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Odeta Catana – Bed Desks

oitzarisme — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:58:11 +0000

What is on our bed desk says something about ourselves and more even about each person from the Home of Elderly People. The project tries to visually represent the personality of each person in two ways, by what it has on his bed desk and by his own portrait.

The pictures are taken with the help of the seniors from the Home of Elderly people Antim Ivireanu, Calarasi, Romania, in April 2012

Ion Bica, 79 years old

Felicia Cretea, 68 years old

Vasile Oprea, 66 years old

Trandafira Zaharia, 97 years old

Cicerone Dumbrava, 67 years old

Ioana Gutu, 83 years old

Stefan Rotaru, 79 years old

Eleonora Topan, 71 years old

Craian Cana, 74 years old

Petra Chimigiu, 87 years old

More images and other stories on Odeta Catana’s websites, on a try of blogging sweet and a try of blogging tender. Born in 1982, and educated in Romania, Odeta Catana is now studying Documentary Photography at University of Wales, Newport, UK. She has previously studied History and Theory of Arts for her BA and Cultural Anthropology for her MA.

James Friedman – Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing

oitzarisme — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:29:53 +0000

“I do not remember any kissing between family members as I was growing up. It wasn’t until my mother was hospitalized for eight months, unable to speak, that we began to kiss good-bye before I would depart for the day after visiting her. These newly discovered displays of affection were imbued with genuine caring and profound sadness as we both know she had only a short time to live. Our relationship in my mother’s final months inspired my photographic project, Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing.”

More images and other interesting projects on James Friedman’s website, rediscovered on Too Many Kisses. James Friedman was also featured on Oitzarisme with the project about his mother and 1 029 398 cigarettes.

“As a five-year old using a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera, I took a self-portrait, became fascinated with photography and have been photographing ever since. Self-taught in photography until college, I was a participant in The Ohio State University Honors Program and earned a B.F.A. degree with Distinction in Photography. (…) As a teacher, curator, picture editor, and as a fine art, portrait, architectural, commercial and personal documentary photographer, I have enjoyed a wide-ranging career in photography. My work has been exhibited internationally and been published in numerous books and discussed in Artforum, Arts, Afterimage, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice and The New York Times. (…) In 2008, as an independent photographic educator without institutional affiliation, I was nominated for the prestigious Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award, which recognizes outstanding international teachers of photography.”

Rocky McCorkle – You and Me on a Sunny Day

oitzarisme — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:13:32 +0000

Gilda Todar was born in 1927 in San Mateo, California, and this is her first starring role. An avid moviegoer and bridge player, her favorite film is Sunset Boulevard. Like the fictional character she embodies in You & Me, she has her own exhilarating connection to the island country as a winner of the New Zealand Lotto. As a youngster, she had aspirations of becoming an actress and landing this part has inspired her to follow her dreams. In Todar’s words, “In my next life, I will pursue acting.”

Rocky McCorkle’s You & Me On A Sunny Day is a feature length non-motion picture comprised of 135 large scale photographic stills. A five year project started in 2007, McCorkle’s sequential series follows the life of 84 year-old widow Millie Holden as her everyday routine gets run off course by a reminiscent 1950’s movie marathon. From the deepest folds of memory, flashbacks of her late husband propel her into a vivid narrative that gets stranger and more claustrophobic with each turn. Based on Millie’s own experience of an event centered elsewhere, You & Me is a psychological thriller about the malleability of memory and the impact that fictional media has on her way of life.

Echoing the big screen, the exhibition prints are 40″ x 80″. Each photograph’s rich color and clarity reveal a technical prowess hidden behind McCorkle’s compelling aesthetic. The entire body of work was shot with a Cambo 8 x 10 camera using a specific combination of chrome and negative film. Shooting and scanning thousands of sheets of film, McCorkle digitally assembled the high resolution images — upwards of 22 in a single still — into unique full focus photomontages. With You & Me On A Sunny Day, McCorkle has created an emotionally charged counterpoint to modern day cinema.

“The postcards, pictures, and stamps hanging on the refrigerator door make me think of when I was twenty-something and used to photograph everything. I was always obsessed with the sun (do you remember?). Every chance I’d get I would run to the window or the nearest open field to take a portrait of the sun (hundreds; I took 88 in Auckland alone). After we had lived here for a countless number of years, we ran out of space to

display them. The knick-knack cupboard transformed into a memorabilia repository or depository or roadside memorial, crawling with accumulated snapshots of our kin and various suns. More accurately, different or separate portraits of the one and only sun (if the sun is always the “same sun” then why isn’t each sun portrait a spitting image of every other?)”

More images and the entire beautiful story on Rocky McCorkle’s website; found on Lenscratch.

Rocky McCorkle is an internationally exhibited photographer who lives in San Francisco. He received his BFA in Photography from The Ohio State University and his MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown extensively throughout the United States and abroad including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Toronto, and Busan, Korea. In 2012, McCorkle’s You & Me On A Sunny Day was selected as the Analog Winner for EXPOSURE 2011 International Photography Award.

Plec într-un loc fără timp

oitzarisme — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:55:40 +0000

Cei de la Experimentalist.ro m-au invitat să-mi las timpul acasă 4 zile și să particip la un experiment interesant.

“Ne-am propus sa va lucram neuronalii oblici. Ideea-schelet a noului experiment provoked by Grolsch este cum ar fi sa nu existe timp? Dincolo de lipsa unei ancore temporale, ce se-ntampla cu noi? Putem sa ne trisam bioritmul si succesiunea zi-noaptea? Si mai important decat atat, ce impact are absenta timpului asupra felului in care opereaza sinapsele noastre? Ce forme ia creativitatea noastra cand o dezbracam de timp?

Acum ca v-am facut curiosi, aflati ca Experience Hotel este un experiment care aduce la acelasi numitor toate aceste intrebari. 14 oameni creativi sunt scosi in afara timpului si pusi sa functioneze intr-un context in care nu exista limite temporale. Si da, este un hotel pe bune.”

Practic plec într-un loc, legat la ochi, unde nu voi ști cât este ceasul, nici dacă este zi sau noapte, nici dacă trebuie să iau cina sau nu. Mai multe detalii despre experiment, precum și rezultatele finale, le veți găsi pe site-ul gazdă: www.experimentalist.ro și pe Facebook.