As I’m doing just great I have agreed to contribute at the good and you? tumblr blog for the next 30 days. Feel free to follow my everyday life snapshots!
I know, I know - everyone’s been talking (virally) about this project by Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens lately but isn’t it just amazing? And when was the last time when general public was so amazed by a photographic project?
‘Crossed Paths’ from ‘Mass Media System’ developed during the International Summer School of Photography 2011 in ’Still Life as Critical Aesthetics’ workshop by Russian photographer Mark Boyarsky.
Untitled from ‘Stories from Ezersalas Speciālā Internātpamatskola’ developed during the ISSP 2010 ‘True or False? (Vrai our Faux)’ workshop by Lee Wing Ki from Thailand.
These two prints I got myself from the nice ISSP garage sale just a couple of days ago.
‘Isabella’ (2001) by german artist Loretta Lux.
I couldn’t decide which portrait by Lux should I share with you so I went for the first one I saw some while ago. Her website is full of this beauty!
Self portrait (2000) by Gillian Wearing, one of the contemporary portraiture pioneers.
‘Hotel by Railroad’ (1952) by Edward Hopper
Untitled (1998) by Hannah Starkey
Studies of place, space, non-place and other locations in context of modernity.
‘From the late 18th century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the instinct of fellow-feeling is derived. Thus an essential isolation and silence and loneliness become the carriers of nature and community of the rigours, the cold abstinence, the selfish ease of ordinary society.’
Raymond Williams from ’The Country and the City’ (1973)
Studies of the topographic image, picturesque and sublime in landscape photography.
’New Industrial Parks #23’ (1974) by Lewis Baltz
’Hunters’ from ‘High Summer’ (2001) by John Goto
‘Silver Lake Operation #1, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia’ (2007) by Edward Burtynsky
