Category: photographers
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are, bure, boke #2
The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…
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diverted traffic
I photograph to record objective and subjective situations that I consider to be fundamental. [The] inner model is not an autonomous product of our subconscious, but it is the projection of the movement of objective reality within us … which is not a rigid and dead set of facts surrounding our unsteady subjects, but reality…
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self-portraits with Cindy Sherman
These were taken at the exhibition Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection at me Collectors Room, Berlin, on 15 March 2016. The closest I’ll ever get to one of the greatest artists of our time.
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window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)
I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…
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are, bure, boke #1
The Japanese photographers associated with the Provoke group, whose best-known member was Daido Moriyama, espoused an aesthetic of “Are, Bure, Boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus.” There can be many reasons for blurry images – too low a shutter speed, too wide an aperture, camera shake, reflections, errors in focusing, a dirty lens – but the…
Camera lucida 