THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

In his series “European Parliament” Martin Kollar takes a personal look on the absurdities of the Moloch European Parliament.

Martin Kollar, born in 1971 in Zilina / Slovak Republic, studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava.

The NRW-Forum Duesseldorf shows from 06th February to 15th August 2010 a Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective.

The selection of 150 photographs spans from the early Polaroids in 1973 to his final self-portraits in 1988.

“I’m just a go-between, things discover me, I don’t discover them. But in them I can find myself and grow.”

Raymond Moore, 1920-1987

Corey Presha’s project “Simple Comfort”, a sympathic mix of portrait, landscape and interior, arised from a road trip to his grandmother in Georgia.

Corey Presha, born in 1985 in Suffern / New York, studied Photography at the Rockland Community College in Suffern. He maintains the photography blog Eyes of Artists.

“In one of the dialects spoken in the east of Poland, which is a mixture of Polish and Belorussian, people strongly attached to the soil they had been cultivating for generations were called ‘Karczeby’. With their bare hands Karczeby cleared forests in order to grow crops.
The word Karczeb is also used to describe what remains after a tree is cut down – a trunk with roots.”

Adam Pańczuk, born in 1978 in Biała Podlaska / Poland, is a graduate of University of Economics and Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. He lives and works in Warsaw.

Ilse Frech’s project ” I Am – Paradox Identity ” is about young women who have grown up within the Muslim culture in the outer suburbs of Paris and find themselves often in between two cultures.

Ilse Frech , born in 1972 in Amsterdam, studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and at the St. Joost Academy in Breda. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

Lorena Endara’s project “A Man A Plan A Canal Panama” focuses on the overdevelopment of Panama City in relation to the historical, economic, and political forces that continually shape the landscape.

Lorena Endara was born and raised in Panama City, Panama. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville / New York and earned a B.A. in liberal arts.

“The theme of death is close to anyone mediating on what is waiting ahead. Contemplating death, desolation, the indifference of beloved and emptiness, the author has posed a question: what will be left after we are gone?”

Anastasia Markelova lives and works in Moscow.

“I buy photo-books like crazy. Lately it seems I get more inspirations from books than from visiting galleries.”

Todd Hido