Evidence No. 12

The quietly violent black and white interior images from Angela Strassheim‘s series Evidence sit alongside seemingly banal colour documents, picturing very usual suburban settings. The pairing
of languages creates a haunting body of work, both visually disturbing and alluring, detailing and aestheticising brutal crimes long after the event. Using a chemical treatment and long exposures Strassheim brings to the surface histories that buildings have long since tried to forget.

Read more about the series here.

Evidence, (kitchen knife 01), 20×24″, 2009

Evidence, (knife, gun, types unknown 01), 20×24″, 2009

Beautiful and lyrical self-portraits with family members by Italian photographer Anna Di Prospero that both explore and are created by the intimate bonds within a family.

Laura Pannack Young British Naturists at Gallery One and a Half

Charming recently opened space in Dalston shows Laura Pannack‘s first London solo show, which documents the private world of young British naturists. Looking beyond the sensationalism of bare flesh Pannack sensitively examines the freedom and unity that nudity brings. Photographing these individuals without the personality markers that the outer layers of clothing bring; Pannack draws the viewer’s attention back to the basics: posture, gaze, gesture and minute details (shoes, tattoos, jewelry).

Image from Young British Naturists by Laura Pannack

Dana Popa After the New Man at FOTO8

“In After the New Man, Dana Popa revisits her homeland, Romania, and the generation who were born just before or after the fall of the communist regime. This body of work is an intimate portrayal of youth and the fleeting memories of a bygone era that still permeate the individuals and landscape.”

Image from After the New Man by Dana Popa

‘Unknown Quantities’ at Fishbar

An exhibition of photographs by the four newest Magnum photographers, Moises Saman, Dominic Nahr, Peter Van Agtmael and Olivia Arthur, at another new space for photography in East London – set up by Olivia Arthur and Philip Ebeling. The show features a powerful selection of work from America’s Wars, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring.

Peter Van Agtmael, Disco Night September 11

Images from les curiosités by Graziella Antonini

Graziella Antonini‘s project les curiosités is a beautiful collection of landscapes in which the natural meets the man-made, where animal, plant and human worlds collide. I also really like her series Imaginary trip to Japan; an album of ‘souvenirs without travel’.

Images from Imaginary trip to Japan by Graziella Antonini

For those of you who haven’t seen them, both Leo Maguire’s Gypsy Blood: a documentary about bare knuckle fighting in Gypsy communities, and Danfung Dennis‘ Hell and Back again, about one marine’s deployment in, and rehabilitation after Afghanistan, are both available on 4OD.

What comes through is that we will send another series of probes to Mars, and will probably find fossil evidence of microbial life, which coupled with the massive increase in discoveries of planets like ours around other stars, led Neuromorphic Engineer (?!) Martin Coath to make the wonderful prediction above.

Other predictions are that we will find the Higgs, begin to engineer person specific medicines, based on your personal genome and begin to pair psychology and neuroscience as our understanding of the brain improves.

For those who are less scientifically inclined, I also read this interesting article on the future of magazine publishing.

Above: Darcus Howe at addressing crowd at antifascist demo Lewisham 1977

Some interesting stuff on the Autograph site from Syd Shelton, designer and photographer involved in setting up Rock against Racism.

Below: Anti-racist skinheads and Majestic sound system at Rock against Racism, Leeds.

With all the fabulous technical innovations going on I’m always amazed at our continued interest in older technologies and enthusiasm for reinventing them. So…..Lomokino……a plastic box with a handle which you can load 35mm film into, turn the handle and make analogue 6 frames per second film.

I’m totally baffled by the huge amount of post production that people go to to get these short films online (around 25sec a roll of 36 photo exposure film, all requiring scanning) but also quite in awe. As you can see in the film above it’s also a good exercise in shot planning, and obviously gives a nice old fashioned effect, which will be it’s main draw.

A very cool pic this by director Ken Russell from a college documentary photography project on London’s Teddy Girls.

Via Heading East.