Arrifana (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
31 December 2009
26 December 2009
FOCUS: “Altas Luzes” by Rita Carmo
21 December 2009
17 December 2009
15 December 2009
14 December 2009
13 December 2009
07 December 2009
FOCUS: “Father:Land” by Ara Oshagan
“My father died in June 2000.
A few years before that, he and I decided to embark on a project about Karabagh: a remote mountainous area next to Armenia. A region where the Armenians fought and won a fierce war of independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A region still with militarized borders and no political recognition. A place in transformation: the people, the land, the very way of life in political, social, existential upheaval. A place that is part of our distant homeland.
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Father:Land is a project about origins and identity. A project about a place and a people emerging out of a dark history, transforming, forging a new identity, searching for themselves and a new way of life. And also about a very personal becoming, an emergence.”
in Burn Magazine
Ara Oshagan’s website
05 December 2009
04 December 2009
FOCUS: “The Accidental Theorist” by Edgar Martins
“The imagery of The Accidental Theorist is less a set of pictures than a series of moments that have become independent of causation or function. It resembles a set of location shots for unmade films from lost scenarios. I am often drawn to spaces where I can prioritise poetic memory over concrete topographies.
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Shooting largely on the same set of Portuguese beaches over a period of two years, I sought to distance myself from conventional spatial representation.
Shot with a an analogue 4x5 large format camera and making use of long exposures (but not long enough to register star trails) the images are surprisingly flat. “