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.

“Leaf” – The world oldest photograph, 1790?

 

A photograph, actually it is a photogram, known as “leaf” is coming up for auction at sotheby’s on April 7th. and could be possible the oldest photographic representation found.

It has been previously attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot who is one of the founding fathers of photography. He made a number of leaf pictures and this one is thought to be made by him at 1839.

Photoshop disasters

Couldn’t wait to post this one. The name explains itself. “Photoshop disasters“. Funny disasters with photoshop. Have a great time! 

“OMG dude look as Rachel Bilson’s legs they’re uhhh like totally whoa. Yeahhhh! (sound of smoke being inhaled). Whoa! she’s like uhhh some sort of sideshow. You know what would be (more smoke-related noises) totally amazing: we should uhhhh put like an inexplicably fake umm shadow behind her, so she’s like a warp-legged captain of a rubber sheet. Whoa! Yo Art Director didn’t we order a pizza?”

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.

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