All Things Art & Photography
Here is some great news. My Light Projections Series made the final 3 in the very prestigious Word Photography Awards 2014 which were announced today! (The 30 world finalists are flown to the London Awards Ceremony all expenses paid to compete for the final prizes).
Online Magazine link that features all the finalists
Thomas Brummett is a world photography awards 2014 Finalist
Roger Ballen is the William Faulkner of image-makers. His work is in the collections of over 20 museums yet the general public does not know much about him. He still shoots film. He mines the areas between sculpture and photography, darkness and the light. His photos are some of the richest in all of art. He makes his work in places in South Africa where the police will not go near; Hell on earth kind of places. His disturbing work grabs the back of your brain and won’t let go. Right now he is everywhere. Check out why he has blown the doors off the art and photo world. Maybe the most powerful work ever done by any artist. To understand the environments he frequents, and thus his pictures, you have to see the video above first…
“Photography is like going into the mineshaft”
“What I am doing is about visual relationships not stories…”
On his project: Aslyum for the Birds:
Asylum has two main meanings in the English language; the first is a place where insanity prevails and the second describes a place of refuge. In some ways those are very opposing meanings. In ‘Asylum of the Birds’, the asylum is place where animals and people live together away from the outside world. It’s a very claustrophobic, surreal and strange place yet, at the same time, what’s going on in this place is abnormal – it comes from deeper levels of the subconscious, but I don’t equate those deeper levels with insanity.
via January 2014 / Peggy Sue Amison in conversation with Roger Ballen
Excerpt from his talk at the George Eastman House: The Shadow Chamber
The Photographs of Roger Ballen
According to this NY Times article on Facebook privacy changes :
If you follow this link in the article it will take you to the page where you can opt out of Facebook using your photos for their advertising profits. Please do this if you have not already as major corporations using your photos should PAY YOU for the rights – Dang Nab It!
This message was brought to you by the Cranky and Riled, American Photographers Association (or CRAPA for short). 😉
Don’t Let Facebook Use Your Photos For Their Advertising…
Nice series of tree portraits by Myoung Ho Lee from 2009. Myoung builds a huge white background behind some pretty big trees. Any photographer who has tried this knows a small puff of wind can tear your shoot to pieces.. This is not easy and the artist needs a big crew (and a crane) to pull it off… but the results are really wonderful.
“Myoung Ho Lee photographs solitary trees framed against white canvas backdrops in the middle of natural landscapes. To install the large canvases, which span approximately 60 by 45 feet, the artist enlists a production crew and heavy cranes. Minor components of the canvas support system, such as ropes or bars, are later removed from the photograph through minimal digital retouching, creating the illusion that the backdrop is floating behind the tree.”
via the Yossi Milo Gallery
The Photographs of Myoung Ho Lee
With echos of some of Vilem Kriz’s images as well as Man Ray & Joseph Cornell, Heidi Kirkpatrick constructs mysterious, surreal boxes that transport you into her beautiful interior world.
“I live with a substantial amount of physical pain and have for many years. In my continual search for an answer, as well as my way of dealing with the unexplained, I dissect my Gray’s Anatomy book. The pages find their way into my work, layered under images of those closest to me. The illustrations bind, clothe and wrap the body. Putting the inside on the outside, I wear my heart on my sleeve”.
The Surrealist Photo Constructions of Heidi Kirkpatrick