I was inspired by some pictures Laura El Tantawy showed us from In the Shadow of the Pyramids at her recent presentation at POST, to start shooting very close up. I got out my 60mm f/2.4 macro lens and started using it as a walking around lens in the street to see what I might come up with. This is an atypical way to use such a lens so I’m really just experimenting to see what I can learn about shooting this way.
I took an ICP course in the Spring with Harvey Stein on photo books and administrative help was provided by Parsons Photography MFA student Agnes An, whose grad show at Parsons I attended last month, where I saw the above.
During May we visited several open studios. The work above is crocheted, by Kate Jenkins.
Flight of the Langoustine, 2023, Pierre Diamantopoulo, MRSS
Foundry: Milwyn Casting; Fabrication: Art Fabrications
from the Towner website: Alicja Kwade, Continuum, 2023. Stainless steel, Blue sodalite, marble 142.7 x 123.8 x 26cm. Towner Eastbourne. Acquired with Art Fund support, with a contribution from The Wolfson Foundation. © Image below Roman März
A striking image we saw at the museum that I failed to make a note of. The best I can reconstruct from the museum’s web site is that it might have been part of this exhibit. I have long considered using my calligraphy skills on photographs but some early experiments proved disappointing. It’s still on my list of future projects, however.
This ceramic appears to show children happily playing, but look closely and you see the darkness of the background (note, for instance, the house inscribed with swastikas). For more, take a look at Cuddly Toys Caught on Barbed Wire, here.
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Standing in front of this large canvas in La Jolla’s Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, it looked rather like the above, almost all black with only the faintest suggestions of tall plants appearing here and there. However, the sensor of my camera (and it’s a Fuji, with an XTrans sensor having more green pixels in its array than the typical Bayer array) saw the version below.
Intended to see 4 or 5 shows in London on Friday but in the end I spent a lot of time at the Tate Modern and only managed to fit in the Barbican Centre afterwards.
Projector, drum string, bridge saddle, 16mm film strip, microphone, and audio.
A 3-part film installation. Click any of the 3 images above o see them all enlarged.
