Paris (France), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
31 August 2009
23 August 2009
FOCUS: “North Korea” by Eric Lafforgue
Miss Kim is a guide in the War Museum in Pyongyang, North Korea. She speaks perfect French as she lived in Algeria when she was a kid. So in 2008, she took care of the 25 French tourists who came in her museum.
Q:Last month, two American journalists, two women, were caught by the government.
R:Last year?
Q:No, this year, a month ago, did you not hear about this? All the media are talking about it, in France, in the US.
R:Two women journalists? Americans?
Q:Yes yes, they wanted to film and take photos at the border, and the government said that they would get ten years manual labor. You hadn’t heard of this story?
R:No, it’s the first time I’ve heard of this, but they deserved it, no?
Q:They deserved it?
R:Yes, they deserved it. Spying is not good.
in Burn Magazine
Eric Lafforgue’s website
21 August 2009
The best …
… surprise is when someone which you admire for his art actually honors you with one of his oeuvre:
Based on this photo.
Ruaz publishes his amazing watercolors in:
http://homemdofarol.blogspot.com/
The blog is in Portuguese but the watercolors speak for themselves.
20 August 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Paris (France), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
19 August 2009
18 August 2009
17 August 2009
FOCUS: “Hometown" by Mike Berube
“Hometown is a collection of images that centers around the effects that the current recession has had on the place i call home. Oshawa Ontario in rural Canada in particular, has been hit very hard by these changes, with General Motors factory closures and home evictions and rising drug trafficking. So far, close to 250,000 people have lost their jobs, and as the downtown sector closes down, stores and shops become a haven for drug dealers and gangs turning a once peaceful downtown into violent ground. But this essay is not as much about the recession as it is about people and the loss and isolation endured through these changes. The emptiness and the separation that has followed and still continues…”
in Burn Magazine
Mike Berube’s webpage
16 August 2009
15 August 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Lisbon (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
12 August 2009
From the series: Deus Ex Machina
In the ancient Greek dramatic theater (and later on the Roman), to enhance the ‘terrible’ effect, a deity’s statue was lowered by means of a machinery – the Deus Ex Machina. Often, this was the turnaround point, when the divinity would bring the solution to a difficulty or to a probable dead end. Still, today’s people expect their god to bring them miracles as a reward of their faith. It is their despair that keeps the machina working.
Deus ex machina comes from Latin and is literally ‘god from a machine’. The camera, made from intricate mechanisms, mirrors and optical prisms, is a perfect alchemist tool were inorganic chemistry delivers the epistemological immortality imprisoned in the gelatinous emulsion. The camera as the machina.
Lisbon (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
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