Augenblick, Blog on photography : Profile, Jessica Roberts

Jessica Roberts has focused on childhood through interesting portraits. I like the series Before the Coming.

Augenblick , Exhibition : Michael Horowitz

Austrian Photographer Michael Horowitz will present his collection of portraits at Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna. His portraits includes authors like Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti and actor like Klaus Maria Brandauer and a curious photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger at Famous Cafe Hawelka done in 1975.
Starting of exhibition will be on the 15th of March at Zeinlhofergasse 7 in Vienna

Augenblick, Profile : Man Yi

Well I keep tell to Man Yi to edit better his work (non only)... In any case I saw some good work among the many different and disorganized material which he showed me some time ago. Man Yi (editor of most clicked photography portal in China , Xitek.com ) is shooting with a pure instinct with his Leica and has something to develop for the future.

Augenblick , Profile : Fabio Barile

I like the series -"Diary n. 0 - things that do not happen" from Italian Fabio Barile.

Augenblick , Exhibition : Marc Riboud Retrospective in Shanghai

Marc Riboud will be back in his beloved China to attend a big retrospective on his work at the Shanghai Art Museum which will open this coming week end. The Retrospective is a combined work curated by Li Ning and Jean Loh.
here a note from the press release :
A magnificent retrospective of the great French photographer Marc Riboud opens on the 6th of March at the Shanghai Art Museum. Composed of 130 classic dark room prints, with half of them about China, and including previously unpublished pictures, this exhibition showcases the Best-Of of Marc Riboud’s 50-year of photographic career. Featuring the personal style of the man who has “a compass in the eye “according to Cartier-Bresson, the carefully selected works demonstrate what makes Marc Riboud release the shutter: above all instinct, sensation, intuition and the pleasure of the eye.
"Beautiful picture bothers me, although I too fell into that trap. If we think too much about the form, you risk falling into a beautiful, well done, whereas photography is about changes; the instinctive moment, the snapshot. " Affectionately dubbed Ma-Ke-Lv-Bu by his Chinese peers and admirers, this great lover of China which he has visited over twenty times, is coming back at 87 years old for this unique occasion, where the audience will discover his “icons” that retrace his career in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, America & Asia, such as the painter of the Eiffel Tower, the flower girl’s face-off with the gun-toting soldiers and his memorable Yellow Mountain landscapes.

Augenblick , Profile : Ann Woo

Hong Kong Artist Ann Woo mixing portraits and landscapes with some interesting series on different sunsets . I like the portrait "Tara" which I am also using in this post.

Augenblick , Profile : Özant Kamaci

Turkish Photographer Özant Kamaci has produced a series of photographs of planes and nature. The short but great selection included "Pause" and "Landing" from which I choose the opening of this article and the statement from the artist:
"Landing' is an exploration of the human connection to landscape and machines. The series depicts a visual interruption of the pastoral landscape. Man observes the machine in admiration and awe. The medium of photography captures the interruption on two levels: the interruption of the descending plane across the untouched pastoral landscape and the interruption of man’s admiration of the machine as more akin to the admiration of nature or creation versus a manufactured object"

Augenblick, Blog on Photography - Profile : Anna Kharina

I like the portraits from Russian Anna Kharina, there is not much on the web apart her flickr collection and an article on feaverish Photography Blog.

Augenblick, Blog on Photography, Books : The Face of Forgiveness

The Face of Forgiveness is an excellent book as a result of a project which took american photographer  Steven Katzman in different places shooting the cult of religion on the matter of forgiveness. Here the introduction of the book:
Prayer is an interesting social phenomenon. At the basis of every major religion is found the admonishment to 'turn to God' and offer prayer. In that abstract sense it is universally upheld around the globe. But the particular manifestations of prayer-how groups of people have defined for themselves the proper practice of it-are wildly diverse. For some, it is an extremely private act, something to be performed in the privacy of one's own chambers. For others, though, the act of praying in public, in a group setting, is an intensely confirming experience. Katzman's photographs bear witness to this. Working with a flash equipped hand held 35mm camera, Katzman has frequented the prayer/revival meetings of western Florida, in particular the Brownsville community. The specific congregations are Southern Baptist; sociologically they are racially and economically diverse. But to look at this body of work objectively, from a position of distance, as though we are to 'learn' about a culture foreign to us, is to miss the uniqueness of the project. What Katzman offers is a view from someone who is part of the community, a participant, a 'believer' so-to-speak. This necessarily raises numerous questions. How does this affect his photographic abilities or sensibilities? And further, what can photographs tell us of an abstract, interior, spiritual experience (as prayer must surely be defined)? If nothing more, I can at least guarantee that this book will raise more questions than not, and that no two people will get the same thing from this body of work

Augenblick - Profile : Frauke Thielking

German Photographer Frauke Thielking has worked in a project while visiting China by photographing people in uniforms and putting herself in the middle in a "camouflauge" attempt. Is a funny project called "My name is Frauke but you can call me Flauke" .
Here a statement on the Project :
Uniformity, integration and role taking are the thematic levels of this project, which has been developed during a workshop and cultural exchange program between the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, Germany, and the Tshinghua University, Academy of Arts and Design, Beijing, China.
The concentration is on professional groups wearing uniforms who were portrayed in a group picture and me myself was part of this staging. For a limited time, I took the role of a waitress, a construction worker, a stuart, a High School student and a security guard and I posed with the respective uniform in this group picture.The integration of myself is favoured by the uniformity; if you look closer there is an irritation due to ethnical differences.The putative uniformity is questioned in depth, because every single picture allows looking for differences regarding the body language and other outer signs of people.
“We are all different“ - the uniformed people grow to individual personalities.

Frauke will also be part in a group exhibition at Raum.201 in Essen which will open today.