Albert Kahn
August 21, 2008
If, like me, you were unfortunate enough to miss BBC Four’s documentary about Kahn’s ‘Archives of the Planet’ you’ll be glad to know that the whole thing is available to watch on BBC iPlayer until next Wednesday. I highly recommend you see it.
1000 Words
August 20, 2008
1000 Words is an online photography magazine “dedicated to highlighting the best work being produced internationally in photography today.” Issue 1 was launched very recently and there’s an interesting mix of work included, both from names I recognise and names I don’t. 1000 Words also has a blog that’s worth checking out. Incidentally a couple of my images from Fragments were featured on there recently, which reminds me – in the next few days I should have several new Fragments on my website. I’ve been stalling a bit over the past few weeks but I’m starting to get the itch again, so expect to see more new work in the near future…
Free Rangers 2: Martina Lindqvist
August 4, 2008
“Rågskär is a modest, rocky island situated 15 kilometres off the coast of central Finland. Mostly red, but sometimes a faded yello w or green, a few small, wooden cottages are scattered along the shoreline bearing witness to human presence within a space where otherwise there is none.
The island is a place where real and unreal finally dissolves, a place that can only exist in imagination. The island can only be touched in pictures by circumventing the usual way of the camera, and each image in the series is consequently an interpretation and a recreation in miniature of a holiday photograph lifted from its carefully arranged space in the family album. Rather than being tied to the physical properties of the real world these images look to tease out the character and personality of a rather shy dot in the sea. The photographs make visible something akin to an introspect reality which nonetheless seems just as real.”
