Crystal Lamont hosts this informative program on photographic know-how whilst possessing very little of it herself. Catch the entire show coming soon to Marie Wilson’s 15×100 microsite, Wroxeter Zoo.
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From his bio:
Quoting Joan Barceló (Menàrguens 1955-Barcelona 1980) I will say about myself: I was born the 4th of September 1974 in Lleida, and taken two days later to Alcarràs (Segrià), where I have lived ever since.
Jobs: fruit tree pruner, sweet fruit collector, farm tractor driver, hardened music lover, cartoonist, graphic designer and tireless photographer…
Exhibitions:
-Correspondencies. Gallery Espai Cavallers 31 33. Lleida. 2008
-Situació Lleida. Art Center La Panera. Lleida. 2005-2006
-SegonSegona. Governador Montcada, 5. 2n 2a. Lleida. 2004
-Visita Guiada. Gallery Maria Vilaltella. Cercle de Belles Arts. Lleida. 2003
-Fotografía Caixa Terrassa. Seu de Caixa Terrassa. Terrassa. 2002
-Qualitat d’intim. 136 small format photographs. University of Lleida Hall. 1999
-Fine-Art Photography. Fine-Art Photo School of Lleida Hall. 1999
-Ep, Artista! University of Lleida Hall. 1998
-A 30 terres sota peu. Gallery Coma Estadella. COAAT de Lleida. 1998
Workshops and seminars attended:
Few were good and none was useful
Education:
enough
Why do you take pictures?
Summing up, for pure passion.
Extending a little bit to the response, because I need to understand the world that surrounds me and because with every photo I steady myself in my condition.
What has impacted your visual style?
The smallest and insignificant things, the things that we all obviate, and his shadows.
How did you learn to see?
I was going for sculptor. I began and left it. But my mentor taught me the secret concepts behind the things and all the multiple interpretations. It was necessary for me to find my way of communicating, the way to do it. I discovered by chance the book Self portraits by Lee Friedlander, and that one opened to me the eyes.
In your world is photography mechanical or philosophical?
It is impulsive. And the impulse normally answers to an emotion.
What do you hope people walk away from your work with?
At least, I hope that the people should think, should reflect on what he sees. Although what he sees does not contain the response to his questions. Rather, I hope that my photos should raise questions and should not give responses.
What is your favorite 15×100 image?
Claudia Luthi. 03. Titled From here to infinity
Who is your favorite 15×100 photographer? Why?
Claudia Luthi. Because she is one that raises a formal speech, functional, conceptual, narrative and simultaneously, all the photos have their own sense and individual meaning.
Some photos are much better than others, but it is not the quality that is really important, but the speech, which really raises you. And, sorry, I cannot choose only one. Jeff McElroy. His photos are photos of nothing and it seems that they do not say anything. But his voice and his message makes you paralyzed.
How did you select your 15 images?
I know what I want to say, or rather I know about what I want to ask. When I take a picture, once developed, I leave it in an office drawer so that it rests for a sufficient time. Normally they remain in the drawer between 3 and 6 months. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Later, as soon as the drawer is opened, I do not choose them, they are those who are ordained and speak to me about something.
What guides you?
The desires of questioning myself. The desires of questioning the world. And clearly, the desires of understanding it.
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From his bio:
Born in Saskatchewan. Grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and California. Schooled in Pennsylvania and New York City. Professional actor, director and producer for many years. Now a copyright lawyer in Toronto. Words have always been my stock in trade, but I love the pictures.
Why do you take pictures?
It’s fun to collect things in a little box.
What has impacted your visual style?
I don’t know what “visual style” is.
How did you learn to see?
Bifocals.
In your world is photography mechanical or philosophical?
Yes.
What do you hope people walk away from your work with?
A receipt.
What is your favorite 15×100 image?
In order to answer this question, I’ve looked at every image on 15×100 many times, which takes a really long time, but is fun. However, each time through I come up with a different favourite. My absolute top favourite is almost certainly one of these:
Marie Wilson – Nude;
Sagi Shapira – Untitled (Man in profile with glasses and cap);
Nicholas Hendrickx – Tour de Mouches;
Robert Larson – Hospital;
Struan Oglanby – Cloud, Hudson Valley, NY;
Michael van der Tol – Untitled (Red Truck on Prairie);
Gigi Tindle – Summer Skin;
Maria Tizon – Still-life;
Jason Watt – A puzzle for Cedar;
Rachel McKinnie – Velvet Hills;
Gabe Maxson – Untitled (Yellow Witch in Subway);
Claudia Luthi – Tambo Grande;
Rory Cobbe – timmyomahony;
Stephen Foote – Masai Mara, Kenya;
Gijs Bekenkamp – Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia;
Skip Hunt – valleyofdeath;
Catharine Amato – Seafront;
Cosmo Emanuele – The Profile: Desert of Uzbekistan;
Gary Fudge – Inside;
Paul Collins – Park Slope Diva;
Paul Lavallee – Warehouse;
Joe Rotindo – Running after You;
Josh Hudson – Fishing at Pikes;
Trey Hill – Tangled Up In Blue;
Matt Adamik – Edgewater Park #1;
Peggy-Sue Harrington – You Left This Behind;
Polly Cole – Sitting in the Station;
Seanie Blue – Aurora Borealis over Djupavik;
Skyler Burt – 01 (boys running);
Tony Day – tripe-dresser;
Michael Ast – Buggy Boy;
Paola de Grenet – Ana;
Zoe Lighthouse – Dandelion Eyes.
I think I left some out.
Who is your favorite 15×100 photographer? Why?
Marie Wilson. Her photographs are full of the important things in life: compassion, beauty, light.
How did you select your 15 images?
Grand jury.
What guides you?
Struan Oglanby. And the electro-magnetic implants.
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If you’re in the Los Angeles area, join 15×100 member Polly Cole at the opening party for her exhibit “The City of Secrets” on Sunday, August 17th from 3p.m. to 6p.m. at Andiamo Restaurant in Silver Lake. 2815 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
“The City of Secrets” is an ongoing project - a film noir in photographs - that follows the adventures of Rosalie Ray, a young woman who comes to Los Angeles in the late 1940’s to pursue her dream of becoming a movie star. Murder, mystery, and mayhem ensue in “The City of Secrets”.
Come to the opening party to meet the photographer and model! The photos will be on display until the second week of September.
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From his bio:
I’m a guy with a camera, lost in the world.
I was born and raised in The Bronx, but much of my family (as well as my spirit) is from New Orleans. These days I make my home in the New York Hudson Valley.
Music, film, animation, and sketching have tugged at me at various stages of my life, but photography has remained a consistent fascination throughout my years. I started shooting in junior high schoo and never really stopped.
Why do you take pictures?
In a word… catharsis.
Photography has long been a form of therapy for me.
Until relatively recently I had not intended it to be anything more than a personal journey.
What has impacted your impacted your visual style?
My emotional state an any given time.
My spiritual inclinations (both known and unknown).
A desire to draw attention to the beauty of things usually taken for granted.
The work of Gordon Parks, Lee Friedlander, Gary Winnogrand and Diane Arbus.
Also Jan Saudek.
How did you learn to see?
My father, who is a visual artist, would say it runs in the family. So I guess that’s some part of it.
The rest? I have no idea.
In your world is photography mechanical or philosophical?
Definitely philosophical. It’s much more about the image than the machine that captures it.
But I am a nerd, so I must confess to a bit of techno-lust.
What do you hope people walk away from your work with?
A sense of what I was feeling at the time I took the shot.
What is your favorite 15×100 image?
“Lead me home” by Jill Coleman.
Who is your favorite 15×100 photographer? Why?
Jill Coleman. I’ve been a fan of her work for some time now.
She has a wonderful ability to capture the soul of African peoples without it feeling exploitive or intrusive.
There is a rare honesty to her images that draws me to them.
How did you select your 15 images?
It was difficult. Stylistically my work runs the gamut.
But I wanted my first (and each subsequent) set of 15 to have some thematic coherence.
For this one I went with my street photography from a specific period (1992 to 1994).
What guides you?
Egun.
That is the Yoruba word for the ancestral spirits that walk with us, guide us and protect us in all things.
I am very close to mine.
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From his bio:
Hi there, My name is Gijs Bekenkamp. I’m the owner of 945, a graphic design and photography company in the north of the Netherlands.
Currently my country-counter stops somewhere around 62, so many more countries to visit.
Why do you take pictures?
Taking pictures forces me to look and, more importantly, see what surrounds me. It’s too easy to travel to a country without noticing it’s beauty, it’s caracter. Photography helps me noticing.
What has impacted your visual style?
My style is based on the fact that I’d like to show people what I am seeing day in day out. I love colours and I love lines, structures, imaginative grids. Creating a seemingly monochrome scene, capturing emotions, capturing the essence of a moment is what challenges me and drives me to grap that camera and start shooting again.
Seeing many pics and even more scenes on a daily base continuously alters my style slightly.
How did you learn to see?
Do you know that exciting feeling you get when you shoot that one great pic? You just know the pic is going to turn out great. When you get in this vibe you know you stopped looking and started seeing.
(maybe that’s the biggest effect digital photography has on me. The ‘feeling’ of shooting a great pic has changed in a ‘knowing’ that you’ve shot something special… really unfortunate now I think of it)
In your world is photography mechanical or philosophical?
I’m not a technical photographer. That leaves me being philosophical I guess
What do you hope people walk away from your work with?
A sense that they’ve seen a glimpse of what has trilled me at the moment I made the shot.
What is your favorite 15×100 image?
Too many to pic one. Varies from day to day.
Todays favourite is ‘Red Dragon Salt Pond Aerial’ taken by Dan Darroch
Who is your favorite 15×100 photographer? Why?
We’ve such an amazing bunch of talented people here at 15×100. From the top of my head a couple of names:
Bhu Sullivan: great how she combines different techniques.
Jan Cain: for obvious reasons
Jill Coleman: powerfull portraits
Llorenç Rosanes: Knows light, knows composition and has the ability to create something from nothing.
Nicolas Hendrickx: for being hilarious in his photography
Russel Lee Klika: for showing the world the impact of a war
How did you select your 15 images?
That was only possible due to the fact that I knew I could swap my 15 at any time. There is much more to come
What guides you?
My travelguide…
(god that’s stupid way to end a questionnaire)
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In his continuing series The Selfish Photographer, 15×100’s Robert Larson shares his thoughts on the impact of women -
We’re also pleased to announce the launch of the accompanying microsite at selfish.15×100.com
Outside In
When I was a kid my Dad used to always tell me how great it was that I actually liked girls, and by that he meant, he thought it was great that I enjoyed their company. Growing up I had more girl friends than guys. I was always that harmless boy whom girls wanted to vent to about anything and everything. I listened to more URGENT and PRESSING issues in middle school than most guys can bare through in an entire life time. I was always in love with one of my friends; never having the confidence to bring it up or manipulate my situation, I’d always just end up watching friend after friend go through guy after guy and I was always around observing and taking little mental notes. How does all this shit really work? The mating game. Or I guess its always been about the replacement rather than the actual mating. Filling physical AND mental holes. At least . . . . trying to anyways. (more…)
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From his bio:
I am a theatrical lighting designer in New York, originally from the San Francisco North Bay. I try to find vectors and lines of tension in my imagery. I am an amateur in every sense of the word.
Why do you take pictures?
I take pictures as a pure form of expression. I enjoy the compositional control I can exercise within the frame.
What has impacted your impacted your visual style?
As a lighting designer for theatre, I look at light and frame and lines instinctively as part of my work. When I leave the theatre, I see the world around me from this framed perspective. As if by habit, I’m always looking for the “stage”, the contained frame in which human dramas and vignettes are playing out.
How did you learn to see?
I was born effectively blind in one eye (strabismus), so the static, two-dimensional frame is a limitation with which I am accustomed. I also find myself drawn to the square frame as opposed to the panoramic, which is more natural to those with normal stereoscopic vision. I get my sense of depth from movement, i.e. triangulation between the static and the moving objects or vectors in a given frame. This makes me drawn to points of tension/movement in a set of lines or in a person’s gaze, for example.
In your world is photography mechanical or philosophical?
I am a pretty technical person, so the mechanical side of things is always what draws me into something. This has been especially true of photography. I only started taking pictures less than a year ago, everything with a Nikon D40 and kit lens, and my insistence on shooting only manually has helped me to learn the fundamentals rapidly. But in the end, it’s all emotional really, even more than philosophical. On the rare occasion that I make a picture that I truly love, it is because it expresses some kind of perfect honesty, an emotional expression or invocation.
What do you hope people walk away from your work with?
I hope people get something similar to what they might feel reading a good Rilke poem: the happiness of recognition. Recognition that we might share a sense of what is beautiful and what is terrifying in this life, that we are not alone.
What is your favorite 15×100 image?
Of my own images, I am keen on the dog/ball/boots picture. I call it that because I am terrible about titling my pictures. I should just give it a title already.
I also love Tony Day’s “train”.
Who is your favorite 15×100 photographer? Why?
Right now it’s Anahita Avalos. Absolutely transporting. So private and truthful, but also artistically dead-on crazy-beautiful and amazingly skilled.
How did you select your 15 images?
Very poorly, and with much hand-wringing.
What guides you?
I was so excited when I “found” this thing, I told myself I never wanted to defile my experience of it by making it my work. It will always be a personal little hobby. Even if I stopped doing everything else and did it full-time, I would just be the crazy fool amateur who dropped everything to pursue his hobby.
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