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And I’m back! Been away from the keyboard for a while. But I’m back with more photography from artists around the globe.
As a fun experiment I started a tumblr page for a photography project. Just started it. On this page I will try to explore the photographic beauty of a very popular virtual world. Namely the Grand Theft Auto 5 universe. In this fast and fun game one can take pictures of this beautifully crafted world. Let’s try to connect the real world with this virtual world by bringing some of my photographs to your screen. Still kinda virtual but still…
Got to the Tumblr page by clicking the following link: GTA 5 Photography
A couple of months ago PforPHOTO featured the fantastic beard series by Joseph Daniel Robert Oleary. The series’ called Of beards and Men. He just launched a Kickstarter to make a fine art book of all the incredible portraits. He made 130+ photos. So plenty of masculine hairiness to explore.
Check out the video below and head to Kickstarter to help Joseph reach his goal.
And, of course, check out his website: www.ofbeardsandmen.com
Google Streets eat your hearth out. Photographer Johnny Tergo combined the mapping style of google with the drive by shooting we know out of those certain neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Which happens to be the photographers home town. Tergo drives around in a car tricked out with strobes. He shoots LA’s pedestrians. Some photographs look to be straight from a hollywood movie. His strobes help to achieve this effect. The side mirror of the car can be seen in each image. It reminds us of being in a car. Looking at people whom we come across as we drive along the streets of Los Angeles. The series is called Passenger Side Window. The complete series now consist out of 62 photographs. Visit his website to see the complete set.
“I am Constantly seeing interesting people whom I have the urge to photograph while driving past them on the streets. I built a series of interesting images of people on the street without the individuals knowledge, just as I saw it before me. I accomplished this by building a custom rig in my truck that is made up of generators, strobes, a digital capture station with remote fire capability and of course a mounted camera. This method also allowed me to light the images without having to set-up a series of lights for each individual portrait. In essence I built myself a driving studio.
In this series I seek to explore the interplay of environment and the individuals that occupy the space.“
Johnny Tergo’s website: johnnytergo.com
We all had or still have them. The toys we’ve spent hours with. Creating different worlds while playing with that toy. Gabriele Galimerti visited many children in different countries to photograph them with their favorite toys. The series is called Toy Stories.
The story behind the photograph above:
Maudy was born in a hut in a small village close to Kalulushi, in Zambia. She grew up playing in the street with the other children in the village, who all attend the same school, where students ages 3 to 10 years old are in the same class. The village has no shops, restaurants or hotels, and just a few children are lucky enough to have toys. Maudy and her friends found a box full of sunglasses on the street, which quickly became their favorite toys.
A series showing that imagination is a big and important part of growing up. It also shows the world the child is growing up in. A glimpse in their personalities, economic statuses, interests and countries. Visit her website to see and learn more about this wonderful series.
Gabriele Galimberti’s website: www.gabrielegalimberti.com
Richard Mosse visited eastern Congo to document the war between 2010 and 2011. He used Kodak color infrared sensitive Aerochrome. Hence the name of the series: Infra. By using that film he manages to create a very interesting contrast. He photographed the weird kind of beauty that surrounds a conflict zone. Wonderful colors make for a dreamy and alien world.
The pink jungle with men carrying weapons is such a contrast that tells the story. Mosse’s photographs really sticks out of the never-ending journalism and documentary photographs of conflict zones. For me his work is a way to make us stand still by what’s really going on. Perhaps a way of bringing news in a beautiful package to both get our attention and fulfill our need to consume news every day, over and over again. His work stamps on the break and make us look twice. Different layers to tell a terrible story.
Richard Mosse’s website: www.richardmosse.com
All I can say is Wow! What an amazing set of portraits by Alessandro Venier. The series is called Modern portraits of ancient crafts. Portraits of men and women who manage to work with their hands in this modern-day and age. A series of photographs that reminds us of different times. Especially when technology has become so common in our daily lives. These men and woman stay true to their craft. Perhaps Alessandro Venier visit a dying generation of craftsmen. Time will tell.
Alessandro Venier’s website: www.alessandrovenier.com
Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero has created a series in which she herself is situated. We see her in different locations. But the subject are the people surrounding her. Being a person that struggles with her weight, hearing people commenting about her physique has always been part of her life. But capturing the looks and the stares was something that she never thought possible. Until she took photos of herself in Times Square and notices something. In several photographs she notices that different people were staring and some had an expression of disgust on their faces. A new series was born.
The series is called “Wait Watchers”. She places a camera in view and photographed herself doing different things. Such as reading, sketching and talking on the phone. But the one activity that created the most response was when she was eating. For her it is not really certain if people watch her because she’s fat or perhaps she’s taking a photo of herself.
Whether people may look at her for taking a photograph or with the idea “look at that fat lady” is not sure. But what is for sure is that the time we live in has placed a stigma on being a large person. Looking at commercials, magazines and models a standard of size has been set. Compare them to models from the twenties and thirties Or even in art from the 1800s. A difference can be seen. In a way Morris-Cafiero is putting the shame back to ones thoughts. Judging yourself and not someone else.
I have always been aware of people making faces, commenting and laughing at me about my size. I now reverse the gaze and record their reactions to me while I perform mundane tasks in public spaces. I seek out spaces that are visually interesting and geographically diverse. I try to place myself in compositions that contain feminine icons or advertisements.
Haley Morris-Cafiero’s website: haleymorriscafiero.com
