notebook of a photography student var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11826028-6"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @reinis)http://blog.reinis.es/<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzw0efrBn1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Dagenham Heathway<br/><br/> <img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzw0efrBn1qaxlx3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>‘Dagenham Heathway’ (2004) from ‘A Scape’ and Untitled (2004) from ’Nonsuch’ by Steffi Klenz.</p> <p>Steffi is an emerging photographer originally from Germany who visited my university to give a guest talk last year. </p> <p>I mostly enjoy her earlier series where she looks at the issues of non-places, peripheries of city and their strange relationship with reality. Check her <a href="http://www.steffiklenz.co.uk/" title="steffiklenz.co.uk" target="_blank">website</a> for more beauty and more personal projects she tends to do now. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/17176991553http://blog.reinis.es/post/17176991553Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:31:26 +0200photographyuniversitybrighton2012steffi klenz<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymst1kPoK1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> h.e.k. 04<br/><br/> <img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymst1kPoK1qaxlx3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> nudes wr 30<br/><br/> <img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymst1kPoK1qaxlx3o3_400.jpg"/><br/> porträt<br/><br/> <img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymst1kPoK1qaxlx3o4_500.jpg"/><br/> 17h 51min / 22°<br/><br/> <p>‘h.e.k. 04’ (2000), ’nudes wr 30’ (2000), porträt (1998) and ‘17h 51min / 22°’ (1990) by Thomas Ruff.</p> <p>A more contemporary artist that has been a constant inspiration for me lately - Thomas Ruff. After graduating from the influental Dusseldorf Kunstakademie his work has kept questioning the boundaries of photography and art. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/16778987950http://blog.reinis.es/post/16778987950Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:55:00 +02002012artphotographyukthomas ruff<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymrnaSY2E1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Ema (Nude on a Staircase)<br/><br/> <img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymrnaSY2E1qaxlx3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> September<br/><br/> <p>‘Ema (Nude on a Staircase)’ (1966) and ’September’ (2005) by German artist <a href="http://www.gerhard-richter.com/" title="gerhard-richter.com" target="_blank">Gerhard Richter</a>. </p> <p>I was lucky enough to see his retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern and be truly amazed by his different stylistics and approaches of creating art that he has mastered throughout his career. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/16777581883http://blog.reinis.es/post/16777581883Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:32:18 +0200artpaintinggerhard richteruk2012<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxleaxFxWQ1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>As I’m doing just great I have agreed to contribute at the <a href="http://goodandyou.tumblr.com/" title="goodandyou.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">good and you?</a> tumblr blog for the next 30 days. Feel free to follow my everyday life snapshots! </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/15623498537http://blog.reinis.es/post/15623498537Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:08:57 +0200photographyuniversitybrightonlatvia2012<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/34648342?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=1&loop=1" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.noahkalina.com/post/15400052561/prints-on-my-table" target="_blank">noahkalina</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>prints on my table</p> </blockquote> <p>Noah Kalina is one of my favourite editorial photographers </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/15447972302http://blog.reinis.es/post/15447972302Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:36:27 +0200photography2012latvia<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx7zzz6oUa1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I know, I know - everyone’s been talking (virally) about <a href="http://frieke.com/#!/projects/smoking-kids/37/" title="frieke.com/smoking-kids" target="_blank">this project</a> by Belgian photographer <a href="http://frieke.com/" title="frieke.com" target="_blank">Frieke Janssens</a> lately but isn’t it just amazing? And when was the last time when general public was so amazed by a photographic project? </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/15237190716http://blog.reinis.es/post/15237190716Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:31:11 +0200photography2012<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx11oo1jsq1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Mark Boyarski<br/><br/> <img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx11oo1jsq1qaxlx3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Lee Wing Ki <br/><br/> <p>‘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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>These two prints I got myself from the nice <a href="http://issp.lv/en/" title="issp.lv" target="_blank">ISSP</a> garage sale just a couple of days ago.</p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/15032580679http://blog.reinis.es/post/15032580679Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:24:00 +0200photographyISSPlatvia2011<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwm40pEdTY1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>‘Isabella’ (2001) by german artist Loretta Lux. </p> <p>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. <a href="http://www.lorettalux.de/" title="lorettalux.de" target="_blank">Her website</a> is full of this beauty!  </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/14619015683http://blog.reinis.es/post/14619015683Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:50:49 +0200photographyuniversitybrighton2011<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvs2r1wHp81qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Self portrait (2000) by Gillian Wearing, one of the contemporary portraiture pioneers. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/13821995218http://blog.reinis.es/post/13821995218Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:35:00 +02002011brightonphotographyuniversityuk<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvacquFAZy1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Edward Hopper<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvacquFAZy1qaxlx3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Hannah Starkey<br/><br/> <p>‘Hotel by Railroad’ (1952) by Edward Hopper</p> <p>Untitled (1998) by Hannah Starkey</p> <p>Studies of place, space, non-place and other locations in context of modernity. </p> <p>‘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.’ </p> <p>Raymond Williams from ’The Country and the City’ (1973)</p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/13406234648http://blog.reinis.es/post/13406234648Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:24:08 +0200ukbirghtonuniversityphotography2011<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvabktGCbO1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Lewis Baltz<br/><br/> <img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvabktGCbO1qaxlx3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> John Goto<br/><br/> <img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvabktGCbO1qaxlx3o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Edward Burtynksy<br/><br/> <p>Studies of the topographic image, picturesque and sublime in landscape photography.</p> <p>’New Industrial Parks #23’ (1974) by Lewis Baltz</p> <p>’Hunters’ from ‘High Summer’ (2001) by John Goto</p> <p>‘<span>Silver Lake Operation #1, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia’ (2007)</span> by Edward Burtynsky</p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/13362003898http://blog.reinis.es/post/13362003898Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:30:51 +0200ukbrightonuniversity2011photography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luv4rqrZWQ1r6b7wpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Happy birthday my dear! See you on the 10th of December! </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/12980723307http://blog.reinis.es/post/12980723307Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:44:55 +0200latviaphotographyriga<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu962ulrkl1qaxlx3o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>From ‘Flogging a Dead Horse’ (1993) by Paul Reas.</p> <p>Reas together with Martin Parr and other British photographers formed an unofficial group that through their approach completely changed the documentary photography in the second half of 20th century. </p> <p>Paul gave us a very interesting guest talk at the university - it definitely changed my opinion about his and also Parr’s work. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/12922553189http://blog.reinis.es/post/12922553189Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:01:00 +0200photographybrightonukuniversity2011<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltzpsy2WkJ1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>‘Coney Island, N.Y., USA’ (1993) by Rineke Dijkstra. Studies of the contemporary photographic portraiture. </p> <p>‘A prominent and distinct strand has become established in contemporary art photography in which people are depicted in uniform series, usually one per picture, and placed centrally in that picture, facing the camera head on and gazing into the lens.’</p> <p>Intro from ‘What’s in a Face? The Trace of Ethnography in Contemporary Art Photography’ (2007) by Julian Stallabrass. You can find this and other essays of his <a title="courtauld.ac.uk/stallabrass" href="http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/stallabrass_julian/writings.shtml" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/12199989265http://blog.reinis.es/post/12199989265Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:37:00 +0200ukbrightonuniversityphotography2011<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lty98aoeOl1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>’The Jewish Type’ (1924) by Francis Galton. Studies of subjugated portraiture in photography. </span></p> <p><span>Galton tried to generalize distinct groups of types (e.g. murderers from criminals) and create what he called ‘composite images’ by combining several portraits into one, which had the power of showing the typical physical features of a group. </span></p> <p><span>He is known for his ideas of eugenics*. Galton believed </span>that improvement of society was possible by ‘sup-planting the human stock by better strains’.</p> <p>*Science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race</p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/12173039167http://blog.reinis.es/post/12173039167Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:33:46 +0200brightonukuniversityphotography2011<p><a href="http://dariaprokofyeva.tumblr.com/post/12128366937/an-o-nym-i-ty-the-quality-or-state-of-being" target="_blank">dariaprokofyeva</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="p1">an·o·nym·i·ty </p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2">* - The quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged. </span>In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual’s personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.</p> <p class="p3"><img height="340" width="500" src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltw79opfMS1qdlmzoo1_500.jpg"/></p> <p class="p3"><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltw6iliC8q1qdlmzoo1_r1_500.jpg"/></p> </blockquote> <p>My course mate Daria from Russia has done a very beautiful project on identity. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/12131156484http://blog.reinis.es/post/12131156484Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:03:00 +0200brightonukuniversity2011photography<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjctvv2lV1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Seaside seems to follow me.</p> <p>A friendly suggestion: watch <a title="flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinelis/6270486250/sizes/o/in/photostream/" target="_blank">here</a> to see more.</p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/11832576472http://blog.reinis.es/post/11832576472Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:27:00 +0300photographyukbrightonuniversity2011<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YaItfZxI7sU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a title="melaniemanchot.net" href="http://www.melaniemanchot.net/" target="_blank">Melanie Manchot</a>, photographer and video artist, visited University of Brighton to give a talk for us - I was quite inspired by her way of shifting between projects and choosing the medium for them. </p> <p>Unfortunately I couldn’t find the video piece ‘<a title="melaniemanchot.net/celebration-cyprus-street" href="http://www.melaniemanchot.net/category/celebration-cyprus-street/" target="_blank">Celebration (Cyprus Street)</a>‘ online so you can only look at it in background but the added bonus is you can listen to her interview.</p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/11791111880http://blog.reinis.es/post/11791111880Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:19:00 +0300photographyvideobrightonukuniversity2011<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltdpe61aNk1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltdpe61aNk1qaxlx3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Testing out Mamiya and 6x7 format and warming up for my identity project at university. </p> <p>Līva - my Latvian friend who lives in Brighton and whom I met in Shanghai. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/11700717004http://blog.reinis.es/post/11700717004Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:13:00 +0300photographymamiya2011brightonuniversityuk<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt615dYIHq1qaxlx3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Had a pretty nice birthday celebration. </p>http://blog.reinis.es/post/11526485396http://blog.reinis.es/post/11526485396Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:46:00 +03002011brightonuktennisphotography