“LOOK3 is hosting an experimental two night event to present the work of 90 innovative photographers on a farm 30 minutes west of Charlottesville. This initiative, which we are calling LOOKbetween, is designed to showcase early-career talent and engage the presenting artists with media professionals on practices and trends influencing the direction of photography today. We want to turn the traditional mentorship model on its head and let the next generation of photographers, editors, publishers, curators, and media professionals share their vision for the future.”
At this point I want to thank the amazing organization team from LOOK3 for their seemingly supernatural efforts. It was PERFECT! Just as if practiced for many years – but hey, no: the event at the Deep Rock Farm was a first timer for everybody! Unbelievable.
LOOKbetween was a magical experience. And I am still a bit at loss for words – and images. So if you want to see more about the event, I encourage you to visit the LOOKbetween tumblr page and to take in the impressions.
I think I can talk for most of us that we were a little overwhelmed and that we would have loved 1-2 additional days to really fully unfold the potential of this awesome get together. And I think the connection aspect is one of the central ones of LOOKbetween.
I am immensely greatful to have been chosen to be in the first group to attend LOOKbetween. If anybody ever gets the chance, please do yourself a favor and attend! Regardless of if as an invited artist or as a visitor.
Below just a vage impression of mother nature watching our show … Huge insects in the projector’s beam of light, like erratic shooting stars, of which there also where many. Enough to make our dreams come true? We will see … and certainly do our share for it to happen.
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.
I just got an email with the text below … and I am thrilled!
Here is a link to the KURSK project, from which I chose some images for the submission. I asked a good friend of mine, Stephan Boden, to do the soundfile for KURSK and I think he did a tremendous job, even though my ideas for it were quite demanding.
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“Greetings!
We are pleased to announce the artists that will be part of SLIDELUCK POTSHOW Austin II on Saturday evening, November 21st at Shangri-La on East 6th Street:
Lassal * Blake Gordon * Carey Russell * Ryann Ford * Maise Crow * Sheperd Fairey * Nan Standish Blake * Eli Meir Kaplan * Carling Hale * Sarah Sudhoff * Tim Hetherington * Todd H. Williams * Leon Alesi * Casey James Wilson * Redux Pictures * Brandon Thibodeaux * Eli Reed * Matt Wright-Steel * Hillary Atiyeh * Mike Berube * Vincent Laforet * Erin Grace Trieb * Matt Conant * Sara Terry * Andrew Hetherington * Kelly Lynn James * Platon * Julia Robinson * Matt Rainwaters * Keith Wilson * Damon Winter * Amber Shields
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(click here or on the image to read more)
On FotoWeekDC 2009, a Fight Club/Broken Square Media Event featuring:
– david alan harvey
– michael loyd young
– chris bickford
– a.j. wilhelm
– and selected photographs from BURN magazine:
The BURNmagazine Selections will include photographs by Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Erica McDonald, Anton Kusters, James Delano, Bob and Marina Black, Panos Skoulidas, Medford Taylor, Michael Courvoisier, Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Kyunghee Lee, Yalda, Andrew Sullivan, Lassal, Victor Ben Tzvi, Marcin Luczkowski, and many more.
opening event saturday november 7th, 7pm-1am
fight club 1250 9th st nwdc
gallery hours monday november 9 to saturday november 14th 1-6pm
curated by anthony smallwood
brokensquare@mac.com | 202-607-1495
“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.
Impressions from the Exhibition at Galerie Slutzky
After two prolongations, the exhibition has now come to an end.
I would like to share some impressions with all of you. It was not very easy to make pictures of it, but I think I found a good solution to give you the look&feel.
More about the presented works here:
Kursk
Maria.net
January 24th – February 23th 2008 – March 30th 2008 – April 24th, 2008:
The Media Project – And Other Asides
Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt
Frankenallee 74
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49.69.723949
Fax. +49.69.172799
Opening: January 24th 2008, 7 pm
For further information please see:
Kursk
Maria.net
And no, this is no april’s fool post! :)
The image above is a screenshot taken from the video shown at my current exhibition in Frankfurt. It includes some of the images from my original Kursk-Project. You can see it online here.
These images are NOT edited. The look&feel is the result of a broken tv-set combined with file-type changes for the video-format. It was a conscious decision not to correct the colours but to leave them as given.
