THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

In unobtrusive and simultaneously enigmatic images the photographer Philippe Herbet approaches the traces of his childhood while travelling the former Soviet Union.

Philippe Herbet was born in Istanbul in 1964. His mother came from Russia and his father was Belgian. He lives and works in Liège / Belgium.

I think all art is about control – the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Richard Avedon, 1923 – 2004

Zeit Online started a new, worth seeing photoblog. The blog wants to show and discuss images, which strike the eye of the editors and have a potential to endure the day-to-day business.

Found via ISO 800

Oliver Heissner, born 1966 in Konstanz, studied photography at the Bayrische Staatslehranstalt in Munich. He lives and works in Hamburg.

“I make photographs to describe an underlying world that exists in the absence of connection. This is manifested in the complicated relationships individuals occupy in the same space as well as with themselves.” – Greg Miller

Greg Miller’s series “County Fair” contains some really strange and striking images. Greg Miller, born 1967, received a BFA in photography from the SVA in New York. He lives currently in Brooklyn.

Found via LOZ

“This series explores vernacular life in the border regions of West Texas and New Mexico. The images exist as documents of place and time, and also as lyrical records of personal discovery.” – Jason Reed about his series ‘Borderland’

Jason Reed received an M.F.A. in Photography from the Illinois State University and teaches currently at the Texas State University San Marcos.

Marie Angeletti’s series “The Barnett’s” draws her vision of an avarage American family.

Marie Angeletti, born 1984 in Marseille, moved to New York in 2006. She graduated with an MA in Communication Arts in 2007 at the NYIT.

Although there are some respectable state-run schools for photography in the Rhine Ruhr area, there are quite few high-quality offers of free schools. Based on this I suggested BerlinPhotoWorkshops to offer workshops in the Rhine Ruhr area, hosted in cooperation with The Sonic Blog.

Kai-Olaf Hesse breaks the ground with his seminar “The Built Environment and Documentary Strategies”. The workshop starts in April 2009 at the studio house in Duesseldorf. The application period runs up to 31. March 2009. Further information is available on the workshop page or directly at BerlinPhotoworkshops.

“Because photography is a non-verbal language it’s easy as a photographer to let yourself be seduced into making romantic, and basically meaningless imagery. I try to avoid that happening to me.”

Simon Hoegsberg