THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

“In Espaces Nomades Matthieu Gafsou deals with the relation of man to nature. He staged the conquest of the nearly virgin landscapes. Gafsou defines the nature as a construction, even as a fiction, to question the ways oft its representation and its alleged authenticity”.

Matthieu Gafsou, born in 1981, lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Catarina Botelho’s work undertakes a search for an inner attitude and shows absence, denial or disturbance.

Catarina Botelho, born in 1981, lives and works in Lisbon.

Robert Rutoeds street photography project “Less is More” mainly shows the bizarre moments of everyday live.

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

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.

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.

Marqis Palmer’s series “Behind The Signs” remind me a little to Stephen Gill’s series “Billboards“. But in Palmer’s work I miss the anarchic touch of Gill’s work.

In his series “European Parliament” Martin Kollar takes a personal look on the absurdities of the Moloch European Parliament.

Martin Kollar, born in 1971 in Zilina / Slovak Republic, studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava.

“In one of the dialects spoken in the east of Poland, which is a mixture of Polish and Belorussian, people strongly attached to the soil they had been cultivating for generations were called ‘Karczeby’. With their bare hands Karczeby cleared forests in order to grow crops.
The word Karczeb is also used to describe what remains after a tree is cut down – a trunk with roots.”

Adam Pańczuk, born in 1978 in Biała Podlaska / Poland, is a graduate of University of Economics and Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. He lives and works in Warsaw.