© Sergio Belinchóm, Untitled 8, from the series Berlin, an Archaeology, 2005
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║Sergio Belinchón ║
Posted by N on March 15, 2009
© Sergio Belinchóm, Untitled 8, from the series Berlin, an Archaeology, 2005
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║ J. M. Ballester ║
Posted by N on January 5, 2009
© J. M. Ballester, Ciclista a contraluz, 2005
José Manuel Ballester
Nicholas Metivier
To see more of Jose’s work click here
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║ Marrigje De Maar ║
Posted by N on December 15, 2008
© Marrigje De Maar, China-Zhaoxing, old farmer, from the series Rambles (people)
For me there is a parallel to what happens with older people in our work force.
Home Made is about private (accepted) spaces.
Private spaces are intimate spaces. They form a safe environment, shielded from the outside world. People use their private spaces – consciously or unconsciously –as a way to express something about themselves. In this way these personal spaces can be seen as portraits. Self portraits created with the help of daily necessities, tactile memories and the embodiment of dreams.
Marrigje De Maar
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║ Oscar Palacio ║
Posted by N on November 27, 2008
© Oscar Palacio, Suspended Log, from the series Unfamiliar Territory, 2006
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║ Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre ║
Posted by N on September 25, 2008
.© Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Kraftwerk, Muldenstein,from the series Eastern Germany industrial vestiges
More than all others, Germans proved to be particularly ingenious and original builders.
Eastern Germany was one of the most industrialized area. Industries of every type were established, it resulted an extraordinary diversity of architectural forms.
With the Soviet occupation, all the industries, even most obsolete ones, were maintained. The society was like frozen.
Thus the reunification caused closing-down of a number of factories,
an economical crisis and an exodus of the populations.
Since, cities are in full urban refitting, but the landscape
remains strongly marked by monumental industrial ruins.”
More of their work can be seen here.
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║ Daniel Mirer ║
Posted by N on September 25, 2008
I photograph these interiors from a direct, frontal point of view, at sufficient distance to include the entire space in its flat and melancholic state where the individual vanishes in the glare of fluorescent light. These are architectural portraits, in there seemingly a matter-of-factness, that demonstrate a primary function of the still photographic image: to record. They are spaces in which a room office or corridor is virtually indistinguishable from another, repetition and redundancy collapses into an architectural singularity. A subject who otherwise occupy these spaces are then engulfed into the void of here-could-be anywhere, into the monumental dissolution of space.”
Daniel Mirer
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║ Ville Lenkkeri ║
Posted by N on September 21, 2008
Ville Lenkkeri
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║ Michael Schnabel ║
Posted by N on September 21, 2008
Like Elephants/Rhinoceri, Stuttgart, some of the spaces Schnabel photographed resemble indoor spas rather than cages. Some even have elements that suggest a posh lifestyle, such as an ornately tiled floor or wood slatted ceiling. In other pictures, even the metal bars form appealing, grid-like patterns.[...]
For one thing, there’s an overwhelming feeling of empty space, leading one to notice the conspicuous absence of the animals that are supposed to be living there. There are traces indicative of their presence–food troughs, bales of hay, wading pools, simulated habitats with logs and foliage. The photographs’ titles don’t give away what types of animals inhabit these spaces; one can only guess. Schnabel photographed in the early daylight hours when they were asleep. The stillness is soothing but unnatural, so you begin to wonder what it would be like to live there.”
Anne Martens
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║ James Nizam ║
Posted by N on September 20, 2008
“James Nizam’s work reveals a fascination with the processes of change, decay, and reclamation within our built environment. His new series of colour photographs—shot inside abandoned houses slated for demolition—speaks eloquently about the booming real-estate market in Vancouver and the disappearance of modest, single-family dwellings from urban life. But his images also tell us something poetic about the relationship between people and the domestic spaces they fleetingly occupy.
The show clearly relates to Nizam’s previous series of chromogenic prints, shot inside the old Woodward’s building at night using found and ambient light. The images in Dwellings are also nocturnal and also employ a degree of ambient lighting. More importantly, however, the interiors are articulated by Nizam’s flashlight and caught by his camera’s extremely long exposure time. Essentially, the artist uses the flashlight like a brush, painting line, colour, and form into each scene. Some interiors are brightly and evenly lit, while others are draped in shadow. In others still, the flashlight outlines doors, windows, cabinets, and appliances, giving them an eerie glow.”
Robin Laurence
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║ Richard Ross – Architecture of Authority ║
Posted by N on September 20, 2008
“For the past several years—and with seemingly limitless access—Richard Ross has been making unsettling and thought-provokingpictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individualswithin them.
From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques, and diverse civic spaces—a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall, the United Nations—the images in Architecture of Authority build to ever harsher manifestations of authority: an interrogation room at Guantánamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber.
Though visually cool, this work deals with hot-button issues: the surveillance that increasingly intrudes on post–9/11 life, the abuse of power, the erosion of individual liberty. The connections among the various architectures are striking; as Ross points out: “The Santa Barbara Mission confessional and the LAPD robbery homicide interrogation rooms are the same intimate proportions. Both are made to solicit a confession in exchange for some form of redemption.”
Book Synopsis
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║ Laurenz Berges ║
Posted by N on September 20, 2008
Virginia Heckert
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║ Duarte Amaral Netto ║
Posted by N on September 18, 2008
“In the new photographic series of works by Duarte Amaral Netto, the end of time seems near, doom and gloom awaits. Demolished office furniture in ruined interiors, by the hands of vandals maybe, or lvacated bya company now bankrupt or having moved to better locations. These photographs by Netto create a sense of nostalgia the seventies when all was still flourishing in that space.
Another series of works is about people and their relationships. In these images one gets the same emotional feeling as with the photos with the demolished office interiors. There was happiness once, but this has passed. Do the photos pretend that nothing is wrong with what we see: a party scene on a balcony but with guests standing on their own, a couple next to the swimming pool, sitting very close to each other but seemingly discontent. This is perhaps their one last effort at finding happiness, or resign themselves to a hopeless situation. Who knows…“
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║ Shannon Benine (Chicago Project – part II) ║
Posted by N on September 12, 2008
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║ Joseph O. Holmes ║
Posted by N on September 8, 2008
“The Workspace project is my ongoing attempt to examine the quasi-private spaces people carve out of their public work lives. Such spaces represent a tug of war between personal expression and comfort on the one hand and the unyielding demands of work on the other. The long-term accumulation of the tokens of that struggle, over years or even decades, can be formally beautiful in a very human and touching way. The project is part of a larger series in which I ask friends and strangers to open up private spaces to my camera.
Because I document a space exactly as I find it, never arranged for the camera, the Workspace project is necessarily a spontaneous process. I can’t, for example, call ahead and explain what I’m after without inviting the destruction of what I hope to capture. Lately I’ve been finding workspaces by walking in off the street with camera and tripod and simply asking (though “simply asking” doesn’t quite convey the complex dance of explanation, skepticism, persuasion, and fascination that goes back and forth). What I end up capturing, then, turns out to be the work that was interrupted to answer the door.”
Joseph O. Holmes
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║ Brad Moore ║
Posted by N on September 8, 2008
I grew up in North Orange County and attended school in inland Riverside County. After 25 years I returned, and was fascinated by their simultaneous decline and growth. I see these areas differently from places I have never been. Knowing what was, and now what is influences my approach. I’ve avoided traditional, documentary-style photography; instead I have photographed select buildings and shrubbery in primarily static, symmetrical compositions, reflecting change, irony and evolution.”
Brad Moore
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║ Guy Tillim (South Africa – part I) ║
Posted by N on September 6, 2008
White residents fled Johannesburg’s inner city in the 1990s. The removal of the Group Areas Act foreshadowed a flow into the city of black residents and owners of small businesses seeking opportunities and better lives. Former denizens looked back in self-righteous justification at a city that was given over to plunder and mayhem. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy, backed up by eyewitness reports and statistics. Everyone had their horror stories. (…)
The relationship between tenants and owners or their agents deteriorated with disputes over the state of the buildings, and in some cases resulted in unpaid rents and dues. The buildings started looking like fire hazards, and the City Council began closing on them for unpaid utilities.In between the needs of City Council and the aspirations of developers anticipating the bloom of an African city lies the fate of Jo’burg’s residents. The outcome will decide whether or not Johannesburg becomes, again, a city of exclusion.
Guy Tillim
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║ Anthony Hernandez ║
Posted by N on August 29, 2008
Anthony Hernandez
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║ Anne Hardy ║
Posted by N on August 28, 2008
Amy Karafin
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