THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

Since March 2010 the Berlin based photographers Thomas Lobenwein and Christian Reister, who runs as well the gallery Fenster61, blog about photography in “blog61″. They present snippets of their personal work and general findings from a photographer’s life.

Regards from Düsseldorf and welcome to the blog scene!

=> www.blog61.com

Recently the seventh edition of Calin Kruse’s ambitious magazine for photography, design and subculture has been published.

Amongst other artists dienacht # 7 presents:

- Elinor Carucci with great images from her series “Pictures taken by a mother”
- Gerhard Vormwald with portfolio and and an extensive interview
- Klaus Gigga four triptychs

A lot of photography and art for only 5 €. Buy!

=> www.dienacht-magazine.com

“Color is that visual sensation to the eye of man which appears as a structureless part of the visual field that can be distinguished with one unmoved eye, while seeing a neighboured as well structureless part at the same time.”

from DIN 5033

Between May 28 and June 24, Christopher Anhalt will show photographs of his series “Scars & Beauty” at the gallery exp12 in Berlin. A new book, also titled “Scars & Beauty”, will be released at the opening event on May 28 at 7pm.

“Called ‘The Factory of Dreams‘, no one produces more telenovelas than Mexican’s Telavisa studios. Telenovelas and its protagonists are a powerful vehicle to understand contemporary Latin American culture and its society.
Stefan Ruiz photographs of the factory of dreams and the people working in it disclose this secret world to us with humor and affection. All Images are shot in the Televisa Studios, Mexico City.”

There is a lot of interesting photography to discover on the portfolio site of the Hungarian photographer Anna Fabricius.
Unfortunately the information there is available only in Hungarian language. Nevertheless worth a longer visit.

“Plume is a photographic exploration of Southeast Ohio and its unusually dense concentration of coal-fired power plants.” – Daniel Shea about his project ‘Plume’

Daniel Shea, born in 1985, studied Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He lives and works in Chicago / Illinois.

“My work is physical. I often carry 20 to 40 kg of equipment. It’s a bit like if I was carrying my cross. I need to have the sensation that there is a kind of physical sacrifice, that it hurts… I’m Latin, you know. I need to carry my territory on my back. And this attitude has a real impact on the result of my pictures. That’s a performance, in a way.”

Charles Fréger

From this Interview in Andrew Phelps’ Buffet

Jennifer Brown’s portfolio shows another nice ‘look into the world’.