, equipment survey and some very interesting backstage stories.

www.Billfrakes.com | www.strawhatvisuals.com

Contest: What Would You Like to Ask Bill Frakes?

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“From Helen Levitt to Garry Winogrand to Philip-Lorca diCorcia, the tradition of New York street photography has attracted the medium’s best and brightest. It takes nerve to join their ranks these days, and Mermelstein has plenty of it. Working in color, he’s made some of the slyest, funniest street pictures of the past twenty-five years….” —Vince Aletti, The New Yorker

To do street photography photographers fall in two camps. Some photographers are actually shy of people – curiously – and so they photograph by keeping the distance, by becoming unobtrusive, by blending with the street scape and taking the photographs fast without being noticed. Others, and many who master the craft fall in this camp, are bold and in your face so they point the camera without hesitation to be obtrusive and blunt. The image is taken then rapidly so it doesn””t become staged, but certainly the subjects are often well aware of shot, even when they don””t have time to respond to the situation and so they are framed without the possibility to affect the picture.

Jeff Mermelstein belongs to this second kind of street photographers, and his work is remarkable and exceptional, painting the humor the happenings and vibrancy of street life in New York City (see other videos here and here). Twirl/Run is his most recent book, by PowerHouse.

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Taking on the idea of sharing photography around the world with editing based on themes, a similar vision that was pioneered by JPG magazine, Laura Brunow Miner, a former editor at JPG magazine launched the online photo-magazine named Pictory.

Pictory appears to be most geared towards edited stories, telling about the live and places around the world and composed by combining one image from each contributor. It is most about a cultural exchange, rather than a selection of the best photographs and so if you are looking for great images you will feel that it is a mixed bag, but if you are looking to learn about people, societies, and the world in an intimate manner by the people who live the lives they share with images, then you are for a treat.

Pictory is a showcase for your best photo stories.

Pictory is a showcase for people around the world to document their lives and cultures. Anyone can submit one large, captioned image to each of Pictory’s editorial themes. I’m editor, designer, and founder Laura Brunow Miner, and I will select a few dozen of the best items from each theme to appear in each showcase (source)

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Alexx Henry

The end of print is here. The future of commercial photography that should be called “multimedia” is here tomorrow, around the corner. The tablets will change what is expected from magazines that are getting ready to unite the best of print with the best of the web. Still moving images. Take a pick to the work by Alexx Henry for the iPad (browse through the various displays and videos) and look at the making of the live cover of Outside Magazine in the video bellow.

If you wonder how this will – may – change also fine art photography take a pick to this amazing 2.5 D image taken with a Cannon 5D.

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DEADLINE: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 8 P.M. (EST)

JURORS:

• VINCE ALETTI, writer/critic, the New Yorker magazine;
• DARIUS HIMES, editor/curator, Radius Books;
• JULIE SAUL, gallery owner/director, Julie Saul Gallery;
• ALEC SOTH, photographer;
• HANK WILLIS THOMAS, photographer;
• JAMIE WELLFORD, international photo editor, Newsweek magazine
• TAJ FORER and MICHAEL ITKOFF, editors, Daylight Magazine
• ALEXA DILWORTH, publishing director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
• COURTNEY REID-EATON, exhibitions director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

In recognition of our mutual interest in documentary and fine art photography, Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University have started an international competition, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established.

Two awards, a PROJECT PRIZE and a WORK-IN-PROCESS PRIZE.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN MID-JUNE 2010

Download full guidelines here

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© Phillip Toledano

I never thought I would work in the phone sex industry. All those years doing customer service, my customers would comment on my sexy voice. I thought I was being professional, not sexy. This work is customer service. It’s just your customers leave with more than a smile.

The work of Phillip Toledano is always beautiful because it is unusual and well crafted. It is unusual because his photography is used as a language to communicate uncommon topics or to give an enhanced quality of importance to usual subjects. Either way, the result is an amazing, surprising, interesting and touching series of photographs, from landscapes, to family portraits, to sociological matters like  ”Phone Sex“, this last being a series that one has to wonder how it came about.

The humanity of the subjects, the empathy of the portraits, link the obscure with the reality of people”s lives. That”s the ability of Phillip Toledano, to enhance the humanity of the subjects, to increase the importance of the images, and to put it all within the reach of the viewer”s feelings.

© Phillip Toledano

I got into phone-sex because I thought: ‘Why not get paid for talking dirty, instead of doing it for free?” It brings up my self-esteem up so much, knowing guys are looking at my pics and wanting to talk to me.

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“Out of my window” is a wonderful series of images by photographer Gail Albert Halaban. These images touch upon the place of humanity living in cities by using views through windows as the frame to connect the intimacy of people”s lifes inside their own homes and the relationship with a city that is both impersonal but define the place and connectivity of each individual person.

The composition of the images is masterful, and I love the different perspective of views from within and outside the home so that provide the link between the intimate and the boundless impersonal city.

© Gail Albert Halaban

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A project of Economica, the exhibition will feature works centered on the theme of women and the global economy from artists across the globe. As many as fifty works will be selected for display in both the physical exhibition in San Francisco and in a special presentation online at I.M.O.W.’s Web site.

Submit your work! Learn more about our Submissions Guidelines>>

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If you are in the Los Angeles area you may like to know that Aline Smithson is hosting again the Julia Dean Workshops Four Nights with Fine Arts Photographers.

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Los Angeles has a rich tapestry of fine art photographers that create amazing work. Because our city is so expansive, we often don’t get the opportunity to connect and learn about each other. This second chapter of Four Evenings with Fine Art Photographers opens the door to four incredible evenings, shared through the vision of some of the most interesting fine art photographers working in Los Angeles today. Many have published books, are inspired teachers, exhibit throughout the world, and are award-winning visionaries.

Come join and us and these four talented photographers for what promises to be an unforgettable journey into artistic exploration, philosophy and discussion.

March 25th – Tierney Gearon

April 29th – Jay Mark Johnson

May 20th – Robbert Flick

June 17th – Susan Anderson

Listen. Learn. Be inspired.

All lectures are subject to the availability of the photographer.

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Luis Díaz Díaz is a photographer from Spain that will participate at the 3rd Biennial of Photography and Architecture in Brussels, where he will be exhibiting the project “Music Boxes”, selected under this years theme “Spaces of Celebration”. It should be an interesting event as the list of artists exhibiting is worth of attention.

“Music Boxes” is a series of images of small stages that are used for music events at rural locations, in this case towns and villages in the north of Spain, in Galicia. The project itself is interesting for the cultural connotations that represents. While you look at his site take the opportunity to visit some of his other series. “Ropa Interior” is a project where he shows the “naked” self of men embracing objects that drive their passion.

from Ropa Interior  © Luis Díaz Díaz

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dpBestflow

Even when most of us are used to work digitally as the primary method to handle photographs, it is clear that the complexity of building an optimal flow can be quite dounting. Developing, and having the discipline to adhere to a process that takes into consideration the different steps to minimize time spent, increase effectiveness and improve quality while assuring safe storage and handling of digital files is not trivial.

The American Society of Media Photographers with funding from the Library of Congress, has crated an impressive website, dpBestflow – and published a companion book – that provides extensive information towards an optimal digital workflow. The video provides a walk around tour of the information that can be found at the site.

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Interesting workshops from Cesuralab …

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A new decade is upon us and we want to make sure we start it well. This spring Cesuralab will host The Dutch Masters Series. 5 Weeks with 5 different photographers all coming from the Netherlands. We would like to give photographers (aspiring and professional) the opportunity to explore new boundaries through the teachings from some of world’s groundbreaking photographers working today.

Over the last two decades the Dutch soil has been raising a large breed of exceptional artists who use a camera as their medium. Every one of them having their own individual style and visual language. Five of them will be coming to Italy.

The Dutch Masters Series will start mid April and ends the third week of May. Art, fashion, portraiture, bookmaking, documentary photography, editing, and much more will be subjects of discussion and assignment. Each photographer will have their own specific way of teaching their workshop, but all will be promising and full of content and insight. Spring in this village in northern Italy is sunny, quiet and carefree, to be enjoyed with delicious food and wine.

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© Nacho Alegre

Nacho Alegre is a spanish photographer that works in the commercial world … usually I don””t refer much to commercial photography but I have to say that the aesthetics of his work is very captivating. The diaries are quite intriguing.

© Nacho Alegre

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The Musee de lElysee in Lausanne, a museum purely for photography run by the writer and curator William A Ewing, is currently showing an exhibition titled Lasting Impressions The Fine Art & Craft of the Steidl Book. In collaboration with the ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne, the museum organized an international colloquium on the future of the Photobook that took place last February … (via sevensevennine)

There are as many ideas of what constitutes the ideal photography book as there are photographers wanting to make them! This unique event brings together a wide range of highly experienced specialists representing all aspects of book production: publishers, printers, production experts, packagers, graphic designers, art directors, typographers, booksellers, historians, curators, critics, journalists and, of course, photographers! (pdf)

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Cesuralab: lots of interesting photography and workshops from a collective with the great Alex Majoli as the artistic director.

We are a photographers collective representing projects online. These projects include photography, video and art. The art director is Alex Majoli.

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Amadelio films is an independent film company working on documentaries about photographers, artists and inventors (more about them here). There are three documentaries already released. I have not watched them but they look quite interesting (there are trailers for each film). The also publish video interviews that you can see here.

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THE GALESBURG SERIES

© Chris Verene

The more you see something the less you actually see it. In ways, it is like sensory sensitization, similar to the process that eliminates the cutaneous mechanical sensation of wearing clothes over the body, you feel it at the start but very soon your brain ignores it. Visual information follows the same path, with a distinctive ability of the brain to reduce attention to the things you see every day, your common surroundings, your family, your lifestyle. It is challenging to find the amusing out of things that have become routine, it is like an impossible exercise to see what you see everyday in a different way.  For this reason I find remarkable when a photographer is able to create art out of his/her place or his/her people.

Chris Verene has been creating art out of his hometown and has been doing it for decades.   THE GALESBURG SERIES (1984-present) is is more than a wonderful series of photographs, it is an example of how to find beauty and charm out of mundane subjects.

THE GALESBURG SERIES

© Chris Verene

THE GALESBURG SERIES

© Chris Verene

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Take a look to the work of Marikel Lahana and you will find excellent portraits, among other work. Her work can also be seen here, in a page that is easier to navigate.

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Fujifilm Instax: this is not a new product as I think it was released to the market more than 1 year ago, but this first time I had seen it was last week when I stopped by at the PMA 2010 conference in Anaheim, California. It is basically like a polaroid system, instant film that comes out of the camera after you take the shot and develops within few minutes. The look and feel is quite similar to the polaroid, and the quality also is comparable, although the range of film types is probably limited.

by hey_juliek

There are a couple of camera and film formats, one that prints business card size images and a larger format that doubles that (see many examples at the flickr INSTAX group). The Fujifilm INSTAX 210, that is the camera that uses the large format INSTAX film, runs for $99 with a close up lens, not inexpensive given that the film cost is about $1 per shot. But for the polaroid fans, this could be al alternative until “The Impossible Project” comes alive … by the way I noticed that The Impossible project has a press event coming March 22nd, 2010 … maybe some great news will be announced then.

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Nathan Harger creates images that are simple in form but sophisticated in the composition of lines and patterns. I particularly like the combination of multi-images that replicate the same pattern with slight variations.

© Nathan Harger

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After all, sound doesn”t add contextual information that can be compared with the visual experience, assumed to be far richer than sound. Or perhaps it is not. Perhaps sound, and mainly some sounds, can cataput the mood of the viewer so to provide a different experience of the visual input. Why not using this approach to create more powerful exhibits, online and in the real world?

Read The 10 Most Addictive Sounds in the World, commenting on the new work by marketing guru Martin Lindstrom , author of Buyology (see Time video). It will make you think about it, perhaps with a different perspective, perhaps to create new blends of sound and images for your next show?

I wonder if anyone has used neuroimaging techniques to determine what defines a good photograph versus an ordinary one, or at least to define which type of subjects, patters, colors do have the largest influence in brain activity and so perhaps in our taste of photography?

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Dennis in Stockings: The first time I dressed as a girl, I was eight years old. I don’t want to be a woman. I am happy the way I am. I just enjoy the kick

Take a look to the work of Freya Najade, a german photographer living in London, specially an ongoing project with the name “If you are lucky you get old” where old people share retrospective thinking about their life. The images feel real and  intimate, a project that reminds the viewer that future feelings are being written by living today. The series has the emotional perspective to involve the viewer, not only from the photography side but also to think on its own story that will be.

© Freya Najade

Dennis in his Room: I have my own house, where I live half of the year. Sometimes I don’t talk for a week to anybody there. In the summer I rent a room in a gay retirement home. I enjoy meeting people of my kind

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I received an e-mail from Eliza Gregory, a photographer and writer that is a member of the core team at Photo Philanthropy, an inspiring organization that aims to enable and promote the use of photography to convey the challenges that communities and people face all over the world.

At their website they publish remarkable photo series from professional, amateurs and students as part of collaborative efforts with non-profit organizations so to inspire action and involvement to change the world. They organize the donation of used cameras to support workshops for children and also offer volunteer opportunties to collaborate with many non-profit organizations working for a broad range of social causes. They also blog about the impact of photography in social change.

Quite extraordinary, quite inspiring, indeed.

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Following the recent trend to simplify the process of photography by using the simplest camera, the iPhone, photographer Jeremy Edwards has created the project, The FROM THE POCKET, featuring images captured using Apple’s iPhone while keeping the editing to the use of various iPhone photography applications only. There are lots of interesting images in this series and this is a demonstration that even with a simple camera it is possible to create art as long as the photographer has the vision. Simplifying the process, having room to explore without the need to succeed has indeed wonderful rewards, at least for Jeremy.

Here he shares some tips for iphoneographers and here you can follow his work in a blog format.

The intention of the project was to highlight the beauty of the ordinary. The motivation of the project is to remain true to the authenticity of spontaneous subjects and minimize unnecessary processing that I’m convinced washes out the organic beauty of simple subjects. For the most part, as it stands today, the growing medium of iphoneography has yet to mature into a substantial art form that is respected by the entire art community. I hope my project will serve as a valuable contribution to the growth of iphoneography with artistic integrity. – Jeremy Edwards

© Jeremy Edwards

© Jeremy Edwards

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Perspectives, a new blog from the Center for Fine Art Photography . Worth to have it in your reading list.

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The first is “The Curator“, the search for outstanding and undiscovered fine art photography, organized by PDN magazine. It is open to anyone and has a deadline of March 8th (extended deadline – with higher entry fees – by March 22nd). The second one is “Image10“, organized by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and is open only to photographers residing in the USA (both amateurs and professionals).

Both contests will provide broad visibility to the winners with exhibitions and printed images at PDN magazine and mailers to art directors and creative professionals that may be interested in the finding of new photographers.

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The work of Anastasia Cazabon is about telling stories. Stories that are no more than speaking about the real life as it is recreated from memories. The result is a sequence of images that relate to each other albeit each picture leaves you to wonder about the happenings, each photograph forces you to constructs the story that you like to understand. It is symbolic and it is direct, both qualities combined with exquisite aesthetics and compositions make her photography a craft of reality and fiction.

My images are based on my own childhood. Specifically the fantasy world I made up for myself. I’m the youngest of three sisters and by the time I was five my sisters were on their way to college. So I spent the majority of my childhood alone making up imaginary friends and adventures. My images are recreations of my childhood fantasies. Some are exaggerated and some are completely made up, but all are based on the feelings I had as a child.

These are private moments in a young girls life, memories that usually fade over time. In essence I’m photographing and recreating these very distant memories to further their existence. I have tried to make them as universal as possible, so that people can relate to the images. (via my art space)

A very interesting interview with Anastasia was published last year at the blog “My art Space”. Anastasia is the co-founder of the collective “The Exposure Project” (see their blog here)

© Anastasia Cazabon

© Anastasia Cazabon

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Heidi Romano is a designer, a photographer and the editor of the fantastic photo-magazine “Unless you will“. Here I like to make a brief comment about her photography. There are photographers that have the ultimate goal to create images that are about beauty, not because the subject is beautiful or because the light is beautiful, but because the photograph itself becomes a piece of craft that is beautiful in itself. The excuse and the purpose of the photography is to craft beauty, no need to communicate anything else, no need to describe any matter. It happens often that designers use photography as a tool to craft beauty, and Heidi does so very well, indeed. You can follow Heidi at her blog, “Tales of light“.

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Rita Maas have very interesting work showed at her fine art website.  The series that I find most remarkable is Consumed (under the Recent Work Link). It is a great idea, and very well executed to make beauty of something that was trashed away and convey a strong message.

© Rita Maas

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