Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
By Kiša Lala
© Shane Vincent, Stay Connected, from 'Stand in Line' 2011
© Shane Vincent, All Directions, from 'Stand in Line' 2011
Nineteen year old street photographer Shane Vincent has an eye for capturing those ephemeral moments when the changing light transforms the mundane into the sublime.
The project, Stand in Line, came about when Vincent began photographing utility poles in the streets of North London where he lives: “The series started at a time where the sky looked pretty cool,” he says. “It was autumn so it would change constantly. It caused me to look up a lot.” The outcome of his first photograph, Stay connected of a utility pole “with wires coming out at all directions,” was captivating enough, recollects the young photographer, that it caused him to pay more regard to the perpendicular poles and lampposts which most take for granted and which habitually punctuate the urban horizon. By isolating them against the vivid autumnal sky, and shooting them from an anamorphic perspective, Vincent enhanced their geometric abstractions.
© Shane Vincent, Change Direction, from 'Stand in Line' 2011
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Tags: Kisa Lala, London, Photography, Shane Vincent
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Saturday, December 17th, 2011
Tom Sachs, Leica M6, © Tom Sachs
Tom Sachs has an extensive series of cameras that he sometimes re-constructs from machine parts of other devices, rebranding them to explore their value in relation to consumer desire – ‘Like a Leica,’ was one such artwork from his inventory of image makers. His first was a clay replica of a Nikon SLR camera he made for his father when he was eight years old.
Tom Sachs, Untitled (CE Wood Leica) © Tom Sachs
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Tags: cameras, Film, Photography, Tom Sachs
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Gypsy woman showing her golden smile - Romania - © Photo Kisa Lala 2011
Living on the edges of townships in the grey zones between cities, the Gypsies of Central Europe stay off the grid. Myths, rumours, lies cloud their histories for they leave few traces and heed no rules, instead, they live off the land, and sometimes they beg, thieve and steal.
Count Kalnoky tells me, that at his residence, in the village of Miklosvar in Romania, where I was staying as a guest, he was indeed wireless: the gypsies had cut the cables to fence the copper for their lawless trade.
The roving life seems romantic, but it’s not for the timid. To winter in open fields, to bed in barns, wagons, trailers means Gypsies are strong in their will to be free. They barter for work and stow their riches in silver and gold, knowing it can’t burn like paper, or vanish when people stop believing in its value. Gypsies are always on the move but when they halt, they build silvery houses, knowing if all else fails, they can just melt the metals and leave.
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Tags: Gypsy, Iain McKell, Kisa Lala, Miklosvar, Patrick Cariou, Photography, Romania, Romanies
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
© Bobby Fisher, Nihiwatu, Indonesia, August 2010
I liked what I saw of Bobby Fisher’s images of Ashley Bickerton’s place in Bali and asked about his impressions of shooting in Indonesia. Fisher’s been a surfer since he was ten, so he was not only stoked about his T Magazine project to shoot Ashley in Bali – but was also keen because it was one of the planet’s premiere surf spots.
Says Fisher, “To surf the legendary Uluwatu on the island of Bali was a life long quest finally fulfilled…if you surf, it’s one of those places that’s a must on the check list before you kick off to that big ocean in the sky!”
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Tags: Art, Ashley Bickerton, Bali, Bobby Fisher, Environment, Indonesia, New York Times Magazine, Nihiwatu, Padang, Photography, surfing, T magazine, travel, Uluwatu
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
Moby photographed in his studio by Justin Hollar
Moby, Destroyed, Desert California
By Kiša Lala – Part 2 of Interview. Read Part One
The crowd pictures are not really about individual people.
Sometimes things become very familiar to us. So much so that we don’t see them, have no insight into them… I’m more drawn to places that people have created but not occupied. It’s almost like forensics, looking and then trying to understand what led humans to create these bizarre, empty, isolated places.
The last 160 years of photography, it’s safe to say that 99% of the pictures taken have been of people.
This is your first photography project?
Yes. I have made a lot of records. There is this dialectic created when you put a record out into the world. There is a relationship to the person experiencing it, because they re-present my work back to me, which enables me to see the work more clearly, and because the work is personal, it allows me to see myself with a degree of objectivity.
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Tags: Interview, Kisa Lala, Los Angeles, Moby, new york, Photography
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Moby photographed in his studio by Justin Hollar
Moby – Destroyed, lausanne a sea of people. i particularly like how the form of the crowd reflects the topography.
Pathways connect cities, direct travelers through them. In between lies fallow earth, empty lots, desert plains. Moby’s new book captures the density of space as it expands and condenses around city centres and rarefies to the ether above. His gaze falls outside of things into places never looked at, empty sky over urban sprawls, arid lands, the foam-flecked seas, the spaces between cities where forests grow. Estranged in a metal tube afloat in space Moby’s vision seems to hover, then plummet through city ports past tunnels, terminals and paths into arenas of convulsing crowds.
A big part of the artist’s life is based on touring and he launches into another soon for his new album and book entitled Destroyed – inspired by, and created during touring (The title comes from the LED display that reads “Unattended Luggage Will be Destroyed,” which Moby snapped as it flashed up in a deserted hallway at NY’s La Guardia airport).
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Tags: Interview, Kisa Lala, Los Angeles, Moby, new york, Photography
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Tim Hetherington
Photo-journalist Tim Hetherington was killed by a rocket propelled grenade on April 20th while photographing in the front lines in Misrata, Libya. There’s been much public praise written about his contribution to conflict photography and his recent Oscar-nominated film Restrepo, and justly so, but I struggle with writing this post because Tim was also a friend.
My times with Tim were decidedly lighthearted as his exploits in war seemed an abstract and distant affair from his staid life in Brooklyn. Still, when we spoke about his experiences in Liberia or Afghanistan his eyes would light up with the thrill of adventure. When I told him of a possible para-gliding trip to Nepal, he was instantly excited by the opportunity. Tim had trained in sky-diving and had dozens of dives under his belt – but he did not need bragging rights as his tales were altogether too real to be lofty – like when he broke his leg in Afghanistan while embedded with US troops, filming Restrepo. He had continued his march despite his injury not wanting to hold up the troops, and because the medic had lied, not wanting to alarm him. Yet Tim was not fool-hardy and was prepared for strife, so it surprises me that he was not wearing protective gear in Libya.
©Tim A Hetherington: From series on Sleeping Soldiers
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Tags: Graydon Carter, Kisa Lala, Liberia, Libya, photo-journalist, Photography, Restrepo, Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington, Vanity Fair
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Bill Cunningham photographing in the street, in BILL CUNNINGHAM, A film by Richard Press, 2011
Bill Cunningham, the NY Times fashion photographer has been ubiquitous in the streets of New York for many decades chronicling the fads and frills of the city’s dandies, and canonizing them in the paper’s weekly column. At last a film has captured the man always behind the camera.
The film documents the sprightly 82 year old Mr. Cunningham on his daily sojourns, by bicycle, to his regular haunts, like the junction of 5th Avenue and 57th Street, where he’s a common fixture – and if one makes the cut that day – that is, if Cunningham’s camera hand goes up as one wanders past – it might well be the highest accolade granted any New Yorker, a certified salute to their sartorial elegance. But if he doesn’t, then, as Anna Wintour says in the film, it is simply death…
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Tags: Anna Wintour, Bill Cunningham, Fashion, Kisa Lala, new york, Photography, Richard Press
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
By Kiša Lala
© Jean-François Rauzier, Clé de voûte
French born photographer Jean-François Rauzier’s hyper-photos envision other worlds – with the same density and clarity of detail – the way our own eyes actually see. Rauzier weds painting and technology to create these elaborate C-Type photographic prints using imaging software on Apple macs capable of handling 30-40 gigabytes of data – to capture enough detail to develop large format prints 30 feet by 10 feet – without loss of quality. In fact, the high resolution of the images allow them to be enlarged to as much as 50 metres without degradation.
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Tags: Jean-François Rauzier, Kisa Lala, London, Photography, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
By Helen Shih
Photo: Nick & Chloé/Bernstein & Andriulli
Photography duo Nick & Chloé take you into a dark world inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet for their photo-story “Elsinore” in the latest issue of SPREAD|Artculture magazine. The setting of the play is Elsinore, the Danish royal castle where the young prince Hamlet struggles with the recent passing of his father, King Hamlet, and the many deaths that ensue in his desire for revenge.
Nick & Chloé’s modern interpretation takes place in a Paquebot-style machine factory built in the 1960s in the French suburbs. Notes the photographers, “We thought it was the perfect location to echo Hamlet’s home, Elsinore. The map is a clue, indicating capitalism and industry. We also wanted to echo the end of an empire, a feeling of crisis.”
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Tags: dark, France, hamlet, nick and chloe, photo story, Photography, shakespeare, tragedy
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