Archive for October, 2010

Date: October 12th, 2010
Cate: Photography, Publications
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Signs and Voices

今年6月，摄影师Peter Sutherland和Maia Ruth Lee前往印度加德满都与10位来自尼泊尔的孩子一起完成为期四天的摄影项目。这10个孩子中，有5个耳聋，另外5个是弃婴。在这四天时间里，他们用身体语言沟通，拍照，尽管遇到不少阻碍，但最终完成了一组美丽的与身体相关的作品。这组照片出版成书，名为《Signs and Voices》（手势和声音），将于10月13日在纽约的品牌零售店Creatures Of Comfort首发，每本售价100美元，所有收入将用于下一次摄影项目。

“Peter Sutherland, Maia Ruth Lee, and 10 kids from Nepal came together for a four days photography workshop in Kathmandu in June 2010. Amongst the 10 kids, 5 kids were deaf and 5 kids were former street children. For 4 days they communicated in sign language, took photos and collaborated for the very first time. Despite the challenges the kids were able to produce a beautiful body of work. The body of work has been published into a book, Signs and Voices, and it’s book launch is this Wednesday at Creatures for Comfort.” – Peter Sutherland & Maia Ruth Lee

October 13th 7 – 9PM,
Creatures Of Comfort, 205 Mulberry Street, NY NY 10012

Prints from the workshop will be sold at $100/each. Proceeds to benefit future workshops.

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Date: October 12th, 2010
Cate: Photography
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Aleix Plademunt

摄影师 Aleix Plademunt 1980年生于西班牙的赫罗纳，现居加拿大温哥华。他的景观摄影源于他对看到的符号的解读。他的解读非常细致，而且以人为中心，然后对人和景观的关系展开说明。本文作品选自他的「迪拜之地」系列。这个系列中，我们看到的迪拜是一个典型的带有社会和意识形态症候的地方，许多人工的景观义无反顾的被建造而成。由于这样的案例在全地球比比皆是，许多本来各具特点的城市迅速的走向同一模式，就像摄影师之前的系列一样，这个系列其实并不只是在讲迪拜本身。

Photographer Aleix Plademunt was born in 1980 in Girona, Spain, currently living in Vancouver. His approach to landscape is rooted in his reading of the signs and symbols he encounters. His reading is careful and detailed and centres on the action of man and its relationship to landscape. These works are from his Dubailand series. In this series, Dubai appears as a very symptomatic place that is quite transparent about the social and ideological characteristics that have determined the artificial construction of its landscapes. Since such processes are happening all throughout the world, increasingly melting the idiosyncrasy of previously different cities in one single mode, as in many other projects by Plademunt, does not deal so much with topos, about Dubai. (adapted from Marta Dahó’s review)

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Date: October 11th, 2010
Cate: Japanese Photographer, Photography
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林田摄子 Hayashida Setsuko

林田摄子，1976年生于东京，2000年毕业于东京综合写真专门学校。她的「箱庭の季節」（箱庭的季节）系列开始于2000年，至今已有10年。每年夏天，林田摄子都会回到母亲的出生地，也是林田摄子儿时成长的地方，长崎海边的小镇。“回归”是每个假期的固有基调，虽然每一年的眼光在变，人和物也在变，但在这座有着上百年历史的古老庭院里一切仿佛变得安静、缓慢。摄影师镜头中表现的都是最平常不过的景物——长辈、孩子、器皿、插花、食物、字画、落叶等等，却有一股强大的对时光流逝、物是人非的悲悯潜藏始终。本文作品选自「箱庭の季節 2009」。

Hayashida Setsuko, born in 1976 in Tokyo, graduated from Tokyo College of Photography. She started the “Ebb and Flow” series from 2000. Every summer, she came back to her mother’s hometown at the seaside of Nagasaki. “Came back” was only possible to feel sincerely. The courtyard has been quiet for a hundred years, watching the changes on people and things. Sometimes, we can feel the changes on photographer herself. These works are from “Ebb and Flow 2009″.

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Date: October 9th, 2010
Cate: Exhibition, News, Photography

New Photography 2010 in MoMA

纽约MoMA的最新展览“新摄影2010”展出了四位艺术家的作品——Roe Ethridge、Elad Lassry、Alex Prager以及Amanda Ross-Ho。四个人的作品各具特色。题图为Alex Prager的作品，她的灵感来源于低俗小说和Guy Bourdin的时尚影像，用电影般的语言去勾勒出一个头戴假发，化装奇异，着装复古的女主角。更多作品请移步MoMA的在线展览。

MoMA’s current exhibition New Photography 2010 presents four artists—Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. This work above is by Alex Prager. Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy Bourdin to construct filmic narratives starring women disguised under synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire. You can view the exhibition online.

Date: October 9th, 2010
Cate: Photography

冯方娟 Square Fang

冯方娟，在墨尔本学习电视，电影制作。2007年夏天，在上海购买了一台金色 holga，自此喜欢上了中画幅的影像和摄影。她用自己的镜头去发现居住的城市和自己的生活。
她说，“摄影对我来说，是捕捉生活的绝佳方法。它能够匿名记录每个小细节。”

Square Fang is a girl from China. She is studying TV & Film Making in Melbourne. She bought a gold holga in summer of 2007 at Shanghai, and has since then fallen in love with medium format images and photography. She uses her camera to discover the city she lives and her private life.
She said, “Photography for me is a perfect way to capture life. It has the capacity of documenting every subtle detail yet remains anonymous.”

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Date: October 8th, 2010
Cate: Art, Drawing, INTERVIEW

访谈第卅八期：雷磊 / The InterView vol.38: Lei Lei

好长的假期，大家应该跟我差不多，玩得累，休息的也累吧？再次坐到显示屏前面是不是有点不适应呢？没关系，雷磊的画一定会让你从闲散的状态中沉静下来。如果你也出生在八零年代，我相信这些用红蓝圆珠笔画的画一定会引起你的共鸣。

那雷磊到底是怎样一个人呢？还是从他的头衔说起吧。他不喜欢被称作潮流插画师，也不喜欢被称为动画导演，更不喜欢被称作艺术家，他自己心中对自己只有一个永恒的称谓——爱画画的孩子。他在画画的同时，也从事平面设计，短篇动画，涂鸦和Hip Hop音乐等诸多领域，他还在清华美院念研究生的时候他就成立了设计团队RAY DESIGN，而最近他又与其他几位朋友一起组建了一个乐队“嘿！！！”。但是，所有这些只是雷磊内心世界的不同表现形式罢了，细细欣赏，我们就能够看到的是雷磊的那颗缓慢、内敛、“守旧”的心——而不是更多人理解的“潮流”。访谈在作品之后，更多的作品见他的网站或豆瓣。

Lei Lei is a rising new-generation animation artist with his hands on graphic design, illustration, short cartoon, graffiti and hip-hop music, and in 2005 he founded design group “Raydesign Studio” when still in Tsinghua University. He now is also one of the members of hip-hop band HEY!!!. You can see more works on his website.

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Date: October 2nd, 2010
Cate: Photography
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David Chancellor

David Chancellor出生在英格兰，目前工作居住在南非开普敦。 这些照片选自他的”大象的故事”系列，在这个系列里他记录了津巴布韦一个村的村民在两个小时之内把一头死去的大象瓜分到只剩下骨头的过程。

David Chancellor was born in Britain, currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. The photos are selected from his “Elephant Story” series.  It documents local villagers in Zimbabwe to fall upon a dead elephant reducing carcass to bones in 2 hours.

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Date: October 1st, 2010
Cate: INTERVIEW, Photography
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访谈第三十七期：Jan Otto Schreiber / The InterView vol.37: Jan Otto Schreiber

Jan Otto Schreiber 是一位来自德国汉堡的摄影师，去年，他决定前往澳大利亚。他买了张货船的票，在海上漂流了两个来月。等到船在澳大利亚的码头靠岸的时候已经沿路拍了超过250张经过的岛屿、船只和海面的照片。他花了好几周编辑、校样最终出来了14幅作品。Jan 将这个系列命名为“海岸之间，某个地方”。略微泛黄的作品中蔓延着一股怀旧气息，形成一种静谧的氛围，令人陶醉。为此假杂志专门对他做了访问，请他谈了谈这个系列和他的摄影。

Jan Otto Schreiber, a photographer from Hamburg, Germany, decided to explore Australia last year.  He bought a ticket aboard a Cargo Ship and embarked on his 2-month journey.  By the time he reached the Australian shore, he had taken over 250 shoots of the sea and the ships and islands passing by.  he spent weeks editing the proofs and finally ended up with a collection of 14 images. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE SHORES is the title of this project. These yellow-tinged, pale collection of photographs mimick the experience of quiet nostalgia and the subtle stillness of the ocean. Jia Za Zhi invited him to talk about this series and his photography.

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