Archive for the ‘photo essays’ Category
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Rhio9 is a member of aamora. You can see more of his work on his photo blog and at jpgmag. Also, check out his books on the Blurb Bookstore. Rhio is generously offering a significant discount, and a signed copy, to members and friends of aamora – just ask him!
Feast of colors
the people, the music, the unity
and so much love in the air
This is the Real Tel Aviv.
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Ariel Shelleg makes his first appearance as a guest photographer at aamora.
Ariel (Eric) Shelleg. 24 yo.
Born and living in tel aviv, Israel.
Freelance Director\photographer\editor.
Mostly making video art and music videos, short film projects and portraiture.
Filmography student @ “minshar for Art”, tel aviv, Israel.
You can see more of his work on Flickr or Facebook. And if you’d like to experience more of the atmosphere at the Tel Aviv Gay Pride parade, we highly recommend you check out Ariel’s video.
Flexible Transformation
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Art Deco Shadow and Light
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Flow of Reality
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Gothic Shadows
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Ripple in Space
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Shadows Cast from Easter Island
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Welcome James Ford as our guest at aamora. We asked him to tell us something about himself:
“I have a BFA degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with traditional printmaking as a major. I also have a MA degree from SUNY Oswego with a major in digital photography/photoshop and art history study in surrealism. I worked in custom color labs and communication companies when I was younger and have taken photographs for many, many years. I have also been employed by SUNY Oswego for the past twenty-five years doing the same and soon to retire. I explore, search, record and present images of my daily life in the fine art tradition. My creative universe is expanding and I welcome it with open arms.”
You can enjoy more of Jim’s work by clicking here.
When I was in San Diego preparing for Artwalk, I frequented a thrift store called Pat’s Corner in the North Park area. I struck junk gold there. A lot of the pieces I did for the festival used various objects found at Pat’s.
The place was a maze, part of it was organized and somewhat presentable and other parts looked like modern history upchucked and no one bothered to clean it up. The yard out back had the larger bits of broken antiquity that had been pulled gracelessly off the sides of houses and somehow ended up in Pat’s corral. Overseeing it all, Pat sat in the middle of the store like a glorious queen of tarnished dents. The several times I was there, I never saw her out of her throne.
Her throne. A humble chair slightly raised and surrounded by a world of junk unimaginable. I would not be at all surprised to find Jimmy Hoffa’s dentures under an old Mad Magazine on the floor next to a cookie tin full of forks. From atop this post she’d size up your finds and, with the arbitrary mathematics of thrift store pricing, would arrive at a dollar amount you could never argue with. This price wasn’t made up, it was pronounced with sage-like certainty and was usually rounded off to a fiver.
My last time in there I talked to her for a bit. She seemed to approve of the artistic madmanship I planned for the items I bought. She would only let me take a picture of her hands which I admire.
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Help us welcome Kreddible Trout to aamora as a guest artist. He is a photographer and artist living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Check out more of his work on his website, his blog and on jpgmag. And help us congratulate him on his very recent marriage!
“My practice focuses on producing imagery using mail art and pinhole photography to examine the role of the `stranger` in society and why we are interested in people we don’t know. These images show chance encounters and intimate double exposure visual portraits of people who have not met in person and only meet by the mediated gaze of the pinhole camera. This relates to the way we interact remotely with others in the information age.”
“These images were a result of me sending a call out over the internet for people’s mail addresses. When I received the participant’s addresses, I sent them a pinhole camera disguised as a parcel and asked them to take a portrait of themselves and send it back to me. Then I took a portrait of myself. The resulting imagery is a ghostly spectral trace of two faces with their physiognomic features merged.”
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We welcome Jamie House to aamora as a guest artist. Jamie is a socially engaged, practising photographer who uses pinhole cameras. He collaborates with people worldwide, from established artists such as Jo Babcock and Justin Quinnell to emerging talents. Jamie use the collective power of mail art to realise his ideas and empower people.
Jamie’s latest project “Stranger” is a collaborative pinhole photography project that examines the role of the stranger in society, collaborating with people across the globe. Jamie has used pinhole photography and mail art in previous projects such as his Pinhole Parcel Project where he constructed cameras disguised as parcels and posted them around the world, mapping the world with light.
Jamie is a conceptual Pinhole Photographer and also a camera Obscura builder. He tells us: “I recently built England’s largest camera Obscura.
Jamie’s work is currently exhibited in Goa International Pinhole show, travelling to New Delhi, Mumbai and Goa.
For an interview with author of the Pinhole Camera, Brian Krummel in Hub magazine, click here.
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We’re always pleased to have Simon Kossoff share his work with us on aamora ! Simon is a photographer and teacher from England now living in Kansas City. He graduated from Brighton University with an honors degree in editorial photography in 99 and has worked on, but more often not in the field since. Kossoff’s continuing search to orientate himself in America and its culture is documented in photographic works including ‘Running on Empty’ and ‘States of Grace’. These works can be seen at Get the Picture, the photo agency where he is a member and his on-going ‘psychic co-ordinate points’ are plotted at his blog ‘Altered States of Agoraphobia’. He also posts his unedited and on-going work at jpg.com where he finds the on-line community there a continuous inspiration.
You will be well rewarded by exploring his work on his blog site and his agency site as well as on JPGmag.
Recently, aamora members were invited to join in a project called 23 hours. The premise of the project, conceived by Michael Van der Tol, was to cease all verbal communication for 23 hours (continuously) and photograph absolutely anything you are thinking, feeling or seeing during the 23 hours of silence.
Check out John Linton’s wordless day in this slide show (with sound) produced by Michael Van der Tol:
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“John Linton is a floundering member of aamora. He lives in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the state with the biggest name and smallest size.” Check out John’s other aamora posts here and see more of his work by clicking here.
An old camera, a much older photographer and a third-age university group sail slowly and peacefully along the Brenta river canal from Venice to Padova on the good ship “Tiepolo” one sunny Saturday in June. This is where noble and rich Venetians built their summer residences in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
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Catharine is a founding member of aamora. She grew up in England but has been living in Italy since her marriage in 1969. She spends her winters near Milan and her summers in Tuscany. Check out her previous contribution to aamora – the very first one! – by clicking here and her other contributions by clicking here. You can also enjoy more of her wonderful work on jpgmag.com .
Early evening in Toronto’s Sunnyside Pavillion (formerly the “Bathing Pavillion”) at Sunnyside Beach (formerly “Sunnyside Amusement Beach”) echoes with its rich history. Read here for more.
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Aaron Schwartz is the founder of aamora.com. You can see more of Aaron’s photography on his own photo site , and at jpgmag.com. You can check out his previous aamora posts here.
You will find the Amsterdam escutcheon everywhere you look. It consists of three white crosses of St. Andrew on a black pale on a red shield. The black probably represents the Amstel River while St. Andrew is the patron saint of fishermen and Amstellerdam began as a fishing community near a dam along the Amstel River. It’s an ironic symbol for a city known for its Red Light District.
After our flight from Copenhagen, our first day was primarily taken up with a tour of Keukenhof. I’d describe it as a flower child’s Disneyland. That evening we watched the Remembrance Day ceremony in Dam Square and were fortunate enough to be on the outer edge of the 20,000 people packed into Dam Square when the panic took hold. More about that here.
Day two, Liberation Day, included a tour of the Anne Frank Huis. That evening we watched the Liberation Day celebration along the Amstel. It was a panic free celebration.
Day three included a walk through the Red Light District, the Rembrandthuis, and Van Gogh Museum. We noticed more and more garbage in the streets as the strike entered it second week.
Day four was taken up with more walking along one canal after another dodging bikes, cars and trams. If you go to Amsterdam you need to always be aware of what’s going on around you. The Rijksmuseum was filled with all the Rembrandt’s, Vermeer’s, and Van Gogh’s (not to mention some other guys who seemed to know their way around a canvass) that anyone could possibly want to stare at.
Day five was a bit of a bummer…we had to head back to the airport for our flight back to Copenhagen, but that’s another slideshow.
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“John Linton is a floundering member of aamora. He lives in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the state with the biggest name and smallest size.” Check out John’s other aamora posts here and see more of his work by clicking here.
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