May 2011 Archives

A Fairy Tale of Berlin began when I started experimenting with a Holga camera and Tri-X film. This combination allowed me to produce more dream-like, archetypal images compared to the more rigorous colour work I make with the Rolleiflex.
The images were all taken in and around Berlin. They're not about the city itself, but more about the imagined and remembered responses I had before I came here from London two years ago.


by: Guy Batey

















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I see a Photography mainly as the possibility to interpret a feelings into a visual sphere, the way to show others and yourself what you feel. Each object of your own inspiration in photography can give a little better self-understanding, it can show something unknown inside yourself. Therefore photography is a way to yourself. And to others.

I still have nothing serious to say to the world and my experience is simply a personal search for harmony. And a fun, of course :) I'm very inspired by the nature and human beauty.

Currently I works mostly with a large format cameras, mainly with B&W materials. Some works are presented in silver-based prints, cyanotypes, salt prints and gumoil prints which are handcrafted in own wet dark room. I live and work in Moscow, Russia.


by Roman Aytmurzin (Russia)














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52 Portraits Of Emelie.
Since I always photograph my lovely beautiful Emelie I had this idea to shoot 52 portraits over the course of a year, one for each week. I used an old Hasselblad 500 CM and most of them are shot on Tri-x. I have published a book on Blurb with most of the 52 portraits and some other pictures of Emelie.

Hasse Linden is a photographer living in Stockholm, Sweden. Born in 1956 he grew up in a musical family and started playing guitar at a young age and worked as a guitarist/guitarteacher for many years. Photography was always a big interest that started when he bought his first camera at the age of fifteen and about five years ago he decided that it was time to give photography his full attention.
He is currently working as a freelance photographer in Stockholm.

by Hasse Linden

















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Faces fascinate me. I can look and look and still not really get to grips with what makes us all different, even between men and women, we all have the same parts, nose, eyes etc but the subtleties are endlessly absorbing and that's even before you take into account our emotional states. In an ideal world I'd like to have people just happy to sit for 15 minutes, not talking, just sitting whilst I watch, walking around them, trying to notice all the small things that make them them and not someone else, noticing the similarities and the differences, their calmness or hesitancy. Putting all the bits together to make that one whole person.
But usually what happens is I get through the roll of film as quickly as I can, knowing that they have given me the best present they could by allowing me to take their picture and feeling  that I must hurry so as not to take advantage of their good nature and their time. Twelve photographs taken in 3 minutes flat and hoping at least one shows what I saw when I looked through the glass.

I live in Salisbury, Southern England with my husband and three teenage children, Snowy the dog and many much loved cameras.


by Victoria Slater (UK)











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Delicate Arch

Inversion

Mesa Arch, Canyonlands

Mount Regan, Sawtooth Wilderness

Oxbow, Tetons

Payette River

Ponytail Falls

Redfish Creek, Sawtooths

Toxaway Lake, Sawtooth Wilderness




Most of my personal work is landscapes.  Often this involves backpacking to the location I want to photograph.  Therefore the relatively compact (compared to my Pentax 67) and rugged reputation of the Hasselblad Xpan panoramic camera  appealed to me.  As soon as I started shooting with the wide angle 30mm lens (about  what a 17mm would view along the long axis in normal 35mm SLR) I was hooked.  The combination of the panoramic format with the 30mm wide angle is usually how the scene "feels" to me as I look at it. 

by: Fred Stillings  (USA)




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