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Tabletop

30/05/2011 / in Projects /own, Ramblings, Shortcut and The Making Of. 0 Comments

After a lot of coffee and cereals I decided to release the first part of “The Signs That Mock Me As I Go” for publication.

That was the easy part.

Now I need to figure out how one can show a group of work online, that is more of an object than of an image. Very tricky. For example, I could easily come up with a smell for the exhibition (I am an eye-nose type of person), but I find music very hard to deal with. Give me a cd and I can listen to it forever. Every new song that comes up deletes whatever came before in an instant. As if I only had memory for one single song – always the last song I heard I will remember for as long as I do not hear anything new. It is different with sounds, strangely enough. But I am probably the worst music customer ever, with maybe 3 records that I have bought in my whole life! Considering that my partner is a part time musician, this is actually horrifying to admit.

So now … how do I deal with music for this video that I need to submit? … Dang. Hopefully I remember where I put those 3 records I was talking about.


Nothing ever is in vain

11/01/2011 / in Music, Shortcut, The Making Of, Travel and landscape. 0 Comments

I took this image as part of a series in 2009 while Tone and I visited the small town of Lobo in Texas. It was totally out of fun. I wanted to see if I could get a U2 kinda feeling into them … Maybe because I was a bit tired to listen to Graceland Radio throughout the day.

It gave birth to an idea, Overtone, which I am working on since then.

There is nothing like playing around a bit to make you happy!


The bed

04/01/2011 / in Projects /own, Shortcut and The Making Of. 0 Comments

While I do not believe that everything in a project should be explained away, I got so extremely many emails asking why most of the night/day pictures in the diptychs for Disencounters look so much the same regarding light situation, that … well … I might as well show you our bed, too.

Tone has designed it himself and had it build by experts. It really does remind one of a two piece Donald Judd sculpture. Two “C”s that you can put together in any variation that you wish. And we have so far chosen the anti-dog variation – which gives us a closed double bed and which also goes well with the moskito net that has been proven necessary during the last years – even if it is a bit tricky to get in and out.

So you can see that with the room lights turned off it will always be more or less dark in there. All of the pictures in that “box” had to be made with a low flash, thus the similarities between the day & night images.

And the dog stays out.

(There are other sets of pictures, which were made in other beds, which I guess is quite easy to recognize now.)


Disencounters is up on BURNmagazine

02/01/2011 / in BURNmagazine, Projects /own, Shortcut and The Making Of. 0 Comments

David Alan Harvey sent me a note today, that “Disencounters” was up on BURNmagazine. What a nice surprise!

We had talked about Disencounters since November 2010, when I was not yet sure about how long I would still be shooting for it. It turned out that I was almost done. Thankfully.

I then opened up about the series, told Tony about it and asked if he would mind not only to shoot the final diptych for me but also to have the images published. Thankfully he is a good sport with a wonderful and strong personality and very supportive of my work.

So while on 81 diptychs you see Tony’s side of the bed – with or without him – I asked him to turn the tables and shoot me in a similar way for the final image on the final day. So there I am, sleeping the day away …

The images for the series were shot on consecutive days. There are only two nights missing, and that was when I went to ParisPhoto by myself. I even shot while Tony was in England for his construction site, leaving me an empty bed behind.

In these 82 nights we had a lot of unplanned scenarios: we had a sick dog, who had us sleep on the sofa with him, I had a sick boyfriend, who went to bed with a plastic bowl and towel – just in case –, and we had travelling times, when I simply took the camera with me.

David Alan Harvey thought that an edit of 20 pictures would do to get the point across on BURN and I gave him all the 82 picturs to make a selection. The only image I thought important to have in, was the last one in that very last position, which Tony did of me. Otherwise I was very curious which 19 he would select to go before that. On one hand side it is easy, because we have just variations of the same thing in the pictures, but on the other side, if you want to choose a selection without regard to the order, then there are several possible roads to travel.

To see David Alan Harvey’s selection for BURNmagazine, please visit BURNmagazine.
To see the whole set of 82 images, you can go to the Project “Disencounters” on this site.

Feedback (by email) is always welcome.
Thank you so much for your time!


A Tender Heart

03/11/2010 / in Shortcut and The Making Of. 0 Comments

In the last days I have written to a handful of people throughout the world and asked for some of their time.

I did include a link to a post that I have written a couple of days ago, hoping that it would make the nature of this favor that I am asking for a little bit clearer.

In the light of what happened and of what is still to come, I am trying to work my way through the images and emotions that are currently incapacitating me. I need to WORK through it, literaly, and so I decided to do a personal project (for lack of a better word) and finish up – hopefully in time – a small book with text & images to give to my father. Because spoken words just fail me, and they might fail me until it is too late.

I am very humbled that I have gotten such a tremendous response so far. I am very, very thankful, that all of you, who I have asked for this favor, offered to help without hesitation:

Nico Chiapperini, The Netherlands
Laura Montanari, Italy
Iztok Boncina, Slovenia
Annette Gloser, Germany
Cate and Duncan, England
Audrey Bardou, France
Ross Nolly and John Earney, New Zealand
Kyunghee Lee, Korea
Bill Hess, Alaska, USA.
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Sofia Wendler, Iceland
Tobias Tuttlies, Belgium / Brazil
Ana Yturralde, Spain
Katharina Hesse, China
Marcin Luczkowski, Poland
David Bowen, Norway
Lee Guthrie, Hawaii, USA
Civilian, Greece
Stephan Boden / Gastraum, Germany
Alex Reshuan, Equador
Sam Harris, Australia
Bouhlou, Morocco

I will be writing to some more people in the days to come. I fear I am not very fast right now, but I hope to be fast enough.

As soon as things materialize, I will be posting more openly.
All of you humble me. Thank you again!


Alec Soth & Martin Parr in conversation

04/10/2010 / in Artist Talks, Contemporary Photographers, Shortcut, The Making Of, Video and hunting. 0 Comments


As this website is going to evolve around the themes of hunting and collecting, I just wanted to go ahead and point out to a Daylight multimedia podcast – Brighton Photo Biennial – Alec Soth & Martin Parr in conversation.


Overtone

11/09/2010 / in Music, Projects /own, Shortcut and The Making Of. 0 Comments

Overtone is getting darker. I have a lot on my list. Moving forward slowly but steadily.



New Year resolution: Editing

31/12/2009 / in Shortcut and The Making Of. 2 Comments

Pink Lobo Edit

This time I started executing my New Year resolution before New Year’s Eve, which made me feel quite the hero :)

Fact is that I was (am) having a considerable amount of trouble doing the final edit for PINK LOBO, something I have not had this bad so far with other edits.

Usually I am really good and fine doing edits on my computer and then just final checking with prints. This time my normal procedure is not working at all. Probably because I cannot deal with the extremely small representations of the images. They are all reddish-pink (with some blue) and not very contrasty, so if I look at the tiny previews, they look too much the same and I cannot tell enough to choose.

Another thing is that I want to show them in pairs. So when you open the book, you will aways see images that belong together as a pair. Continue reading ‘New Year resolution: Editing’


The Making Of

14/08/2008 / in Shortcut, The Making Of and Workshop. 0 Comments

I was standing behind DAH on the “platform” go get the picture on the right and did not even notice Iztok Boncina taking advantage of that. He sent me the picture later. And now I do have this “the making of” … which is kind of fun.

Unfortunately Nacho is not looking into the camera …

Hmm … I think I should go visit a hairdresser …

Both pictures of me taking pictures were taken by Iztok Boncina, a photographer from Slovenia. Thank you Iztok, for allowing me to show them!