Dan & Selena
© Jack Radcliffe
Jack Radcliffe for years photographs in black and white the members of his family and his friends, gradually creating several series of photos that explore the long term evolution of the photographer relationship with his friends and relatives.
Here a selection of his works with an introduction to the subjects portrayed in each series and a description of the photographs he shoot at the York House Hospice in York, PA.
Following text and images by Jack Radcliffe.
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A few weeks ago I invited the readers of Camera Obscura to update their feed subscription, making available all the updates into a single feed too, with English, Italian and French articles.
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© Lisa Kereszi
In the following article Lisa Kereszi tells the story of her family junkyard, a memorial to a particular failure of the American Dream. A dramatic story of drugs, violence, suicide and bankruptcy. The photographs range from family portraits to objects detail, from environment images to the various stuff contained in the courtyard, in an indissoluble interweaving of artistic personal project and intimate family photos.
Following text and images by Lisa Kereszi.
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On the site of Mark Brautigam there is a single portfolio: “On Wisconsin”. A series of large-format photographs of landscapes, buildings, cities and portraits. Photographs from the stunning palette, the cold tone of snow, calm and quite, as silent as they where suspended outside of time. I particularly like Mark Brautigam photos because they stay halfway between photojournalism and personal vision, between objectivity and the pure beauty of aesthetics, they tell me the objective truth and at the same time they make me dream, they are iconic and straight at the same time.
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© Kendrick Brinson
Kendrick Brinson is a young freelance photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her current photographic emphasis focuses on photographing the eccentricities, stereotypes and romanticism of the Deep South of America.
She is also a founding member of Luceo Images, a photo collective of like-minded passionate photographers. Her personal photoblog is Box of Light.
Following text and photos by Kendrick Brinson.
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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 text and photos by Martin Stranka.
One day I asked my good friend, Stephen Pierce, from the U.S., for a little favor. I needed a few lines to describe my work for an exhibition in Prague. I was also interested in seeing someone else’s interpretation of my art and the letter he sent back really took my breath away.
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Didier Illouz works with photography, graphics, digital manipulation and movies.
In his series “Any males” he photographed people from his entourage, and than -thanks to the possibilities offered by digital editing- he mixed their faces with that of an animal of his choice.
The result are hybrid beings, part man, part beasts, which recall the mystical visions of shamanism traditions, the metamorphoses of Lycanthrope, mysterious therianthropy dreams.
Usually over retouched projects end up with images that are clearly false and bad, but in this case the photograph by Didier Illouz are very elegant and well balanced, with a beautiful black and white to sepia tones, a gray-scale reminiscent photos from the pre-exposing to make a gray paper base. A great way to walk around between the visionary imagination of digital photography and traditional one.
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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, because when I travel I always do backpacking, even though I try as much as possible to leave the beaten circuits. Furthermore I love Jörg Brüggemann color palette and style. Here an interview about his photographs and travels.
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