Tony Fouhse’s USER
Drugs in Ottawa? The quite clean streets, polite, hard working, captial city has drug users? Tony Fouhse depicts a complet flip side to the city in his series USER, Portraits of Crack Addicts. The portraits were taken on the same corner from late summer to early fall in 2007. The...
Irene Andessner’s Donne Illustri
Really interesting self-portrait work from Irene Andessner. “Caffà Florian on St Mark’s Square in Venice: in the “Sala degli Uomini Illustri” (salon of famous men) hang ten oil paintings by Giulio Carlini (1826–1887). Irene Andessner confronts these posthumously painted portraits of famous Venetians – from Marco Polo via Titian to...
Alessandra Sanguinetti on the Magnum Blog
Alessandra Sanguinetti wrote a really lovely post today on the Magnum Blog about her grandfather. Check it out. Have a happy Friday night and an awesome weekend.
Kate Hutchinson’s Why Am I Marrying Him?
Quirky, humurous, honest and very delightful. Why Am I Marrying Him? is a cheecky and fun series by Montreal photographer Kate Hutchinson. To get a good idea about the project check out her website for the entire series and Liz Kuball’s interview with Kate. So apart from being an awesome...
Lothar Wolleh’s portraiture first time exhibited at Gallery f5,6
I have never seen Wolleh’s work but then i guess it hasn’t been too rampant since he passed away in the late 70′s and has only recently been acknowledged by the art world. Wolleh’s work is being exhibited for the first time at Gallery f5,6 in Munich. “We are thrilled...
Hendrik Kerstens
The Guardian has an article about the photographers that were shortlisted for the NPG Photography prize. Hendrik Kerstens is one the photographers that caught my attention, so i went to find more of his work. His website is nice and simple and to the point. Hendrik’s work is quite impressive,...
Portraits
I just stumbled on Alexis Lavoie‘s work and his painted portrait titled L’étoile (the star) . I love the similarities that he has with the first portrait photographers like Nadar who did his work from 1854 to 1910.
