Tuesday 29 June 2010
Up to the house by jedw.40cat
I keep taking Polaroids of the evening sun coming through my blinds, but they never come out right – unlike this amazing shot from jedw.40cat.
SX Vision by rougerouge
, originally uploaded by rougerouge.
What a fool I am, for ages I've been wondering why automatic blog posts from Flickr are so small. I hadn't realise you can choose it in the Flickr preferences, doh! To celebrate, here's a nice large photo from rougerouge.
Monday 28 June 2010
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Monday 21 June 2010
Free Range
This post is about a week too late to be of any use to anyone, but I've been busy so tough! The last two Thursdays on the trot I've taken advantage of the new East London Line to whisk me from Brockley up to the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane to see this year's Free Range graduate photography shows.
The brainchild of a lady called Tamsin O'Hanlon, the idea is pretty simple, Free Range groups together roughly 18 universities' degree shows and displays them in one venue, with two weeks per discipline (Art, Design, Photography, Fashion etc.). The sum in this case is most definitely greater than the parts. Most arty degree shows consist of a selection of proud but slightly bewildered looking parents traipsing after their drunk offspring, praying that their debt-ridden kids can find some sort of gainful employment after three years of being 'creative'. Instead you end up with what was the largest, most inspiring display of photographic work I've ever seen under one roof – albeit still with plenty of bewildered parents and drunk students wandering around.
It may just be that Photography students are a bit more savvy than the Art & Visual Culture students I studied with, but this bunch seemed a whole lot more professional than I was back in my day. The only slight disappointment was that although virtually all of them had printed up business cards and postcards, there were a noticeable few (probably about 10%) that didn't have web addresses you could visit.
Given that any talentless pleb can have a free Flickr account or blog (and I'm certainly proof of that) it seems unfortunate that some people would miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime promotional opportunity. I do appreciate that most students are massively stressed when getting ready for their degree shows but when your typical visitor wakes up the next day nursing a mild hangover from mixing their drinks at the various free bars, those web addresses are the only real visual reference to help aid their memories, or help them promote the work they liked through a blog such as this for example. Anyhoo, now that I've finished my patronising rant, onto the more interesting stuff like listing the great photographers whose work I admired.
First up has to be Claudia Moroni – without her tireless networking on Flickr I wouldn't have known about the show in the first place. As well as being adept at self-promotion, she is also clearly an extremely talented photographer who was showing a fascinating series of portraits of living statues:
http://www.claudiamoroni.moonfruit.com/
In no particular order, here are the others whose work caught my eye enough to nab one of their cards. I stupidly didn't think to take any notes as I went around so any comments are based on my somewhat addled memory:
Craig Madden – Beautiful, minimal abstract pieces
Jamie Sinclair – Great portraits of people holding their breath upside down
Natalie Davis – Panoramic portraits of swimmers
Portia Webb – A truly fascinating and insightful series about giving birth
Tom Griffiths – A great series about the elderly in society
Helena Tkalez – A personal series about her grandmother's house
Axel Hesslenberg – A study of an English vineyard
Nicola Ann Naylor – Atmospheric portraits and landscapes
Nathalia Ophele – Stunning Icelandic seascapes
Ochi Reyes – Transforming a skin condition into art
Lorenzo Durantini – Deconstructed video tapes
Rachel Brown – Study of the Peace Camp at Faslane, Scotland.
Three of the cards I picked up listed sites that don't seem to be working at the moment, or haven't been constructed yet, but I'll list them anyway as hopefully they'll sort it out soon:
Steven Kenny • Zoe Stafford • Christina Panayi
Phew, all done. Although you're too late for the photography shows this year thanks to my tardy typing, there's still Design, Art, Interiors and 'Mixed' to go between now and the end of July. Brick Lane's always worth a visit anyway and if you get really bored or sickened with jealously of these bright young things you can always pop into Rough Trade and buy some music instead – you really can't go wrong..
The brainchild of a lady called Tamsin O'Hanlon, the idea is pretty simple, Free Range groups together roughly 18 universities' degree shows and displays them in one venue, with two weeks per discipline (Art, Design, Photography, Fashion etc.). The sum in this case is most definitely greater than the parts. Most arty degree shows consist of a selection of proud but slightly bewildered looking parents traipsing after their drunk offspring, praying that their debt-ridden kids can find some sort of gainful employment after three years of being 'creative'. Instead you end up with what was the largest, most inspiring display of photographic work I've ever seen under one roof – albeit still with plenty of bewildered parents and drunk students wandering around.
It may just be that Photography students are a bit more savvy than the Art & Visual Culture students I studied with, but this bunch seemed a whole lot more professional than I was back in my day. The only slight disappointment was that although virtually all of them had printed up business cards and postcards, there were a noticeable few (probably about 10%) that didn't have web addresses you could visit.
Given that any talentless pleb can have a free Flickr account or blog (and I'm certainly proof of that) it seems unfortunate that some people would miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime promotional opportunity. I do appreciate that most students are massively stressed when getting ready for their degree shows but when your typical visitor wakes up the next day nursing a mild hangover from mixing their drinks at the various free bars, those web addresses are the only real visual reference to help aid their memories, or help them promote the work they liked through a blog such as this for example. Anyhoo, now that I've finished my patronising rant, onto the more interesting stuff like listing the great photographers whose work I admired.
First up has to be Claudia Moroni – without her tireless networking on Flickr I wouldn't have known about the show in the first place. As well as being adept at self-promotion, she is also clearly an extremely talented photographer who was showing a fascinating series of portraits of living statues:
http://www.claudiamoroni.moonfruit.com/
In no particular order, here are the others whose work caught my eye enough to nab one of their cards. I stupidly didn't think to take any notes as I went around so any comments are based on my somewhat addled memory:
Craig Madden – Beautiful, minimal abstract pieces
Jamie Sinclair – Great portraits of people holding their breath upside down
Natalie Davis – Panoramic portraits of swimmers
Portia Webb – A truly fascinating and insightful series about giving birth
Tom Griffiths – A great series about the elderly in society
Helena Tkalez – A personal series about her grandmother's house
Axel Hesslenberg – A study of an English vineyard
Nicola Ann Naylor – Atmospheric portraits and landscapes
Nathalia Ophele – Stunning Icelandic seascapes
Ochi Reyes – Transforming a skin condition into art
Lorenzo Durantini – Deconstructed video tapes
Rachel Brown – Study of the Peace Camp at Faslane, Scotland.
Three of the cards I picked up listed sites that don't seem to be working at the moment, or haven't been constructed yet, but I'll list them anyway as hopefully they'll sort it out soon:
Steven Kenny • Zoe Stafford • Christina Panayi
Phew, all done. Although you're too late for the photography shows this year thanks to my tardy typing, there's still Design, Art, Interiors and 'Mixed' to go between now and the end of July. Brick Lane's always worth a visit anyway and if you get really bored or sickened with jealously of these bright young things you can always pop into Rough Trade and buy some music instead – you really can't go wrong..
Friday 18 June 2010
Thursday 17 June 2010
self portrait_006 by nefoto
This man is constantly searching for new possibilities with Polaroid film with some great results, very inspiring.
Wednesday 16 June 2010
Monday 14 June 2010
Sunday 13 June 2010
Hang 'Em High
My good friend (and Michael Caine obsessive) Matt has just launched his new site Hang 'Em High, selling classic and collectable film posters at reasonable prices. He's sourced some great posters and has new ones coming in all the time. Well worth a visit if you fancy something a bit different to brighten up your gaff.
Sadly he doesn't seem to stock the classic Athena Tennis Player or Man with Baby posters, but you can't have everything I suppose...
Sadly he doesn't seem to stock the classic Athena Tennis Player or Man with Baby posters, but you can't have everything I suppose...
Saturday 12 June 2010
Wednesday 9 June 2010
Friday 4 June 2010
Untitled by May The Circle Remain Unbroken
Great cinematic feel to this shot from the annoyingly talented May The Circle Remain Unbroken.
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