Take a look at the stop motion animated photographs for Vogue Hommes in Japan for release on the ipad, iphone etc, it’s pretty amazing. It’s also quite possibly the future of editorial photography as magazines and newspapers cease hard copy production and move towards digital readers.
Also, take a look at Dominique Palombo’s video for designer Rachel Roy, a winner in the PDN Photo Annual, in the Video category introduced this year. Palombo, a photographer and director, worked with dancers, choreographed by Jermaine Browne, to create the five-minute video. The idea, she says, was to use different styles of movement to showcase the designer’s Spring 2011 line.
To experience Simen Johan’s most recent work, Until Kingdom Comes, is to immerse oneself into a realm where fantasy and reality collide and where the mystical is born out through biblical mythology.
Johan’s images are crafted using traditional photographic techniques combined with Photoshop manipulations. Live or taxidermied animals (fig. 1 and fig. 2) are placed into both natural and man-made environments reflecting a troubled connection between man and species and blurring boundaries between the real and unreal, beauty and brutality. The title of the work implies that these conditions will continue until the biblical prophesy of the end of the world comes to fruition. Then and only then will life come to a blissful resolution.
The current work references several animals endowed with Biblical symbolism. Johan presents us with the Lamb of God, entangled serpents, and a tree of doves all of which point to life and to death. The lamb (fig. 3) sits majestically under the canopy of a tree. A slight smile drawn across its face, similar to that of the Mona Lisa, suggests that the lamb knows something we do not.
Fig. 3
A nest of snakes (fig. 4) is seen against the background of what appears to be a quarry.
Fig. 4
They feast on an endless supply of rats, doves and flamingos that descend from the world above, a world of light and flight down to a world of shadow and death. The doves, (fig. 5) white as snow, are marked impure by the red of the berries they seek.
For every photograph of graceful creatures and pristine landscapes, there are portrayals of animals showing pain, fear or exhaustion in landscapes that are more desolate than beautiful (fig 6 and fig.7).
Daniel Echevarria and Natalie Minik are the co-founder and editor for the recently launched online photography publication One One Thousand | A Publication of Southern Photography (http://oneonethousand.org/).
The site was launched in November and has already featured the work of ten photographers from eight Southeastern states.
striving to become a useful resource for photographers in
the region and abroad. Once a month on their blog, they
highlight grants, calls to photographers, and competitions currently open
in the South and the rest of nation.
All students of photography and any one who wants to keep up with the arts in the South, head on over to One One Thousand and check them out!
Aperture announced the 2010 Portfolio Prize winners last week and David Favrod took top honors for his series Gaijin. Born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Swiss father, he was raised in Switzerland. Although he was exposed to his Japanese roots by family stories told by his mother, and by his own travels to Japan, David was denied dual citizenship when he turned 18. This rejection made him explore his place in the world and create images that combine his worlds.
Picturing Life 