Eight days

“It’s a timeless existence on the road, you are just on the road, moving. It feels good do nothing but watch the land race by and know you are moving somewhere and at some point you will arrive.”
After a year of exciting but demanding collaborations and commissions I felt an urge to take off on a trip – to do something unscripted and experiment with photography in the Californian light. The wide open spaces of Nevada, the mountains of Yosemite, the deserts of Joshua Tree and the notorious Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City.

www.venetiadearden.com

[Interview by Elisabetta Pometto]

The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a body of previously unseen works, shot between 2010 and 2011. Structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants in Martins’ native Portugal, The Time Machine ”records spaces and objects that characterise a suspended time, that of the modern: machines and rooms which simultaneously place us in genuine science-fiction settings and in an unavoidable field of nostalgia” (J. Pinharanda). Working closely with the EDP Foundation, Martins gained exclusive access to 20 power plants located across the country. Many of the power stations were built between the 1950′s and 1970′s, a time of hopeful prospects of rapid economic growth and social change.

www.edgarmartins.com

[Interview by Elisabetta Pometto]

We Krump

Krumping is a raw, primitive cousin of Break Dancing. It was born in the hoods of Los Angeles by youth looking for an alternative to gang life. Today it has spread world wide, but still maintains its roots of the dance. The powerful, violent moves intimidate at first; but the rawness of the arm swings and chest pops is the voice of the dancer. This story is about a group of friends, each from a completely different background, brought together by Krump.

www.brettgundlock.com

[Interview by Alan Pelz-Sharpe]

Beirut Nocturne

“Beirut Nocturne è un viaggio onirico e profondamente personale in una città che esiste solo di notte. E’ uno sguardo gettato su una Beirut ispirata dalla letteratura, dalla grandezza passata e dal ricordo recente della guerra. Questo libro è qualcosa di molto simile ad una dichiarazione d’amore”. G.R.
Le immagini di Beirut Nocturne sono immerse in un nero dilagante, accompagnate solamente dai versi dell’anziano poeta libanese Christian Ghazi, che con i suoi testi ha incorniciato il lavoro del fotografo. Atmosfere intime, solitudini e il ricordo tormentoso della guerra, nessuna traccia della Beirut famosa del divertimento, della ricchezza e del sesso, ma una città notturna e silenziosa in cui emergono, illuminate per un attimo, persone e scene di vita marginali.

“Beirut Nicturne is a personal deep dreamlike journey in a city that exists only at night. It is a glance at a Beirut inspired by literature, by the past greatness and the memory of the recent war. This book is something very similar to a declaration of love.” G.R.
The images of Beirut Nocturne are immersed in a spreading black, accompanied only by verses of the Lebanese elderly poet Christian Ghazi, who framed with his lyrics the photographer’s work. Intimate atmosphere, loneliness and tormenting memories of the war, no traces of Beirut’s famous nightlife, of wealth and sex, but a nighty and silent city in which, illuminated for a moment, emerge people in marginal life scenes.

www.giuliorimondi.com

[Interview by Moria De Zen]

Isthmus

She goes to meet him. Together they travel in the archipelago. Without waiting, without fear, she photographs with Polaroid the places she passes through. Everywhere silence reigns. That of nature, save from man. That of the two protagonists, the same. Everywhere, no words are unspoken. It is not a silence that hides, that betrayes, that protects. It is a silence that illuminates, that reveals, that uncovers the truth. A silence like the clearest word that authorizes the other dialogue – intimate, white, poetic. Virginie Luc

floramerillon.fr

[Interview by Moria De Zen]

Being old in Georgia

In Georgia (Caucasus) a lot of old women live alone in very precarious conditions. They receive a pension that is the equivalent to 30 euros per month. Their life has dramatically changed with the collapse of the Soviet Union, a time they all regret dearly. Some of them were head of a kholkoze, others doctors or nurses, university teachers or just simple workers. They all feel that at least they had a dignity.

http://agnesmontanari.photoshelter.com

[Interview by Elisabetta Tripodi]

Some nine and a half things

This series, which is concipiated as a book on demand publication, deals with different objects from our daily life. We all come across these objects every day in the urban space but we only realise a few of them. These objects are almost all affiliated with the urban space through their identical appearance but if you look closer every object, which is documented in this publication, is unique. This could be because of their colours, that the objects are surfaces for street art or via the surrounding in which the objects exist. In this project gumball machines, post boxes and bus or tram stations are documented through photography. The serial stringing together of the photographs should on the one hand show the similarity between the single objects and on the other hand the uniqueness of every gumball machine, post box and bus or tram station should be highlighted. This duality of industrial mass products and uniqueness which inheres in every object should be emphasised through the last picture of every series. This last picture shows what kind of object is documented, but the uniqueness of the object is hidden.

mliftenegger.viewbook.com

[Interview by Elisabetta Pometto]

The Transience of Things

In The Transience of Things I set out to document the final moments of a home. This is a study of memory and loss. It is also an examination of the end of an era. The impermanence of things is palpable. The estate sale marks the last time the house exists in all its parts with rooms and objects intact in the way the owner intended. For two days everything stands still. The rooms exist in a suspended state of reality – a kind of time warp – in which the past, the present and the future meet. Everything is for sale.

www.sarahgirner.com

[Interview by Moria De Zen]

From Bassano Fotografia 2011:

Interview with Marc De Tollenaere

about his exhibition Veneto inside and out

Photographer Marc De Tollenaere, presents a selection of shots he has been taking in Veneto over the past seven years.

Il fotografo Marc De Tollenaere presenta una selezione di scatti realizzati in terra veneta nel corso degli ultimi sette anni.

www.marcdtphotos.blogspot.com

[Interview by Moria De Zen]

From Bassano Fotografia 2011:

Interview with Harry De Zitter

about his exhibition Imagining… a moment in time

Through his intense photographic and artistic work, Harry De Zitter has been able to condense, over the years, a punctual and profound, careful and original, observation of the world around him: capturing the main characters, main events, as well as small ones, seemingly insignificant, but full of life; “decisive moments” that he captures with his camera.

Harry De Zitter ha saputo condensare nella sua vita e negli anni di intensa attività fotografica e artistica, un’osservazione sempre puntuale e profonda, attenta e originale, sul mondo intorno a sé: i protagonisti, gli avvenimenti principali ma anche i piccoli, apparentemente insignificanti ma densi di vita, “attimi decisivi” che lui riesce a cogliere con la sua macchina fotografica.

www.dezitter.com

[Interview by Moria De Zen]