THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The Sonic Blog will be back on 04. January 2010.

Anna Simone Wallinger photographed a container camp for asylum seekers in Berlin. The work covers ten sequences, which have developed in one period of 12 hours in each case.

Anna Simone Wallinger, born in 1980, studied photography at the Lette Verein Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin.

“The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.”

Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 – 1898

“These images are based on my own childhood, specifically the transitional period between the ages of 9-15. This period of liminality, when girls are on the threshold of womanhood, can be one of the most defining and vital stages in a woman’s life.”

Anastasia Cazabon, born in 1983, is a photographer from Cambridge, MA. She is a graduate of New England School of Photography and Massachusetts College of Art. Anastasia is co-founder of the photography collective The Exposure Project.

“In his works, Ole John Aandal uses photography to question the politics of the medium and how it shapes and charges our culture. ‘Juvenilia’ is the voice of teenagers in a new media world where everybody is an artist and everything you can imagine is real.”

Ole John Aandal, born in 1960, studied Photography at the Institute of Photography in Bergen. He lives and works in Oslo / Norway.

With the relaunch of their website the OSTKREUZ agency shows all photo reportages from nearly 20 years online. Together with their blog and their news site a multiplicity of images and information is available now.

Who doesn’t want to click through all the images himself can view the favourites of Jörg Colberg from Conscientious, who offers his personal selection of the OSTKREUZ reportages here and here.

The LVR-LandesMuseum in Bonn displays until 31st of January 2010 the series “Russkie” by Anastasia Khoroshilova. The work shows the inhabitants of rural Russia in their solidarity to homeland and tradition.

Anastasia Khoroshilova was born 1978 in Moscow. She studied Communication Design at the University Duisburg-Essen. She lives and works in Berlin and Moscow.

Bas Princen is interested in the many different kinds, in which urban landscapes find their expression. Some examples of his work can be find here, here and here.

Bas Princen, born 1975 in Zeeland / Niederlande, lives and works in Rotterdam.

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”

Susan Sontag, 1933–2004