some very special work from US artist michael flomen who goes out under the cover of darkness to capture nature, the elements, insects and animals on unexposed photo paper and film that is exposed through moonlight alone…
the camera crew above went out with an infrared camera to also catch him at work catching them… wonderful
(many thanks to ‘dominic davies’ for the link)
i am currently making a book for my father (mr. pyper senior) about the history of the small village in france where he lives: paris l’hopital… shown above is his house now and 120 years ago…
the material consists of a fascinating and very broad range of written and photographed documentation of the lives of the villagers from 1850 up to the 1950’s, including diaries and many personal accounts and artefacts
the train station is still standing although the tracks disappeared years ago…
the village blacksmith was the owner of a high quality technical camera which means that there is a huge series of postcard images of every aspect of village life, a fairly unusual occurence for such a small rural village at that time
i recently visited dad in france to scan all of the available material, the images are of such an amazing high quality that it is possible to zoom in endlessely to see details hidden in the background, here are a few examples i wanted to share…
in preparation for the ’50 years of ballet posters’ event we are taking part in at the dutch poster museum starting late january, i am currently making a poster for the exhibition
the idea was fairly simple: an abstract tutu/dancing figure made out of folded ballet posters, actually getting it work is taking a little bit more time however… more news soon
a new project by my mate photographer alex ten napel is due to open at the ‘eduard planting gallery’ in amsterdam in january
portraits of twelve year old children combined with a series of short interviews with questions such as what they would do if they were president of the USA… me studio has made several projects for (and with) alex in the past (see ‘me work’)
the projects can be found under these following links: the alzheimers project, the water portraits project, the in holland project and a campaign for the city of amsterdam
