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Tom Griggs from the great fototazo started compiling an International Sites Google Map – comprising international photography blogs, online magazines, and pages highlighting sites that promote photographers from countries and cultures less frequently seen, for example from Central and South America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
„The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
And the winners are… 1st prize: Dagmar Keller / Martin Wittwer: »Passengers« 2nd prize: Carmen Catuti: »Liebe Grüße aus 18500m Höhe, MICHELLE« 3rd prize: Andrea Botto: »19.06_26.08.1945«
22 June – 23 September 2012 Martin-Gropius-Bau Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin
15 March – 10 June 2012 Martin-Gropius-Bau Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin
Museum für Fotografie / Helmut Newton Foundation Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin Fri 9 March – Sun 17 June 2012
My passion for photography started in earnest with the birth of my son. I had always enjoyed the photograph as an object but with his arrival came the need to record our lives. After the birth of my daughter I found that I was photographing as a way of exploring my own childhood memories as …
During my career, I have chosen projects that have required me to visit metaphorically “dark places.” Photographing 12 Nazi Concentration Camps decades after their use was a harrowing journey into places of darkness permeated, still, with the residue of evil and violence.
A specter of darkness loomed as I documented my mother’s torturous demise from having smoked more than a million cigarettes. During her last months she encouraged me to photograph her and our relationship became more gratifying because of the time spent together during those sessions. But, while we derived pleasure from collaborating on 1,029,398 Cigarettes, our enjoyment was bittersweet as we both knew her death was imminent. The photographs my mother allowed me to make are a testament to her fierce bravery that wasn’t enough to prevent her passing at 66.
The photographs from Dark Places were made with an iPhone camera in dark places — inside the pockets of my clothing. Despite being created in such prosaic sites, these pictures satisfy the need for ambiguity, mystery and symbolic darkness in my photography.
Unseen, Amsterdam’s first international photography fair, announces it’s inaugural 2012 edition, which will take place in Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek from September 20 – 23.
In the installation Canto Yellow, by Anne Lindberg, the thread manages the paradox of becoming a tridimensional line, a drawing in space, while at the same time conserving the lightness of something imaginary – the lightness of an idea. Notwithstanding its undeniable physicality and space activation capability, the line has something ethereal and intangible about it. It remains in the realm of ideas.„
Catalog essay by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, curator of ‚Licoes da Lihna‘ at SESC Bom Retiro, Sao Paulo, Brazil