Archive for December, 2009

everything i have, simon evans

Again, not technically photography (medium is pen, paper, scotch tape, and whiteout) but wouldn’t it be a great photo project idea, to photograph everything you have and turn it into one huge piece of art? Check out artist Simon Evan’s work Everything I Have and get inspired to catalogue all your material possessions:

denise grunstein

Loved this photo exhibition, Dear Prudence, by photographer Denise Grünstein:

ed purnomo

I generally don’t get that interested in commercial work (generally…) but I came across this editorial photographer Ed Purnomo and I liked this series. I like when the lines between commercial work and art are blurred. Check it out below and his website for more of his work.

julia guo, curvy

This is technically not photography, but I’m obsessed with this image and I just had to post it:

Artist is Julia Guo, for Curvy.

where the wild things are forts

Just saw this on Booooooom! (and We Love You So) and I had to post about it since I loved the movie, Where The Wild Things Are forts photo contest. There were so many good ones, it was pretty much impossible to pick favorites, but check out some that I liked below and definitely go to the sites to see even more. Doesn’t this make you want to build your own?

diana f+ slr adaptors

Discovered this just in time for Christmas, and I’ll add it to my huge list of camera gear that I am pining over, these Diana F+ SLR Adaptors make it so you can shoot attach super cool Diana lenses to your digital camera.

I do miss shooting film, but I’m generally too lazy to do it. This lets me still get some of the cool Diana effects from a digital! It’s just another fun gadget to add to your photo bag so you can have more options when shooting. Add it to your list!

ivo mayr

I just spent a large amount of time looking through photographer Ivo Mayr’s portfolio. You should do the same. Check out my favorite series Leichtkraft below:

*zephyrance dont wake me up.

…is the name of the flickr user who has convinced me I need a Fuji Instax camera. I was doing some research to figure out if I should buy and I saw this photo set and I no longer had doubts. Check it out:

graphic intersections: submission

Came across this cool project called Graphic Intersections from The Exposure Project, here’s the explanation from the website:

Graphic Intersections is a collaborative project loosely based on the old Surrealist and Dadaist game The Exquisite Corpse. Designed to unite disparate artists in an interconnected photographic relay of images inspired by one another, this project strives to emphasize a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction.

The first photographer made a photograph, which was subsequently forwarded to the second in line.  The 2^nd then, based solely on their own visual, emotional, intellectual or philosophical response, in turn made photographs in artistic reaction to the one they were given.  The artists involved were not given any written material to accompany the photograph, nor did they know whose image they were responding to.  This was designed to propagate chance, or as the Surrealist’s put it, exploit “the mystique of accident.”

Ultimately, Graphic Intersections to challenge the bounds of sequential, narrative imagery, while simultaneously fostering stronger lines of artistic affiliation.

Check out the previous project, and submit to the new one, there’s still time!

patrick winfield

Patrick Winfield’s polaroid composites. Very cool. I’d put these on my wall.