Comments on: aga luczakowska & davin ellicson – maramures https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: wendy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79713 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:42:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79713 collaboration is a beautiful thing…
when others work
inspires
and
ignites….
this story need to be developed,
and I think the 2 of you will do an amazing job!!!
great color and mood…
want to see MORE….
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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79656 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:30:56 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79656 Thanks Imants. I was confused by the “play this essay”

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79655 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:43:59 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79655 Gordon they are random images and are posted under selected photographs not photographic essays.

Aga, Davin I enjoyed the collaborate work presented and I hope eventually some of the images will find their way into a strong visual narrative

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79654 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:00:31 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79654 Aga, Davin

I’ve been looking at your websites, and see wonderful, powerful work. I’m clearly out of step , but here I’m afraid I’m only seeing un-remarkable, random images, interesting only because of their (to me) exotic locale. What am I missing?

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By: Lee Guthrie https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79646 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:53:33 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79646 Very, very good. I don’t get #12 but love the interesting and mysterious aspects of the photo with the feet off the bed and the shadow of a passing cigarette smoker. The first photo is extremely intriguing and drew me right in. Great work Aga and Davin. Good to see people work together.

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By: Aga Luczakowska https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79643 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:08:37 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79643 Thank you for your comments.

Eric… I agree with you.

We put this piece of work together almost a one year ago. It was a time when we started to travel together and we were trying to find out what kind of photo collaboration we can have.
We found out that we have different interests and different styles and we will work on our projects separately.

Thank you for your kind words regarding my work from Istanbul.

Cheers,

Aga :-)

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By: bob black https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79642 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:01:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79642 Beautiful story and beautiful photographs :))

I guess Aga has brought feverish color to Davin’s life :)))…and that’s a great thing :))

Enjoyed the collaboration very much…it’s a strong story, though i want even more, much more pictures, because it needs more…the story is rich and complex, and because i’ve known Davin’s work for a number of years and seen this story fleshed out, it’s more difficult to join with a short version, …so, this is more about my familiarity with Davin’s project over the last 5+ years…..

as for this essay, it contains some gorgeous photographs,…and i love the vibrancy of the color, particularly as the color is in opposition to the subject matter/conditions…one may think of a more subdued and melancholic approach and this series works it’s colorfield magic in a way that not only modernizes this group (to the viewer) but connects….

I too think i can discern whose photographs are who, as Davin and Aga have very different eyes and different sensibilities, but the blending is a nice approach and acts as a kind of balancing…managing the directness of the documentary approach with a more lyrical mystery…..

the question of 2 photographers working together (a la Webbs or Bechers) isn’t that important to me as long as the work is unified. By unified I mean that either the ‘voices’ of the two photographers build to sustain a unified story/voice (in the case, for example, of the Bechers) or work as opposition, contrast which join to flesh out a story (in the case of the Webb’s)….Marina and I have also worked together and exhibited together (though our work is pretty different), and I celebrate the fact that Aga and Davin have unified their strengths as photographers….it’s an also important tool/experience, as both will also learn/develop/grow as photographers, learning from one anothers strengths and weaknesses…..

as a story it is very very strong and beautifully photographed…i love the richness of the color and the play of the modernity (teens/color, etc) with the history (death/babushka/landscape/shawls)….which allow for a rich celebration of this community….

all i ask is for MORE MORE MORE :)))…a longer body of work that takes me deeper into the life here….but i know you both have that and have slimmed it down for the publication ….

strong, beautiful, sensitive work…

and god damn have you got that color thing working ! :))

congrats to both of you :)))))

very happy to see such strong, powerful collaboration

cheers
bob

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By: dellicson https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79641 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:51:18 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79641 This was an experiment into color. My ongoing black and white work about rural Romania and my current color work in Bucharest, all largely unseen by anyone so far, is what I am most proud of. I may try to continue shooting the youth in Maramures in color, but I think I will probably continue on only in black and white as it will fit with the work I originally began in 2002.

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By: JLW https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79611 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:38:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79611 Aga and Davin,

What a beautiful piece! The way the images are taken reflects the culture and the place and no doubt your attraction to it as a couple – the natural earthiness – and I feel interested to know more about each moment you are showing in the sequence. I really feel I would like to read more in captions!

I remember Davin heading off into the breach some years ago, so to see this work together with Aga fills me with joy! I have no problem with a piece created by more than one person, by a couple or by even more people. There is something beautiful in the making of a piece of work in this way – it adds magic in the process. I came across two guys working on a project together in Bangkok earlier this year – both still photographers – and spent an hour or so with them as they were editing. I was inspired to see them producing the work together and they were so enjoying themselves! Even more so when it comes to multimedia, producing work as a pair makes complete sense as to capture stills and video at the same time as something is unfolding before your eyes is close to impossible – even if the camera can do both! I have tried…

On a related topic, there was a fascinating exhibition at the Brighton Fringe earlier this year – a group exhibition of prints that were arranged not by the author but by the content of the image/moment. It was a ‘free-flow’ medley of images that ran around the room and I loved the concept for a community of photographers – the connection in the sequence being only how one image looked beside the next! You kept bumping into your favourite authors as you walked around the room. There was one whose work reminded me of Bob’s…

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By: Thomas Bregulla https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79608 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:55:27 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79608 Aga, Davin,great pictures.
I like the way you show the contrasts of that area.

Sorry we can’t meet in Bucharest, while I am there. Hope to see you soon, anyway.

All the Best!

Thomas

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By: marcin luczkowski https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79601 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:32:08 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79601 Aga Davin,

congrats to being published on burn. I know Aga’s pictures so I think I recognize who took which photos. anyway very nice.
congrats

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By: Eric Espinosa https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/aga-luczakowska-davin-ellicson-maramures/#comment-79600 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:39:43 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=6317#comment-79600 AGA/ DAVIN,

First congratulations on your publication here… Good to see your two names here… Before talking about this essay, I just wanted to say that I absolutely loved the picture of Aga, the reflection of the girl playing the violin in Istambul (or Turkey somewhere) for which Aga has received an award… it was a brilliant single!! The whole work of Aga in Turkey was stunning….

Now, regarding this new work from the two of you, I think that with the exception of the essay from Alex and Rebecca Webb, this may be the first time that we see an essay from two photographers…each with his/her voice and vision but somehow, all mixed into one essay… While this may not be important to know this, I could not stop myself from wanting to know who shot what… I have to say that I have mixed feeling about blending like this the work of two photographers… this is not just for your and Davin’s work, I had the same feeling about the book Violet Island… I prefer seeing through the eyes of one photographer at a time. Any essay often reveals as much about the particular topic of the essay (if it is a reportage) as it reveals something about the photographer him or herself…. when mixed all together, I feel I can no longer hear the voice of anyone… strange but personally, would rather have liked to see Aga’s and Davin’s interpetations separately somehow…

On the work itself, it transports us back to a region of the world where there is an inherent nostalgia, but the only drawback I feel is that we have recently seen many great essays from the “East”, ranging from Satellites of Jonas Bendiksen to the brilliant work of Dmitry Markov whose work “AWkward age” was shown here and in Burn 01 or even the work of Davide Monteleone who got the last EPF award… of course, all topics are different so this comparision may seem inappropriate but the work has in common to show life in these former communist countries that have been kept isolated from the Western world… and your essay somehow reminded me of the mood, the feeling of these other essays without somehow reaching the same aesthetic level jus yet… so, while I liked the work, it suffers from the inevitable comparison… The good news is that the two of you are there, living nearby and you intend to go back regularly to these viallges so you will have the opportunity to carry on, take this good work even to the next level…but with all the great essays we have already seen from the “East”, you have in my oponion the opportunity to go further…. Easier said than done :):)…. again what I already like in this feeling of nostalgia… very much like the mood… I was fortunate to travel in Russia for work recently… this feeling is what did make an impression on me as well somehow… made me also want to go back and shoot in this region as well… you have been inspired as well it is obvious and now, continue to dig deeper and deeper and my 2c, you may want to focus on showing your own respective interpretation of it as opposed to blend it all…

Take care and again congrats for the publication…. Keep us posted…

Cheers,

Eric

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