© 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 two of my great nowadays passions: Asia and photography. Every week you can discover splendid works and incredibly talented photographers, most of the time completely unknown in Europe, even to a specialized audience. Sometimes the blog of contemporary art and photography repeat the same authors, the same styles, the same approach, the same vision of the world. The blog by Ch’ng Yaohong in the current blogsphere is a nice example of novelty and differences.
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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 security. In her series “A Room within a Room” Hyeyoung Kim builds puppets and put them on stages, small dummies that creates real allegories of feelings and human kind state. The photographs are then manipulated in dark room with several techniques, creating dark and disturbing images, such as nightmares or visions, strong and expressive.
Here a chat about her photographs and her life.
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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 fashion photography, that is delicate and contrasts with the harsh and aggressive image of women portrayed as a fascinating unreachable femme fatal. Delicate human photography, where beauty is everything. Travel photography that does not limit itself simply to reproducing landscapes and exotic beauty spots, but also shows the importance of travel as if it were something material.
Then there is Marco Tardito’s personal research: finding beauty in dried flowers and leaves, in order to tell a story through magical vision that is created by the use of alternative lenses and printing methods on different types of artistic papers. The beauty that we have inside comes from the world that is around us.
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© 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 they purely pictorial, collage, hand drawn, or brush strokes. He creates images which are half way between photography and painting, pictorialism and modernism.
When I met him he accepted to not only have a chat about Camera Obscura, but also to explain in detail the technical procedure he uses, which had raised my curiosity.
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Mohammadreza Mirzaei è un giovane promettente fotografo iraniano.
Le sue fotografie sono minimaliste e pulitissime, gli uomini sono ridotti a minute silhouette nere sotto un immenso cielo bianco, minuscole pedine sperdute in un prato verde sconfinato. Piccoli piccoli, visti dall’alto o da lontano lontano. Intenti nella recita senza fine della vita, in quei piccoli fatti del teatro quotidiano dell’esistenza. Oppure si stanno fotografando senza posa, fra di loro o inquadrano qualche invisibile monumento. La lontanza, il distacco, le dimensioni di queste persone unite all’essenzialità delle fotografie, rendono gli uomini, le donne e i bambini fotografati da Mohammadreza Mirzaei esseri universali, icone dell’uomo in generale.
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Original picture before being print.
The first person that talked to me about resins coat on inkjet print on drawing paper was Marco Tardito (whom I also made an interview).
In the past I also tried myself printing on watercolor paper with my Epson 2100, but the results were terribly disappointing. Colors are completely wrong because standard profiles doesn’t work on artistic paper and black are almost grey, therefore the contrast is strongly flattened.
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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.
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© 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 him, proposing an interview. I like the idea of giving space on Camera Obscura to a photographer who, at least in my imagination, comes from so far, I like the idea that the causality of a meeting with his images on the bridge of Paris, at the end produces this article.
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