Ideology in Paradise/ hiroshi watanabe

i really enjoyed time with my new friend hiroshi watanabe. he is exactly what his images are: honest, witty and full of surprises. as hiroshi says in his statement:

"I go to places that captivate and intrigue me. I am interested in what humans do. I seek to capture people, traditions, and locales that first and foremost are of personal interest. I immerse myself with information on the places prior to leaving, but I try to avoid firm, preconceived ideas. I strive for both calculation and discovery in my work, keeping my mind open for surprises".

somewhere in middle america/colin blakely

the name of this series stuck to me from a counting crows song:

In the middle of the night there's an old man
Threading his toes through a bucket of rain
Hey mister you don't want to walk on water
Cause you're only going to walk all over me...

Somewhere in middle America
Get right to the heart of matters
It's the heart that matters more...

colin´s work reminds me of love, dreams and treasured memories. of the feeling of hovering over everything. the time in life when nothing matters. of the pleasure felt when thinking of the past. finally, it personally takes me into a past when my world was comprised by just a few blocks of land where everything happened. look here.

space

mike schwartz

during the 4 days of review santa fe i had a chance to meet great people and see a grand variety of work. mike schwartz´s architectural images resonate in ways that exceed mere form. questions like why does man need such spaces and such elaborate constructions, seem to be asked. Here is a link to a talk about what architecture should be and do for us.

back from review santa fe

ill be posting a bunch of my colleagues work during the week. there are so many good things i saw and heard i am sooooo overwhelmed, but very content. in the mean time here is a link to all who participated.

memories

in the middle of nowhere 2008


new york 2008


cancun 2008


wedding 2007

jpeg magazine published a few images from the lost rivers series in there human impact issue. take a look here.

desastres y tragedias

enrique metinides

the great mexican photographer, enrique metinides, has captured tragedy in a haunting romantic way. the first picture i saw of him, of an electrocuted man
made me one passionate "miron" of catastrophe. i don´t know if it is that it makes me cry, hence making me feel alive, that makes me so attracted to these images and stories or that i am just a bit too morbid.

drunk driving

what does a photograph do when it registers such a tragedy? is it the picture or the actual fact that makes us feel the way we feel?

nothing matters in the end

OZYMANDIAS

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

what happens when young photographers get together to party?

mmm....