THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

Merry Christmas and a successfull start into 2008. The Sonic Blog will be back on 07.01.2008.
If someone has not yet catched the spirit of x-mas, – some christmas images can be found here.

“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it – stones and buildings and trees and air – but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”

Joel Meyerowitz

“I stage fictitious scenes which I capture with a camera. I play the persons in my pictures. But my pictures aren’t self-portraits in a traditional sense. The person in the picture is a fictitious narrator, as like a narrator in literature. My pictures are fantasy, representing an atmosphere or a tendency by fictitious persons.” – Aino Kannisto about her work

Aino Kannisto, born 1973, lives and works in Helsinki. She studied photography at the University for Art and Design Helsinki.

Isabel Winarschs work “HOYWOY” shows an appraisal of Hoyerswerda in East Germany. The once proud socialist residential town is today threatened by migration, unemployment and demolition.

Isabel Winarsch, born 1976, studied photo Designs with emphasis in photo journalism at the FH Hanover. “HOYWOY” is her final year project work.

The series “Fillip” of Jan Ebeling, born 1982 in Hannover, deals with the notion of identity during adolecense in conjunction with sport and group dynamics. Jan Ebeling currently lives in London.

Hin Chua’s work focuses on the exploration of his environment and discovering beauty and mystery within everyday life.
Hin Chua, born in Malaysia, growing up in Australia and currently living in London, is a self-taught photographer.

Since Elliot Erwitt’s humorous pictures of dogs it is well-known that dog photography apart from kitsch is possible.

In his book “Moneypenny the Dog” Peter Nitsch takes a fresh look into the life of a Parson Jack Russell Terrier, which he presents in journalistic style black and white pictures.

Peter Nitsch studied Communication Design in Munich. Hie lives and works in Bangkok and Munich.

As a portrait photographer, I really love the process of model hunting. I constantly am seeking a great face, unique charisma and a memorable personality, I pay a lot of attention to people around me and try to convince some to be my model.
Certainly, I think everyone is special in their own way. For most of time, I took portraits of whoever willing to sit in front of my camera, I can’t afford to miss any opportunity to create a good portrait, because sometime even a “boring” person can give me that most brilliant heartfelt moment, so you just never know.

Shen Wei

The Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen, born 1942, travelled through China and the former USSR. Her series “A Hundred Summers, a Hundred Winters” (1994) and “East Wind, West Wind” (2001) document everyday situations with an artistically view.

Her latest project “Give me your Image” (2006) shows private images in their domestic environments throughout Europe.