THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

Michael Frahm’s series “The Exercise Of Look And Fail To See” provides some striking portraits.

“Can something as superficial as clothing embody as much depth as personality holds? I seeked in thirteen countries of two continents for the possibility of identity and individuality, travelled every week anew alone to place unknown to me an searched for the ‘ones’ that utilize clothing as an expressive means of their personality.”

Michael Frahm, born 1984 in Eutin / Germany, studied communication design at the University of Mannheim. He lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

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.

“All art is dedicated to joy.”

Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805

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.

The new issue of SeeSaw is now online – portfolios, found photography, photo-related essays, interviews and much more.

Please have a look:

=> SeeSaw : ISSUE #13 – Summer 2010

The gallery exp12 in Berlin presents from 02nd July to 08th August 2010 the exhibition “An Inner Song. 12 Portraits” by Nadine Ethner. The exhibition opens on July 01st 2010 at 7 pm.

“Within the twelve portraits raise the eye of the photographer inwards the models. The constructive interference of the encounters between artist and model in space is evident in the portraits and unfolds as a triptych from the eye of the recipient, showing the human magic.”

“In 1975 Bruce Chatwin wrote in his travel novel ‘In Patagonia’ that Ushuaia is a childless city with residents who cast unfriendly glances at strangers. Today you will find a different picture. Shortly after Chatwin’s visit a free trade zone was established which led to fast urban development. Whereas in 1975 there were 7000 people living in Ushuaia, today it hosts nearly 60 000. Most of them were young families coming North of Argentina looking for work with their children. They are also the reason why I went to the world’s most Southern city. I wanted to know what it was like being young while living at the end of the world.” – Joerg Brueggemann about ‘Mas Austral’