THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

“We see our environment less and less as pedestrians and residents, but rather as motorists and tourists. So you should pay again and again attention to the details of a place. Simply turn off the navigation system and just perceive the place.”

Lucius Burckhardt

Ein Magazin über Orte (A Magazine about Places), edited by Elmar Bambach, Julia Marquardt and Birgit Vogel, is dedicated in its ninth edition to the urban life: Berlin.

Seventy-two works by renowned as well as less known artists become intoxicated on everything what city is or could be. They invite us to participate in this flush of urban life. Photography mixed with painting, poetry, prose and graphics, leading us to new, old, familiar places and things never seen before in this city of constant change more…

The Hotel Bogota in Berlin displays from 03rd February to 15th April 2012 the exhibition “in between dialogues” with actor portraits from Irina Tübbecke.

The opening is on 02nd February 2012 at 19:00 clock.

The Dutch photographer Jan-Dirk van der Burg has a strong sense of the absurd in everyday life. His series “Hondenpoepverhalen” is dedicated to a common annoyance in every city: dog dirt.

“Good Night London is a series of documentary portraits taken in several London night clubs. Placing my interest in such a hostile scenario, this series develops exploring how artificial environments work as a key element in teenager´s identity construction.” – Jesús Madriñan

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For me, art books are the ultimate extension of children’s literature. They are the creative weaving of text, design and image between the tactile covers of a book. No parent would tell you that the children’s book is in danger of extinction. Toddler’s want to gnaw on board books, not iPads. The same is true for artist’s books.

Alec Soth

The book “KILL YOUR DARLINGS” presents nineteen works by twenty photographers, curated and edited by Ute Noll. The photographers represented in the book have studied at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen with Peter Bialobrzeski between 2005 and 2011.

The landscape format soft cover can be flipped comfortable and features a cross-section of young photography from Germany. The end of the book offers an interview by Ute Noll with Peter Bialobrzeski and provides information about his teaching.

Noticeable is a broad distribution in style and topics of the presented work. Once analytical documentary, once artistically reflexive, then staged and abstract – anything goes. In this respect the openness of teaching, expressed in the interview with Bialobrzeski, becomes visible. more…

“Countless hours of use and near infinite volumes of knowledge have been imparted onto the surfaces of these boards then simply wiped clean, leaving only a trace of the person that put it there.
It is a way station of information from one mind to another, never holding onto it and learning, but always clearing and refreshing its surface.” – Gregory Davis

Under the title “Selected Works 1978-2011″ shows the gallery Pavlov’s Dog in Berlin from 20th January to 25th February 2012 work of Russian photographer Sergey Chilikov.
The opening is on 19th January 2012 at 19:00 clock.

“Since the mid seventies Sergey Chilikov – who holds a PHD in phi losophy – has been searching for the secrets of the Russian soul with his camera. In the far away province of Mari El, in which he lives, he has pointed his lens at the life of ordinary people and has developed a distinct aesthetic language that is far from any romantic view of country life.
The exhibition at pavlov’s dog shows selected works from Chilikov’s steadily growing body of work of the past 30 years. The German catalogue with his works has been published at Benteli publis hing house.”