THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

The Swiss photographer Oliver Lang photographed European landscapes with a slightly Americanized view.

My Heart at Evening

Toward evening you hear the cry of the bats.
Two black horses bound in the pasture,
The red maple rustles,
The walker along the road sees ahead the small tavern.
Nuts and young wine taste delicious,
Delicious: to stagger drunk into the darkening woods.
Village bells, painful to hear, echo through the black fir branches,
Dew forms on the face.

Georg Trakl, 1887 – 1914

From 25th February to 28th March 2010 the gallery Lichtblick in Cologne presents the exhibition “Hello from Bloomer. Viele Grüße aus Wismar” by Wiebke Loeper.
The opening is on February 25th at 8 pm.

“Wiebke Loeper shows with her exhibition and book project” Hello from Bloomer. Viele Grüße aus Wismar” in which way early influences coin keep their persistence in a completely new environment.
She describes the lives of her grandfather Willi and his cousin with the same name. Both grew up in Pomerania and learned the profession of a butcher. Separated by war, the settled down in the U.S., the other one lived in the GDR.
With a combination of collected photographs from family albums and her own photographs she creates a documentation of the biographies, showing surprising parallels.”

Wiebke Loeper, born in 1972 in East Berlin, studied photography at the HGB Leipzig.

BerlinPhotoWorkshops has new seminars on offer.

For the first time Peter Oehlmann runs the seminar “(Another) Street View“:

“I would like to invite you to a somewhat different Street View, for an open, questioning and wondering view on the city. – Whether you continue a work or begin a new project, I offer a critical and stimulating support during the process of image selection, editing and issues of presentation.”

For the second time Kai-Olaf Hesse’s one day workshop “Photo book or photo series?” deals with forms of presentation and its context.

“This workshop addresses the prerequisites for the content and design of an image series, which shall then be brought together to construct a photo book. – On the basis of participant’s own works and books, the workshop will discuss possibilities and critical aspects in regard to the presentation of photographs in book form.”

Who wants to where our vegetables come from should take a look at Christophe Chammartin’s series “Prison De Plastique”.

The formerly impoverished southern Spanish province of Almeria produces under a vast sea of plastic approximately 3 million tonnes of greenhouse vegetables for the European market.

The exhibition “AUFRUHR” (REBELLION) at RAUM.201 in Essen shows from 21st February to 16th May 2010 contemporary photography from the Ruhr area. The exhibition opening is on the 21st February at 15:00 Clock.

On display are works by Sebastian van den Akker, Bozica Babic, Bernd Kleinheisterkamp, Anne-Lena Michel, Nadine Preiß, Arno Schidlowski, Valerie Schmidt and Frauke Thielking.

Michael Kominek, born in 1971 in Poland, is a photographer and gallery owner. He was co-founder and editor of the Spanish magazine SCOPE and runs since 2007 the Kominek Gallery in Berlin.

Peter F. (PF): Michael how did it happen that you founded the photo book gallery Kominek 2007 in Berlin. How did you get the idea to combine the various elements of publishing, bookstore and gallery?

Michael Kominek (MK): The basic idea was to create a specialized type of site to present the best photo books. My absolute dream was to publish books by myself, even if it would be very small editions.

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“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Diaz Diaz’s portrait series “Underwear” appeals by a reserved charm somewhere between shyness and irony.

Luis Diaz Diaz, born 1978, lives in Madrid and Galicia.