weekend favorite/ferit kuyas

visit his page here

Albrecht Tübke

Albrecht tübke´s portraits are classic. take a look here.

feria internacional de libros de artista, convocatoria centro de la imagen

kenia narez

kenia narez presents images of eerie references to children tales. i like here use of color to connect us with these.

alexander apostol

alexander apostol nos ha enseñado a través de los años una serie de imagenes que redescubren maneras de como representar los estragos de formas politicas y economicas, en especifico venezolanas. mi serie preferida es la de residente pulido. aqui parte de un texto sobre la serie:



"Estas construcciones, que en un tiempo ostentaron con cierta fama su actualidad, son convertidas y alteradas digitalmente en una especie bizarra de monumentos encerrados a los cuales se le ha eliminado toda posibilidad de acceso. El objeto urbano transfigurado se presenta impotente, como un monolito, hueco o sólido y cuya naturaleza equívoca se evidencia a partir de una textura porcelanizada, craquelada y brillosa que confirma su fragilidad, una fachada decorativa¨. Ruth Auerbach

marcos lopez/ pop latino

ireverente y audaz, marcos lopez siempre sorprende con sus imagenes chillantes pero llenas de comentarios inteligentes.

pablo cabado/ 37°57'35.35"S 57°34'49.34"W

another argentinian photographer which work i really like is pablo cabado. his images explore space and its connection to culture and people. this series, 37°57'35.35"S 57°34'49.34"W is particularly sublime and full of strangeness.




from his statement:

This portrait of a derelict amusement park in Argentina uncovers the lives that remain in the shards of collapsed rides and rusting colors. Pablo Cabado portraits here with his large format camera, the grim reality of mysterious people and animals living on the edge with a poetic eye, gently shedding light on varied life-forces gone awry. Captured here is what is left of entertainment abandoned over ten years ago.

santiago porter

Cuando encontre las imágenes de santiago porter sentí una identificación inmediata con el uso de la fotografía para entender nuestra identidad latina. el trabajo que más me gusta es el titulado fotografías recientes(2007) y que le acompaña este texto:

"Partiendo de mi inquietud por la representación de la ausencia, el espacio y las historias, mi interés por trabajar con el aspecto de determinados edificios públicos de la ciudad de Buenos Aires tiene varias explicaciones posibles. Desde la utilización metafórica y la intención de hacer ciertos comentarios sobre la historia hasta la aproximación con fines casi taxonómicos. Para esto, elegí concentrarme en los frentes específicamente y trabajarlos como si fueran retratos como recurso para evidenciar las distintas capas de historia acumuladas en esa arquitectura deteriorada y producir fotografías de grandes dimensiones como monumentos obsoletos".



me gusto también esto que escribió Ana Schwartzman para un texto de Santiago:

"Lo más importante para el artista no es lo que se ve, los objetos, sino las historias que puedan contar, éstas se narran en su obra a partir de las pistas que dejan sus rastros".

richard gilles

richard gilles uses the panoramic format to present us with sites that are sharp observations of our contemporary world. in his own words:

"There is a phenomenon in our society that for the most part goes unnoticed. Down a side-road, to a dead-end in a decaying industrial section of the city is but one of the places you will discover, often hidden, the almost home-less".





"In our seemly abundant society, the almost home-less find themselves, living in vehicles- often on public streets- often not. Do these voyagers have a destination or is it a perpetual, nomadic journey? Has their vehicle become a substitute for a fixed address or a tool for a pilgrimage? Is there meaning to their movement? Almost Home-Less is my photographic exploration of this phenomenon. My intention is not to provide the viewer with answers, but for the images to serve as catalyst for questions, investigation and awareness".

view of the exhibited works:

christine lebeck

christine lebeck´s images seduce your eyes into calm and pleasure. the website images are a bit small but in print they are gorgeous.

bad news comes with good news

Angela Bacon-Kidwell and i just got featured over at PDN. i had great reviews with both Melanie McWhorter from photo-eye and Conor Risch from PDN at photolucida. so thank you both!

born 13th may 1923- died 13th may 2009

in memory of my grandma evita. we will miss you.

the portland grid project

ann kendellen

i love this project. and i love portland! ja.


christopher rauschenberg


"We are using a map of Portland divided into grid squares a mile and a half on a side. Each month all of us photograph the same randomly picked square, using a variety of films and formats. At the end of the month, we meet to look at everyone's photos. We estimate that as of this date we have created a complex, detailed urban portrait, consisting of about 20,000 images of Portland, its land forms, architecture, people, residential neighborhoods, industrial sites, waterways, parks, and sometimes just a shadow or the look of fallen leaves on a newly mowed lawn".



bruce hall

willson cummer

willson cummer shows us urban sites as places of contemplation and introspection. i specially like the parking garages.

robbie mcclaran

for sure one of the best things going on at the photolucida reviews are the roving reviews, where there is no time limit and specially you get to talk openly about your vision and work. one of my best encounters was with photographer robbie mcclaran, which also gave a nice lunch time chat about his work. it is not always the case that your peers honestly share their thoughts on work, but it felt for me that robbie and many of the people photolucida invited where doing so. check out his projects here. i specially like the ordinary people series. to me it somewhat parallels joel sternfelds work in this site.

lets have a relaxed weekend with good retro music