Edgar Martins - The Diminishing Present

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

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

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

Blues Highway

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

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

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

Les Stone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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.