THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

“This juxtaposition of imagery is a parallel to the sociological contrast I hope to have captured in these children’s lives. With the title ‘No Ball Games’ I am referring to an omnipresent plaque commonly found in the estates forbidding one of the last things that are left to do. Perhaps unconsciously, the ‘Game’ therefore turns into a form of resistance. The ambiguity of the photographs – and more importantly the ambiguity of their lives – is an honestly meant invitation into a world full of paradoxes and uncertainty.” – Marco Bohr about ‘No Ball Games’

“I feel that within all my works the themes that tie them together are archiving, memory, beauty, and Americana. To a degree, all of my projects have been a variation on a theme.” – Alana Celii

“At the beginning of 2001, I began taking pictures of recently abandoned offices, and the things people had left behind.
This project was more than photography for me. It was economic archaeology. There was something very strange about walking into a recently abandoned office. The heavy, Pompeii-like stillness, punctuated by the occasional sound of the air-conditioning, turning itself on.” – Phillip Toledano about his series ‘Bankrupt’

“People say street photography is somehow old-fashioned and cliched, but, if that’s the case, so is portraiture or sports photography; you might even say so is photography itself. Sure, we’re recording the everyday world in much the same way that street photographers have always done, but times change and things move on, and street photography is a record of that at ground level. That is why it is so important to resist calls for it to be banned or controlled.” – Matt Stuart

The group project “Anna, Renzo und all die Anderen” (Anna, Renzo and all the others) captures the italian community living in Berlin. The project was photographed by seven italian photographers (Piero Chiussi, Christian Del Monte, Benedetta Großrubatscher, Emanuele Lami, Gino Puddu, Paolo Risser and Luca Vecoli) who live and work in Berlin themselves.

The exhibition “Anna, Renzo und all die Anderen” is on display at the Italian Culture Institute until 21st January 2011.

“The photographs describe two views of a contemporary landscape — one is from a Romantic 19th century tradition where the grandness of the land is cherished; the other confronts modern spaces that at times seem completely incapable of living up to a standard set by Western explorers.” – Mike Reinders

I always had a heart for public libraries and understood them as a place of shelter and a treasure of knowledge. So it is not remarkable that I really like Alex Leme’s series “Literary Ghosts” about these wonderful places.

The series “Land Jugend” of the Austrian photographer Paul Kranzler shows amazingly well why most of us, who came from a small town, went on to bigger cities.

Matthieu Lavanchy’s work “Mr. Schuhlmann or the Man in the High Castle” is funny and intelligent at same time. Good Stuff! Matthieu Lavanchy, born 1986, lives and works in Switzerland.