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Recent Polaroids section added to my website. All taken on a recent trip to Sweden. More updates to follow soon...

#polaroid #analogue #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shootfilm #sweden #websiteupdate #impossibleproject

Mark Ruwedel | Message from the Exterior

So amped for this release with Mack Books!

#mark ruwedel #message from the exterior #mackbooks

Huck editor Andrea Kurland catches up with great American documentarian Alec Soth about his impressive, constantly changing career, during his first UK retrospective at the Science Museum, London.

Huck interview Soth regarding his retrospective at London’s Science Museum.

#photography #Alec Soth #huck #science museum #retrospective

For the Love episode on Jack Coleman

#jack coleman #analogue #film #cinematography #large format

Hello Sydney. Woolloomooloo Bay, NSW. #landscape #harbour #city #navy #pool #poolside #australia #sydney

#city #australia #harbour #landscape #sydney #poolside #navy #pool

Finally got round to seeing the Constructing Worlds exhibition that's currently showing at the Barbican.

The exhibition collates the work of over 20 prominent photographers and architects, each whose work revolves around concepts of the built environment and modernity.

Above are a few phone photographs I took on my way round the exhibition of some of my personal favourites... 1. Stephen Shore | Church and Second Streets, Easton, Pensylvania, June 20, 1974.

2. Stephen Shore | Terrace Bay, Ontario, August 14, 1974.

3. Nadav Kander | Chongqing XI, Chongqing Municipality.

4. Bas Princen | Cooling Plant, Dubai, 2009.

5. Andreas Gursky | Paris, Montparnasse, 1993.

#photography #exhibition #constructingworlds #nadav kander #bas princen #andreas gursky #stephen shore

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LEWIS BALTZ DIES AT 69

Photographer Lewis Baltz, whose seminal 1984 works “The New Industrial Parks,” “Nevada,” “San Quentin Point” and “Candlestick Point” would redefine American landscape photography, died Nov. 23, 2014.

Baltz was one of the most significant figures of the New Topographics movement that developed in the late 1970s. Together, the photographers from this movement would expand the definition of landscape photography through their famed exhibition, “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape,” presented in Rochester, N.Y., in 1975. Their imagery presented American landscapes in minimal, stripped-down realities, void of notions found in previous landscape imagery that showed buildings or landscapes as symbols of prosperity or beauty. (+)

May his soul rest in peace.

Asako Narahashi | Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water

#asako narahashi #photography #underwater

Alejandro Cartagena | CarPoolers

Text below from Cartagena's website.

"Inside cartagena’s tightly framed photographs, only thin clouds, visible as reflections, hint at the complex environment in which this scenario plays out day after day for the carpoolers. To get a sense of their perspective as this project neared completion, cartagena climbed into the bed of a pickup truck with his camera one sunday morning. With their disorienting, diagonal lines and indistinct, partial glimpses, the images he made contrast starkly with the controlled uniformity characteristic of the principal series. Looking skyward, the hidden passengers see a continuous stretch of blue, broken by road signs, billboards, and towering light posts. As they get closer to san pedro, the sky is punctuated with symbols of unattainable prosperity, like the luxury automobile logos and the private helicopters that just clear the power lines running parallel to the highway. Power lines serve as significant emblems here; cartagena asks us to consider the political and economic structures that move energy, labor, and wealth throughout Mexico. Conceptualized as one layer of a lifelong project, cartagena’s carpoolers series makes visible one more space between major points on the urban power grid." ~ Jessica S. Mcdonald 2014

#alejandro cartagena #photography #photobook #carpoolers