15 years of Skateboarding and lifestyle photography.

JODY MORRIS WEBSITE

These came from a collection of over 400 Polaroid photos of strippers trying out for dancing jobs at a So. Cal club. They were taken from the late 1960’s thru the early 1970’s.

POLAROID PHOTOS OF STRIPPERS

She photographs objects including glasses, silver, masks, mirrors, and meat. The seeming randomness of the items which interest the photographer are as deceptive as the images themselves.

As curator Régis Durand wrote, “What emerges [in Belin’s photographs] is the idea of a double movement: on the one hand, an obsessive search, a desire, as the artist writes, to ‘get to the heart of things’ and, on the other hand, to make incertitude, latent mutations or metamorphoses at work actually appear while celebrating them.”

Belin’s photographs can be found in several of the most important international collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Fondation Cartier pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris.

Upcoming exhibitions of Belin’s work during 2007-2008 will be held the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, France, and at the Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Belin’s photographs will also be exhibited at several international art fairs including LA Art in New York, Photo London, and Art DC.

Exhibition 8th of March 2007 – 1st of April 2007

B R A N C O L I N I G R I M A L D I
A R T E C O N T E M P O R A N E A
Via dei Tre Orologi 6/A - 00197 Roma/Italy
Tel / Fax +39 06 806.93.100

This canny photographer is now hiring models for the specific purpose of throwing them out of windows and capturing the moment before they hit the ground and turn into street pizza…

If you would like to apply feel free to do so by going to his website and filling out the appropriate forms. Please don’t forget to select the floor level that you would like to exit from (up to 23rd floor). Also you may have the option to pre select your landing surface, concrete, grass or broken glass…for fetishists there is also the option of 12 foot spike.

DENIS DARZACQ

…and for so long, no where else in the world has typified this sentiment more than the ‘Big Apple’, that multicultural urban jungle we call New York.

So if you are looking for the perfect perspective on this rich metropolis, then Markus Hartel’s photographs will provide you with the perfect guided tour, deep inside, and as close as possible to the rich, raw and unfeigned New York.

It is very easy to become addicted to his wonderfully unique perspective of urban existence, streets and people. His gritty captures portray reflections of every day New York life!

Markus’s style is a largly black & white, high-contrast look, and his chosen subjects handled with a closeness and intimate feeling that is prevelant in all his displayed photo work. Always ready for the perfect opportune moment, with his Leica M6’s strap wrapped securely around his wrist, he is a man ready for action.

At his website you can certainly feel the rythm and pulse of urban life, and if you find it all too inspireing you can also learn what street photography is really all about. There are photos, interviews, tutorials and links, for everyone whos interested in street photography, and life captured from an intimate distance.

Hartel Info…
The Photobloggies Award for best Street Photography in 2006. Markus is also nominated this year vote for him here!

He’s been published in the German ‘Stern View’ magazine and have 7 photos in a calendar ‘Magic in The City‘.

MARKUS HARTEL
MARKUS HARTEL’S FLICKR

Under the title “The Dive” White Trash Contemporary presents Jerry Berndt’s work for the first time in Germany. On the occasion of this exceptional “bar room”-show the gallery space itself will be transformed into a stylish dive bar with real working coctail bar and live entertainment.On opening night and on friday and saturday nights drinks will be served at an original 60s style bar to loungy jazz and blues music tunes.

“I grew up in my father’s bar room in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I learned to read by putting empty beer bottles into the right boxes…” That’s how laconic Jerry Berndt discribes the starting point for his impressive photo series about bar rooms and strip clubs in America of the 60s and 70s. In rich black and white contrast these pictures offer an unflinching look at the shadowy world of lonesome drinkers, desperate hookers and blinding neon signs.

The mood ocillates between glitzy film noir elegance and desolate jazz age melancholy. Sammy Davis Jr. meets Charles Bukowsky. Formally Berndt is following in the tradition of great American photo realists like Walker Evans and Robert Frank.There will also be photographs from Berndt’s famous “Combat Zone” series. That’s how Boston’s notorious red light district was called in the 60s, when Berndt worked there on assignment for Harvard Medical School’s “Laboratory of Community Psychiartry”. The images of black panthers and prostitutes reveal where the glorification of “pimp lifestyles” in today’s black getto culture and hip hop videos has its roots.

16th of Feb.-17th of . March 2007
Vernissage THU. 15th of Feb. 2007, 7 pm
with Jerry Berndt & The Mobile Blues Club (Blues/Jazz)

White Trash Contemporary
Hamburg

Opening hours:
Tue-Thu 1pm-7pm

For fifteen years Laurent Ballesta (biologist) and Pierre Descamp (photographer), traveled to paradise destinations like Polynesia or the Arctic sea to explore the depths of the oceans.

The Photo exhibition in Hamburg charts their amazing achievements, and serves to remind us to take care of our precious under water world!

The National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society is the largest non-profit-making scientific organization in the world. It was founded in 1888 in Washington D.C. with the aim of ‘increasing and diffusing geographical knowledge’.

To date, the Society has provided financial support for more than 8000 expeditions and research projects. The National Geographic magazine informs the world about the results obtained by these, thus ensuring that great moments in the history of science become landmark points of record. In the middle of the 1990’s, National Geographic began to publish separate national editions for various countries.

Among such outstanding moments in the history of research and discovery on which National Geographic was the first to report were Peary’s march to the North Pole, the discovery of the Inca city of Machu Pichu, and the sensational finding of the wreck of the “Titanic”.

National Geographic Germany and Publishing House Gruner + Jahr present “Planet Meer / The Ocean’s Depths” - Auf Tauchgang zwischen Fotografie und Wissenschaft

Exhibition at the Gruner + Jahr Pressehaus
19th of January- 16th . February 2007

Open: Monday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Wed 10am-8pm

Free Admission

Gruner + Jahr AG & Co KG
Am Baumwall 11
20459 Hamburg
Phone + 49 (0) 40 3703 2244

www.nationalgeographic.de
www.nationalgeographic.com

German Photographer Julia Blank gives us insight into the emotions and intentions behind her work.

READ THE INTERVIEW

Gosu is the beautiful photoblog of Jason Strachan. The Cape Town resident shoots the most amazing pictures, we have seen in a while. Lunaesque landscapes and unreal colors make this an unbelievably strong portfolio of work.

Apart from the casual beauty defined in each photo there is one picture we saw which will make you smile, Jason managed to capture Bill Gates at a concert getting ‘emotional’ listening to music… a must see for this picture alone for it is worth a thousand words indeed.

Jason shoots all his pictures with a Canon 350D, Canon 15mm fisheye, Tokina 12-24mm, Tamron 28-75mm and other assorted junk.

WHAT DOES GOSU MEAN?
Gosu is a Korean word that is used to refer to a person with skill in martial arts or baduk (an eastern board game)

GOSU Photoblog

Wicked little flash based photography portfolio of Javier Ferrer Vidal. Just when I thought flash sites were getting lame this came along and gave me hope.

Amazing photography!

Javier Ferrer Vidal