time to grow up

Time is what keeps everything

 from happening all at once. 

beautiful photographs by BawkBawkBawk 

Tokyo Noir

How amazing are these photographs? They are by Tokyo based photographer and blogger Hiki. Check out her blog Jollygoo. She has an amazing eye for colour and design and loves lots of beautiful things. I love her collection of blue photos too!

Spectrum/spectre

While flicking through South African blogger M Dash's rss I came across these amazing photos by Richard Mosse. The Irish born Photographer travelled to the war torn Congo and produced a series of photographs using Aerochrome film. The film has been designed to create a false-colour reversal  and is used on vegetation surveys and camouflage detection. The result is a stunning and surreal image which aligns ideas of conflict with colour theory, atmosphere and other associations. The landscapes remind me of so much of images of the womb-lining in BBC doco the Human Body. Check out Mosse's Website here.

“It’s not always easy to enter the zone as an artist, but I was turned on by everything I looked at in Congo,” Mosse wrote. “Goma is situated on one of the world’s only limnically active lakes. Junked, vintage aircraft litter the airport, which is coated in lava from the recent eruption. Kisangani is deep in the jungle; the only cars on the streets are United Nations vehicles flown in on cargo planes. In Kinshasa, Belgian monoliths loom over dusty boulevards.”

“There’s a violation being made by the photographer that is thrown back with great intensity. You ask yourself, who’s really the subject here? That’s a very important thing to stress if you’re a white male photographing in Congo.”

“Aerochrome is notoriously unstable and difficult to work with. Kodak delivers the film on dry ice, and it must be stored in a freezer at all times,” Mosse wrote. “As you can imagine, it’s hard to find a functioning refrigerator in the Congo. Because of the dramatic shifts in temperature and humidity, and the exposure to other variables, the colors shift greatly from negative to negative. I try to embrace that instability in my picture-making process.

“For all the difficulties of working in Congo,” Mosse said, “I was surprised to find that everything is open for negotiation. Virtually anything is possible if you have the time, will, and resources to make it happen.”

Words by Richard Mosse via The New Yorker. 

Images by Richard Mosse via google images 

1. You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010

2. General Janvier, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010

3. Tutsi Town, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010

Ro/Lu

I have recently fallen deeply in love with Ro/Lu's divine aesthetic. They, from what I can gather, are an architecture/design team and blog a rich tapestry of art, design, architecture, culture and inspiration. I love their philosophical glance, which I guess is a way of saying that aesthetics are in the heart/eye/mind. I really loved their post about cyclist Eddy Merckx, that focused on the idea of determination against the odds. They also featured a series of works by Barbara and Michael Leisgen named memesis. It is absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful in its wild simplicity. Check it out. 

teenage dreams

Last week I was roaming the internet an happened across some images from san fran photographer Sandy Kim. Her photos are full of grungy whimsical teenage fantasy (a world inhabited by those in their early 20's), the boys from girls and some in your face moments. They are the kind of photos that make you think you could take great photos too if only your life was more interesting. Maybe thats why shes featured in vice. Check out her website and her blog