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here lives my house

a very touching project and soon-to-be-released book from photographer eddo hartmann, although he is a friend i wasn’t aware of this aspect of his life

…after twenty-one years, he stepped inside the rooms of his childhood once again and saw that, as he did so, everything and nothing had changed. Everything – because a thick layer of papers, folders, letters and books covered the floors, tables, sofas and chairs. Nothing – because under that layer everything was still intact, everything was standing or lying exactly as it did when his brother, his mother and he had left the place in haste on 17 October 1987… …what effect does the confrontation with the rooms, objects and interiors of your childhood have on your memories? And what if those memories are of traumatic events?Hartmann confronts the house and registers in this impressive work in minute detail what he discovers in each room…

m / 13-06-2012 07:22 - tags: , ,  

a beautiful tapestry of things that had been

a really nice series of old archive images of londons east-end in the late 50’s-early 60’s from british photographer john claridge taken when he was just getting started in his career, a time when ‘his eyes were opened’

the site also has a series of links to many other beautiful series by john too… along the thames, salvation army etc… all worth a look

m / 12-06-2012 08:22 - tags: ,  

horse & (shopping) cart

dutch photo blog ‘photo q’ have just launched a new online auction, always worth a look… there are often some real gems amongst their selection, this one has largely been curated by my friend and fanatical collector ‘han schoonhoven’

m / 11-06-2012 08:56 - tags: , ,  

new stuff

we’ve just completed a new line-up poster for the ‘sugar factory’ and have started working on a poster & campaign for a new client this week: a rather controversial foreign theater production taking place later this year in amsterdam, of which more news later this year…

m / 11-06-2012 08:32 - tags: , , ,  

forms (excerpt)

wow… when you have seen that one, shown here below is the explanatory ‘process’ film and… possibly an even more fascinating visual experience to watch than the excerpt from the finished piece above…

(excellent tip via mister ‘uwe’)

m / 10-06-2012 12:20 - tags: , , , ,