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May 2010
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May 26 | By Joerg Colberg
A Conversation with Matthieu Lavanchy
Matthieu Lavanchy is one of the two winners of this year’s Hyères Photography Festival. In this conversation, Matthieu and I talk about the background of his work.
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May 24 | By Joerg Colberg
Ping Pong with Michael Itkoff, Round 3
Round three of the ping-pong chats with Daylight Magazine’s Michael Itkoff centers on what comes - or might come - out of the impact of technology, the web and the Great Recession on photography. (more; image courtesy Douglas Ljungkvist)
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May 20 | By Joerg Colberg
A Conversation with Yann Gross
Yann Gross is one of the two winners of this year’s Hyères Photography Festival. In this conversation, Yann and I talk about the background of his work.
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May 18 | By Joerg Colberg
A Conversation with Dalia Khamissy
After I linked to Dalia Khamissy’s work earlier this year, she emailed me, and we ended up talking about her work. Its background intrigued me, and I asked her whether I could interest her in doing an interview for the blog. (more)
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May 12 | By Joerg Colberg
What Makes A Great Portrait? (continued)
A little while ago, I asked an assorted group of photographers and gallerists What Makes A Great Portrait? It’s one of those questions where it’s fairly straightforward to point to a portrait and say “Now this is a great portrait!” - but explaining what it actually is that makes the portrait great is quite a different story. I am infinitely fascinated by portraiture, and I decided to continue my little quest, trying to find out what made some portraits great, so I asked a different group of people the same question: “What makes a good portrait? Could you provide us with an example of a portrait that you really like - either from your or someone else’s work - and say why the portrait works so well for you?” Here is what I got back. (more; image above taken by Paul Stuart)
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May 10 | By Yann Gross
Yann Gross: Kitintale
I mostly focus my work on identities, dreams and senses of belonging to communities. I use my camera as a tool for my research. I traveled several times through African countries, but never made any photographic project there before: I was too fascinated by the exotic things I saw, and thought the only (not) interesting point would be the culture difference. I didn’t grow up in Africa and have a different background. (more)
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May 6 | By Joerg Colberg
Photography, Copyright, Plagiarism, and the Internet
As you can see, I plagiarized myself. Or did I? I had the brilliant idea of taking a photo of one of my own photographs on the screen of my laptop, to make a statement about how photography is disseminated these days, how we view photographs mostly on screens. The photographer in me has been placated by the idea that one of his photographs is getting some exposure that it probably wouldn’t get otherwise. The art critic in me finds the concept behind that photo a bit flimsy - but then, so is Richard Prince’s behind his rephotographing of cigarette ad photography, and look where that got him. The art critic does like that extra glow in the image (that’s the ceiling lamp), though. (more)
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