Diego Ferrari - Urban Habitat II Berlin 2013
Urban Habitat II Berlin 2013 By Diego Ferrari ‘On the 28th
November 2014 I was invited by my friend Falk Hirdes to exhibit my photographic work as part
of third programme of art events staged at his house and curated by him. In particular, Falk
wanted me to deliver a talk to the guests about the...
Chungking Mansions - Johannes Rigal
As Gordon Matthews argues in his book ‘Ghetto at the Center of
the World’, many stereotypes, negative images and a bad reputation surround Chungking
Mansions in downtown Hong Kong. It has been described as the ‘sum of all fears for
parents whose children go backpacking around Asia.’ At the same time it has been the...
Mick Frank wins Wellcome Images Award 2015
Last night we were absolutely thrilled to hear that one of Gasket’s
founders Mick Frank is the winner of the 2015 Wellcome Images Award. From the Wellcome
Trust: ‘Our judges were unanimous in their decision, as James, Fergus and Sir Tim
explain: “As far as standout images go, the image of the horse’s uterus with the...
Art on a Roundabout - Johannes Rigal
Redesigning a local photographic sculpture in Mautern, Austria Mautern
is a small town (3494 inhabitants) near Austria’s capital Vienna. Urban life and the art
scene is majorly influenced by nearby Vienna and Krems. However, in Mautern itself there has
been substantial effort to getting out of the shadow of these two cities by producing and...
Uncanny Landscapes
The fields of photography and sociology seem to be enjoying a growing
awareness of the ways in which they can both enrich and strengthen one other. This is
typified by the wide range of events that are appearing within the academic and arts
landscape, events which are bringing together practitioners from diverse backgrounds but
with a shared...
Curation, exhibition and audience
Johannes Rigal questions curation, exhibition and audience and gives
some insight into how Adrift was put together. Question for an Exhibition Our
exhibition Adrift will open on 9 October 2012. A photographic group exhibition raises
questions that have to be addressed by curatorial theory and put into practice. These
questions are diverse and manifold,...
Where did everybody go?
*UPDATE 09/10/12* Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances the
panel discussion has been cancelled We’re very disappointed not to be able to bring you this
event and we hope to re-schedule the presentation and discussion for a future date The post
will remain below in the event that the discussion is re-scheduled There is still
an...
Crazy Photography
Recently, I was browsing rather aimlessly and half-motivated at the
most through the books on display in a London museum. I was not quite sure what I was
looking for until I found it. A small new publication called Crazy Photography by Dianne
Routex. That photography could be “concerned”, “pure” or “art” is nothing new...
And What Else Do We Know by Him? A Response to 0.2964285
As Michael has shown us, the process of editing and sequencing
photographic work is a process that’s at least as important to the actual shooting of
images. But his example of Robert Frank’s The Americans is interesting for another reason:
isn’t this the almost archetypical one-hit-wonder? Or put differently: what else do you know
by...
0.2964285
As touched on in Johannes’ previous posts (Discovering/Uncovering the
Magic and Difficulties and Successes), there is one part of the photographic process that is
often forgotten or undervalued. The exercise of picking out the images from a shoot which
together create a coherent narrative in a photographic series is an ability every
photographer must develop....
Photography, analogue & digital: issues of permanence
Alice Cannon Alice Cannon is a paper and photographic conservator
working in Australia. She also runs pinknantucket press, publisher of “Materiality”, and can
be found on Twitter at @pinknantucket. Since its very
beginnings, photography has been a difficult medium to preserve. The Journal of the
Photographic Society, based in London...
Motive Photography
One of my favourite design firms, BERG, recently posted a video on
their blog showing some experiments they carried out to explore product imagery. The first
of their experiments, Swiping Through Cinema, immediately reminded me of the cinemagraphs we
covered previously, while Touching Through Glass reclaims some of the tactility lost with
our current touch screen...
