A sneak preview

I have been emailing backwards and forwards with Hollis Bennett since he got back from his travels and get admire his stunning images on a regular basis. After I received another great image this morning I wanted to pack my bag, take my camera and head off. Were to didnt matter - only away. On his blog you find some other stunning images. I absolutely adore his contact sheets.

Transformations

Last week I received these lovely images by Sadie Wechsler. She has taken these wildland fires images over the last two years in the Northwest of the US, to show how the landscape is transformed, transforms itself, and how a camera can translate this shift.

UYW issue 4 out now

I am delighted to announce the fourth issue of UYW. It is a double issue in collaboration with Fabio Severo from Italy and his choice of artists. Melbourne and Italy are not very close as you know, but it was a delight to sit next to Fabio in our kitchen and discuss the sequencing of his artists.

All artists in this issue provide an excellent insight into fine art photography. They invite you to linger in their world, allowing their amazing images to unveil themselves over time and tell their own stories. These images are a great example of an investigation between the imagined, the staged and the real.

Carlos & Jason Sanchez moments of rupture
Jari Silomäki alienation & other stories
Jean Claude Delalande dehors
Rip Hopkins romanian rip
Trinidad H. Carrillo the name from mars
Brendan George Ko reminiscence
Phil Toledano misfits
Francesco Millefiori visualizza
Daniel Glazer rain & snow series
Ben Alper the family dig (2008 - )

You can either download UYW (20mb) here, or view the spreads here.

Soft outlines

Sorry for my absence recently, way too many projects too keep on top of. Below are some beautiful, faint and muted images by Aaron McElroy.

I think I can fly

This week the new Blanket magazine - I think I can fly came out. As always there are a lot of great articles and images to feast your eyes on. Bec invited me to share how UYW came about. She also interviewed publishers from Beautiful/Decay, Wooden Toy Quarterly, New Sugar, Mankind Mag, Ammo Magazine, Bearded, Proteus Mag and Forth Thread. You can purchase this issue for just $2 or show your support and get a yearly Blanket Subscription for just $12.

Unexpected gadener

I love gardening, but I always seem to get distracted; making little sculptures, creating birds nests or collecting leaves for future projects, so I was rather delighted by David Wolf's "Nurturing Time, Life in a Backyard Garden" series about his experience in the garden.

Almost there

I am so excited. The new issue of UYW is almost finished. I am waiting for Fabio Severo to arrive today in Melbourne - all the way from Italy. Fabio is the guest curator for the upcoming issue - where he will be presenting five artists of his choice and I present my five. I have always treated the online journal as a little gallery space and thought it would be very interesting to see how Fabio would arrange/pair the images by his artist. So you will have to wait a tiny bit longer, but I promise it will be a lovely treat. Below are some outstanding images by Fabio, I have adored for a while.

I always wondered

I have been dreaming to travel through Mexico for a while now, so when I got these lovely images by Lorena Endara I was delighted to see Mexico through her eyes.

To see and to sea

The harder one works, the more one is likely to dream to run away, join the circus or simply have a day at the beach. I simply adore Marco Signorini images. Their colouring just makes me go aahhh - in a good way. Make sure you also have a look at his "Places of cure" series.

While the Devil

A while ago I was sent these amazing images by Caitlin Duennebier along with her interesting story "The Devil and Mother Duennebier" and completely forgot to show them.

“Just like I believe in God and have felt God’s warm presence, I believe in the Devil.”

My mother was diagnosed as a manic-depressive when I was four years old. While I was growing up she displayed erratic behaviour. One moment she would be a child, the next a stranger, and on increasingly rare occasions, she would be a friend or a mother again. For my mother, the Devil embodies everything cruel, reckless and mischievous. Because of her affliction she has accepted the Devil into her own life. She always feels that he is with her and plagues her thoughts. “When the Devil’s presence emerges it does not enter my body, but sinks with evil corruption beside me. We don’t make eye contact. The sensation is somewhat like a creature made of black ashes that floats down next to me.”
In order to better understand my mother’s anguish I embarked on a series of photographs that dramatize the relationship my mother has with the Devil. I constructed a costume that is loosely based on the look of the Krampus Devil seen in eastern European tales. The photographs are staged and un-staged but mostly document the psychological turmoil of my mother's everyday life between sorrow and joy, madness and sanity.
By playing the masked character, I become a dual personality. As her daughter, she sees me as a source of relief from her grief while the Devil becomes a source of her pain. Laughter is a way of bringing her back from her sorrows. Oscillating between satire and heartfelt portraiture, the images effect a constant pull between cerebral and subconscious states.