December 2011
12 posts
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Dina Litovsky - Whiteout
The barren emptiness of the desert is devoid of sentiment. There is no poetry in the dried up surface, no melancholy stirred up by the gusts of fine sand. On a beach or in a forest, in a green field or in an architectural wonder of a city, one is overwhelmed by the beauty of the environment, the lyricism of associations and memories. But in the sudden vacuum of a desert whiteout there is only...
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Coffer - Ben Wu and David Usui
Portrait of tin-type photographer John Coffer and his handmade home in the woods.
Video © Ben Wu and David Usui, of Lost & Found Films
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Clay Lipsky - Seaside
In the middle of a desert there lies a man-made sea. A toxic oasis where millions of fish have died and only migrating birds thrive. Polluted waves lap at shores made of barnacles and bones while oppressive heat and wind erode abandoned homes.
Volcanic mud-pots gurgle and spit nearby as a religious zealot builds his mountain of salvation.
Welcome to life beside the sea, a place like no other.
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Eleonora Ronconi - Once Upon a Time
Of all my memories of childhood, I most cherish the trips my father and grandfather made with me to amusement parks. Perhaps these are more poignant as they both passed away when I was still young. We shared our love for popcorn while we listened to the carousel melody, and we had a lot of laughs when cotton candy remnants got stuck on my face.
As most kids of my generation, I was an avid...
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Richard Rowland - Urban fictions
Urban Fictions is a photographic and video project funded by Arts Council England, examining the emergence of simulated urban developments in eastern China.
The work documents a series of new towns being constructed based on different European architectural models, including English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish pastiches. These idealised reconstructions appear as hyperreal utopias that...
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Rachel Sussman - The oldest living things in the...
Rachel Sussman is a time traveler.
For the last few years, the American photographer has journeyed across the globe on a mission to bring back images of the world’s oldest living organisms. In her ongoing project, Sussman has traveled to the primal landscapes of southern Greenland, the timeless high-altitude Andean deserts of South America and even under the ocean.
“The project is...
Stephanie Wiegner - A Wintertime Incident
“A Wintertime Incident” explores the narration of an elaborate, multi-faceted imaginary story through the means of staged photography. Each photograph is a facet of the whole narrative, contributing to the plot, while at the same time focusing on an occurrence of its own. They are like film stills, moments frozen in time, and while all depicted elements collaborate to articulate the...
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Shen Wei - Chinese Sentiment
Chinese Sentiment is a personal journey for me to reconnect with the authentic Chinese life, both in the private and public space. My goal is to appreciate the real China without its political and economic influence, to reveal China from an internal and intimate perspective.
All images © Shen Wei
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Igor Starkov - Strogino
I have left Moscow for several days, and when I came back all city was white, like wadding.
In July 2010 the air temperature in Central Russia has reached +35-40 °C. The reason was atmospheric cyclone from Africa. Record heat stayed for about two months. In the end of July forest fires began, smoke of them blanketed several Russian regions. The fire covered thousands hectares of forest,...
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Lisa Adamucci - Eat A Peach
Lisa Adamucci (b. 1983) was raised on a small family farm in southern New Jersey. For the past four years she has been developing a project that focuses on the members of her immediate family and each individual’s relationship to their fourth generation peach farm.
All images © Lisa Adamucci
Benedikt Partenheimer - Turnaround
Turnaround shows a series of portraits, which involve people from different generations who belong to a wide range of cultural context. Contrary to the conventional portrait the person is photographed from behind. Thus the beholder follows the line of sight of the artist “looking into the world” with the portrayed person. The series deals with contemporary perception within the context of...
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Eliot Dudik - Road Ends In Water
Change is descending upon an otherwise quiet, unhurried, unobtrusive, place. The main highway, U.S Route 17, that bisects South Carolina’s “lowcountry,” north to south, is being widened to accommodate commerce, tourists, and urban refugees. Not only are many homes, some historic, disappearing before the tracked blades of expansion, but also the new, faster thoroughfare...