Lucas Blalock Work from his oeuvre. “Carmen Winant: All of your pictures are shot on 4× 5 film, scanned and then post-produced in Photoshop. Why work across multiple formats? Lucas Blalock: Early on, it was important that the pictures had a foot in both the analogue and the digital. When I began making pictures in […]
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Laurie Kang
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Laurie Kang Work from Empty Vessels Make the Most Noise. “Sitting at the intersection between photography, sculpture, collage and installation, Laurie Kang’s practice investigates the space between image and object. Examining the process of abstracting the everyday, her work disrupts the borders of the photograph to occupy three-dimensional space. This exhibition uses the vehicle of […]
Everyone is a Photographer
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Everyone is a Photographer Curated by Susan Koenig. Everyone is a Photographer current lo-fi photography The exhibition Everyone is a Photographer is about contemporary lo-fi photography. In western countries everybody has the possibility to take photos. But where is the difference between high art and popular culture? Works of photographers and artists are still different […]
Ivars Gravlejs
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Ivars Gravlejs Work from My Newspaper. Not much is written about this work, an in many ways, the beauty is in the simplicity. “For one year I was working as a photo reporter in a daily newspaper “Deník” in Prague. Before sending photographs to the newspaper I manipulated them in Photoshop. Usually I was changing […]
Jørund Aase
Monday, 12 October 2009
Jørund Aase Work from his World and Garden. “I have been trying out different kinds of medias. I usually don´t work within one specific media but uses those which fit my ideas. It can be painting, sculpture, installation, photo, video, sound, etc. I think art has the potential to stimulate people to experience the world […]
Sebastian Lemm
Monday, 14 September 2009
Sebastian Lemm Work from Lapse. “As a photo-based artist, I see myself as the link between two realities—the one outside of the camera and the one that begins once the photograph has been taken. Rather than documenting or ‘capturing the moment,’ I want to show what is not immediately visible. My work is informed by […]
Meggan Gould
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Meggan Gould Work from Verso. Also take a gander at her Go Ogle series of photographic averages. “My most recent work continues to probe the tension between what conventionally constitutes a picture space and the underlying factors, textual or otherwise, that work to reinforce and define that space. These stark images allow the viewer to […]
Gerhard Richter
Friday, 3 July 2009
Gerhard Richter Work from Overpainted Photographs. “A less well known aspect of the work of Gerhard Richter, the ‘overpainted photographs’ are not simply an answer to those who feared that photography had murdered painting, but an integrated work of material and colour. Countering the imposing format of his better-known paintings, these small overpainted photographs (mostly […]