This week on the web: a project that creates bonds, the virtual Balicki collection, how a photojournalist learned to love Instagram, Tamara Dean’s wonderful portfolio on the rite of passage that is adolescence, definitions of photography by photographers on video for National Geographic, the Photobookmuseum project and a bonus list of 2014 photo contests and workshops in Paris.
► Touching Stranger Project by Richard Renaldi
http://fotografiamagazine.com/touching-strangers-richard-renaldi/
Since 2007, American photographer Richard Renaldi has roamed across the United States asking strangers to pose together for a portrait, and to physically interact with each other in some way. On this why-did-nobody-think-about-this-before idea is based Renaldi’s series Touching Strangers, a body of work that deals with universal themes like personal relationships, diversity, racism, virtualization of life and more, all in one place; and explores them through gestures as simple as a hug or the touch of a hand. Just like the best works in every art. Touching Strangers is also available as a book from Aperture.
[Photo 01, 02, 03, 04]
► Instagram collector: David Balicki, Web curator
A sunset on a tropical island shot by fashion photographer Josh Olins, the actress Rose McGowan doing pole dance on the London tube, or the singer-guitarist of indie-rock gorup Bad Girlfriend in the lotus positions: these are the kinds of photos collected on InstagramCollector. To organize the square-format pics published every day on Instagram David Balicki, a graduate of the École d’Arles, created the page in December 2013 and turned into a web curator, preserver of the ultra-temporary. Every day he publishes, “a careful selection of fashion photos, music and the arts, chosen from the best of Instagram.”
ttp://www.fisheyemagazine.fr/david-balicki-le-curator-dinstagram/
http://instagramcollector.tumblr.com
[Photo 05, 06, 07]
► PORTFOLIO : Tamara Dean, The Edge
Work from the series The Edge, by Tamara Dean are being exhibited in a Sydney Gallery and were published in April on the Australian online magazine Anne Summers Reports. The up-and-coming young Australian photographer, spoke about her series: “The Edge describes a few things for me: the dramatic emotional landscape of teenage years when self-discovery begins and independence is forged; being on the cusp of moving from childhood to adulthood physically, along with the emotional uncertainty and vulnerability which imbues those teenage years. For me, this boy standing alone in the column of water symbolizes that state of transformation and illumination.” Her photographs are composed like Renaissance paintings. Adolescence is like rebirth with all the changes. Photo professionals talk about her work in this video.
https://vimeo.com/87503983
Based in Sydney, Tamara Dean won a 2013 New York Photo Award in the category Fine Art series.
http://olsenirwin.com/blog/category/artists/tamara-dean/
Follow Tamara Dean on Facebook
[Photo 08, 09, 10, 11]
► LightBoxFF: The Photojournalist Andrew Quilty learns to love Instagram
Every week Time’s photo blog LightBox features the work of a photographer using Instagram in original and engaging ways. This LightBox interviewed the photographer Andrew Quilty (@andrewquilty), who is currently in Afghanistan and who has come to see Instagram as a valuable creative outlet and a professional tool, despite his initial reluctance. “There’s so much narcissism on social media and I’d like to think that my choice – for the most part — to depict the lives of others rather than my own is what attracts people to my feed.”. Read more about here
[Photo 12, 13]
► Listen to these great photographers from National Geographic discuss the power and beauty of photography.
Each photographer talks about his or her theories, truths and what they’ve learned through years of working: photography can “change the way you see,” “change the course of your life,” it’s an “addiction” as well as a “universal language,” that “everyone must do.” If you have 5 minutes, watch this incredible video in tribute to the magazine’s 125th anniversary.
http://121clicks.com/articlesreviews/the-best-5-minutes-video-related-to-photography-you-will-ever-see
[Photo 14]
http://youtu.be/6tVlMaBNkpg
► The PhotoBookMuseum projet
« Photography is no longer only exhibited on walls. The photobook is the basis of photography. » Quentin Bajac (2013)
On April 15th, the Schaden Foundation started building the world’s first photobook museum, in four steps:
#1: 24 exhibitions and 5 concept books in Cologne, Summer 2014
#2: Launch the online museum
#3: Open the mobile museum 2015 and tour the world
#4: Find a permanent site for the museum
The_PBM is an initiative by Markus Schaden, one of the world’s leading photo book experts. Born in Cologne, he is firmly convinced that photo books are the visual Esperanto of our time. That is why he plans a museum where the medium can be adequately researched, exhibited and presented for discussion. His team includes photographers, art historians, curators, designers, mothers, fathers, journalists, lawyers and business management specialist.Financed by crowdfunding They’ve already raised 10,830 euros out of 25,000. The deadline to contribute is June 14th. If you like photobooks, consider helping out. You’ll be invited to exhibitions, events and will be kept up to date on the project. Plus, your name will be immortalized on the wall of founders.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-photobookmuseum
Web site : http://www.thephotobookmuseum.com and social media https://twitter.com/The_PBM
[Photo 15, 16, 17]
► BONUS : A list of 2014 grants, prizes and competions on fotografiamagazine.com
http://fotografiamagazine.com/2014-photography-grants-funds-and-fellowships
and the schedule for upcoming workshops in Paris from May to November 2014, with big names from the photo world on Eye in progress :
http://www.eyesinprogress.com/datestage/2014
[Photo 18]
