Dave Land is a British-born, Berlin-based photographer, who was first inspired to create by the photographs of O. Winston Link. With an exhibition on in Berlin right now, aCurator presents a selection of Land's images of decay and destruction. They are taken in and around Berlin and capture what is left of history - slowly deteriorating and subject to vandalism. You can see the show at
Galerie am Rathaus, Berlin-Schöneberg, until November 25th.*
"I first need a motif which I know will enable me to create something unique. Often, I will revisit a location to improve the shot if necessary. I use layers quite a lot, but hopefully subtly. I have some custom layers which I will apply to an image, sometimes all over the image or maybe just in one small area - it depends. I may work on an image for a day or two, sometimes a week. I try various ideas out until I have something I'm happy with and often that never happens! Each image that I do finish though is unique."
View the full screen magazine photo feature*Exhibition extended by popular demand, through November 28.
Stage Left © Dave Land 
Fine art photographer and print maker
Michael Massaia updated me with an email about his newest body of work 'In The Final Throes - New Jersey'.
While we're all snoozing away, Michael is not getting off our lawn...
"I
took all of these images using large format black and white film and
developed all the film in a pyro staining variation developer to help me
obtain the look I was going after (also it allows for grainless, huge
enlargements). After developing the film I'm hand-making 30x40 inch
platinum prints as well as 40x60 inch pigment prints. These pictures
were quite difficult to take because I literally had to be on people's
yards at around 4 am (without their permission in some pretty rough
areas) with a large view camera. I was nervous taking them but I'm
excited with the results."
Dreamy.
A moment's reflection is required. If you can't keep a dry eye looking at these, you know they're great portraits; and, we need them, to remind us.
"For the past 7 years on Remembrance Day I have been shooting portraits
of veterans. The portraits are all shot in the same style, crop etc. I
am aiming to keep shooting it for at least another 3 years. The project
is based around the concept of The Unknown Soldier."
'They That Are Left', taken at The Cenotaph, London, Remembrance Day 2010.
All images © Brian David Stevens
Robert Rutoed is a prolific Austrian photographer and filmmaker. Prints from his project 'Less is More' are currently on view at the
New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery in a group show titled 'WoRK', curated by our pal Andy Adams at
FlakPhoto. Since I find myself craving work with a sense of humour, I'm happy to publish a small selection of Robert's photographs.
Robert has ecommerce nailed, so go take a look at some interesting limited edition book/print combo purchases available on the
Rutoed website.
All images © Robert Rutoed
Another accomplished youngster. I'd seen one of Argentinian photographer
Alejandro Chaskielberg's images illustrating a fiction piece in the New Yorker earlier this year. More recently, when I saw he was part of the Brighton Photo Festival, I visited his website and was just as thrilled by his work as I was the first time I saw it. I am particularly drawn to this series, 'Borders'; as Alejandro puts it, he is working with photography "in the border of the reality. Creating fictional scenarios with real people and situations." Chaskielberg shot on 6x6 positive film with a Rolleiflex.
Other projects include a unique series on the
Argentine financial crisis in 2001, and more recently his ongoing project '
The High Tide: Native Islanders and the Community of the Paraná River Delta' which documents the Guaraní culture, and for which he received the 2009 Burn Emerging Photographer Grant. Chaskielberg was included in PDN's 30, 2009, 'Our Choice of New and Emerging Photographers to Watch'. And speaking of watching, here's Chaskielberg being
interviewed in Brighton.
View the full screen magazine photo feature.
© Alejandro Chaskielberg
John announced a "merciless edit" of his
blog. Upon visiting, I fell for this photo. Ahh, New York City.
© John Marshall Mantel
Based in Helsingborg, Sweden,
Martin Brink has an eye for the quiet, everyday moment, with work in simplistic categories such as 'Objects' and 'Mailboxes'. Here's just a small sample of what's available on his website. Martin's series 'The Daily Round' is also a book - check it out
here.
aCurator is proud to present images from the digital exhibition '100 Portraits - 100 Photographers: Selections from the FlakPhoto.com Archive'.
November 6-13th is Fotoweek DC, and as part of the event, the city of Washington will be transformed into a nighttime gallery. The festival has traditionally leaned toward photojournalism but is introducing an art photo component with the 100 Portraits projection this year.
Andy Adams, editor and publisher of
FlakPhoto.com and
Larissa Leclair, photography writer and curator, are presenting an exhibition drawn from the digital archive that has developed over four years of daily updates on Flak Photo. In the new tradition of online curation and celebrating the burgeoning online photo community that Flak represents, the two made their selections together in a series of Skype video chats.
"As an added fine art component to the NightGallery projections, this screening features 100 dynamic portraits from an exciting group of contemporary photographers in all stages of their careers, each selected from the digital archive on FlakPhoto.com. Our decision to highlight work from this website celebrates the role that a thriving online photography community plays in the discovery and dissemination of work produced by significant artists in the Internet Era. Contemporary photo culture is marked by a continuous flow of images online, and our aim is to take a moment to recognize some of the noteworthy photographs published in this ever-expanding archive over the past four years. In this context, projected several times larger than life, these portraits look back at us and embody a louder voice in the discourse of the gaze." - Andy Adams + Larissa Leclair
To learn more about the contributing artists and to see all 100 portraits,
view the full online exhibition.
The aCurator edit features
Richard Renaldi,
Sophia Wallace,
Brea Souders,
Jen Davis,
Carrie Will,
Manjari Sharma,
Shen Wei,
Dorothee Deiss,
David Wright,
Phillip Toledano,
Susan Worsham,
Brian Ulrich,
Ben Handzo,
Elizabeth Fleming, and
LaToya Ruby Frazier100 Portraits -- 100 Photographers: Selections from the FlakPhoto.com Archive from FlakPhoto.com on Vimeo.
Opening November 11th at
Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, NY is 'Ordinary
Things. When artists make their private life public. What is it like
living with a photographer?'
Featured is the work of specially talented
Thatcher Keats whose first
show with Haddad was 10 years ago. This is a great opportunity to buy a
limited edition silver print by Thatcher at a great price; he is a collectible artist, is widely exhibited and also lectures on photography.
Go get one.
© Thatcher Keats
Every week, I volunteer for a New York-based charity, and I've met some lovely and fascinating people. Most of my colleagues seem to have an artistic bent and today I saw this fabulous photograph by one of the people I'm sometimes lucky to work with, young
Felipe Vasquez. It was fun to work with Lark for a short period; now she's off at a different location so I miss her and I'm happy to see her here, looking fierce.
Lark and Billy © Felipe Vasquez
