Robert Morat Gallery is announcing a 3 day workshop “Das Fotobuch” (probably in German language) from August 27th until 29th, 2010. It is the first time that Peter Bialobrzeski and Andreas Herzau offer a joint workshop that deals with the preparation and production of photobooks. So it will probably we extremely interesting.
There is a restriction to 12 participants.
The location will be somewhere between Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, and the workshop fee is 400 EUR (excluding accomodation).
For more information please write an email to Robert Morat Gallery. And hurry up!! The info just came in a second ago …
That’s the only purpose of any form of art: that it adds something to people’s lives. People can also hate it. You don’t need to have consensus with the show, But you do need to produce a difference in the experience of the single individual.
Francesco Bonami
Francesco Bonami is the designated curator for the Whitney Biennial 2010
I am happy to hear that my submission was chosen to be included into Slideluck Potshow Nairobi, which will start tonight, January 16, 2010.
It was a very spontaneous idea from my part to submit some work and it definitively had to do with the fact that I still have so many nice images from Kenya on my harddrives, images that I did not include into that one exhibition in the European Parliament in 2007. So I felt this was a chance to show some more work and I am glad it worked out.
Special thanks to Tony Hunt for diving into the adventure of producing a sound for me. I know it is not easy to work for someone who knows too well what s/he wants but cannot do it her-/himself – especially if you just have one day for it. I loved the outcome though – fantastic job! :)
And many thanks to the never tired Slideluck Team! Congrats to all of the participants – I wish everybody a fantastic party tonight!
Wish I could be there.
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The image above is not in the selection of work that I submitted but I had it already on the server and it belongs to the same body of work: a documentation of a cross coutry drive from Mosocho in the West of the Kenya to Nairobi. I did a lot of images during that extremely long car drive, and I do have various edits, some comprising people, some landscapes, some only showing painted fassades – some in color, some in b&w …
I am switching computers right now and backups onto external harddrives are currently running. I have about 12 of those lined up here and on the 4th from the right are the Kenya images that I submitted. If I do not forget, I might put up a little slideshow next week or so.
The testprint is on it’s way to two online print services to see which one will do the best job. BLURB is by far the least expensive one, so I really hope it will make the run.
Above one of 8 chapters of each 6 double pages. I am writing the artist statement right now.
“BURN Magazine presents an unique showing of prints by Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas, Alex & Rebecca Webb and Chris Anderson, and featuring an exquisite selection of prints by BURN emerging photographers.”
- David Alan Harvey -
BURN is curated by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey, and I am totally proud and honored to have a photograph of mine chosen by him for this exhibition.
The opening was on October 9, with a special collector’s showing on October 10 – and I heard that the gallery show will proceed to FotoWeek in Washington DC in November in slightly expanded form.
Despite of having worked intensely and in a flow like state of mind during the days in Lobo, the best was still to come.
What I did not know before, was that visiting Marfa would be the big WOW effect: it was the first time I witnessed the power of art. Like in a laboratory; in a controlled environment.
We had been travelling through Texas for a while and there was definitively one kind of recognizable pattern all over the place. And then you come to Marfa and … everything is different. Different architecture, different people, different food, different conversations, different life concepts, different work concepts, different questions, different everything. Galleries everywhere, a big book shop and you can even rent yourself bikes and polaroid cameras … In the middle of nowhere you find this completely amazing culture in this small town. The only difference being that it has been infected by the arts virus a couple of years before.
I never noticed the isolated power or art before. We take it for granted here in Europe as we take much more for granted that has been fought for by older generations. That is unfortunate. We are visually flooded on all kind of channels and it is difficult to say what was first. What is cause and what is effect.
But cause and effect were clearly layed out in Marfa …
I do not like to use this exclamation too much, as I feel it is being widely abused, but I definitively see the world a little different now! And it does make a huge difference to me and my work.
Some links for further information:
Marfa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97uWR8e0dDo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lryy7YBhM4A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36tmOSqXJ-U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtfwtckigKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oeK3pY3Z8&NR=1
Prada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK37lwXqNaU&feature=related
Food Shark, Marfa Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy53Hx_pDjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-MG8cRiDC4&NR=1
Chinati Foundation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CY0JaH5ws&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFGYD7Fc48&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lryy7YBhM4A&feature=related
(click here or on the image to see more)
This is a quiet an humble hommage to one of my favorite artists: Hiroshi Sugimoto.
This picture was not taken from high above, like he usually does it, but just from a ferry while crossing the Channel, therefore it does not contain as much detail. But I hope one gets the idea.
For the “real” ones, please go and visit the “master” himself …
Yesterday, on my lucky day, the consume bar celebrated Rauschs at the Staedel Akademie!!!
