GIPFEL – opening Nov. 24th
I am looking forward to my upcoming show next week at the gallery Jo Van De Loo in Munich. GIPFEL (Summit) marks the year of my life where I have now spent more time in Europe than in the states. If you are around, come out and celebrate.
Thursday, 24. November. 7 pm
Theresienstrasse 48
Munich
see a part of the series here.
Show at the Fo.Ku.S gallery
until March 17th you can catch a show of SIGHT SEEING. A porject/book/show about what it means to re-think photographing in a touristic mecca such as Tirol.
Curated by Wolfgang Scheppe.
Jörg Koopmann
Michael Danner
Monika Höfler
Verena Kathrein
Dominik Gigler
Mathias Ziegler
Andrew Phelps
Fabio Severo from Hippolyte Bayard gave me a chance to share my thoughts on book making. Be sure to keep up with his blog as it is one of the best out there for photography. Thanks Fabio.
I was invited to be a part of an interesting book project this fall, documenting the architecture exhibition REALSTADT in the Kraftwerk Mitte in Berlin. Curated by Martin Heller and Angelika Fitz, the show presented nearly 300 architecture models of dozens of German cities.
Photographs by Tobias Gratz, Torben Höke, Philipp Horak, Paul Kranzler, Sandra Kuhne, Kay Michalak, Julia Müller-Maenher, Andrew Phelps
Here is an interview from last month on Landscape Stories, an on-line magazine edited and directed by Andrea Gaio, Claudio Bettio and Gianpaolo Arena.
JUSTIN JAMES REED has written an insightful article in the new AHORN MAGAZINE about photography collectives of recent years. Justin is a fellow member of POC and ends the piece with his feelings of working within a collective. His words hit close to home and I could not have said it better myself.
HIGLEY and MAPS AND LEGENDS are featured as “contemporary postions” parallel to the legendary NEW TOPOGRAPHICS exhibition which is being shown for the first time in its entirety in Europe. Also in the show are Joachim Brohm and Mario Pfeifer.
LANDESGALERIE Oberösterreich, Linz
Musemstrasse 14
4010 Linz, Austria
The opening is tonight, Nov. 10, 2010.
Fabio Severo, who writes the HIPPOLYTE BAYARD blog, interviewed me for E-PHOTO REVIEW. We talk about Higley, the book, and how it all came about.
720 – (TWO TIMES AROUND) is available now. Check out the details HERE or go straight to the BUFFET for more info.
You can see them live for the first time at the FOTOBUCH TAGE in Hamburg from June 4-6. Where I will be around lecturing and looking at portfolios and hopefully relaxing a bit with alot of interesting books…
Make sure to stop by ROBERT MORAT on Friday the 4th where there is a current show of NOT NIIGATA and I will be there signing books.
For the germen speakers out there, Die Zeit has a series of NOT NIIGATA images running this week.
For those german readers, here is a review of NOT NIIGATA by the german magazine PHOTOSCALA by Marc Peschke.
A selection of NOT NIIGATA can be seen in the current issue of EIKON MAGAZINE in their “Eyes on Japan” feature.
AHORN MAGAZINE, an online photography publication edited by Daniel Augschoell and Anja Jasbär has just published an interview with me about the new NOT NIIGATA book. Please check it out and spend some time with their interesting project.
I have met an interesting artist and all around great guy in Shibata City. YOSHIHARA YUKIHIRO, is a media artist who has now taken on the massive task of bringing order to the archive of images which his family has accmlulated over the years. This doesn’t sound like anything exrtrordinary to the average person like you or me who have a shoebox or two filled with snapshots or maybe a few hundred slides. But Yuki is the 6th generation photographer in a family-run photo sutdio that has been in operation since 1870. Thats right, heaps of wet plates, albumin prints and an archive that documents the rural life in a medium sized Japanese town spanning almost 150 years.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am not working digital while I am here, so I can’t show you the portrait I made of him, but this is one he made of me.
Thanks Yuki, for the glance into your family’s history and I will take you up on your offer of coming back again in 2 weeks…..
To keep up a bit with my Japan travels, go to the BUFFET where I am trying to keep some news up and running.
There is an interesting blog by MICHAEL WERNER which asks 3 simple, yet pivotal questions which are then answered by selected photographers. He asked me to give my thoughts.
TWO WAY LENS is a project designed to inform and inspire emerging photographers wanting to focus their creative output in a way that enhances their chances of finding an audience, being included in exhibitions and ultimately achieving gallery representation. The journey from inspired artist to successful artist is one that is often difficult to negotiate and hard to control. On these pages, I will feature the experiences and opinions of other photographers who I have found inspiring, and hopefully the knowledge they have built in their own experiences will be valuable to all of us finding our own way to sharing our creativity with the wider world. (Michael Werner)
Thanks to Jim Casper and LENS CULTURE for highlighting HIGLEY. Check out the list of great books they have in their archives and add the BLOG to your early morning ritual.
HIGLEY is opening tonight, January 12, in the Galerie Robert Morat in Hamburg, starting at 6 pm. In case you happen to be in the “Hafenstadt” please stop by for a Becks, a bread-stick and a big taste of middle America loosing its foothold on reality. This will be the first in a run of shows including HIGLEY, so the spring is panning out to be filled with lots of travel and standing around shaking hands.
Robert Morat has a beautiful space in downtown Hamburg divided into 2 exhibition rooms and a very selected collection of books in his book store. Parallel to HIGLEY is the show “Sommerherz” from THEKLA EHLING. Thekla just published a beautiful book of the same title which is available at SCHADEN BOOKS.
This week’s pick is Higley, chosen by one of the newest Photo-Eye staff members, Ben Lerman.
“Prior to working here I got my BFA in photography at The California College of Arts and Crafts where I studied under LARRY SULTAN, TODD HIDO, Chris Johnson and Magnum photographer JIM GOLDBERG, amongst others. After about a month of being at photo-eye I have chosen Higley, the fifth publication by Andrew Phelps, as my first staff pick.
Under the pretense that ‘Globalization is too big to take a picture of,’ photographer Andrew Phelps returns to his hometown, Higley, where he finds it to be a microcosmic example of the global phenomenon. Higley is a metaphor for what is happening on the edge of every major city in the American west, farming towns being assimilated by their metropolitan neighbors. In this book Phelps has been able to not only examine a city rushing to lose a history that scarcely existed, but also to confront his family’s roots, a narrative that mimics the transformation of the town itself. Photographed over three years, this body of 81 color images culminated at the same time Higley lost its name in an amalgamation with Phoenix, Arizona.”
—Ben Lerman
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