Jan 11
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WassinkLundgren
“Working in both Bejing and Shangai, Wassink-Lundgren placed an empty bottle in a certain location, and waited, 5x4-inch camera at the ready, to see who would pick it up. There is pressure on recycling in China, so the bottle was variously collected by part-time scavengers and full-time street cleaners. Each picture is presented alongside a blank institutional blue-green page of the same size, in recognition of the color used in public municipal space around China.”
Parr, M. and Badger, G. (2006), The Photobook: A History volume III, Phaidon: London
Anti Japanese resistance culture park
Actor Yang Lei dies about a thousand times a year. He plays a "Japanese devil" in a resistance park in the city of Wuxian. that opened in 2009. It is a classic example of the new realistic perception that the propaganda authorities use to keep the memory of the second world war alive.
Client: Volkskrant
National Peoples Congress
This is a look behind the scenes of the National Peoples Congress in China. Its the political media event of the year with about 3000 delegates visiting the Great Hall of the People. Some very popular, some very sleepy.
Client: Volkskrant
Thijs Wassink - Guest Lecture
In November one half of the creative duo Wasskinlundgren carried out a guest lecture for the level 6 Photography students at Leeds College of Art. Thijs Wassink works with both found imagery and imagery taken by himself and his other creative half Ruben Lundgren and spoke about how he goes about beginning his projects and how he gets the work he does out there for others to see. As well as discussing his work process he spent the majority of his talking discussing his curatorial endeavours and also how both himself and Ruben Lundgren go about making money.
There are two pointers from this lecture that have stood out to me. The first pointer being that the boundaries around your work are always a lot clearer when you’re working for a commission. However, with commissions you need to make sure that they are actually commissions and you will be paid, before you begin creating the work. The second pointer being that you need to balance between doing different jobs. For example, making work and teaching. Thijs spoke about how when you balance work you are doing different things, sourcing new inspiration and gathering an income to help fund other projects and ambitions.
Thijs’s last comment that has made an imprint on me was that ‘if you aim for making money you wont make good work.’ This has stuck with me as it is something that I completely agree with and believe in. For example, I believe that if you go into doing something for money you wont enjoy it and begin resenting what you’re doing. I also believe that you wont be making work true to yourself as you will be too worried about whether or not it is going to pay.
Overall, I found Thijs talk extremely inspiring and knowledgable. Due to him having a lot of experience and being a renowned practitioner, I find that a lot of what he says is from experience. Also I find that his knowledge is something you can keep with you and use in your own career.
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These men are super recognisers. They work for Scotland Yard and their job is to go through hours and hours of CCTV footage to match faces to crimes. Our job was to take a portrait of them. Watching the detectives.
Client: Volkskrant
Client: Volkskrant
Client: Volkskrant