On my first trip to China recently I took some personal photographs. Very much street photography. China is a very interesting graphic country. What the signs say I don´t know, but I like the looks of them. The images below are mostly from the streets and I can imagine keep right and left…
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I see mostly the same jockeys and the same horses, but it is never ever the same. The weather changes, and my angles. And everything else. Some of my images are not about racing but still lifes/details from the horses or jockeys. It is a colorful and very exciting sport! The owners and trainers often pimp their racing darlings. Now I am looking forward to a dirty dirttrack, AND a couple of exhibitions with my images. Exciting! From yesterdays races at Bro Park. 😊🏇😊 Pelle
A selection from yesterdays races. Sun and snow coming down. It started off not good, as my camera didn´t expose more then one image at the time. After some time of intense problem solving I managed to get it working as I would like it to. There are so many things to choose when you are setting up an advanced digital camera. It ended up OK after all, and once again I learned about preparations. Especially with a new camera. You are never too old to learn…
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I missed them all yesterday. Almost… 😊🏇😊 Pelle
I´d like to go to Australia! Ladies and gentlemen I give you Josh Smith. 😊 Pelle
“The end game for me is producing these series as fine art”.
© all photographs Josh Smith. Article in BBC.
Flying high above farmland, photographer Josh Smith captures colours and patterns not usually associated with rural Australia.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38888453
His often abstract images feature subjects like machinery sculpting lines into a vast frame.
His often abstract images feature subjects like machinery sculpting lines into a vast frame.
It was a hobby until 2011, when his aerial shots of floods in Queensland and New South Wales were featured in a major newspaper.
So he took to the skies, hoping to draw attention to how food and clothing is produced.
“Here in Australia, we’ve got farmers producing the highest quality produce anywhere in the world,” he said.
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It sometimes happens that you see photographs that you wished you had done yourself. For me, like these. The gloves I have made, but not the other. I like this. It is colorful, playful and provokes a thought about our consumption society.
‘It is not just previous things that are the material means of carrying a memory. It is this truth that Haygarth so engagingly and deftly explores and celebrates, and to which he offers a kind of requiem’
Stuart Haygarth walked from Kent to Land’s End, picking up the trash he found on beaches – and arranged it into collections that show us how weird the ordinary objects in our lives can be.
Initially using a trolley that stuck too easily in the Kent mud, Haygarth switched to carrying his treasure in a rucksack. Walking near Broadstairs, he says, ‘I stumbled across a long pink plastic penis wedged in between some rocks on the cliff face. It turned out to be a novelty straw, which made me smile and feel like an archaeologist discovering an ancient drinking implement’
In an essay about Haygarth’s work, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic speaks grandly of his project: ‘The impulse to collect is universal, and it goes to the roots of what it is to be human … We collect in search of order and meaning, and sometimes to signal our distress or to console us in our inability to deal with daily life’
In his book Strand – the Old English and German word for beach – artist Stuart Haygarth presents photographs of synthetic flotsam that he collected from England’s shoreline, and arranged in neat configurations, creating a taxonomy of trash• Strand by Stuart Haygarth is published by Art/Books
Everything is not digital these days. Another place, but the same time. 😊 Pelle
Luis Maldonado is the last remaining photographer in the main square of the Chilean capital still using a wooden box camera.
