November 2010 Archives

Zhau





Stéphane Polteau (born 1974 in France) is a geologist who lived in France, Ireland, South Africa, and in Norway. Currently spending most of his time in Oslo, he shifted his focus to portraiture. The vintage look of his portraits ties together life, decay and death, and resembles real antique portraits depicting long-gone persons. Stéphane uses an 8x10 large format camera and shutterless vintage optics from 1870 to 1950, ranging from classic portrait lenses to simple magnifying glass.

photo by: Alex Falcao


To record on film and present in silver-based prints the beauty in People and of the World we all have to preserve and share.

By: Stephane Polteau (Norway)


All photography: Sinar p 8x10 - fomapan 100 rated iso 8 - soaked in rodinal 1:100 at 17degC for 12mn.











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Fearful Symmetry

I still don't know what it is exactly that attracts me to buildings like these. Their symmetry is indeed mesmerising and satisfying. The buildings themselves are so ugly and distasteful that they border on beauty but there is a distinct purity to them The series is an exploration in its infancy and it will continue...

Mike Stacey lives in the Blue Mountains of NSW Australia and uses 4x5 and 8x10 colour negative film. He hand processes the film in Jobo drums and then has it scanned on either an Imacon or a Creo. Prints are done onto Fuji Flex using a Lightjet and framing is face-mount process to plexiglass backed with aluminium. He makes regular visits to locations of vast space such as the central Australian desert or desolate areas of coastline.

By: Mike Stacey (Australia)








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CatBells

Dream

fading light

fern

rabbit

rock pool

september is the cruellest month

The cat in the Heather

portrait of a boy

serenity



 


SEPTEMBER IS THE CRUELLEST MONTH.

My latest project is called "September is the Cruellest Month."  These portraits were taken over the summer of 2010 when I came to the stark realisation that my children are growing up (and to a point away) from me, and that time passes and is never recaptured - we are only left with memories and photographs.  THIAPS

Taken on a 4×5 large format camera (Toyo 45A), using Fuji's instant black and white film (FP-100b45), I wanted to capture moments of our summer together whether it be in play, at the mountains, at the sea, moments of contemplation  ... moments that don't necessarily record the act but will trigger the memory and emotion I felt in years to come when I look back and hold these images in my hand.  I am photographing for the future as well as the present.

Why "September is the cruellest month"? Because it is the time when I have to let my children go back out into the world again without me.   The summer holiday is now over.  Back to school, back to their clubs, progressing, moving on.  Something we all embrace and want for them, but secretly wanting to hold back  time a little bit longer. We can't stop time but we can freeze it for a split second in our images.


 

I have had an interest in photography for many years.  Before I started working in photography seriously I was studying for a Ph.d in Women's War and Holocaust Writing and teaching literature in adult education.  However just before my daughter was born just over 5 years ago, bored and heavily pregnant I enrolled for a darkroom course at our local adult education college.

My photographic journey began in earnest with a digital camera until I went to university for a year and learned darkroom skills and started working with medium and large format cameras.   This year I have completed a course in wet-plate collodion with Carl Radford and this is now a medium I am actively working with.


By: Deborah Parkin (United-Kingdom)









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