Category Archives: Blogroll

Joachim Schmid, memoirs’ collector

Thanks to I Heart Photography I discovered a few days ago Joachim Schmid’s work.
The photos below are part of a project that Schmid started in 1982, Bilder von der Straße (Picture from the street). Schmid has collected in these 25 years almost 900 pictures that people lost, torn up, or simply forgot. I always feel […]

Fake facades

I’ve just spotted at ‘File‘ Laura Kicey’s “construct” project. I find some of the composites truly intriguing -they somehow remind me of the sketches and drawings of Hundertwasser.

This is what the author says about her project:
“construct” is a series of images of places that do not exist. Their composite parts are the culmination of […]

German photography

A few days ago Jörg Colberg posted a great (a really good one) interview with Kai-Olaf Hesse. They talk about the current German art photography scene, stereotypes and corsets (German photography=emotionless photography), German photographers’ relationship with internet, Hesse’s work and influences..
It’s a must. Don’t miss it.

Bitter photographer

Bitter photographer is acid, caustic, ironical, sharp and so much fun to read!!!
(via A Photo a Day News)

Disaster in little land

auch!

Trust Your Eye, Not Your Gut

To some extent, nothing you didn’t know already. Photography classes might teach about composition, lighting and depth of field, but no photographer judges the quality of an image by measuring whether the horizon falls exactly according to the rule of thirds.The same is true of the opportunity to take a good photo. Talented photographers can […]

Asian Photo

(c) Rinko Kawauchi
Thanks to Raúl Gutiérrez (Heading East), I’ve found a jewel: Ch’ng Yaohong’s Asian Photography Blog.

3 blogrolls for the day

‘Not if but when’: Brian Ulrich quoting Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto on photography process -as she was a student of Harry Callahan.
I remember late one night Harry gave us insight into this process. Before this, my experience with Harry, the photographer, was through finished prints already on the wall. We had all shown our work. After […]

Photography imagination

Jörg Colberg (Conscientious) reviews the latest work of German photographer Beate Gütschow (’LS/S’) and claims the real value of digital photography -to create something new. Wunderbar!

Vermeer revisited

(c) Hendrik Kerstens
(via Heading East)