Smiling faces everywhere! We call it Aciiied!. All photos by Phrank. Some snaps from our opening party, find the rest here.
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Happy Snaps – We Love… Space 2010 Opening Party
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
A Week In The Life, Spring Ibiza – Andrew Livesey #7
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010The chronologically minded among you may spot a few continuity errors encapsulated in Andrew’s selection this week. You may know that the Ibiza Medieval Festival does not fall within a week of the IMS and Space opening party, however Andrew assures us he only slept 7 times betwixt beginning and end of capturing these photos and refuses to be constrained by humanity’s notion of ‘days and weeks’.
Getting stoned
Meat and greet
Sea for yourself
Summit a bit special
Life's a beach
Theendofthebeginning
Flat out
Ian C – Percussion
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Our resident percussionist who performs weekly with Alfredo on the Sunset Terrace has been in high demand through the winter playing in clubs, at events and in studios throughout the world. Alfredo sums him up as an artist pretty well, “I never practice with Ian, never. I listened to him play in El Salon. He is the first percussionst to not get over the track and disturb the record. When he has to be silent he is silent. The way he keeps the beat is like a machine and melody with percussion is something I have not heard before. He is a humble guy to work with, I am pleased to know him and work with him.” Mark Broadbent belies his promotors hat like so, “I generally dislike drummers more than DJs but Ian is great.” Here are some tales and photos from his travels…
Ian C'enic
Six months since I played with Alfredo on the Sunset Terraza at Space and it’s hard to believe that Ibiza beckons already. I can remember that last gig like it was yesterday but I’ve crammed so much in since then – what a lucky sod!
Ian Frozen C
50 odd gigs since then (and some were odd) have led me around some parts of the world that I’ve never been to before… Denmark was amazing, mid-January, the sea was frozen (as was I) and I performed and partied in an old cinema with 800 or so people. In Sweden, amid their worst snow storm in 30 years we bounced around in an old church with only good music and strong alcohol for sustenance (by the if you are ever there and get offered a shot of liquid brown tar whose name escapes me, say no and run for the hills). In Austria, at a friends birthday party, I performed in a nightclub that is a coffee and pastry shop by day. Nice and randomly, as my life sometimes tends to be, I ended up staying with We Love’s Mr. Doris and his girlfriend Roxanne in Bahrain after finding out I had been booked to play at his winter residency (neither of us knew the other was there until it was all booked) – small world indeed.
Ian C of people
I’ve also been lucky enough to break some personal career records this winter and perform to 5,000 at Amsterdam Indoor Arena and a monster of a gig to 7,000 at the Dubai World Trade Center. This was rounded off rather bizarrely at an after party, with me drinking drinks I couldn’t possibly afford in the presidential penthouse suite of a well know Dubai hotel with some very nice folk indeed – in other circumstances I would have been mistaken for ‘the help’ and told to get my hair cut!
Ian C'eiling
The over-riding factor at all of the gigs (and many many previous events) in all the countries I have been lucky enough to visit over the years, is how universally, whatever our backgrounds, politics or colour, we all just want to have a bloody good time! So to the 30,000 + people that were at the gigs I’ve played at this winter, I salute you!
Ian C for yourself
The summer is nearly here, I can’t wait to get back on that outdoor terrace every week with Alfie again, Ibiza ticket (one way) is booked and a lot of my friends and all the We Love family are poised cat like for action, well, poised anyway… how about you?
Check out a mix created by Ian C and Jem Haynes, here. It’s a dex / percussion / fx mix recorded live and off the cuff by the duo. The busy pair have also just completed a bootleg of a classic Gorillaz record, check it out below…
A Week In The Life, Spring Ibiza – Andrew Livesey #6
Friday, May 7th, 2010The sun is shining, temperature hitting the mid-twenties and the party spirit definitely hotting up with openings, birthday parties and summer arrivals. Looks like KD enjoyed her time on PDB while DP’s B’day at BHS was a night to be remembered!
White whine
Life's a beach
Red Ru
GHB@BHS
Vest weather in weeks
KD on PDB
Yes please
A Week In The Life, Spring Ibiza – Andrew Livesey #5
Monday, April 19th, 2010From a man whose appetite knows ever increasing bounds. Be unsurprised that this consumption occurred over the course of just seven days. He is eating for two now after all, with Stella on the way. Regards to La Bodega, Forno Antico, Cafe Sidney, La Vinera and Croissant Show.
A pizza de action
I scream
Cake club
A lily bit too much to drink
Never meagre in Bodega
Cheese meats bread
Birthday buns
Polarama
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Bit nippy
In continuation of our highlighting some of the best online magazines around, today we look at a more academically focused but still stylish and emotive publication which goes by the name Polarama. It’s a visual journey of photo essays and writings on the subject of “integral” photography – instant cameras such as the Polaroid as well as comparable Fuji products are explored by image and text and considered as valuable mediators between (technologically obsolete) analogue production methods and (ever evolving) digital technologies.
Blocks
As well as collections from different photographers there is an essay with a Barthesian reading of integral photography – a scholarly and esoteric yet engaging piece of writing. Currently in the inaugural publication, download issue numero uno, here. The magazine is open for submissions, so feel free to get in touch at the Polarama website. The next issue will concern: Polaroids of TV/computer screens, Polaroids of/about film, Polaroid/s and the moving image. The theme is, as ever, open to wide interpretation. That the work should relate and engage with the medium in some way is the important point here.
A Week In The Life, Winter Ibiza – Andy Baxter #2
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Continuing our theme from Livesey’s excursion it looks like Andy Baxter has been far and wide this week. From Ibiza to Andorra to Shirley and back again. Make sure you check out his “Individualism” mix he has graciously provided for us which in his own words is an “annual musical concept that is reflective of the sounds I enjoy listening to in my own home”. Check it out here. And watch out for that pepper!
This is me after Andorra
And during
The G-Man and I have been smashing up the funky room of late
Lovely snow in my home town of Shirley
Bubble & Squeek, a great start to the week
I was left for dead after putting pepper on somebody's dinner...
...and then she set me free
Invisible City
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Invisible City Issues 1 - 6
Invisible City is an online magazine in the vein of Cuemix and Romka which we have featured previously. It’s an online magazine in .pdf format showcasing contemporary art and writing by emerging artists from Australia and around the world. Each issue explores a contemporary theoretical idea through images, poetry, creative and critical writing. It’s curated and run by Marlaina Read, an emerging artist from Sydney. You can read her honours paper here. It’s a good read if you are interested in the super-modernity of post-industrial non-places such as airports and how to travel and take photographs which convey a personal, reflective intimacy for distances travelled and places seen. She’s also got a blog, so you can check out her more personal and rarefied musings there.
Each issue covers a different topic, such as blindness, mapping or bodies (in issues 3, 5 and 4 respectively). It’s free to download and definitely worth a look so we’ve compiled the first six issues for you to download here.
Download – Invisible City Issues 1 to 6
Invisible City – Official Site
A Week In The Life, Winter Ibiza – Andrew Livesey #4
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010This week’s winter Ibiza snaps do not strictly stay true to their core. Our resident gastronome Andrew Livesey was on a fact finding mission in Barcelona combined with a bit of a birthday bash. Things turned a bit weird evidenced by some of the pictures he sent but Andy has asked to use the most parent friendly selection as possible as he is sure his mum reads the blog.
Going underground
Friends and Familia
Sightseeing
Flash photography in Razzmatazz
Liquid lunch
Cake Club goes mainland
Airport blues
Kitra Cahana
Monday, March 8th, 2010When I first started photographing four years ago, photography was less product oriented and more about developing a perspective of the world. I was drawn to the personal meditation I found therein. Photography gives us a chance to reframe the viewfinder and thus reframe the way we think thoughts about the world. Walking through an exhibit, I decided to use photography as the medium to develop self. I singled out qualities that I hoped to embody and began to photograph them. A month was given to only photographing joy, the following month to sharing. I found in the end that the images were all identical. But I wasn’t. I think all art has the power to transform. Eventually my interest in the image itself and my interest in photojournalism began as I realized the potential of turning reality into art through recognizing the beauty that exists (even in the most horrific of circumstances). – Kitra Cahana via. Eight Diagrams
Kitra Cahana is a young emerging documentary photographer who had an early start in her career when, at the age of 17, while photographing the Israeli Disengagement from Gaza, one of her photographs landed on the front page of the New York Times.
Resistance in Gaza - through tears by Kitra Cahana
I went down to Gaza on a whim with a fellow photographer. I had a flight scheduled to go home to Montreal for the following week, but failed to show up at the airport when I realized how significant it would be both personally and professionally to stay in Gaza. Without a plan or a press-pass (because I was 17 and too young) and with little more than my camera body, I found a lot of support with the photographers who were already based in the settlements. I was able to fully learn from the outstanding photographic sources living around me without the stress of working for somebody. The Disengagement was the first major story that I found myself in the middle of. There was no way I couldn’t have done it. When I was first trying to convince my hesitant mother that I needed to stay, I just said: “This is something I know I have to do,” and she understood. – Kitra Cahana
She worked as the Thomas Morgan photographic intern at the NY Times and later received a one-year scholarship to live in Treviso, Italy working at Benetton’s research communication centre, Fabrica. During that scholarship she worked on stories around the world on Pacific Islands of Vanuatu and Niue and in Africa in DR Congo, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Gondar, Ethiopia by Kitra Cahana
I recently returned from an independent project in Ethiopia and Israel where I photographed the Falash Mura, a group of approximately 12,000 impoverished Ethiopians, who are immigrating to Israel under the auspices of the Israeli government. The story itself is fascinating and has many political as well as humanitarian aspects to it, which has challenged me on multiple levels. It has forced me to take time aside and meditate on my story and its flow. While unsure of my outcome, I am more understanding of the process of story-telling and the conflicting responsibilities that a story can pose to the narrator. – Kitra Cahana
She recently won 1st prize in the prestigious World Press Photo’s Art and Entertainment section for her work with Colors magazine. Rainbowland shot by Cahana for Colors 76 – Teenagers documents The Rainbow Family, a non-hierarchical group that holds free gatherings around the world.
Rainbowland by Kitra Cahana
I’ve sat through a lot of lectures distracted by the interesting light that falls on my professor’s face. But distractions aside, I find that being a student has allowed me the space to think about photography. To not only look out into the world for vision but to also look inwardly and bookwardly for understanding. I think the school year gives a nice balance for the growing photographer. The school year is devoted to reflection while the long, juicy, passion-filled summer breaks are devoted to story making. I appreciate being able to take my time developing an emotional maturity before taking on a full-time career. – Kitra Cahana
In July 2009 they brought 25,000 people together for a week in the wilderness in New Mexico, U.S.A. Kitra was there for Colors. It’s a great edition dedicating itself to the ambitions, dreams and defeats of teenagers in the rest of the world – to their choices, their body, their relationship with themselves and others – to the looks and dilemmas teenagers face, the society they grow up in, the tribes and groups they join or align themselves with.
The Rainbow People by Kitra Cahana
Knowledge is a tool that is wholly empowering. It gives us a context to see what is in front of us and the ability to live on multiple levels. That translates into the ability to create layers in photographs and to make use of symbols that can turn a normal image into a historical or religious reference. So far, studying has only broadened the number of stories I want to photograph and the depths to which I want to cover them. It gives me the language to speak about my images and the ability to refer meaningfully to what it is I am doing. – Kitra Cahana
Kitra Cahana – Official Website
Kitra Cahana Interview with Eight Diagrams
Fabrica Communications Research Centre
