So I took this picture about half an hour ago. In Rio. Well, Renata is in Rio and I am at home alone in Carolina talking to a black cat. Renata is a character in my book about to go to press in Italy which was shot in Rio. My not so secret fantasy night in Rio. (based on a true story). Yes the real title. Go figure. Presses roll in 20 days. Hmmm, maybe I put this in? Blending fact and fiction all the way.
What about you? If you are a documentary photographer, ever think about fiction? In photography fiction and non-fiction tend to be done by different photographers . Writers cross all the time. My work in Rio is all “real” but real only to my immediate surroundings. For this book I did not “go anywhere” to take a picture. Wherever I happened to be, was where I was going.
There will not be one word in this book. Zero text. Almost no title. That is why I want you to read it very very carefully.
-dah-
that goes to Greeks and not only
(watch out for Creditors)
http://instagr.am/p/IHRUTnBrZA/
dont neglect the poor
http://instagr.am/p/IHRb2QhrZC/
save our planet (whales)
http://instagr.am/p/IHRhUghrZD/
avoid “road rage”
http://instagr.am/p/IHRm9uhrZE/
if only….
http://instagr.am/p/IHRr0wBrZG/
All generations swing!
http://instagr.am/p/IHRwjHBrZI/
low minimum wage….
http://instagr.am/p/IHR2jABrZJ/
chemical reaction
http://instagr.am/p/IHR6lzBrZK/
wall games
http://instagr.am/p/IHSFVEBrZM/
temporary fix
http://instagr.am/p/IHSJAkBrZN/
playing
http://instagr.am/p/IHSN4WhrZO/
welcome:
http://instagr.am/p/IHSSMthrZP/
addiction
http://instagr.am/p/IHSXqBhrZR/
dehydrated pole
http://instagr.am/p/IHSbdphrZU/
love you all..cheer up…get inspired..do some art…avoid tv!!!!!!!!!!
And today… Erica McDonald’s DEVELOP Tube featured on TIME’s Lightbox blog:
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/13/develop-tube/#1
Awesome!!!
“love you all..cheer up…get inspired..do some art…avoid tv!!!!!!!!!!”
Absolutely!!
“I talk about the things people have always talked about in stories: pain, hate, truth, courage, destiny, friendship, responsibility, growing old, growing up, falling in love, all of these things. What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads. I try to go into those places in me that contain the cauldrous. I want to dip up the fire, and I want to put it on paper. The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.”
HARLAN ELLISON
After taking a look at the recent photo-essay I asked myself – why so many, actually almost all photographers published here, go so different way from that of lets say Magnum, or so called traditional classical photojournalism or whatever we call it genre of photography??… I understand, it’s very hard to shoot and get that decisive moment + form + light + content… and it’s actually quite easy to be just creative, poetic (without being a poet) and shoot whatever… because nowadays I see that with a decent written concept, and presented as a conceptual photography – essay, anything will work.. and no one even pays attention nor questions a very weak visual material anymore…???
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112960/90-students-Iraq-stoned-death-having-Emo-hair-tight-clothes.html
in the meantime symbols everywhere”
“Stoned to death for a haircut:(90) NINETY Iraqi students killed for having ‘strange hair and tight clothes’
The killings have taken place since Iraq’s interior ministry drew attention to the ‘emo’ subculture last month, labelling it ‘Satanism’ and ordering the community police force to stamp it out.
Fans of the ‘emo’ trend – short for emotional – wear tight jeans and have distinctive long, black or spiky haircuts.”
@ ALL
Randy Rhoads, Ozzy’s guitarist, one of the best…Crazy Train 1981. That’s music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRQ5uOH0Os0&feature=related
30 years that he passed away… RIP.
Enjoy!
P.
VIVA BURN…VIVA BURNIANS…VIVA LIFE…VIVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I LOVE YOU ALL…to be continued…
MARCIN…happy birthday…I want my cake and the mojito…I can wait…
Jack Kerouac’s advice for writing and creativity in general….
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
ron lets see you put an essay together that is not formula based eg “decisive moment + form + light + content…” Sure you will get a couple of pictures that look good as per your link.Beyond that the viewer has little to nothing to do visually or conceptually.
Most of the stuff here is work in progress not all of it is fully resolved, not all works Burn is about exposure.
and no one even pays attention nor questions a very weak visual material anymore…???…….. how about qualifying this back it up, spend a bit of time on the comments and you will see that itis not the case
landscapes good for the soul………..sometimes sometimes better ignored http://www.etrouko.com/imants.html
Imants, thank you for your respond… it did’t give me the answer yet though:)… As for my own pictures.. well, I am not that conceptual, nor have the ambitions to be one… I am a hobbyist, and i just like seeing how that life moment looks like photographed… even though I take series of those moments, my approach and intention basically is just to take a single shot that would tell a little story and had balanced lines.
But you cannot, and I don’t want you to put me in the context of artists who get published here, or other serious places, because my intention when I photograph neither is deep enough nor conceptual.. just please don’t get confused when you see “photo -essay” name on the page for my galleries, probably I have to change it for something like “random moments”. While by asking such questions I just want to understand about modern photography more, and broaden my horizons, so I can go to galleries and enjoy photography, which unfortunately nowadays I very rarely do… Cheers
No ron it is your dismissive attitude comments like “anything will work”…….no one even pays attention nor questions a very weak visual material anymore…??? .you will never understand if that iss your attitude
No matter how one approaches their work it is not easy thogh working to a set formula diminishes the variables encountered. It is like maths you can use it to work out what something costs or you can go beyond and transcend and go beyond.
and go beyond.
but don’t worry no one is asking you to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Justin – re: Erica McDonald’s DEVELOP Tube featured on TIME’s Lightbox blog:
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/13/develop-tube/#1
thank you for sharing!
Imants, this isn’t my attitude, this is just the way I understand it now… it might change, it might not… I know several old and internationally recognized eastern European photography masters who share very similar opinion about all of this.. so, I am not sure…
Remember there is a huge difference between what “photography” is and what you want it to be
The Trees Behind The Sun
I love the Internet.
Just found this.
…and yes I did direct a video called seven cent cotton, with all these guys in it.
The old guy with the hat and the pointed ear is the wonderful jazz photographer Tim Motion.
Jack Kerouac’s “The Road” film trailer…
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/on-the-road-trailer-sam-riley-kristin-stewart.html
Happy St.Patrick’s day…!!!
MIKER are you there?…
JOHNYG is back…oime…don’t WE all love OUR BRITS…:)))
Saturday and I am working hard…damn you IMF…BUT I believe in the Universe
and and and
I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLllll !!!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! :)
PAUL – there is also an app for that..
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/06/jack-kerouac-on-the-app-road.html
@ ALL:
Happy St pAtrIck dAy!! pint of Guinness, please, with a lot of U2, of course.
pAtrIcIO
… or just for today, I’ll sing pAtrIck.
Thomas…
Thanks! Looks interesting :)
David
Can’t wait to see the book! I assume there will be an “order” button somewhere.