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“Young blood is the lovin’ upriser”

mybestshot — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:29:01 +0000

actually not my best shot, but very meaningful about these strange days in italy: it shows well into what italy is turned, a place from where run away.

There Is Something Strange And Ironic About The Whole Thing

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:30:56 +0000

Photographer Benjamin Goss on his work "Värmland": The images in this series are from an ongoing project documenting my environment in the countryside of Värmland Sweden. I grew up just outside of New York City in NJ, so I found the contrasts of the U.S. and Sweden to be fascinating. It's like walking into a grocery store after, say being in India for a year. You recognize all the items and their uses but there is something still a little strange and ironic about the whole thing. Of course this feeling is fleeting, and now having been living here In Värmland for the past eight years, I have become a Swede. The only thing pretentious about these images is that they are all shot on film and printed and developed by myself.

The Two Brothers Married Two Xhosa Women

Harlan Levey — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:56:56 +0000

Above the clouds, nestled in the green forests of the Amatole Mountains in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, is the almost magical village of Hogsback. Before the missionaries and settlers took over the land for holiday homes and pine forests, the Xhosa people of the region, took their cattle to graze in the Hogsback, believing that it was in these mist-covered forests that their ancestors spirits resided. In the 1880s the first pioneers of Hogsback, the Summerton brothers, arrived from England. They cultivated the land and a community started to grow in the area. The two brothers married two Xhosa women. The Summerton's with the help of their extended Xhosa family expanded their land and orchards and the family grew and thrived. But by the 1960s Apartheid laws had rezoned Hogsback as an all-white area and the Summerton family, now classified “Coloured” were forced to leave Hogsback. Today the village struggles to come to terms with its past and the inequalities of the present.

Those Who Seek To Realize Their Hopes And Dreams

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:43:15 +0000

Istanbul is the city of those who seek to realize their hopes and dreams. Hundreds of people migrate from the eastern parts of Turkey and settle in Eminönü, hoping to find a job in İstanbul. Small rooms in apartment blocks are rented out, housing at least ten people. These apartments lack kitchens and bathrooms; so meals are cooked and baths are taken in that single room These migrants generally work as construction laborers, shoe painters, street peddlers, waste paper or scrap collectors. Only a few lucky ones manage to find a good job good enough to bring their families to Istanbul.

Old couple at the seaside

mybestshot — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:20:49 +0000

Relationships Are Inherently Difficult

Diederik Meijer — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:39:37 +0000

Katrina d'Autremont: This body of work, " Si Dios Quiere" (If God Wants) explores issues of intimacy and distance within my mother’s family in Argentina. The house where she grew up and the people who are part of that life serve as characters. The word "Family" connects us, but the extent of our connection depends on several factors. Families can be separated by physical distance, but often it is more complicated and the relationships themselves form walls and separations. "Si Dios Quiere" which means "If God Wants," attests to the fact that relationships are inherently difficult.

I Carry My Camera With Me Every Day

Recommending Viewer — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:01:53 +0000

Mattias Ericsson: I carry my camera with me every day. My photography is based on continuity and routines. I shoot things that I intuitively feel are relevant. Sometimes I press the shutter button to capture a fleeting memory or feeling. I take the picture because I don’t want to forget what I was feeling at that moment. The picture acts as an interface to a moment that otherwise would merely become a part of the collection of events that form a lifetime. The image places the memory in a chronology that otherwise would be lost. I have been photographing my surroundings and myself regularly for almost nine years. And I have been asking myself for just as long. What difference does it make if I take another picture of my own face, or that of my girlfriend Åsa? What does this constant photography give in return?

Forgotten Or Neglected Dignity

Recommending Viewer — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:06:27 +0000

André Cepeda: "Ontem" ("Yesterday") is the title of this project that started when I met H., who used to park cars in front of my house. As I walked my dog every day we would often end up talking. I showed him my interest in getting to know the streets he ran through and the quarters he hanged about. We would work every week and sometimes for several days running. The absence of time I felt in the places and in the people I would come across, the danger and the reality’s harshness began to interest me. Only later did I understand that this project made a lot of sense to me. My life has always crossed with drug-related stories. The fact that I live in Porto’s downtown makes me face that reality every day.

Jumping Was My Dream When I Was A Child

Diederik Meijer — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:00:42 +0000

I love this series of jumping pictures. Iraq is associated with the misery of war most of the time, especially in media representations. Jamal Penjweny reminds us there are normal people that are trying to live normal lifes down there too. Apart from that, the work shows a great sense of humor. At the end of his artist testimonial, Jamal makes the jumping business sound like a lost dream. But I think the work itself proves him wrong in that respect. The fact that he made this beautiful set of photographs means he still wants to fly by making the highest jump possible.

A Settlement Of Container-Like Accommodations

Recommending Viewer — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:02:48 +0000

"Container," by Anna Simone Wallinger: For refugees and asylum seekers who arrive in Berlin, a settlement of container-like accommodations in an industrial area just outside of Berlin-Spandau functions as a central collection point. In this area, no (social) infrastructure is available either for adults or children. For the duration of their stay, people accommodated here are thus limited in their being to living within the walls of a container home.