Those interested in urban spaces (and fake nature) will find a lot of imagery in Mathilde Mestrallet’s portfolios. This image is from Avant les forêts.
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This is an image from Chris Dorley-Brown’s fabulous The Corners.
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As far as I can tell Julia Hetta’s photographs are all commissioned work. There are many gems here - make sure to look through the whole set!
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A good eye for symmetry requires a good eye for asymmetry. Just the right amount of asymmetry, just the right amount of confusion will make any symmetric photography much better: It truly brings a photograph to life. Georg Aerni’s Promising Bay is a perfect example.
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This is an image from Ulrich Lebeuf’s extended portrait Tropique du Cancer, for which, alas, information is hard to come by.
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“The museum, an institution to preserve and interpret the material evidence of the human race, has a long history, springing from an innate human desire to collect and interpret the world around us. By deciding how the past is presented and memorialized, museums not only preserve the past, they also play an important role in the construction of our ideologies, identities and the understanding and interpretation of ourselves.” - Jason Larkin about Past Perfect
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I have the feeling that many people will prefer Filip Dujardin’s Fictions over his Sheds. Fictions, of course, is well done. But at the end of the day, you know the constructs are not real. Contrast that with Sheds: Here, it’s not the photographer who made them, it’s other people - leading occasionally to cases which are as absurd as the Fictions.
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China’s western parts are very different from its coastal regions where most of the economic boom is happening. There are ethnic (and religious) minorities, which has led to considerable tensions (and violence) - with Beijng reacting to it as can be expected: A growing military presence. Chloe Dewe Mathews portrays that part of China in China’s Wild West.
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Forever Beautiful by Evgenia Arbugaeva looks into beauty and aging (and our ideas of beauty and age).
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Playground by Jeroen Hofman shows training grounds used by Dutch emergency personnel.
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Colin Gray’s Nina Goes Shopping shows the photographer’s daughter shopping for stuff - a great take on consumerism.
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This is an image from Salvi Danés’ impressive and haunting Dark Isolation Tokyo.
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Fil­ippo Bran­coli Pan­tera’s Tuscany’s B side shows scenes from the region that are very different from the ones known from tourist brochures. (via)
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Peter Hebeisen’s Metamorphosis and Myth shows the locations of major battles in Europe during the 20th Century (Verdun, Stalingrad, Sarajevo, etc.). The photographer writes that “the haunting landscapes reveal how healing is linked is linked with forgetting and ignorance.”
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Good Night London by Jesús Madriñán contains some great portraiture.
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Simone Donati’s Valley of Angels portrays a family living off the grid in South Eastern Sicily.
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Photographs from the mess that is Afghanistan: François Fleury’s Afghanistan - Blast.
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Valeria Mitelman’s website is filled with images, this one’s from Circus, focusing on artists working in Belarus’ state circus.
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For The British Watershed Line, Jason Bascombe produced beautiful landscapes near the line that divides water flowing east (towards the North Sea) and west (towards the Atlantic Ocean).
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“This series of images is a reflection of the mentally ill who exist in the suburbs of Britain. Suburbia is ‘home’ for many people and yet behind closed doors a number of untold drama’s play out daily.” - Daniel Keys about his Silent Spring
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Denis Tarasov’s Zoo uses simple reflections very smartly to create an often unsettling view of animals held in captivity.
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Nigel Bennet is one of the winners of this year’s Conscientious Portfolio Competition. Find my conversation with him here.
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Psychonauts by Francesca E. Harris portrays “persons who explore their minds through the use of psychoactive drugs”.
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Family by AnaStasia Rudenko looks at domestic violence, using powerful imagery.
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Juan Margolles’ Tierra de Nadie looks at what used to be No Man’s Land between West and East Berlin.
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Last Best Hiding Place by Tim Richmond is part of his four-year project End of the Oil (via). Definitely also check out Facade.
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Andrey Ivanov’s Shipwrecked Souls is one of those projects based on a simple idea that just works. I wish there were more images, though.
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The images in Hannah Lucy Jones’ To Happiness, Endlessly were compiled during a trip across England, in the words of the photographer “a diary of what I saw, who I met, and where I went.”
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This is a portraits from Enda Bowe’s Teannalach, a beautiful body of work.
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“Do people in the latter days of state transition stay connected to a past of which they have no memories and of which the last traces slowly disappear? School nr. 7 is a documentary of the first generation after the Cold War in Bulgaria and depicts growing up in an adolescent society. The country is a place, where the old stereotypes have disappeared, but are not jet replaced by new ones.” - Vesselina Nikolaeva
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Maarten Boswijk’s Eventually portrays Bulgarian Black Sea resorts that aren’t quite making it (yet?).
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This is an image from Mette Frandsen’s Sin City, which pulls no punches.
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About 33 Horizons, Damien Sivier writes “soon after arriving in Switzerland, the idea of a country enclosed within Europe, without any direct access to the sea, was intriguing me. I wanted then to build a catalogue of landscapes evoking this feeling of isolation. […] However, it became soon evident that there was a discrepancy between what I actually photographed and what I initially foresaw.”
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Chloe Borkett’s East of the River portrays “teenagers growing up in the frozen conflict zone and unrecognised country of Prenostrovie Rupublica Moldova”. (via)
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This is an image from Richard Higginbottom’s Vivarium. I don’t want to give too much away about it, so look at the whole series on Richard’s website.
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Alnis Stakle’s Ilgas portrays a remote study basis of a Latvian university (via).
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More about the Swiss Alps: Vanessa Püntener’s Alp.
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Anoek Steketee’s Dreamcity portrays amusement/theme parks all over the world (incl. some unexpected locations).
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This is an image from Eva Vermandel’s lovely series Splinter.
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This is an image from Stefano Giogli’s The Only Thing That Would be Different Would Be You, probably best viewed via this Zone Zero page.
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Meet Las Luchadoras by Nick Ballon - Bolivian wrestling.
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“Gorelovka is small village in the middle of taiga in 800 km from Novosibirsk. This place is hard to find even in the Google Map. That’s why it is the best place to escape and hide. Many years ago Christian Old Believers came here to avoid church reform. Then ‘kulaks’ (wealthy peasant) chose this place to escape from Soviet rule. Now many ‘new world antagonists’ came here to live without passports, internet, personal numbers and government.” - Olya Ivanova
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Loch Ness by Jamie Stoker beautifully captures the atmosphere around the Loch (I remember a couple of visits to Scotland, ages ago).
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This is an image from Paul Osman’s Confessionals.
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Missing by Pauline Magnenat “focuses on places where people who disappeared without ever found dead or alive were seen for the last time.”
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A little while ago, Markus Schaden showed me a book dummy for Ricardo Cases’ Paloma Al Aire. The (real) story is about a group of men who mark pigeons with colour and then place bets on them. I hope there’ll be a publisher for the book somewhere… Update (16 June 2011): The book has been published. Buy it here. (thanks, David!)
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Julia Peirone’s Latest Works are the kinds of photos that most people would probably delete, because it’s just not what we want to see. Works beautifully, though.
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Kim Høltermand’s website is filled with work, and you’ll probably spend quite a bit of time looking through the different projects. The work occasionally is a bit on the decorative side, but it’s time well spent.
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“Something tells us that these beings are not fully human. There is a disenganged, robotic quality to them. Yet Eva Lauterlein’s subjects [in chimères] are real, and human - to a degree. Or rather to several degrees. Their faces and bodies are computer-aided reconstructions from photographs of real men and woman she knows, with as many as forty different photographs employed.” (quoted from From Face: The New Photographic Portrait by William A.Ewing with Nathalie Herschodorfer; via)
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It might be a bit hard to believe but Nicholas Mason’s Versificator was produced using Google Street View. The images are more than mere screen shots, though. This might be the artistically most ambitious Google Street View project I’ve seen so far.
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