The traveling wilbury returns from a festive jaunt back in the UK to his beloved Balearics. Snapping (and shooting) along the way this edition takes the liberty of stretching a week into a fortnight.
Leaving the office in capable hands
Bonar 'Feedback Loop' Bradbery
The Leeds Massive
SMD at MOS on NYD
Rambling On
Dawn Delights
Deepgrooves on the Beach
Roast Crew
Winter is in full effect, the bosses have left on their annual pilgrimage, the fires have been lit and Christmas plans have been hatched. Andrew soldiers bravely on snapping away as he ambles though his Balearic back yard.
Ibiza Jade
Andromeda
Field Day
Life's A Beach
Keep The Fires Burning
Baxter's Birthday Bowling
Saturday Sessions
We Love... Christmas Lunch
Welcome to Mark Hogancamp’s Marwencol.
‘After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs “Marwencol” with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town’s many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helps Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds of the attack. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly Mark’s homemade therapy is deemed “art”, forcing him to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he’s avoided since the attack.’
Doll Face
The above pictures come from the story A Trip To The Store, a personal favorite of ours along with the Legends series.
With almost everyone having a cell phone and thusly a camera, everyone in public runs the chance of being visually documented. A more populist, mob version of the 1984 that George Orwell predicted. People may start to “act” all the time. This is extreme and presently unlikely. But has the complete ubiquity of cameras – not as cameras, but as part of something else (a phone) – given photography as art, or otherwise, an even longer tail than before? – Gabriel McIntosh
Jörg Holtkamp - Düsseldorf/Germany
Shawn Rocco - Raleigh/USA
Jonathas Mello - Florianópolis/Brazil
The 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
Bit nippy
Blocks
Continuing 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 Issues 1 - 6
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
This 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
When 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
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
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
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
Kitra Cahana – Official Website
Kitra Cahana Interview with Eight Diagrams
