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These Stories Are Indicative Of Many American Dreams And Disappointments

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:45:11 +0000

Photographer Josef Jacques about Merced California: "A city of many booms and busts. Originally a rail town, connecting the gold mines of the Sierras to the Santa Fe and Pacific railroads. It was an agricultural town that is in one of the most fertile valleys in the world. It was a roadside town on Highway 99 and was known as the “Gateway to Yosemite”. It was speculative home town, where homes were built in hopes of wealth. The stories of Merced are indicative of many Californian and American folklore, dreams, and disappointments."

They Remember Their Fridge Being Covered In Polaroids

Diederik Meijer — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:54:40 +0000

Photographer Jon Nicholson: "Some people say that with the advent of digital comes the death of photojournalism, but I don’t agree with the statement at all. To prove that a photographer must have "the eye," and not just good gear, I started to shoot a series of pictures on my SX70 Polaroid camera that dates back to the 1970's." I really loved these pola's, they make me smile. Today is one of the first sunny days in 2011 in Amsterdam and I think Jon's wonderful polaroids are the perfect start of the weekend. Go check them out!

Policeman in New York City

mybestshot — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:08:23 +0000

I didn’t intend this shot exactly as it turned out, I mean, the actual ‘framing’ happened in a split-second ;-) I only discovered it while sifting through the photos from a long weekend in New York City. But I still like it…

They Tell Me I Need A Job, To Be Responsible

Diederik Meijer — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:37:06 +0000

"Neither," by Irish photographer Kate Nolan, is an exploration into the hearts of the new generation of post-soviet Kaliningrad. Locked into dreams of a future that their homeland cannot recognize or fulfil, they look afar. They are searching for their identity while trapped under the weight of their history and the isolation from both their motherland and the new Europe. Left in a land that both overwhelms and underwhelms with little ability to know their future.

An Eye For The Special Aesthetics Of The Ruins

Sophia Greiff — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:00:31 +0000

From June 16th to June 20th 2010 the second Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism took place in the city of Hannover. In his work “The Terrible City – Gaza 2009” German photographer Heinrich Völkel focuses on the urban structure of a city that has been the centre of violent confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians since the 1970s. It is a city of ruins and debris, in which people are attempting to regain a state of normality. Showing a life in improvised circumstances, Heinrich Völkel also has an eye for the special aesthetics of the ruins.

Kabul Was A Popular Stop On The Hippie Trail

Sophia Greiff — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:00:18 +0000

It hasn’t been so long since Kabul was considered an open-minded metropolis. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Afghan capital was a popular stop on the hippie trail to southern Asia. Now, after thirty years of occupation and war, Afghanistan is struggling to reestablish its identity. Residents are pessimistic about the future. Rebuilding the city drags on, and the constant fear of new attacks has shaken people’s trust in NATO forces. "Crossing Kabul" is a portrait of today’s Kabul where, far from the fighting, normality is slow to return. German photographer Daniel Pilar focuses on everyday situations caught between tradition, Western influence and social progress.

Between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, USA

Marta Daho — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:49:40 +0000

This series of images accompanied by text is part of a larger installation called "Je suis la frontière" (I am the border) which encompasses a growing archive of audio and visual documents that explore the complexity of living in the US - Mexico borderland. The whole archive constitutes a personal cartography of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, two cities that are at the same contiguous but divided by four international bridges. In her work, Vera seeks to challenge the limited and biased information that the media gives us about certain places in the world. She believes in approaching those places by listening to individuals, following their steps, and walking on the streets. She thus hopes to create a personal cartography of a place and to give presence to the voices and life stories behind the sometimes overwhelming statistics.

A Thematic City That Borders On The Absurd

Marta Daho — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:27:18 +0000

Aleix Plademunt Perez: My work reflects on different social attitudes, analyzed through the landscape. I am interested in the landscape when it has a direct relationship with the social, with us. I’m interested in analyzing the landscape from a present perspective, from the moment of history in which I am living. I’m questioning why I have found the landscape in this way, how we use it, how we move about in it, and what we understand by the term ‘landscape’. Dubai has had the privilege of being able to create a city from scratch, from nothing. The city has the space and money to enable it to realize the dreams of a society. The city speaks of the desires, hopes and habits of today’s society. A city was built by appropriating Western symbols and taking them to the extreme, to the limit. The result is a thematic and fictionalized city which in many cases borders on the absurd.

A Place Where You Can’t Say No

Marta Daho — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:13:09 +0000

Acapulco is a place where you can’t say no. Elvis Presley said it this way in a song dating back to 1963 that had become popular a year earlier after the release of the movie Fun in Acapulco. In this installation project, the Mexican artist Pablo López Luz not only sheds light upon the topographic vision of different architectural structures and urban landscape but also to the classical imagery of a place full of glamour that has been vividly immortalized by the cinema and advertising industries.

All Of This Brought Me Back To My Love Of Science Fiction

Nathalie Herschdorfer — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:00:31 +0000

"My son, there will be a post petrodollar economy in Arabia and it will be up to you create it." That is what Sheikh Maktoum’s father said in 1990, shortly before his death, says Swiss photographer Florian Joye. "I chose the United Arab Emirates to work on, and especially Dubai, for a variety of reasons. After googling Dubai on the net, my curiosity and interest were drawn to the confusing mass of Dubai images that can be found there. The vast juxtaposition of virtual images, scale models and augmented reality of which there were many more than real pictures of Dubai is confusing. The idea of the city preceded its reality. My fascination for this new city caught between utopia and excessiveness, pride and seduction is the palpable reality of the purpose o f Sheikh Maktoum."