07 August 2012
05 August 2012
02 August 2012
30 July 2012
26 July 2012
24 July 2012
FOCUS: A Wide View of a Hellish World, by Bruce Jackson
Using a Widelux (panoramic camera that makes 24 x 59 mm negatives), Bruce sarted to take photographs of an Arkansas prison which he described as "hell in Arkansas". Some of those pictures can be seen here.
22 July 2012
13 February 2011
Goodbye Gérard
Gérard Castello-Lopes, one of the best known Portuguese photographers died yesterday in Paris. Thanks to him, we now have a good illustration of the 50s in Portugal instead of the regime approved pictures. Some people called him the Portuguese Cartier-Breson. I prefer to say that Castello-Lopes was able to bring an European style to our endogenous country.
Thank you Gérard.
11 January 2011
Away
Due to some projects happening in simultaneous requiring my full effort I've paused posting here. However, please be informed that the return is imminent.
Cheers
Cheers
04 November 2010
30 October 2010
26 October 2010
21 October 2010
17 October 2010
14 October 2010
Large Format Camera with Paper
Yesterday Ricardo brought his Large Format camera to the lab. We took a 24x18 RC paper and placed it in the negative holder. Four minutes of exposure at f4.5 gave a dark negative print. This is the positive image from the digitalized negative. After this session we were happy like small kids. Can you blame us?
07 October 2010
30 September 2010
27 September 2010
19 September 2010
30 August 2010
25 August 2010
FOCUS: “Chica Barbie” by Carl Bower
“Set against a backdrop of poverty, crime, and the hemisphere’s longest running civil war, nowhere are the contests more ubiquitous and revered than in Colombia. In these carefully scripted shows of fantasy, beauty as a concept, commodity and singular goal is stripped to its raw elements. There is no ambiguity or pretense that anything else matters.
The queens are celebrities. Many of the roughly 400 contests a year can shut down a small town for days as thousands jam plazas and parade routes for a glimpse of them. Icons of a rigidly defined ideal, the contestants highlight the conflated relationship between beauty and attraction. Many of them seem familiar, stirring recollections of the same perfect features seen elsewhere, along with the identical flirtatious laughter, mock surprise and relentless optimism. In their quest for adoration, they erase all traces of individuality.”
Carl Bower’s website.
06 August 2010
05 August 2010
03 August 2010
Untitled
Douro’s region (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
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