timescapes

Days of Lightness 35

2012-01-31T11:31:00.002+01:00

Barcelona, Spain 2011.

Perception / work in progress (6)

2012-01-26T10:12:00.002+01:00

Still Life 12

2012-01-24T16:08:00.000+01:00

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. 2011.

Perception / work in progress (5)

2012-01-18T14:31:00.001+01:00

Memphis, Tennessee & New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. 2011-2012

Perception / work in progress (4)

2012-01-16T16:51:00.000+01:00

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. 2011.

Unlabeled 17

2012-01-13T23:12:00.000+01:00

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. 2011.

Coincidences 23

2012-01-10T13:40:00.003+01:00

Memphis, Tennessee U.S.A., 2012.

The truth/untruth about photography 36

2012-01-06T15:25:00.002+01:00

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., 2011.

Perception / work in progress (3)

2012-01-01T21:05:00.002+01:00

New Orleans, U.S.A. 2011.

Moment décisif 35

2011-12-24T11:25:00.000+01:00

Lost and found

2011-12-23T09:31:00.000+01:00

Perception / work in progress (2)

2011-12-15T10:41:00.002+01:00

Perception / work in progress

2011-12-13T09:53:00.000+01:00

Leaving Granada 2

2011-11-18T16:23:00.001+01:00

Granada, Spain 2011.

Lost and found

2011-11-18T16:19:00.001+01:00

Madrid, Spain 2008.

Leaving Granada

2011-11-09T23:59:00.000+01:00

Granada, Spain 2011.

Screening the Unseen

2011-07-30T11:34:00.001+02:00

Picardie, France 2011.

Report 86 / Holy Blood

2011-06-16T10:47:00.002+02:00

Brugge, Belgium 2011.

Report 85 / Paradise

2011-06-09T12:37:00.001+02:00

Brugge, Belgium 2011.

Report 84 / Antwerp

2011-04-21T10:35:00.001+02:00

Antwerp, Belgium 2011.

Report 83 / Approaching the Mississippi 4

2011-03-31T08:39:00.002+02:00

Memphis, TN & Highway 61, MS, USA 2011.

Report 83 / Approaching the Mississippi 3

2011-03-18T14:01:00.003+01:00

Memphis, TN & Highway 61, MS, USA 2011.

Report 83 / Approaching the Mississippi 2

2011-03-17T12:26:00.001+01:00

Memphis, TN, USA 2011.

Report 83 / Approaching the Mississippi 1

2011-03-15T20:50:00.005+01:00

Memphis, TN, USA 2011.

Formalidad Organica 1

2011-02-21T14:19:00.002+01:00

Stories 25

2011-02-20T11:57:00.004+01:00

Paris, France 2010.

Photographers 26

2011-02-15T16:56:00.008+01:00

Barcelona, Spain 2010.

Brussels, Belgium 2010.

Paris, France 2010.

Days of Lightness 34

2010-12-21T10:34:00.002+01:00

Report 82 / Barcelona 3

2010-11-11T20:11:00.001+01:00

Barcelona, Spain 2010.

Report 82 : Barcelona 2

2010-11-10T13:29:00.001+01:00

Barcelona, Spain 2010.

Report 82 / Barcelona 1

2010-11-09T09:51:00.001+01:00

Barcelona, Spain 2010.

Video for the Weekend 38 / Lise Sarfati

2010-10-17T20:29:00.001+02:00

Lise Sarfati from FLY16x9 on Vimeo.

Days of Lightness 33

2010-09-29T18:50:00.001+02:00

Paris, France 2010.

Stories 24

2010-09-28T11:15:00.001+02:00

Paris, France 2010.

Coincidences 22

2010-09-16T12:50:00.002+02:00

Paris, France 2010.

Real Life Stage 8

2010-09-15T20:07:00.002+02:00

Paris, France 2010.

Still Life 11

2010-09-14T19:25:00.001+02:00

Paris, France 2010.

Unlabeled 16

2010-09-14T14:14:00.001+02:00

Paris, France 2010.

Too big for my Heart

2010-09-10T15:32:00.002+02:00

California, USA 2008.

The truth/untruth about photography 35

2010-09-04T19:09:00.003+02:00

Chicago, USA 2008.

Report 81 / (NO) Art Spaces

2010-08-27T14:39:00.006+02:00

(No) Entrance, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium 2010.

'Crucifix no more', Tierry De Cordier, 1999 / Deurle, Belgium 2010.

Fallen Painting, Deurle, Belgium 2010.

Heating Sculpture, Deurle, Belgium 2010.

Lighting, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium 2010.

All photographs @ Museum D'Hondt-Dhaenens, Deurle & Museum Roger Raveel, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium 2010.

Days of Lightness 32

2010-08-24T17:47:00.002+02:00

La Selle-la-Forge, La Normandie, France 2010.

Archief 39

2010-08-16T14:06:00.002+02:00

London, UK 2005.

Definable Obscurity 10 / Man with tree stump

2010-08-13T15:58:00.001+02:00

Brussels, Belgium 2010.

Report 80 / Law Courts

2010-08-13T11:44:00.001+02:00

Brussels, Belgium 2010.

Ages of Consolation 17

2010-07-28T19:35:00.003+02:00

'Downstairs Casino Hotel', Cabourg, France 2010.

Unlabeled 15

2010-07-27T18:57:00.002+02:00

'Come to Me', Liège, Belgium 2010.

Remake of History 9

2010-07-26T13:50:00.003+02:00

Bayeux, France 2010.

Stories 23

2010-07-22T22:56:00.003+02:00

'Plats pour Enfants', Blankenberge, Belgium 2010.

Report 79 / La Normandie 2

2010-07-20T18:14:00.004+02:00

Le Touquet & Bayeux, France 2010.

Urban Stills & Scapes 29

2010-07-19T09:37:00.003+02:00

'Baignade interdite', Le Touquet, France 2010.

Sources / E. Hopper 9

2010-07-17T12:40:00.001+02:00

Cabourg, France 2010.

Urban Stills & Scapes 28

2010-07-15T12:25:00.003+02:00

Le Touquet, France 2010.

Report 79 / La Normandie 1

2010-07-13T11:16:00.004+02:00

Cabourg, France 2010.

Report 77 / Sint-Annastrand 2

2010-07-12T15:51:00.002+02:00

Antwerpen, Belgium 2010.

Report 78 / No Land

2010-07-12T12:05:00.004+02:00

Cap Blanc-Nez, Escalles, France 2010.

Report 77 / Sint-Annastrand 1

2010-07-11T10:07:00.003+02:00

Antwerpen, Belgium 2010.

Days of Lightness 31

2010-07-08T12:00:00.004+02:00

La Selle-la-Forge, La Normandie, France 2010.

Coincidences 21

2010-07-05T23:10:00.003+02:00

Le Touquet, France 2010.

Portrait 35

2010-06-29T19:00:00.001+02:00

Roma children, Brugge, Belgium 2010.

Landscape 17

2010-06-25T13:30:00.002+02:00

Blankenberge, Belgium 2010.

Real Life Stage 7

2010-05-21T11:02:00.002+02:00

Liège, Belgium 2010.

Report 76 / Liège

2010-05-20T18:04:00.001+02:00

Liège, Belgium 2010.

Days of Lightness 30

2010-05-20T11:13:00.002+02:00

Liège, Belgium 2010.

Coincidences 20

2010-04-17T10:53:00.002+02:00

Kortrijk, Belgium 2010.

Kortrijk, Belgium 2010.

Definable Obscurity 9 / Decisive Spot

2010-04-17T10:20:00.003+02:00

Kortrijk, Belgium 2010.

Report 75 / Ronde van Vlaanderen (3)

2010-04-14T15:14:00.004+02:00

Desselgem, Belgium 2010.

Desselgem, Belgium 2010.

Desselgem, Belgium 2010.

Brugge, Belgium 2010.

Desselgem, Belgium 2010.

Report 75 / Ronde van Vlaanderen (2)

2010-04-09T12:55:00.003+02:00

Geraardsbergen, Belgium 2010

Geraardsbergen, Belgium 2010.

Geraardsbergen, Belgium 2010.

Geraardsbergen, Belgium 2010.

Geraardsbergen, Belgium 2010.

Report 75 / Ronde van Vlaanderen 2010 (1)

2010-04-05T18:24:00.003+02:00

Desselgem, Belgium 2010.

Geraardsbergen, Belgium 2010.

Geraardsbergen, Belgium 2010.

Desselgem, Belgium 2010.

Desselgem, Belgium 2010.

Touch 12

2010-03-23T13:20:00.001+01:00

Brugge, Belgium 2009.

Landscape 16

2010-03-18T15:46:00.002+01:00

Honolulu, USA 2007.

Video for the weekend 37 / Tod Papageorge

2010-03-14T09:30:00.001+01:00

Landscape 15

2010-03-12T12:46:00.001+01:00

Bilbao, Spain 2009.

PHOTO OF THE MONTH / February 2010

2010-03-08T10:21:00.002+01:00

Wetteren, Belgium 2009.

Days of Lightness 29

2010-03-07T17:45:00.002+01:00

Knokke, Belgium 2010.

Definable Obscurity 8 / Subtle Movements

2010-03-05T17:26:00.004+01:00

Photographers to know / Link 18 : Alex Prager

2010-03-05T09:28:00.007+01:00

Wendy – Week-End 2010, photographed by Alex Prager.

Alex Prager, a 29-year old photographer grew up between Los Angeles and Switzerland, her work reflecting the unreal reality of the influence of a cinematic childhood. After experiencing an exhibition by William Eggleston, this self-taught photographer never looked back.

Inspired by the high drama of classic movies—which, despite their theatricality, touch upon genuine emotions of alienation, fear, anger, longing, and lust—Prager's images seem at first to be all exquisite surface. However the girls of this series—named “Barbara,” “Jane,” “Lois” and other such conventional and slightly old-fashioned monikers—conceal pain beneath their lipstick-lined smiles and dead eyes. Informed largely by Los Angeles, with its perpetual blue skies and birds singing from imported palm trees, Prager’s work exudes an underlying sense of the eerie monotony and unease that can permeate beneath the surface of beauty and the promise of happiness.

Annie – The Big Valley 2008, photographed by Alex Prager

In the artist's own words, she is “documenting a world that exists and doesn’t exist at the same time.” The trilogy began with girls playing archetypal roles in Polyester. Then in The Big Valley, the roles took on lives of their own, and the separation between make-believe and real life began to dissolve. With Week-end, which signifies the peak as well as the extent of the period, the façade becomes so thick that the illusion is now more real than the world they actually live in.

After the release of her first book The Book Of Disquiet (2005) Prager was given her first solo show at Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA entitled "Polyester", which was covered by the Los Angeles Times. Along with her 2008 exhibition at The Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, Prager is slated to exhibit in New York in 2009.

"Her photographs reveal a keen eye for the shining and the bizarre, a bit Annie Leibovitz, a bit Diane Arbus."- The Los Angeles Times

Alex Prager continues to live and work in the Los Angeles area.

Eve – The Big Valley 2008, photographed by Alex Prager

The truth/untruth about photography 34

2010-03-02T08:45:00.002+01:00

Brussel, Belgium 2008.

Video for the weekend 36 / David Solomons

2010-02-26T13:43:00.001+01:00

Behind 28 / Selected for exhibition

2010-02-23T10:41:00.004+01:00

Selected work for the exhibition at the International Photofestival, Knokke-Heist, Belgium from 28.03.2010 till 13.06.2010.

BETTER THAN A ROLLER COASTER / BLACKPOOL, UK 2007.

BEFORE HER WHITE FRONT DOOR / WETTEREN, BELGIUM 2009.

Report 67 / Streets of Dublin 3

2010-02-11T11:50:00.001+01:00

Dublin, Ireland 2009.

Unlabeled 14

2010-02-09T09:46:00.001+01:00

Brussel, Belgium 2008.

PHOTO OF THE MONTH / January 2010

2010-02-05T15:37:00.000+01:00

Santander, Spain 2009.

Sources / E. Hopper 8

2010-02-05T10:40:00.002+01:00

Bilbao, Spain 2009.

Coincidences 19

2010-02-04T16:32:00.001+01:00

Blankenberge, Belgium 2007.

Photographers to know / Link 17 : Michael Wolf

2010-02-04T11:37:00.005+01:00

© Michael Wolf / The Transparant City, 2008.

In a diverse array of photographic projects Michael Wolf explores the complex cultural identities of China and Hong Kong, where he has lived since 1995. Wolf delves into subjects such as the formal and improvisational aesthetics of Hong Kong's architectural forms, the often-overlooked human presence at the heart of international industry, and the idiosyncratic ways city-dwellers shape their surroundings in an "organic metropolis." Throughout these interrelated series Wolf draws into question notions of public and private space, anonymity and individuality, history and modern development. Attuned to the cultural and economic undercurrents of his adopted home, Wolf remains humanely attentive to the personal details as well. Kenneth Baker, critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written of the "formal intelligence and acuity of observation" evident in Wolf's photographs, and while Wolf is meticulously and consistently observant, his photographs reflect a manner of working that is intuitive and fluid: from series to series Wolf assumes a range of viewpoints, intimate in some cases and removed in others, and alternates between approaches that are rigorously formal and playfully lyrical.

Michael Wolf was born in Munich (1954), Germany. He grew up in the USA and studied at UC Berkley and at the University of Essen in Germany. He has been living and working as a photographer and author in China for ten years.

© Michael Wolf / Tokyo Subway Dream, 2009.

Forgotten pics 2009 / 4

2010-01-31T13:04:00.003+01:00

Gent, Belgium 2009.

Bilbao, Spain 2009.

Bilbao, Spain 2009.

Brugge, Belgium 2009.

Brussel, Belgium 2009.

Daydream 3

2010-01-28T16:21:00.004+01:00

A., Clothing store, Brugge, Belgium 2007.

Urban Stills & Scapes 28

2010-01-25T12:11:00.002+01:00

Dublin, Ireland 2009.

Stories 22

2010-01-21T17:32:00.001+01:00

Brugge, Belgium 2008.

Archief 38

2010-01-21T16:41:00.002+01:00

Madrid, Spain 2006.

Sources / E. Hopper 7

2010-01-16T09:59:00.001+01:00

Oostende-Ramsgate, 2007.

SMD 29

2010-01-14T13:12:00.002+01:00

Santander, Spain 2008.

Real Life Stage 6

2010-01-12T12:48:00.001+01:00

Manchester, UK 2008.

PHOTO OF THE MONTH / December 2009

2010-01-12T12:43:00.001+01:00

San Francisco, USA 2008.

Forgotten pics 2009 / 3

2010-01-07T10:29:00.003+01:00

Santander, Spain 2009.

Santander, Spain 2009.

Bilbao, Spain 2009.

Gent, Belgium 2009.

Brugge, Belgium 2009.

Photographers to know / Link 16 : Thomas Wrede

2010-01-05T11:57:00.008+01:00

Thomas Wrede’s work is about our relation to nature. Our longing for nature and the medialized description thereof. With his camera he observes how artificial nature is received in the same way as real nature. This subject matter is well known in German philosophy. Philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hegel studied the dialectic relation to nature. Wrede thereby continues this German tradition as a photographer, questioning our perception of nature. His last series “Real landscapes” are manipulations of landscapes. By adding artificial details into real nature he creates a staged scene that looks authentic at first. For the observer it becomes difficult to see what is actually real and what is unreal. The resemblance to model construction kits is striking. In effect he creates dreamlike scenes of nature or perhaps even nightmares.

Thomas Wrede searches for sanctuary within an environment increasingly subjugated to man’s intrusion upon nature. His desire for asylum amidst chaos sends him seeking refuge in the infinite spaces that seem to hover at the remote edges of the world. A drift upon endless expanses of beach, snow, and sea, he renders beautiful the quietude of landscape in large-scale images that lure the viewer into their vastness.

All of these photographs share the feeling that the viewer could be anywhere. Nowhere does this anonymity of place more secure the viewer’s ability to lose him or herself within the landscape than in Wrede’s images of snow. Although they are completely devoid of human presence, they are not free from the author’s trace. Wrede playfully places fake plastic fir trees amongst an icy windswept landscape seemingly littered with sharp mountainous peaks. What seems at first to be an incredible vantage point reveals itself to be an otherworldly scene of his own construction.

Thomas Wrede is based in Muenster, Germany.

Forgotten pics 2009 / 2

2010-01-02T18:14:00.003+01:00

Brugge, Belgium 2009.

Dublin, Ireland 2009.

Brugge, Belgium 2009.

Santillana del Mar, Spain 2009.

Bilbao, Spain 2009.

Forgotten pics 2009 / 1

2009-12-31T21:44:00.004+01:00

Bilbao, Spain 2009

Dublin, Ireland 2009.

Dublin, Ireland 2009.

Oostende, Belgium 2009.

Charleroi, Belgium 2009.

New project 2009 - 2010 / Everything about Beauty 3

2009-12-31T15:30:00.002+01:00