A blog dedicated to photography and contemporary art Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:25:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Daydreamer © Martin Stranka Martin Stranka work is characterized by a dreamy and quite atmosphere that I particularly like. Monochromatic pictures of tiny silhouettes of wanderer in an empty nightly landscape, portraits that seems old souvenirs, details of hands and foots. A wonderful and intimate universe of melancholy and metaphysics. Following ... /2009/contribute/martin-stranka/ © Jörg Brüggemann The series “Same same but different” by Jörg Brüggemann portrays young backpacking travelers from western countries, which -from an alternative form of traveling- today represent a new form of mass tourism, with its codes, its recurring traits and its diversity. It is a topic that particularly interests me, ... /2009/interviste/joerg-brueggemann/ More or less a year ago I began to publish English translations of the articles appearing on Camera Obscura, as well to translate in Italian all those articles who were written directly in English or French. From a site mainly in Italian, with time Camera Obscura has turned into a ... /2009/comunicazioni/feed-subscription/ Landscape I © Levi van Veluw Levi van Veluw is a young artist that works on self-portrait. But it does not simply photographs his face or body, he add on his skin and visage a lot of heterogeneous elements, building a complex sculpture and transforming his face in a miniature landscape. All ... /2009/interviste/self-portrait-and-human-sculptures-by-levi-van-veluw/ © Galina Manikova A few years ago, when I was starting to work with historical and alternatives printing techniques, I discovered the site of Galina Manikova, and I suddenly fell in love. I finally founded an artist/photographer who does not simply printed on paper, but worked with an incredible variety of ... /2009/tecniche-antiche-alternative/galina-manikova/ © Charlie Simokaitis Charlie Simokaitis is the first photographer who responded to my call to deepen the discourse about photography, writing a long and detailed article about his portfolio Fade to White. A wonderful series -triggered by his personal situation- of large format camera photographs about blind people and their lives. ... /2009/intorno-ad-una-foto/fade-to-white-charlie-simokaitis/ © gUi mohallem "When I was a kid my auntie used to take me to those rituals. I was in the middle of this circle of candles and these women kept singing things I could not understand. I'm afraid they did something to me." gUi mohallem is a Brazilian photographer whose pinhole portraits ... /2009/interviste/madness-poetry-pinhole-portraits-gui-mohallem/ © Ch'ng Yaohong Ch'ng Yaohong is a young photographer based in Singapore. In addition to photographing for his personal projects and for commission works, Ch'ng Yaohong is also the author of one of my favourite weblog, Asian Photography Blog, and it is easy to understand why. Ch'ng Yaohong site is about ... /2008/interviste/asian-photography/ © Hyeyoung Kim Hyeyoung Kim is a photographer of Korean origin who, after living some years in Vienna and San Francisco, is now established in Hawaii. Her black and white photos are an exploration of an inner world, a secret universe where everything is revealed: joy and suffering, fear, anxiety, peace and ... /2008/interviste/dark-world-hyeyoung-kim/ © Marco Tardito Marco Tardito's photography, which is both personal and commercial is both subtle and poetic. It is a kind of poetry that expresses the soul like a whisper that conveys subtle emotions with touching melancholy. Poetry that is an intimate story that pervades fashion and travel photography. Granular and pictorial ... /2008/interviste/intervista-marco-tardito/ © Samuele Piccoli Samuele Piccoli works mixing photography, photocopies, transfer techniques, collage and painting. The transfer of photocopies of photographs on drawing paper, using cleaning fluid/trichloroethylene or acetone, creates images with a pictorial look that I find very interesting. Samuele Piccoli then adds onto these photocopied photos some external elements, be ... /2008/comunicazioni/fotocopie-samuele-piccoli/ © Mohammadreza Mirzaei Mohammadreza Mirzaei is a promising young Iranian photographer. His photographs are minimalist and clean, men are reduced to minute black silhouette under a huge white sky, tiny pieces lost in a boundless green lawn. Definitively small, viewed from above or far away. Intent without end in the recitation of ... /2008/interviste/minimalismo-condizione-umana-mohammadreza-mirzaei/ Yesterday evening opened ZooArt in Cuneo and we showed our photography/installation Infinite Cube City. The work can be visited till sunday 13th July. Waiting for the photo gallery and a more detailed report, there it is a little animation showing us inside the infinite cube city. Tommaso Ghioni inside the Infinite Cube ... /2008/mostre-e-esposizioni/dentro-il-cubo-infinito/ © Mehrdad Naraghi Mehrdad Naraghi is an Iranian young photographer that I discovered the last year during the exhibition Photo Quai. I was immediately fascinated by his photographs of the city at night, dark, confused, where trees seem skeletal hands towards the sky and windows empty eyes. As a consequence I contacted ... /2008/interviste/dark-city-mehrdad-naraghi/ 3d reconstruction of the installation Infinite Cube City. Last week I finally put online some files of the photos infinite palaces and buildings from my series of repetitive elements. Photos on which I worked for more than one year and that I have repeatedly cited writing on this blog. At ... /2008/mostre-e-esposizioni/infinite-cube-city/