UYW Issue 2 now online

Time has flown by faster than I can believe and I am very excited to present you with the second Issue of UYW. These artists have inspired me in different ways and I consider it a privilege to be able to share their work with you.

Nicolas Hughes > Field (2007 - 2009)
Jonathan Blaustein > The value of a dollar
Daniel Freytag > Various
Benjamin Norman > Wall Street
Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann > All Lillies sold out today

A weekend away

In December my Paul and I always try and run away before every one else is on holidays, so we can enjoy the camping spots/beaches/walks in solitude, instead of having to share them with the crowds. These images by Hollis Bennett look like the perfect weekend away. I am in love with the colour of his beautiful images.

New viewpoints

A series title like "Home & away" alludes to traveling, adventures, new viewpoints and friends. Daniel Glazer seems to have been at the right place at the perfect time to capture these images.

At rest

These images are from Berkan Dirim's series "Gasilhane" - his final project for a photography workshop. This is the place where the dead bodies are washed before they are buried. Very peaceful and great colouring.

Reminisce

"That moment of physical passage sparked an avid curiosity in me to explore aspects of my lineage that existed outside my consciousness." It was this sentence from Ben Alper's website that made me decide to show his series "The family dig", instead of his polaroids.

Adding to the imagination

For the last many many years I have tried to exclude people from my images and it is only know that I start to get curious to add them again. I find these images by Allen Frame mysterious & delightful.
It is amazing how much tension and an invisible story line people can can add to an image - simply with them being there. They belong - they are part of that place and its history.

White beauty

I am absolutely in love with this amazing images from Scarlett Hooft Graafland. She says on her website: "The series ‘You Winter, let’s get divorced’ is made in northern Canada, Nunavut, in the Inuit settlement of Igloolik. I spent four months in the village and worked together with the local community to make my photographs. For example the work ‘Lemonade Igloo’, where I produced big blocks of frozen orange lemonade and asked traditional men to build an ice-igloo out of it." Ohh this just sounds like a perfect project.

Untold stories

I am constantly amazed how many amazing and talented photographers are around. These images are from Anastasia Cazabon's series "Stories". I love it how a person can add so much dimension to alluding a story.

Planetary ideas

When I stumbled upon Meghann Riepenhoff "Floating and Falling", it reminded me far away galaxies and planetary landscapes.

Thanks all round

Thank you for the lovely mention of UNLESS YOU WILL - the online photography journal
Fabio from hippolyte bayard,
Rainer - pdf mags,
the team at dirty mouse.
And promoting my new series "Garden of Knowledge" and my little shop
Grace - design sponge,
Holly - decor8,
Nadine - anmutig,
Erin - design for mankind.
If I have forgotten anyone please let me know and I will happily add you here.

"Among" is Fabio Barile's documentary project concerning 1200 km of Italian coast subjected to a worrying amount of sea erosion due to over-development. Regional authorities have set up monitoring programmes with satellite imaging and other scientific methods in order to control the situation. His project concerns the beach in his home town where the sea road has been completely submerged. Starting with this fascinating location, he became increasingly interested in the phenomenon of erosion and its consequences on the marine system while working in parallel on the position of the limits between things like earth and sea and day and night.

9700 days

These images by Tread are part of an ongoing series titled "9700 days". The supposed time it takes a boy to become a man.

Inside out and upside down

How amazing are these BW images by Rodolfo Vanmarcke from Venezuela? It took me a while to get my head around them. I like a bit of magic....

To travel - to see

I could not decide which images to show from Jan Koster. Below you find his landscapes from his series "Dutchscapes". They make me want to go traveling. If you like essays, I would also recommend reading "Constructions of reality" by Merel Bern.

On Rain

Every time it rains (and it does not rain very often in Melbourne) I am fascinated with the quality of light. It seems so pure and fresh and the reflection tell a story of their own. This gorgeous images are from Leland Bobbe.

Time for renewal

"The Burn series evolved from my ongoing interest in life cycles. Controlled burns imitate naturally occurring fires by removing accumulated dead vegetation and releasing seeds from dormancy. By opening the woodlands to more sunlight, the fires prepare the soil for new spring growth, and the cycle of renewal continues. While accompanying restoration ecologists on prescribed prairie burns, I am drawn to the ephemeral quality of a single moment when life and death do not seem opposed to each other, but are parts of a single process to be accepted as a whole."
I discovered "The Burn" on Jane Fulton Alt's website. I think these images are stunning and haunting at the same time.

Wet Collodian Techniques

I am absolutely fascinated with old techniques and wish I could do a workshop. I might just have o take a trip to NY... These stunning images are from Jody Ake, also a Critical Mass participant. What a delight.

How one thing always leads to the other

I was doing some research on navigation design and came across Studio Racket, who are also from Melbourne. I just had to browse their amazing website, check out their photos and books - and learned it was Paul & Rachel who put together this amazing book "The present history" which I bought a while ago... small world indeed. Anyway, here are some very cute images.

Playful nature

A couple of weeks ago I received a CD from the Critical Mass participants and had finally time to browse some entries. I was rather taken with these simple and delightful images - Imaginary scape - by Kyohie Abe

ISSUE ONE

It has been a few months in the coming, but I am excited to present the first issue of UNLESS YOU WILL.

It features the amazing work of
sebastian lemm - strata
misha de ridder - abendsonne
rita bernstein - undertow
alec soth - sleeping by the mississippi
yaniv waissa - traces 2007-2008.
Below are a couple of spreads

Point of view

Today I came upon John Chervinsky's images "An Experiment in Perspective" and was utterly delighted. On his website he has this great quote by Marshall McLuhan: "A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."

An inspiration

Today I had the pleasure to view Roger Ballan's work at the Monash Gallery of Art. I have adored his work, ever since I came across one of his books and it was a delight to stand in front of his images and be able to study them. His photographs are an inspiration and I have posted some of his work previously.

Little treasures

There is beauty everywhere and as a photographer we just have to concentrate sometimes to see and appreciate it. Most people would have probably walked by these scenes, but Nathan Cyprys - I imagine, was inspired by the random spaces he encountered.

A language of his own

I came across Brendan George Ko through Darrens website and thought if I not post them straight away, I will forget where I found them. I have always adored words and when I read I find myself underlining a word here and there, only to put them together at a later stage and try different variations to make up little stories, titles or poems... So you can imagine how much I appreciate these beautiful and simple images with the typography. Finished pieces, ready for a book cover.

The dollar store and further adventures

I came across Darren Rigo via red thread and bookmarked him as his images stopped me and made me appreciate little things.