February 2012
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Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra is a photographer and video artist. In her work she looks for specific characteristics of individuals in group contexts. The paradox between identity and uniformity. Her subjects are often people in a transitional state. Adolescents between childhood and adulthood. She manages to convey the vulnerable side of her subjects, caught at a decisive moment of transition in their lives.
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“A photograph works best when the formal aspects such as light, colour and...”
– Rineke Dijkstra on popphoto.com
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As part of a project documenting children of refugees, Rinke Dijkstra started photographing Almerisa. Her family had relocated from Bosnian to Amsterdam.
Rinke Dijkstra continued photographing Almerisa and made eleven photographs from 1994 to 2008. The images maintain a consistent compositional format and show Almerisa’s development from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood, but...
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Rineke Dijkstra talks about here portrait series...
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“The Buzzclub” is Rineke Dijkstra first video work, which she did in Liverpool 1996/97. It shows teenagers dancing to acid house and rave music in “The Buzzclub”. By photographing the teenagers in front of a plain background in the club, she manages to emphasize the personalities of her subjects.
From the video, The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL,...
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“Beach Portraits” includes photographs, taken between 1992 and 1996 in Poland, the Ukraine, Belgium, Croatia, England and North America.
“I realized if you strip everything away, with no backgrounds and just the sea and sky and a bathing suit, it’s only about the pose and stance of people… if somebody is making a little gesture or has a ring on, you see it because there’s...
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Rineke Dijkstra’s photographed three young mothers after they’d given birth, without glamorizing it. One mother was photographed an hour after giving birth, another photographed one day afterwards, and the third one week later.
Don’t miss this VIDEO (I can’t embed it), where Rineke Dijkstra talks about the work.
Julie, Den Haag, Netherlands 1994 © Rineke Dijkstra
Saskia,...
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“Israel Portraits” was published in 2001 and shows the progress of new soldiers.
Within the series, Rineke Dijkstra portraits a young Israeli woman, Shany, from her first day in an army uniform until after she quit the army. As well Olivier from his induction into the French Foreign Legion, over the course of three years.
Shany, Induction-Centre Tel Hashomer, Israel, March 6,...
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“Portraits” was published to accompany a retrospective in Paris and features selections from Rineke Dijkstra’s various projects.
The subjects of these series have ranged from adolescent bathers to women with newborn babies, from Portuguese Bull Fighters to teenagers in nightclubs.
The artist’s talk on the Tate Chanel gives you a great insight of all of Rineke...
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Rafał Milach
Rafał Milach is a polish documentary photographer and a multimedia storyteller. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, and the Institute for Creative Photography (ITF) in Opava, Czech Republic.
For more than ten years he has been working on transition issues in Russian-speaking countries and the Central Eastern European region. His pictures have been honored with World...
“I enjoy first-person narration very much and, in fact, I am not that interested...”
– Rafał Milach interviewed by Mariusz Sledź on MODERNPHOTO
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“Young Russia” shows the youth in contemporary Post-Soviet Russia, which grew up after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is a long term project Rafał Milach started in 2004.
“For most of these people, USSR was a very early childhood. They are used to open borders and western pop culture flooding their homeland. For 2 years, I have been exploring the daily life of young people...
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In “Disappearing Circus” Rafał Milach portrayed retired circus artists at places, where some of them had been working for over 30 years.
“Circus used to be one of the most popular mass entertainments of communist time in Poland. Artists who performed in the circus at the time were heroes beloved by crowds. At their glory days, Polish circus artists worked for the biggest and...
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The series “Wunderland” is about the shopping center ‘Excalibur City’ at the Austrian-Czech border, which opened in 1993. It used to be one of the biggest duty free zones in the region. After EU enlargement in 2004 duty free zones were closed. ‘Excalibur City’ survived due to localization at the Czech territory and keeping low ‘Czech’ prices of alcohol, cigarettes and other goods....
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I love the idea of the “Very Beautiful Project”, it was made in just 10 days in Lodz, Poland.
“My image of the place was nothing more than a few stereotypes. Very breathily: industrial, dirty and neglected. All of that is visually attractive for photographer. But what is beautiful for one can be disgusting and shameful for the other.
Following this idea, I’ve decided to ask...
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Within the last few years the number of Polish hunters going out for safari has been constantly growing. Not everybody can afford this expensive hobby and not everybody can be a professional hunter. Jewelers, petrol station owners, businessmen and even bakers head to Namibia, Tanzania or Kamchatka to search for trophies. The only key is money. Every hunter’s dream is to shoot down the big five:...
“As most printed media is shrinking, and most magazines switch more and more...”
– Rafal Milach on feature shoot
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“Black Sea of Concrete” is another series of Rafał Milach, that is devoted to the countries of the former Soviet Union. Assigned by a Belgium-based NGO, Altemus, to photograph contemporary Ukraine, it focuses on portraits, landscapes and the life of the people of the Crimea region. ”Black Sea of Concrete”, won the Grand Prize of “Photography Book Now”, print...
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“7 Rooms” was published by Kehrer Verlag, in an edition of 900 copies, including 100 copies, which are signed and numbered with a 13x18cm signed print. Ania Nałęcka (Tapir Book Design), who designed already “Black Sea of Concrete”, was responsible for the design and the text is by Svetlana Alexievich.
Over the course of six years, Rafał Milach photographed seven young...
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“In The Car With R” is Rafał Milach latest book, which was designed by Ania Nalecka (Tapir Book Design) and published by Czytelnia Sztuki Gallery in an edition of 700, including 50 Special Edition copies. It has 4 optional covers and each book contains a poster. ”In The Car With R” won the “New York Photo Awards 2011” and “Photography Book Now...
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January 2012
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Vanessa Winship
Vanessa Winship lived for the past decade in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey and covers with her work especially the region of the black sea. Her work talks about the concepts of borders, land, desire, identity, memory and history. She is a member of the French agency “Vu”, and won several awards, like the Orvieto book prize in Italy, World Press Photo, Iris d’Or and...
“I’d seen a couple of images of this obscure small country that was actually...”
– From a very detailed interview at Colin Pantall’s blog
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“Schwarzes Meer”, which means ”Black Sea”, is Vanessa Winship’s first publication. The title is in German, because the book was published in Germany by “Mare”. The original title had been “Between Chronicle and Fiction: the Black Sea”.
During many months, Vanessa Winship travelled the coasts of the Black Sea eight times. The Black Sea is...
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© Vanessa Winship from the series “Black Sea Between Chronicle and Fiction”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Black Sea Between Chronicle and Fiction”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Black Sea Between Chronicle and Fiction”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Black Sea Between Chronicle and Fiction”
© Vanessa Winship from the...
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“For me their expressions are anything but blank, and in fact they give...”
– Vanessa Winship in a conversation with Joerg Colberg
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In “Sweet Nothings” Vanessa Winship has been taking photographs of schoolgirls from the borderlands of Eastern Anatolia.
“I had been living and working in the region for almost a decade, and in Turkey itself for more than four years. I was drawn by ideas of borders and belonging. One enduring image that had always struck me wherever I travelled was the schoolgirls in their...
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“Dancers and Fighters” is a series of work Vanessa Winship did in Georgia, during the past several years.
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Dancers and Fighters”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Dancers and Fighters”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Dancers and Fighters”
© Vanessa Winship from the series “Dancers and Fighters”
© Vanessa Winship from the...
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“Georgia” isn’t published yet, even though there exists a book dummy, which looks terrific. I hope we don’t need to wait too long for it.
“I went to Georgia for the first time in 2003, not long after the Rose Revolution. I didn’t go because of the revolution as such, but that was the context I found myself in. I was on a journey, a personal journey, a dialogue with...
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Rinko Kawauchi
Rinko Kawauchi is exploring in her work the poetry of the commonplace. What makes her work special to me, is how she is sequencing and editing her pictures in the books. Most of the time you look at the pictures side by side, so there seems to be some kind of visual or underlying association between the two photos on the facing pages, which can create a total different layer. It’s fun to look for...
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In October 2001 Rinko Kawauchi published 3 photo books simultaneously. In spring 2002, she won the prestigious “Kimura Ihei Award” for two of her books and received as well the Newcomer’s Award for 2002 by the Photographic Society of Japan.
“Utatane”, which means “nap”, is the first Volume of the trilogy and shows snapshots of everyday...
“Unlike many of her European counterparts, Kawauchi has not given up on the...”
– “Sublime to meticulous” by Sean O’Hagan on the guardian
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“Aila” meaning “family” in turkish, uses photography to thematically illustrate notions of birth, life, death, and time. She captures the limitless diversity of nature while emphasizing the limited time all creatures have on earth. Animals, plants and humans are all depicted at various stages of transition from birth to death
“From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves....
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“I prefer listening to the small voices in our world, those which whisper. I have...”
– 10 questions to Rinko Kawauchi about photography on PingMag
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“Cui Cui” provides an intimate insight into Rinko Kawauchi’s own family. This series of over 50 images were taken from 1992 to 2005. It speaks about life and death, about aging, intimacy, family and time, which everyone of us has to experience. Her subjects vary from her family members to her surrounding objects. “Cui Cui” is like a precious family album, which celebrates...