Straight & Street Photography, actions, reactions, interactions, emotions, words, life, life, life
Todd Fisher is that kind of photographer wich product a lot of pictures to bring us life’s pearls. The visible disengagement , the distance he use for his snapshots are sometime in a perfect balance with the feeling of beeing in, to live and imagine around the pict itself, it becomes familiar somehow, it make laugh, it disturb…that’s a lot of feelings for some simple snapshots…
©Todd Fisher
©Todd Fisher
©Todd Fisher
©Todd Fisher
Igor Moukhin, exellent russian photographer, whom I discovered thanks to my friend Joni Karanka, is just back from (or is still in) Georgia…
His actual posts on his blog are just showing us very simply that the opposite of WAR is LIFE, LIFE, LIFE…
Georgia, Batumi July 2008/Грузия Батуми, июль 2008
©Igor Moukhin
©Igor Moukhin
Two weeks before war Georgia, Kоbuleti July 2008/Грузия, Кабулети, июль 200
©Igor Moukhin
“The Dice Thrower“
To Life I say: Go slow, wait for me until the drunkenness dries in my glass.
I have no role in what I was or who I will be.
It is chance and chance has no name.
I call the doctor 10 minutes before the death, 10 minutes are sufficient to live by chance.
Mahmoud Darwich
Mahmoud Darwich
Counterpoint by Mahmoud Darwich
“…
I say: life defined by its antithesis, death . . . is no life at all!
He replies: we shall live, even if life abandons us to our fate. Let us be the wordsmiths whose words make their readers eternal, as your extraordinary friend Ritsos might have said . . .
He says: If I die before you, I shall leave you the impossible task!
I ask: Is it a long way off?
He replies: A generation away.
I say: And if I die before you?
He replies: I shall console the mounts of Galilee and I shall write: ‘Beauty is merely the attainment of adequacy.’ All right! But don’t forget that if I die before you, I shall leave you the impossible task!…”
Hommage to Edward Said Counterpoint by Mahmoud Darwish
Etat de Siege, ed Actes Sud Poems Mahmoud Darwich, photos Olivier Thebaud
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas.
President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of national mourning to honor the 67-year-old writer who, a close friend said, never came round from a major operation two days earlier.
“The passing of our great poet, Mahmoud Darwish, the lover of Palestine, the pioneer of the modern Palestinian cultural project, and the brilliant national leader, will leave a great gap in our political, cultural and national lives,” Abbas said.
“Words cannot describe the depth of sadness in our hearts,” he added. “Mahmoud, may God help us for your loss.”
The death of a man whose life and words were tightly bound up in a struggle for a Palestinian national rebirth that seems little closer now than when his first work was published in 1960 immediately triggered a wider outpouring of popular emotion.
It’s a long time Vincent Delbrouck shown me the work of a friend of him: Chris Shaw. Here is his first book :
“Life as a Nightporter” is a sort of UFO in photography.
One of his last serie I discovered on his Facebook page is called:
Sandy Hill estate
By Chris Shaw
©Chris Shaw
©Chris Shaw
©Chris Shaw
©Chris Shaw
©Chris Shaw
It’s a long time I have this post about Anders Petersen in my draft box. His actual exhibition in Sete (France) and his book SETE 08 are the occasion to make it now.
Anders Petersen, born in 1944, is a close friend of one my best friend. Just this fact, I don’t know why, always make me forgot that Anders Petersen is older from two years than my mother. Each time I saw new photographs I am always surprised by the energy, the life, the freedom, the youth of one of the most talentuous photographer since 1967 and Café Lehmitz.
©Anders Petersen
His last artist residence in France just shown us how Anders Petersen is able to produce in a very short time a lot of good photographs. His exhibition of his work done in GAP and Saint Etienne during the RIP of Arles in 2006 is probably the strongest exhibition I had sawn.
©Anders Petersen
While searching on internet I found this great article written for the Utata Sunday Salon, a weekly overview of a selected photographer researched and written by Utata’s Managing Editor, Greg Fallis.
Selected extract:
“John Lennon said “I might have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg.” The same could be said of Anders Petersen. Eighteen years old and innocent, he arrived in Hamburg, met a Finnish prostitute named Vanya, and promptly fell in love with her. He apparently followed her, puppylike, around the Reeperbahn. She introduced him the bar that would eventually make him famous – the Café Lehmitz. It will probably come as no surprise that Vanya eventually tired of her callow admirer and broke off their relationship. She told Petersen to leave Hamburg. And he did.
Petersen returned to Sweden and went back to school. He wanted to do something in the arts. “I tried painting, but it was too lonely and I am a social person. I tried writing, but it was even more lonely. I saw how these fashion photographers lived, with the beautiful girls and the big parties, and I decided to follow that road.” He enrolled in a photography program.
Early in his studies, Petersen came across a photograph taken by Christer Stromholm. It showed a Parisian graveyard in winter, footsteps tracking in the snow…and it changed everything for the young man. He abandoned his plan to become a fashion photographer and arranged to study under Stromholm…”
©Anders Petersen
Great news received by email that I’d like to share with you:
“…
Thought I’d share a few things I’ve been working on.
Have a great summer before it’s all over.
Larry”
The World From My Front Porch By Larry Towell
Selected from twenty years’ worth of photographs by award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell, The World From My Front Porch is a collection of photographs of family life in south-western Ontario-a romantic and beautiful rural idyll. This photo-essay is at the heart of a book that also, in separate sections of albums and found objects, explores both the history of Towell’s front porch and his outside journeys into the war zones of the world. Themes of land and belonging are woven together in an extensive autobiographical essay. The book is dramatically designed in the manner of an Edwardian album and accompanies a retrospective exhibition touring the United States and Canada.
“If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.”
Larry Towell
© Larry Towell / Magnum Photos
A free, entertaining ramble through the streets of Arles on 11 July from 10 p.m. to 3 A.M.
©Nathalie Desserme
Streetpulse project will be shown in Arles Festival during the Night of the Years. A special mouting and editing had been done with Seven T Project for the soundtrack. Some photographers that appear here on Streetpulse blog will participate with Tangophoto collective to this important event.
©Jan Michalko
In a few years, the Night of the Years has become a highlight of Arles. The Night of the Year is taking over the streets of Arles with a free promenade for all comers from 10 pm untildawn. Schoolyards, monasteries and townhouses will be open to the press, agencies and photography collectives, with each participant putting on a screening covering the photo news of the year in their fields.
©Thierry Kleiner
Participants are:
Cyrille Weiner
Jackson Eaton
David Damoison
Filippo Romano
Hisashi Murayama
Thierry Kleiner
Nathalie Desserme
Olivier Thebaud
Jan Michalko
Junku Nishimura
Pablo Carrera Oser
Joni Karanka
More informations on Rencontres d’Arles website.
©Olivier Thebaud
©Filippo Romano
©Nathalie Desserme
The work realized during the artist residence I did in the Guangdong Museum of Art of Guangzhou “Discrete Histories” is shown in a collective slideshow with Nathalie Desserme and Filippo Romano from Tangophoto during the Photomonth in Krakow this month. You can find all information here
