September 2008 Archives

I'm primary self-thought photographer and mainly shoot landscape photography with hasselblad 503cx with three lenses and 903swc. Generally in landscape photography,
nature and structure, ordinary and exceptional conditions or simplicity and complexity,etc. these things may be perceived as relations of the binary opposition. Yet actually, these things are not polar opposites, although are slightly more continuous, or are in reciprocal organic
relationships. I'm fascinated with the boundary (scenery) between these.

Currently living in Uthunomiya. Tochigi, Japan.


By: Hironori Nakamura (Japan) ©2008

Contemporary Landscape Practice is a Tokyo, Yokohama, Utsunomiya (JPN) based a photographer group for researching the modern expression Methodology in the landscape photography.




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The rails inside


 

3, 4, and half of 2.


I photograph because I have a passion for it. It's that simple.

I have struggled in the past to find the right words to describe what drives much of my art. And then I read an article on the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi: finding magic in the ordinary...in the flawed. As Leonard Loren said: "Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things unconventional." Wabi-sabi is what I seek when I explore an abandoned factory or walk the streets of a city or find a deserted house in a field.

"Wabi-sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things." Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence, by Andrew Juniper

I shoot with a growing arsenal of film cameras, ranging from high precision cameras with multiple lenses to cheap plastic cameras to a very basic pinhole camera. I have a digital SLR that works quite well, but I just don't use it that much anymore. I love developing film and working in the darkroom, getting my hands wet so to speak. There is something magical about creating images in the analog world, and I just don't get that same feeling with digital. However, you might find images on my site from a digital camera...my previous life, so to speak.

Although I got my first film SLR in high school, it wasn't until several years ago that I got very serious about photography. I got back into photography to record my travels, but it grew into a real passion as I realized that photography satisfied creative needs that I initially wasn't aware that I had. I lose time when I put a camera up to my eye.
The world can just fall away except the scene in my viewfinder.



By: Otto Kitchens (USA) ©2008

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Ruin, Flinders Ranges SA



Many of my images are the result of numerous trips to the same location in order to realise a certain quality of light or form. The image capture process using large format camera gear is a contemplative and exacting form of photography where a single shot can take 15 minutes to set up the camera, compose the image on the ground glass, measure the light and finally trip the shutter. However the results, when everything goes right, are unsurpassed by other camera techniques.

The final print is the measure of success in photography, not the computer monitor. Galleries don't hang 60 inch computer monitors, not usually anyway. I've tried all other camera techniques and the final print from a 4 x 5 inch transparency is incomparable in all respects, especially if you want a tack sharp 50 x 40 inch print that will withstand close scrutiny from the most ardent critic.

I also enjoy the creative control that a Large Format camera gives me with image perspective through camera movements. This is not possible with any other kind of camera unless you get a shift lens for a digital camera, which is limited anyway.

I live in the Blue Mountains of NSW Australia and draw much inspiration from my immediate environment although the images I seek could be found within any landscape; coastal, mountainous or desert. The search for photographic depictions that elude description through natural language is a primary motivation for many of the images.

By: Mike Stacey (Australia) ©2008


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