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dynamism
had a good chat with talented still-life photographer bart oomes last week, really looking forward to working on the project we are going to be doing in the coming months… dance without dancers, more news soon
the man who maketh…
pj harvey’s latest series of video clips: an interview with british war photographer ‘séamus murphy’, see also this related post
musical chairs
by sheer coincidence i solved a little mystery yesterday, a visitor to my studio declared herself to be the model whom i wrote about in april last year for the ‘photoq’ blog: they had asked me to choose an image from their portfolio selection and explain why i liked it
i chose this image and it turns out that yes… she is very pretty indeed, yes i was almost right about her age and yes… her thighs really did hurt afterwards…
gomorrah girl
the life of fourteen year old ‘annalisa durante’ her private diary and how she came to be shot to death on a street in naples in 2004 form the backdrop for a new publication ‘gomorrah girl’ by documentary photographer valerio spada, the book, with a soft cover, varied paper sorts and a staggered binding method using short insert pages was designed by talented book designer syb and has happily just been delivered to my studio this week
the editorial choices made, use of various stock, non-intrusive typography and short pages are all trademarks of his own particular style, the short pages have in fact been used repeatedly in his last few photo books, a trick which in a lesser designers’ hands could rapidly become repetitive and forced
syb however, seems to be able to apply the effect in a relevant and fresh manner for each new document, the whole feels very real intimate and contributes in a covincing fashion to the content of the images and the power of the story being told, not an easy task