SPOTLIGHT: Adam Jeppesen
Adam Jeppesen’s Wake was assembled from images taken whilst traveling on assignment over a seven year period. He is an observer…
Beautiful video of Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world! The main tank called the ‘Kuroshio Sea’ holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters. Hypnotic. Source Luke Tonge. (Source: http://teaim.tumblr.com/)
SPOTLIGHT: Ethan Levitas
Ethan Levitas has some really nice work. A little frustrating that there is only a limited amount for public view on his website – I’m sure I would have enjoyed looking at more. These two portraits are taken from the Group/Portrait, Japan, series 1999.
One cannot both experience and document something at the same time. This crisis, of having to choose either experience or the document of it, has been one that surfaces throughout my life in art. As a photographer, do I ‘experience’ less because I ‘document’ more? Is the experience more valuable than documentation? And how do we understand the experience of making documents? – Eric William Carroll, ‘The Crisis Of Experience’, 2009
SPOTLIGHT: Nathalie Mohadjer
I recently came across this series by Nathalie Mohadjer – ‘Past, Present & Future’ 2007 – and I was reminded that this time last year, I spent some time in Croatia in the border town of Slavonski Brod. On one occasion I took a trip over the river to Bosnia. …
SPOTLIGHT: Alex Aristei
Alex Aristei has a stunning selection of portraits. A beautiful engagement with the subjects.
SPOTLIGHT: Anja Behrens
Anja Behrens has photographed German nuclear reactors in such a way amidst poetic misty landscapes, they are barely visible.
SPOTLIGHT: Tammy Mercure
This image ‘Pigeon Forge, TN, 2008’ is from the series Big Rock Candy Mountain (2007-current). Tammy Mercure photographs “the tourist towns that accompany the natural beauty of The Great Smoky Mountains….The pure spectacle of the towns brimming with shopping, all-you-can-eat buffets, and pure entertainment, stop some visitors from even seeing …
SPOTLIGHT: Bradley Peters
Some interesting images from Bradley Peters, but perhaps equally interesting if not more so are his thoughts on the work. Well worth a read and time to mull over.
SPOTLIGHT: Sasha Rudensky
A few nice images from Sasha Rudensky.