THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

Carrie Thompson’s project “I Hope We Go Together” is about her grandparents and the deterioration of the railroad town they live in.

“One Block is a portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans as seen through the prism of a single city block whose residents are attempting to rebuild their homes. While the project has a documentary quality, its nonlinear approach evokes something that might be more aptly called a psychological landscape.” – Dave Anderson about his project ‘One Block’

A lot of aspects of our world are wrong or disturbing. In Asger Carlsen’s series “Wrong” this is a little bit more obvious than usual.

Asger Carlsen, born 1973 in Denmark, lives and works in New York.

In his series “Prelude to War: Abkhazia” James Pomerantz portrays one of the break-away regions in the Caucasus. James Pomerantz is a New York born and based artist currently pursuing an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media at The School of Visual Arts, New York.

“I stayed in Uganda for 2 months and Alebtong for 5-6 weeks. The first 2 weeks in Alebtong I made no photographs, primarily because I needed a piece of equipment I did not have. At the time it was frustrating but these 2 weeks allowed for greater connection to the people and community. I earned their trust through simple, honest interaction and this allowed for better image making and the most remarkable experience. I learned the local language, walked in the bush by myself meeting folks along the way, and drank Cokes with friends and strangers in the village after the sunset. I was teaching photography workshops. I was the only American and white person in the village of 1,000 people.” – David Wright about ‘Alebtong’

“The photographs for Character Project were all made in a single location over several weeks. Using the slightly distressed side of a construction shed as my backdrop, I set up a kind of ’studio of the streets’ on busy Michigan Avenue, the main downtown thoroughfare in Chicago. The shed allowed me to create a quiet space in the midst of the busy urban environment, a space in which I could take a closer look at the individuals I chose to photograph. All of the subjects are students at Chicago’s Columbia College, where I have taught now for ten years.” – Dawod Bey about his ‘Characters Project’

The USA Network Characters project engaged eleven photographers in the United States to produce a portfolio of the diversity of Americans across the nation.

Phillip Toledano’s project “Days with my Father” is the description of a lack: the lack of a short-term memory, the lack of a normal relation…
But despite the strong emotions Phillip Toledano’s project is mostly kept in a reportage style.

Dana Mueller was born and raised in Thueringia / East Germany until the fall of the Berlin Wall. She is an Adjunct Professor in photography and art history at the Art Institute of Boston. She received her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has consistently addressed exile, German identity, memory, history and landscape. As part of her current project, Devil’s Den, Dana Mueller has photographed sites related to the WWII German Prisoner-of-War experience in the US.

Hein-Kuhn Oh, born in 1963, is a Seoul based photographer whose work is focused on revealing simultaneous desire or emotional fragility of specific social groups in Korea.