We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
SPOTLIGHT: Stefan Ruiz
Yuriel Bring Scharlet, Rene Vallejo Psychiatric Hospital, Camaguey, Cuba, 2001 “We did an issue for Colors about psychiatric hospitals around the world, and I went to this hospital in Cuba. Access was difficult, but on the first day, when I got in I set up a little studio in the …
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I knew there would always be more to lose I hid and kept my self in safe where moth and time get no chance to get in where light is myth and heavy the darkness you asked for my heart without saying a word I thought you asked for my heart I thought that maybe I would be good at keeping yours most of what I breathe is choking dust and ashes and glorious day most of what I hear makes sense if I had learnt just how to listen I want to be with you more and more but …
As an artist you will never be able to perfectly define (or predict or predetermine) how people will react to what you produce. Somebody will always find something that you have never thought about, and that’s basically what makes art art. Art is about freedom, and as an artist you want to give your audience that freedom, that possibility to explore and to experience. The more you take that freedom away, the more your art suffers, the worse it gets. Joerg Colberg
CURRENT: Final Degree Hand In
Today I handed in all my work for my degree. Its all finished! The last few months were a hard slog, but it all comes good in the end. Dad is out of hospital.
SPOTLIGHT: Roger Cremers
Dutch photographer Roger Cremers is this year’s winner in the World Press Photo category Arts and Entertainment Stories with his series on tourists in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It’s quite a surreal, yet perhaps a disturbingly unsurprising result of tourism and ‘entertainment’ manifesting within the horrific environment of concentration camps.
SPOTLIGHT: Sam Hofman
This evening I went to the opening of the 2009 Ferdynand Zweig Exhibition Private View. It was at a new little gallery on the main street in Penryn. ’Open Space Galleries’. A good space. Sam Hofman graduated from Falmouth with a BA in Photography last year. He is now living and …