Peter Rigaud’s personal project 1 – “Bitte fotografieren Sie … für mich”
September 4, 2009
In a personal project, Berlin/Vienna based portrait/travel/editorial photographer Peter Rigaud takes a portrait of somebody and then asks that person to name another person Rigaud should photograph, what he does afterwards, and so on and so on. The subjects are also asked to write some lines about why Rigaud should photograph the next person, what is so special about them. On his website, you can see some of these texts, unfortunately very small and hard to read – would like to see this project as a book or magazine!
You find these photographs when you click on Projects>Project 1, but also check out the other stuff, some of his work is quite good I think.
Susana Raab and Amy Stein
August 22, 2009
When reading various blogs today I again saw good work of 2 us-american photographers, Susana Raab and Amy Stein (they both also have blogs). On Susana Raab’s website, there is a lot to see, my favourite is the “Consumed” series from which you see one photograph above.
Amy Stein also has various different projects online, I especially like “Stranded” and “Halloween in Harlem” from which the following pictures are.
I think one reason why it makes sense to show both photographers in this post is because they both have an interest in us-american topics like Fast Food (Raab) or Halloween / weapons (Stein).
Elizabeth Fleming
August 21, 2009
I mostly like “Life is a series of small moments I”
Dan Winters’ new book – Periodical photographs
July 14, 2009
Dan Winters has been one of my favourite photographers for some time now. I always considered him to be a master photographer, but I was surprised that he’s still quite young – only 38 I guess. What I like very much about Dan Winters is that he found a very special way how he uses light and how he shows his subjects. When I see a picture of him a can tell immediately that it must be his, and that is a quality and uniqueness you don’t find too often. He says:
“As photographers, we are hired for our opinions to a certain extent. It will be a visual take, a very subjective interpretation,” says Winters. “I really think the strongest ally (above any technique) any photographer can have is the ability to really look at something and formulate an opinion about it. My goal is to have enough freedom with my clients to know that I am using my judgment in the best way I can, and that they know I’m working hard for them.”
His subjects, he says, have compared sitting for him to ”going to the dentist. But in a good way. Not having root canal. Maybe just having X rays done.”
And there is another thing that is really special about Dan Winters: it seems that he does extremely tight edits, which means that he only sends 1 (!) picture to the magazine after a shoot. This is consistency!
When doing some research for this post I also came across of a lot of illustrations he also does, not only photographic illustrations but also hand-drawings. He’s really talented whith transforming strories and complex circumstances into interesting and sometimes even funny illustrations. Must be a big pleasure for an art director to work with him.
That last one is from a cool story for WIRED.
Now, Mr. Winters has a new book out called “Periodical Photographs” that shows is assignement work.
One of my favourite spreads:
Over at WTJ you find a flip-through through the book… I guess for people interested in book design and great portraits, this book will be a must have.
More articles on the book here and here.
PDN call him a legend and have a nice online presentation with interview here.
A last cite:
“I get up every day and that’s what I do, make photographs, whether I’m being paid to or not. I love it, love it, love it.”
More Links:
http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2007/10/08/oh-god-not-dan-winters-again/
http://jankesnergallery.com/jkgartists/winters-dan.html
http://www.lamag.com/article.aspx?id=16884
ALL PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS POST COPYRIGHT DAN WINTERS.
Ryan Mc Ginley
June 19, 2009
Andreas Mühe
June 19, 2009
One of my favourite german portrait photographers is Andreas Muehe. He recently shot german chancellor Angela Merkel for Spiegel magazine and though he is only 30 he has shot a wide range of interesting people, including politicians, actors etc, but also some advertising. In my opinion, he has found his very own,unique style and makes great pictures with very special light and colours. He doesn’t copy other photographers and their light, but found at a quiet yoiung age his own way of portrait photography (not only). Unfortunately, he took his website down some time ago, there are only few polaroids to see.
More on camerwork’s website.
A film about Wolfgang Tillmanns
June 19, 2009
Fortunately, I was able to see a film about photographer Wolfgang Tillmanns yesterday at the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. Berlin based director Heiko Kalmbach accompanied Tillmanns for several years and made this interesting documentary, showing a lot of private moments but also the artistic process which is very special with Tillmanns work (e.g. the way he hangs his photographs on the wall when he has a show – this can easily take several days…).
As far as I know, this film isn’t available on DVD, but maybe there are more screenings soon, I’ll keep you updated if I learn more about that.
If One Thing Matters
- a film about Wolfgang Tillmans
by Heiko Kalmbach, D/USA 2008, 72 min.
See also the PDF here.
In the documentary there is also a sequence that shows how the british band Pet Shop Boys ask Wolfgang Tillmanns to do a music video for them, “Home and dry”. In the beginning, the concept for the clip was very different from what it turned out to be later, and Tillmanns ended up to show mice in the London tube…Like that one.
Jussi Puikkonen
May 7, 2009
I just found the work of finnish (and now Amsterdam based) photographer Jussi Puikkonen and wanted to share it with you.
I first read about his book “on vacation”, that shows vacation parks, ressorts, beaches etc. in the long, 9 months lasting finish winter period. You find some photos of the series here, you must scroll down then to see all pictures.
But I also like his fashion and portrait stuff. Born 1980, young big talent.
Greg Miller – New Work
April 2, 2009
Greg has put some new work on his website, and again I love his photographs a lot, especially the County Fair work. A very interesting interview (here) explains, why he works the way he does (8*10 inch large format, narrow depth of field, only appr. 2 exposures per subject) and what are the consequences of it (working quite slow and directing a lot..). If I had the money, Greg Miller would be somebody whose work I’d buy.
design and photography on the guardian
March 24, 2009
Quick note in between: the art/design/photography part of the guardians website (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography) is a good source with quite interesting articles. I like their “My best shot” series where every week a well known photographer presents his personal favourite shot and explains how it happened.
