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Edgar Martins - The Diminishing Present

2006-07-13T12:09:00.000+01:00

The imagery of The Diminishing Present is less a set of pictures than a series of moments in which spaces, mechanisms, signs, objects and events in the instrumentalist, modified landscape of the contemporary order have become independent of causation or function. It resembles a set of location shots for unmade films from lost scenarios.
(...)This landscape is actual, familiar, always there, and yet imaginary, unseen. It is the other place, which is always this place, in thesethings; it is there when our backs are turned, while we sleep, or as we drive past in the unconsciousness of speed, in the half-life of routine it is the landscape that survives our absence.
(Osborne, Peter D., The Accidental theorist, in The Diminishing Present, The Moth House 2005)

The Diminishing Present, by Edgar Martins, will be launched today at Galeria Graça Brandão, after the London lauch at The Photographer's Gallery on the 29th of June.

nyclondon.com - Walking The Circle Line

2006-07-12T14:27:00.000+01:00

Rob Gardiner, from the nyclondon.com website, took his pinhole and walked along London Underground's Circle Line, taking pictures between each two stations. The result is an interesting, and necessarily slow, view of the city, showing that while you main gain in time by travelling on the underground, you always lose in knowledge of the city above (even more in case you're a visiting tourist).
The several posts related to Rob Gardner's walk are in his blog, under the pinhole tag.

Chema Madoz

2006-01-19T14:57:00.000Z

Spanish photographer Chema Madoz's surreal humour, in a website with a good collection of his images.

Blues Highway

2005-12-12T11:47:00.000Z

Blues Highway is a beautiful essay by photographer Bill Steber, with pictures taken along the mythical Highway 61, documenting the living history and tradition of the Blues.

Fotoblogs

2005-11-28T00:57:00.000Z

There's a new blog - 'fotoblogs', by a group of friends (in which I'm included) who show pictures of those behind some of the weblogs we like to visit.

MvG Photo

2005-06-27T17:10:00.000+01:00

The almost always panoramic vision of Michael von Graffenried is a welcome change in the way we see the world that surrounds us.

Tom Stoddart

2005-06-23T11:28:00.000+01:00

British photojournalist Tom Stoddart shows some of his latest work in his personal website.

Les Stone

2005-06-22T12:44:00.000+01:00

Les Stone specialises in chronicling, among others, the effects of war on the populations of several countries. During the last twenty years he has photographed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kosovo, and many other places. In his website it is possible to see the work he created along the years.

New York Photoblog | Martin Fuchs at Magnum Photos New York

2005-06-21T18:29:00.000+01:00

Martin Fuchs, of whom I spoke before on this weblog, is in New York doing a 6-months internship at Magnum Agency - and he created a weblog where he tells his adventure and shares his photos.

Plrds.com - Polaroid Photography Collective

2005-04-07T09:50:00.000+01:00

Plrds.com, a website managed by Mike Brodie, gathers a number of photographers that use Polaroids as a means of expression. The number of different visions in this website deserves a careful visit. Additionally, Mike has managed to give also a physical shape to the project: he has already edited two volumes of "Plrds Series", a hand-made book that gathers images from the several members of the website. I received yesterday Plrds Series #2 and it has been a great way of finding very interesting images.

Edmund Leveckis

2005-03-30T10:00:00.000+01:00

Through a post in "O Manancial da Noite", I discovered the website of photographer Edmund Leveckis, where he shows us his vision of his city. "New York in black & white, dark, pasty and grainy", says Tiago in his post - and he's absolutely right. I will definitely spend some time browsing through this website.

Mark-Steffen Göwecke

2005-03-28T22:18:00.000+01:00

Among other galleries, Mark-Steffen Göwecke's website shows us an interesting set of panoramic photographs taken with a Horizon 202. Other of Mark-Steffen's curious projects is his polaroid gallery, in which each photo serves as the basis for the next one, in a big game of self-quotation.

André Kerstész

2005-03-24T00:13:00.000Z

On the Peter Fetterman Gallery's website there is an impressive photography collection, which includes a considerable number of images by André Kertész, one of my favourite photographers.

PhotoDogs

2005-03-17T21:15:00.000Z

At these times when I don't have enough free time to make proper updates to this blog, the occasional visitor has always the possibility of visiting a new place - PhotoDogs, where only dogs dwell, photographed by several different people.

Walker Pickering Photography

2005-03-09T10:39:00.000Z

On his personal website, Walter Pickering shows three photographic galleries - "Town Lake", which documents the "stretch of the Colorado River that runs through downtown Austin, Texas called Town Lake"; "Musicians", an impressive set of portraits of several musicians with their instruments, with a perfect use of selective focus; and "Mouse", a curious essay on a man "who wears a mouse head all day long"... Walter is also responsible for BeyondMonochrome, a weblog that deserves a detailed visit.

Base Mémoire (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication)

2005-03-08T14:38:00.000Z

The photo archive of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. On this website it is possible to browse through a very interesting collection of historical photographs, not only of France (which is naturally the country with the greatest number of images), but also from several other countries in the world - including Portugal.

Toycamera.com: Francisco Mata Rosas

2005-03-08T10:16:00.000Z

Mexican photographer Francisco Mata Rosas's gallery at Toycamera.com, with images taken with (not surprisingly...) toy cameras - Holga, Diana, Ansco Pix Panorama...

Elias Hassos

2004-12-22T09:29:00.000Z

Website of free-lance German photographer Elias Hassos, born in Munich (1968). Hassos makes an imaginative use of colour in his photos, here presented in two portfolios that gather landscapes, portraits and other themes in an interesting way.

ScottIrvine.Net

2004-12-05T21:20:00.000Z

At photographer Scott Irvine's website there isn't any information - just a lonely e-mail address and four photo galleries ("gallery", "portraits", "mutter" and "natural history") full of photos that look like they were taken with plastic toy cameras. Anyway, little else is necessary - everything is there, in the images themselves that deserve a detailed visit.

jochen hartmann photography

2004-11-19T02:05:00.000Z

Website of German photographer Jochen Hartmann. Four photo galleries with simple names ("city", "wood", "digital", "misc") with almost all of their simple images made with a simple Woca (an Holga 120S clone). In this case, however, simplicity is a blessing - Hartmann's images show how versatile a plastic camera can be.

Balazs Borocz

2004-11-02T01:17:00.000Z

Impressive website of Hungarian photographer Balazs Borocz, mainly centered around a series of self-portraits made using traditional techniques in order to create almost disturbing images, in a personal reality manufactured in each image.

Anton Corbijn

2004-10-29T13:01:00.000+01:00

Official website of Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn, responsible for some of the best musical iconography of the last twenty years.

Two Visions: Out of Africa

2004-10-20T11:51:00.000+01:00

Out of Africa is a photographic portfolio by Hywell Waters, published in Digital Journalist. This portfolio shows the differences between the two types of farming in Zimbabwe, through pictures taken at two different farms, one of commercial farming and other of communal/subsistence farming.

Matt Carr

2004-10-18T10:15:00.000+01:00

Matt Carr's website, with two photo galleries, "Portrait" e "Reportage", the first one almost exclusively in colour and the second one completely in black & white.

Michael Ackerman

2004-09-20T01:17:00.000+01:00

Photographer Michael Ackerman's webpage at Agence Vu's website. Ackerman has a very personal use of blur and grain, together with his way of looking that makes his work unique.

Andrew Buurman

2004-09-02T16:05:00.000+01:00

English photojournalist Andrew Buurman presents in his website his photographic works, from some complete series of photos (including the excelente "Serpentine Swimming Club", awarded by World Press Photo 2003) to his work in portraits and reportage.
(seen at Coincidences)

Erik Refner, Photographer

2004-08-30T13:31:00.000+01:00

Website of Danish photojournalist Erik Refner. A well constructed site, with seven galleries (from the Middle East to the Rockabilly culture) that mix colour with black & white in strong pictures that cause impact.
(seen at gasparhernandez)

Sally Mann photographer - tribute page

2004-07-06T17:13:00.000+01:00

An unofficial website dedicated to American photographer Sally Mann, with several galleries showing her photographs and giving access to information on her life and work.

clandestina.trips

2004-06-26T13:44:00.000+01:00

clandestina.trips's 24th issue shows 5 portfolios of 5 other cities to explore. One of them is a portfolio of 5 pictures taken at Copenhagen by Paulo Serra, whose weblog, theater des todes, is well worth the visit.
Apart from Copenhagen, this issue of clandestina.trips also features the cities of Seoul (by Giovanni Antico, Italian), Stockholm (by Margarita Solé, Argentinean), Gonaives (by Ramin Talaie, American) and Bangor (by Caroline Moore, American).

Blow-Up: Diane Arbus

2004-06-18T20:57:00.000+01:00

«I do feel I have some slight corner on something about the quality of things. I mean it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.»
(Diane Arbus)

Elliott Erwitt

2004-06-15T01:11:00.000+01:00

The official website of American photographer Elliott Erwitt. Born in 1928 and member of the Magnum Agency since 1953, it is Erwitt himself who states "I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation". A website with several portfolios to explore in detail, from one of the biggest live names in photography.

Angela M. Ferreira

2004-06-09T18:33:00.000+01:00

The photographic world of Angela M. Ferreira is a different world, in which the people appear as if in a dream, with illuminated smiles and eyes filled with candour. There is a sensibility in Angela's work that reveals itself in each image, taking us way beyond the photo itself - into a world of white clouds and soap bubbles.

Viagens - Supertatas

2004-06-09T01:36:00.000+01:00

Travel photos, from the several places visited by Tatas.

fotograf Paal Audestad

2004-04-17T01:33:00.000+01:00

Website of Norse photographer Paal Audestad. Four galleries show us his work, almost exclusively in black & white and in which the human presence is almost indispensable - and captured in an often surprising way.

clandestina.trips

2004-04-15T17:32:00.000+01:00

clandestina.trips - Issue 22 of clandestina.trips is now online. clandestina.trips is an online photo magazine that shows the vision of several photographers on the cities of this planet, five cities on each issue. Issue 22 brings us Ubatuba (Brazil) by Brazilian Flavia de Almeida Prado, Chiang Mai (Thailand) by Argentinian Pablo Damonte, Beijing (China) by Portuguese Filipe Bianchi, Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo) by Finnish Elina Moriya and La Paloma (Uruguay) by Argentinian Francisco Lemos.

James Fee Photography

2004-03-02T09:46:00.000Z

Website of photographer James Fee. Disturbing images, from a very personal view on a dream-like America to portraits of celebrities, but always with the very peculiar look of Fee.

J. Kevin Dunn Photography

2003-12-09T10:31:00.000Z

In one of the last entries in this weblog, I had mentioned J. Kevin Dunn's website, saying about it that it "(...)may not have a very attractive look, but the photos it shows are quite worth a careful look."
In a nice e-mail, Kevin Dunn himself tells me that the website I mentioned was an old version and that his new website, with more complete galleries and some of his last work, is now at http://www.jkevindunn.com/. This website has seven different galleries, including "Railways", his newest work that deserves to be seen and felt like a long trip through the Canadian prairies.

Joyce Tenneson

2003-11-25T11:12:00.000Z

Website of American photographer Joyce Tenneson, an exceptional portraitist who also creates other types of images - check her flowe still lives, for instance. This site has several galleries full of great images, prints for sale, a list of the books published by Tenneson, a small biography and the list of workshops in which she participates.

J. Kevin Dunn Photography

2003-11-13T14:50:00.000Z

J. Kevin Dunn's website may not have a very attractive look, but the photos it shows are quite worth a careful look. I found the work of this photographer through the publication of his "My Life As A Dog" portfolio in an old number of Lenswork magazine, which is certainly a sign of quality. In his website, Dunn presents us with three portfolios: "Canadiana", "Canine" e "Wedding", always in beautiful black & white and with a unique look on everything around him.

Jan Saudek

2003-11-10T11:21:00.000Z

«At the field of Photography, as same as in Love, everything's allowed.
You can do anything you desire!
You're permitted to shoot your pictures from the respectful distance, you may use various gimmicks, overpay your models, you can come very close (with the camera) to your adored objects, sink to the water (don't forget to emerge!) you can "forget" to pay your model and to short her wages, you may develop your films in river, in hot soup, in fixer - you can run naked and drunk all over your studio, can use all existing types of cameras, old papers, expired films, bad, weak light - you can lose your good manners, hopes, insight - you can fall to sleep during session, overthrow the tripod with the camera, forget your Hasselblad in woods oranythingg you want - but still there are 2 things you must to avoid: you are not allowed to lie - and you mustn't be boring.
That point 1 I try to avoid really carefully - one shouldn't lie at all.
And, as for rule #2: it's up my respectable viewer to tell if I don't...»
(Jan Saudek)

Burton Pritzker

2003-10-27T15:12:00.000Z

Official website of American photographer Burton Pritzker. It shows three series of photographs, "Texas Rangeland", "Artifacts" and "Watermark". I discovered Pritzker's work in Lenswork #43 (Oct/Nov 2002), where part of the "Texas Rangeland" portfolio was published. Pritzker has the ability of transforming what he photographs into something different, creating his own world through the abstraction he gives to shapes and textures (take a look, for instance, at the almost unreal images of bulls and horses in "Texas Rangeland"). A vision quite different from what we're used to, worth knowing.

Jazz & Blues

2003-09-17T03:18:00.000+01:00

"Jazz & Blues" - my first solo exhibition will start at the end of next week. It will be held from the 27th of September to the 1st of November at the Catacumbas Jazz Bar in Lisbon.
This exhibition is comprised of 16 photographs taken at rehearsals and gigs of Jazz and Blues bands and it tries to connect my own personal vision of the peculiar mood of these musical genres with a space dedicated to them - the Catacumbas Jazz Bar.
If you'd like to have an idea of what the exhibition will look like, you may visit its website, here.

Catacumbas is at Travessa da Água da Flor, n.43, at Bairro Alto, Lisbon. Show up for a drink, I'll be around...

Xposure Photography

2003-09-13T11:06:00.000+01:00

The website that presents the work of Portuguese photographer Pedro Guimarães. Includes his biography, information and contacts for commercial works and his artistic portfolio. This last one is divided in 6 thematic galleries - "Angels", "Europeans", "Pilgrimages", "S.Bartolomeu do Mar", "Singles" and "Beach" and each one of them has beautiful pictures with Pedro's very own ambiance. The "Europeans" portfolio, under the name "A descoberta de um turista" ("The discovery of a tourist") has recently won the Center/North zone award in the first FNAC New Photography Talent award (in Portugal).

Czech + Slovak Staged Photographs

2003-09-12T23:28:00.000+01:00

A website that gathers the work of several Czech and Slovak photographers that have in common the staging of their images as a way of better expressing their personal vision. The site has several interesting galleries and deserves a careful visit to become better acquainted with the conceptual work of these authors.

Flux + Mutability

2003-09-04T13:14:00.000+01:00

Finally, Luis Farrolas's website! A personal friend and one of the people that was more directly responsible for my interest in photography, Luis presents his work in these pages, in six galleries that show well the versatility and the undeniable quality of his vision, which deserves being shared in a global way.

Corey Arnold

2003-07-30T22:16:00.000+01:00

Directly from Austria, Martin shows me a link to an amazing site. Norse photographer Corey Alrnold's work, divided into four galleries - Animalia, Humans, The Night and Fish-Work, the first two in black & white, the other two in colour. There are some great photographies here, in every gallery - Corey manages to create images of great sensibility, never losing his sense of humour. A great discovery - I owe you one, Martin, thanks!...

Joel-Peter Witkin Gallery

2003-07-22T19:34:00.000+01:00

Today, while talking to a friend about the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, I was reminded of Witkin's images. Cristina was talking to me about the cruelty and extreme beauty in Poe's tales, about the "horrible beauty" of his writing - and I was thinking precisely of the same characteristics in Witkin's photographs. I'm fascinated with the way he manages to join the grotesque of his themes - people with physical deficiencies or mutilations, corpses... - with inspiration from classical paintings and sculptures, building images of profound beauty. Disturbing images, yet very beautiful.

aeternus - the photography of lisa a. johnston

2003-07-21T19:43:00.000+01:00

Aeternus is the website that shows the photographic work of lisa a. johnston. There is a gallery with a few photomontages and the rest of the work is entirely comprised of pinhole photographies, which serves well to show what so many times seems to be forgotten in the majority of the photographic websites that have "exploded" lately: that the focus of the photographic work should always be on inspiration. And never on technique.

BZK Group - Covers

2003-07-18T14:59:00.000+01:00

(photo by Mário Pires)

And so the exhibition started. The opening was yesterday night, it will be open to the public from today until the 17th of September. In the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon, everyday except Mondays.

In the website it's possible to find information about the group, its projects and each of the members.

Nan Goldin

2003-07-18T14:47:00.000+01:00

A website dedicated to the work of Nan Goldin. Photos taken from what is perhaps her best-known work, The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency.

Site update

2003-07-15T10:54:00.000+01:00

A small update at the website, with new photos in the smoke and les gens galleries.
I noticed yesterday that the site (which by the way was created precisely 20 months ago) has passed the mark of 10,000 visitors (10,410 at this precise moment, according to the nedstat data). This probably isn't very interesting to you all, but to me it's one of those statistical data that feels good looking at... ;)

Jay Gumm

2003-07-14T02:01:00.000+01:00

Jay Gumm's website, a photographer that explores the nude and erotism in a strong, sometimes almost violent way, as a means to question his own human nature. Mixing digital techniques with the physical manipulation of negatives and prints, Gumm acheives surprising effects and unique compositions. A website to enjoy in detail.

26 things - the international photographic scavenger hunt

2003-07-12T02:29:00.000+01:00

To any photographer, one of the more serious problems is the lack of creativity. In a world completely saturated by photographic images, with photography being more and more accessible to everyone, originality is hard to find - when everything seems to have already been done, is it still possible to innovate?

The 26 things project tries to make us see things in a different way - simplify instead of complicate - if it's so hard to find new themes to photograph, why not force us to explore the "old" themes, the ones that have been used to exhaustion? The idea of the project is to take 26 simple themes - "love", "time", "colour", "little things", to name a few - and shoot one photo for each theme during the month of July. On the 1st of August each photographer submits his photos to the website, thus contributing to a big thematic gallery.

Even if one does not submit his photos, it's always an interesting idea as a means to improve one's creativity. One of the themes is "a sunset", one of the more abominable photographic themes, due to the exasperating and exhaustive way in which it has been photographed. Just for the fun of trying to photograph it in a really creative way, I think it will be worth trying to participate in this project.

Kansas City Jazz

2003-07-11T19:32:00.000+01:00

Jazz has always been a very interesting source of photographic inspiration - the strength and the heat of the music, the sensuality of the movements, the rythm and the swing have attracted photographers since its beginning. In this website it is possible to see an exhibition about the New Orleans of today and the jazz that breathes through the city. A good photo essay to visit while listening to the best jazz (a suggestion: "At The Bohemia", Charles Mingus, precisely what I'm listening to while writing this post, and one of my favourite Mingus CDs... ;) )

Zosia Zija

2003-07-11T09:19:00.000+01:00

A website showing the photographic work of Zosia Zija, polish photographer. The website is divided into three galleries - people, thoughts and places, showing black & white photos, portraits of people and places, always in a vision at the same time simple and strong. Check it out!

BZK Group - Covers

2003-07-11T01:01:00.000+01:00

From the 17th of July to the 17th of September it will be held in the Cidade de Lisboa room of the Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Lisbon the photographic exhibition "Covers" from the BZK group.

The BZK group was created in 2002 by artists that use photography as a means of expression. With different personal background, they are united by the will to present works of collective creation that can generate aesthetics that won't overcome the individuality of each member.

For this exhibition, the group has created photographic "cover versions" of five songs. It is not, however, a mere "photo-clip", nor an illustration - it is instead the impression on photographic paper of the emotions provoked by those songs.

The BZK Group is:
António Lucas Soares
António Vieira
Bruno Espadana
Luís Farrolas
Mário Filipe Pires

http://www.bzkgroup.net/

Suggestions

2003-06-24T01:56:00.000+01:00

Some more suggestions, all taken from an interesting photographic weblog, Conscientious:

- Malcolm Pasley - black & white nudes gallery
- Olivier Christinat - black & white work in a unique style
- Tokihiro Sato - black & white photographer with an interesting technique that brings together slow shutter speeds with mirrors to create surreal light effects
- Tom Baril - the work of the photographer that was for 15 years Robert Mapplethorpe's master printer - and it shows in his own photographs, an excellent work

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

2003-06-23T20:02:00.000+01:00

A site worth knowing - the official site of the work of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, dream-like photos in a different and beautiful world.
I discovered this website due to rain song, a Portuguese weblog where much - and good! - photography is found. Worth the visit. :)

My first e-book

2003-05-16T11:07:00.000+01:00

Well, it's official and I can now announce it:

I published today my first photography book, an electronic book that exists only on the Internet on the other side of this link.
It's a book that brings together some of my photos with quotes from several authors. It's a simple book with eleven double pages and to me it is sort of a turning point.
I hope you like it :-)

Site update

2003-05-16T09:39:00.000+01:00

New site update. I'm starting to worry about the time I take to update things around here - this time I was more than 2 months without saying anything...
Well, there are two new galleries, jazz and smoke, some (few) photos changing galleries and others that were gone for good. I am preparing a new part of the site, it may be ready today, but for now I can't tell what it is :-)))

Site update

2003-03-11T10:09:00.000Z

Site update: after some time in hibernation, there is finally some new stuff around here - three new galleries, lo-fi, lomo and s; I also added and removed some photos in the other galleries.

Site update

2003-01-04T02:40:00.000Z

Site update: new photos in the polaroid gallery.
Given the integration of this website in the olhares.net project, there is now a link to that site in all the pages of brunoespadana.com.

Suggestions

2002-12-23T20:30:00.000Z

Three new suggestions:
Algimantas Aleksandravicius, Lithuanian photographer. The page is part of the website of the Lithuanian Photographers Union and has some very strong portraits shot by this photographer. The rest of the site is also worth a visit to have an idea of what is being done in photography in Lithuania.
Olav Murillo Creative Portfolio. Three photo galleries - "People", "Places" e "Objects" - and some extras make the site of this Mexican photographer an interesting place to visit.
Alan Wilson - Photo A Week. An original project - to put online one photograph by week, taken in that same week - kind of a photo diary of the year that goes by. Street photography that deserves a detailed visit.

Suggestions

2002-11-29T13:33:00.000Z

Two suggestions for the weekend:

Private and Public is a work by Danish photographer Simon Hoegsberg. Simon placed himself for one year in a fixed spot in Marble Arch, London and took pictures of the people that passed by. This website is the final presentation of that project, with galleries split according to the four seasons. This is a project that impresses mainly because of the strength of those everyday faces and because of their natural expressions - no one is posing, there are no "actors" here.

Secondly, a totally different proposal: unstill, Laurent Ziegler's website that presents several galleries of beautiful black and white photos of modern dance shows. It is a heart-felt homage to an art form that the photographer loves and that he manages to execute perfectly.

Site update

2002-11-27T01:32:00.000Z

Site update: new gallery digital minimalism and some new photos in the galleries les gens, self-something and polaroid.

Franco Fontana

2002-11-26T18:30:00.000Z

Gallery of polaroids by this Italian master of colour photography.

Simon Ladefoged

2002-11-24T18:16:00.000Z

Website of Danish photographer Simon Ladefoged. Simple and elegant design, with six galleries of excellent colour photographs.

Martin Fuchs - Photographien aus Portugal in Schwarz und Weiss

2002-11-24T15:14:00.000Z

Martin Fuchs is an Austrian photographer who visited Portugal for three times in the last three years and this site is the result of those visits. Photographs of places, of people, of architecture, of landscapes, that show a cunning look that goes much beyond the typical tourist photography. Well worth a detailed visit.

William Gedney, selected works

2002-11-22T01:37:00.000Z

This website shows some of the work of American photographer William Gedney (1932-1989). It's well worth the visit, there are some extraordinary photographs on the site.

Beginning

2002-11-21T22:39:00.000Z

Something new on this website - from now on, this zone will show all the updates to the site, as well as links to other sites or other information about photography that I think may be relevant to mention.
There is also the possibility to comment on these entries, so that visitors to the site may leave their own opinion.
All this was created using blogger, with some additional programming in php.
Have fun! :-)