THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

“Glenn Sloggett’s images of everyday suburban spaces prompt both amusement and concern at the same time. His dark and disquieting images explore the neglected, the derelict, and the out of date.”

Gabriele Harhoff’s Asian travel notes are spontaneous and light-footed without falling into arbitrariness.

“For me photography is a means to explore. I am interested in “non-moments”, in human – mostly urban – living spaces, where anonymous persons, objects, colors, forms and textures all are equally important.” – Gabriele Harhoff

“What is a transmutation? It’s described as a sudden change from one generation to the next, that is large in comparison with the usual variation of an organism. (…)

Johan Rosenmunthe’s pictures can be seen as visual transmutations – bastards of light and interference. They are jumps in style and expression, and evidence of a personal investigation.”

Linsey Gosper series “Alone In My Room” deals with female sexuality and autoerotism.

Childhood

It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost,
for those long childhood afternoons you knew
that vanished so completely -and why?

We’re still reminded-: sometimes by a rain,
but we can no longer say what it means;
life was never again so filled with meeting,
with reunion and with passing on

as back then, when nothing happened to us
except what happens to things and creatures:
we lived their world as something human,
and became filled to the brim with figures.

And became as lonely as a sheperd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875 – 1926

When does the childhood end? This question is not so easy to answer. For entry into the adult world there is no fixed date. Does childhood end when we realize that our parents are not omnipotent gods? When we realize that everything is finite and we are mortal ourselves? Or only when we forget what it is to be a child?

Ute Behrend traces in her book “The Last Year of Childhood” the conflicting emotions of this transition (published 2011 by POWERSHOVEL.BOOKS). In one moment you look impatient and longingly into the future, then wistfully back to the past and just a moment later you lose yourself totally in the present. more…

“Hinterland is a very personal work. I am concerned about the feeling I have when I leave the city. And about the stories that play on Germany’s side stages.” – Sebastian Pranz

Until 02nd March 2012 the Salon für Fotokunst in Berlin displays photographs by Anna Thiele under the title: “Berlin. In the government district.”

In her images Anna Thiele shows the government district in ambivalence: a lively and vibrant part of the town, populated and connected with everyday life and also separated from people in its monumentality.

Graham Millers series “Waiting for the Miracle” finds beautiful images for this undefined feeling, that our lives can change drastically at any time, blurred from worries that maybe nothing happens at all.

via JMC