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Review: Sochi Singers by The Sochi Project
Jan 27, 2012
A review of Sochi Singers by The Sochi Project
Youngsuk Suh
Jan 23, 2012
Wildfires by Youngsuk Suh presents a series of landscapes with the fires only present in the form of a diffuse smoke.
Contemporary European Photography
Chloe Dewe Mathews
Jan 16, 2012
Chloe Dewe Mathews’s China’s Wild West portrays the country’s western parts, where ethnic and economic tensions are common.
Review: Dirk Braeckman
Jan 13, 2012
A review of Dirk Braeckman, one of the most impressive photobooks I have seen in a while
Graham Miller
Jan 11, 2012
Both Waiting for the Miracle and Suburban Splendour by Graham Miller are well worth the visit.
A Letter from London: David Smith
Jan 9, 2012
In his latest Letter from London Christopher Thomas introduces David Smith
Articles
Gustavo Sanabria
Jan 26, 2012 – I have a bit of a weakness for photographic depictions of messy places - such as those in Gustavo Sanabria’s Talat Noi.
Photography and Trust
Jan 25, 2012 – As a photographer, you won’t get around bringing your desire to photography, just as a viewer you do the same thing. You have no choice. As I have argued before, photography must fail if that desire is denied. But desire does not automatically create good photography. An equally crucial factor is trust. As a photographer, you have to trust your photographs. You have to trust that they say what you want them to say. Or more accurately, you have to realize that your subconscious mind is bringing more things to photography than your conscious mind might realize. Continued here.
Contemporary European Photography
Ulrich Lebeuf
Jan 25, 2012 – This is an image from Ulrich Lebeuf’s extended portrait Tropique du Cancer, for which, alas, information is hard to come by.
Why all or nothing?
Jan 25, 2012 – Kickstarter uses an all-or-nothing funding model, which, I think, doesn’t make as much sense as they probably think. Let’s say you want to raise $5,000. If you need the $5,000 to buy something that costs exactly $5,000 then you really need all the money. But for many photographers (I’m going to focus on just those for obvious reasons) this often is not how this might work. A photographer might be not overly happy, but still quite content to get “just” $4,000 instead of the $5,000. (more)
Contemporary German Photography
Hans Engels
Jan 24, 2012 – This is what one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the lighthouse of Alexandria looks like today - or more accurately, this is what the scene looks like, since it’s gone. Find the rest of the wonders in Hans Engels’ The Seven Wonders.
Reader Survey - Thank you!
Jan 23, 2012 – As you saw earlier here, I’m currently conducting a reader survey to find out how to improve this website. I want to thank everybody who has already taken the survey! Your time and feedback is much appreciated! If you haven’t taken the survey, yet - maybe you have a few moments?
The view from the other side: Pete Brook on The Etiquette of Crowdfunding
Jan 21, 2012 – As a reaction to my earlier post on crowdfunding, Pete Brook just published The Etiquette of Crowdfunding: A Recipient’s View. I’m a supporter of Pete’s ‘Prison Photography’ on the Road: Stories Behind the Photos, and I think his frequent updates have been nothing but amazing. To see that there will now even be an exhibition really just adds the icing to the cake.
Crowdfunding is not a cash cow
Jan 21, 2012 – The other day, a friend of mine sent me an email to talk about crowdfunding. He had supported various projects on Kickstarter, but the overall experience had left him jaded (his word, not mine). He wrote that while he had essentially received what had been promised, a couple of nice surprises notwithstanding he still felt disappointed. He also wrote that he would not fund future projects by some of the photographers he had given money to because he felt he had been “treated like a cash cow”. (more)
Review: Friedrich Seidenstücker: Of Hippos and Other Humans
Jan 20, 2012 – A fair amount of photography from what one could think of as archives is now being released. Some of that work saw the light in a different - or even the same - form before. Some has never been published. Those books always raise certain questions for me. After all, I want to be looking at photobooks for the photographs and the stories they might tell me. (more)
New photobook presentations (Weeks 1/2/3, 2012)
Jan 20, 2012 – Here are the photobooks I have presented in video form of so far this year: Then Again by Shirana Shahbazi, 7 Rooms by Rafal Milach, The Raw And The Cooked by Peter Bialobrzeski, Pontiac by Gerry Johansson, Guantanamo - When the Light Goes Out by Edmund Clark, Berlin nach 45 by Michael Schmidt, and Mossless Vol. 1. Remember, you only need a Google+ account to leave comments and/or discuss the books…
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Conscientious Extended
Longer articles and interviews about fine-art photography and extended interviews with its leading practitioners.
Photography and Trust
As a photographer, you won’t get around bringing your desire to photography, just as a viewer you do the same thing. You have no choice. As I have argued before, photography must fail if that desire is denied. But desire does not automatically create good photography. An equally crucial factor is trust. As a photographer, you have to trust your photographs. You have to trust that they say what you want them to say. Or more accurately, you have to realize that your subconscious mind is bringing more things to photography than your conscious mind might realize. (more)
By Joerg Colberg | Jan 25, 2012