This article is from The Guardian where you can find lots of interesting articles about photography.
“Some photos change the photographers life”. Not only the viewers.
These 3 images changed my life years later with 9/11, when WTC was a target for a terror attack. These 2 images above were taken from the observation deck at World Trade Center. The one closest through the binoculars there. All with a small 35 mm Minox GT.
😊 Pelle
I tested a couple of lenses some time ago. F 50mm, 1.4. Since I don´t like the charts or the too technical talk I made it this way. In the nature. Not much more to say.
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Over the years I have made many calendars together with my dear friend Peter Schäublin in Switzerland. A wonderful friendship that started when I attended a seminar at Sinar Cameras in Schaffhaussen. Working with view cameras, tilts and shifts etc. We met in a corridor and started talking. We still do, now as close friends for many years. Peter is a very talented photographer and also a great graphic designer. For these calendars we will come up with an idea, a theme. I do the photographs and Peter will do the rest. With the help of Stamm printers I will then receive the result by courier close to Christmas.
This selection was made with gloves of different kinds I found in a hardware store.
It all started in 1998 when I sent Peter some flower images digitally photographed. Made with a scanner back attached to my Sinar 4×5″ camera. The calendars are made as PR and can not be bought. Today we have many friends and clients that are eagerly waiting for the next edition. Always keeping a space free for it. It is large in size. It is not the calendar you put in your wallet. It measured 50×70 cm for 2015.
With the internet this is easy to do though we are far away from each other in miles. Peter is never further away than a call or a mail. Though he himself travel the world on photographic projects. The challenge every year to come up with a new idea is something we really are looking forward to. It took us until last year to do images with watches. For some reasons we didn´t start with the obvious. Switzerland is THE watch country in the world. We had other themes to cover. And there are still so many more to do.
Themes that has been covered over the years are flowers, my grandfathers old tools, watches, water guns, spoons, old toys, musical instruments, cutlery, frozen vegetables, fresh vegetables, dish brushes etc. etc. And gloves. We have great fun doing this every year as you can understand.
Finally, below, this is a small selection from how we started. For the 2015 edition we used images from a cookbook that I photographed last year. Chefs name KC Wallberg.
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Oooops! I published before I was finished. This is the final version.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32336756
This is another interesting article I found on BBC.com about photography. This time food photography. All according to the pinkladyfoodphotographyoftheyear award. Lots of smoke. The winning photos are not just food, but also enviroment, cocking etc. Food photography is more than pans, pots and plates. Great choice I think.
Last weekend I visited Norway and the Preus Museum of Photography. In 2015 they celebrate their 20th year anniversary. It is Norways National Museum of Photography, and it is situated south of Oslo. Well worth a visit if you are interested in photography.
Norwegian photographer, founder of Preus Foto A/S, and collector. After years in the Navy he established himself as a photographer on Storgaten in Horten in 1956. Then in 196? with the help of the municipality of Horten he expanded to include a photo laboratory which at its height had over 200 employees and more than 40 photo shops across the entire country. Preus also founded the international portrait chain Color Art Photo. In 1976 he opened his Preus Museum of Photography which exhibited parts of what had gradually become his sizable collection of photographs, cameras, and books. Thus he became instrumental in directing attention to the history of photography in Norway. In 1992 he was named an honorary member of Norwegian Association of Professional Photographers. In 1994 the Norwegian government bought Preus Fotomuseum as the basis for the future national museum of photography. Leif Preus was the museum’s first director from 1995 through February 1998. In 2003 he was named Knight, First Class, of the Order of St. Olav for his work.
Here you will find unique cameras, like the one owned by Edward Munch the famous Norwegian painter. His house is not far away from the museum. You will also find images by the great masters and a unique library.
In the fantastic library you will find some books not to be found anywhere else in the world. Some including original prints.
If you would like to know more, and I highly recommend you to, visit their site. http://www.preusmuseum.no/eng
Every month a new photographer is presented on the «Wall of Fame» – the innermost wall in the anniversary exhibition From Vision Machines to Instagram. Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) devoted himself to photographing a dying culture, the North American Indians. His images will be displayed during the month of May. These are original prints!
The museum is a living museum and the premises are just beautiful in this harbour area in Horten, Norway. Go there!
Finally I am proud to tell you that I was the first Swedish photographer to exhibit in his museum. But that was years ago.
😊 Pelle
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32129342
BBC is a good source for information about photography and arts.
Mobile phones are useful not only for talking, sending messages or taking selfies. It is not about the most expensive camera, the longest lens etc. I like this! Good images are good images. The best camera is said to be the one that you take with you.
My own images were made in Paris. Not with a phone.
I found this article about photography and images on BBC. Written by Phil Coomes, picture editor.
Many questions and not so many answers. Just like my blog. But thinking and contemplating about things is good, I think.
There has always been sound. Some sound attracted humans more and differently. “Who” was the first to combine different sounds? When did someone start to repeat sound? Thought they had a good rhythm going. Has humans always reacted to sound foot tapping and dancing? It all started many days from now and it is easy to get lost in thoughts of who and when. How did it look like and where was it?
Just enjoying my LP´s on a rainy day.
😊 Pelle
The images from one of my calendar projects.
For some years a friend and colleague of mine has visited the big Press Photo Festival in Perpignan, France. Visa pour L´ Image. We are not press photographers but we travel together with press photographers from the Nordic countries. We share the same tool, the camera, but we are to use it differently. From this article that I share you understand the importance of honesty for a press photographer. Not only when sending images to competitions. Me and my friend are, on the contrary, most often to present a portrait, food, furniture etc. in as much a positive way as possible. For us it is OK to manipulate our images. Our clients most often expect us to do it. During the festival the city is completely filled with images everywhere. Even in an old prison there are photographs exhibited. Visiting the press festival is a challenge. Images are presented from war, catastrophes or disasters from around the world. Once I had to leave a film with tears in my eyes because it was simply “too much” for me to take. Photographers doing this documentaries are heroes. They are doing important work for us to see and learn from the state of the world. Today photographers and journalists are working under great pressure and they are often taken prisoners or are being shot at in war zones. Yes, to me they are heroes. It is a personal challenge to see these images during whole days, but they are so important, and we will go there again.
“The struggle of man against power is the act of memory against forgetting.”
-Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I have my own personal reasons for choosing to photograph over other mediums, for believing that we must look sometimes even when we are more often compelled not to. The collective memory of societies around the world relies on aesthetics, whether represented through flags, leaders, advertising and propaganda or news photographs. Only the last can claim to attempt to accurately reflect the conditions of all citizens but especially the disenfranchised, even if so often the focus is on podiums and the powerful.
Earlier this month, World Press Photo announced the results of its annual competition. Shortly thereafter, the mayor of the Belgian city of Charleroi sent the Amsterdam-based foundation a letter stating his objections to an essay entitled “Dark Heart of Europe” that depicted his town as some sort…
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When I studied to become a photographer I learned how rays of light travel through glass and how they reflect on different surfaces. I learned how to use chemicals to develop my films and prints. How a light meter works and that the illustration above was an up to date SLR, Single Lens Reflex, camera. It was, but not so anymore! Today most cameras are small hi-tech computers with a lab attached that focus, recognize faces, expose in difficult lights and they develope your image. Cameras are, however, as they have always been, a lens in one end and a distance to a light sensitive material in the other. Chip or film. So who is a good photographer? What is a good photograph? Well, I am not one to judge or tell you. This will always be up to you. However, whenever you fall in love with the subject in the picture, a cute puppy or a sexy girl, or man of course, perhaps that is not a good photograph. Perhaps. At least give it a thought.
Today photography is not so destructive to our environment like it used to be. That is great! I like that!
Here is an intresting link to an article about the box camera. About what happens when you do NOT fire away exposures, but take your time doing one. The article is written by Stephen Dowling and you will find it on BBC.com. More food for thoughts.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30530268
Then there are those, like Man Ray, that produces stunning images using some photographic tools but without a camera!
Check this out if you can! Ewa Stackelberg now exhibiting at Fotografiska in Stockholm.
http://fotografiska.eu/utstallningar/utstallning/fotogram/
Happy image hunting!
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