Nancy Lee (NL)

“My work is graphic, full of lines and curves, repeated patterns, strong colors and movements. It moves from one image to the other, like sequences in our daily activities. To me my photographs are like a multicultural village with the emphasis on space, high consumption end living life to the max! Our society is under construction. It is on the way to establish and finding its identity on this planet and in this universe.

In order to give this idea the right content I travel around the globe. Being a modern citizen, living in a modern world. With all the new inventions and new technologies, the world is drawn together and becoming smaller. In my world, the boundaries are thin and the cultures are mixed. It almost becomes artificial like a little toy city. Modernization gives us comfort but takes us away from our most basic instincts. This materialistic and glossy world is our comfort zone. Globalization is happening fast. We run the risk to lose our unique identity and originality.”

Artist Statement, www.nancylee

Audrey Corregan

© Audrey Corregan

One of the selected photographers at Hyères 2008 is Audrey Corregan, upcoming talent and living at Amsterdam. In her work “Obviously”, she shows impressive pictures of birds photographed from behind. Her backward portraits of birds reminds me of the reversed portraits by Marjaana Kella.

© Marjaana Kella

More work by Audrey Corregan you can find here.
More on Marjaana Kella you can find here and here.

Sem Presser lecture 2008 - Martin Parr. Update

Due to technical problems the Sem Presser Lecture 2008 by Martin Parr couldn’t start in time. The full lecture will be available here from Monday 28 April until Sunday 4 May.

Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga

 
© Grzeszykowska & Smaga

Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga are a Polish duo who take pictures from a bird eye’s view. The pictures microscopically investigate people’s domestic space. The photographs look as if they are scannings taken by a huge scanner attached on the ceiling, capturing with exactitude the details of daily life. When you look closer at the pictures with patience and curiosity, you will discover subtletys in the objects their relationship with the environments they inhabit.

© Grzeszykowska & Smaga

You can find more about them here and here.

Ryan McGinley “I know where the summer goes”

© Ryan McGinley

At this moment there is an interesting exhibition at the “Team Gallery” in New York by the New York based photographer Ryan McGinley. I love the way some pictures shows the body and its relationship to nature.

Bert Teunissen - “Domestic landscapes”

© Bert Teunissen

In 1996, Bert Teunissen started to make a series of photographs that were made in houses that still have the ‘old and antique available daylight’. This is a series of photographs about a certain atmosphere that Teunissen knew from his childhood. The work is made in Holland, France, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain and Japan and will find its continuation around the world. Here Teunissen uses available light to photograph people in their kitchen, livingroom or bedroom. It is a search for a way of living that has been around for centuries and that is disappearing from society fast, due to architectual changes but also because of new regulations in the EU and other parts of the world.

Jeff Brouws

© Jeff Brouws

The more I look at the photographs by Jeff Brouws, the more I want to see them again. Today I watched for the second time at the serie “Freshly painted houses”. The first time it didn’t catch me that much but now … Maybe it’s because I love typographical photography. Not all of it of course but certainly a lot of it. Maybe it ’s because these kind of series always remind of Bernd and Hilla Becher. I think I’m always attracted by the quantity of these series. Watching one picture after an other knowing that the next one will be similar but different.

Gregory Crewdson

In Aperture latest issue we find an interesting interview with Gregory Crewdson on one of his more recent projects “Beneath the roses”. The article handles the way he works behind the scene and how he produces his photograps.

Kyle Cassidy’s “Armed America”

© Kyle Cassidy

Kyle Cassidy travelled for more then 15.000 miles across the US with one question: “Why do you own a gun?” This is a good question because most of these guns are not easily reconcilable with the notion of self-defence. Their place should be more like in the Armed Forces. “Armed America” holds all those answers why they keep them at home.

“Zima” by Luis Belmonte Diaz

Yeterday, I came across the work of Luis Belmonte Diaz’s “Zima” (winter) photographs. I love the way he capters this longtime winter around the city.

© Luis Belmonte Diaz

Also other series such as “Gdansk” are worth looking at.

© Luis Belmonte Diaz

More of his work you can see here.