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Author Archives: eyecurious
Carlo Van de Roer capturing the essence
One of the most worn clichés in the realm of photography is the notion that a photographic portrait can somehow “capture the essence” of its subject. This has always struck me as pretty problematic; the idea that there is a moment that can be captured on film that encapsulates some fundamental truth about us, about [...]
Posted in European photography, On a lighter note Tagged aura camera, Carlo Van de Roer, Polaroid, portraits Leave a comment
Ben Roberts: The Gathering Clouds
Summer has well and truly arrived. Every second email I get is trying to sell me my cut-price but nonetheless VIP place in the sun and thousands are hitting the congested roads towards the south for their annual holidays. This got me thinking about Ben Roberts’ series The Gathering Clouds which I came across a [...]
Takashi Homma: Adrift in the city of superflat
Self-promo alert: I’ve just written an essay on Takashi Homma’s series, Tokyo and my Daughter, for edition 23 of FOAM Magazine on City Life. Of course this brilliant piece of writing is reason enough to buy yourself a copy, but there happens to be some other really good stuff in there too, so now you [...]
Posted in Japanese photography, Magazines, eyecurious News Tagged Foam magazine, Takashi Homma 2 Comments
Is the photo-album giving way to the mixtape?
I recently attended a ‘conversation’ at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris on the impact of blogs on photographic criticism. A hugely disappointing evening on all counts, including an extended discussion of image rights and how many photos it’s ok to include in a single blogpost, however one idea did emerge which piqued my interest. [...]
Venturing beyond the World Cup
I saw a piece on BBC News yesterday lamenting the fact that most of the football fans who have travelled to South Africa for the World Cup are spending all their time between their hotel and a football stadium and are reluctant to venture any further than that. Apparently tourists have been assailed with warnings [...]
Pot for potholes
One from the inbox: I received an email from husband and wife Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano with links to their pothole photography project. Sadly, I do not have a driver’s licence, and therefore am unable to fully relate to the urban curse of the pothole. However, I have recently started watching Treme, David “The [...]
The photographic tinkerers
E and I recently won tickets to a concert by a Congolese band that I had never heard of, Staff Benda Bilili (‘benda bilili’ means beyond appearances). Apart from the incredible energy that these guys managed to generate despite 80% of the band being paraplegic and all of them living (or having lived) in the [...]
Posted in Asian photography, European photography, Japanese photography, Tangents Tagged camera, equipment, Miroslav Tichy, Ryuji Miyamoto, self-made 6 Comments
Interview: Eikoh Hosoe’s Butterfly Dream
The exhibition, Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of Memory has just closed at the Japanese Cultural Institute in Cologne. I did an interview with Hosoe during the opening weekend and a video extract has been posted on photographie.com.
Update: Just a few minutes after posting this, I found out that Kazuo Ohno has just passed away at the [...]
Posted in Asian photography, Interviews, Japanese photography Tagged Eikoh Hosoe, Kazuo Ohno 1 Comment
The 10 most expensive photographs ever sold
First, a quick apology for the slow pace of posts on eyecurious over the past few weeks. Post frequency will be returning to normal very soon. In the meantime, here is a little slice of photographic miscellanea that made my jaw drop. Below is a list of the 10 most expensive photographs of all time. [...]
Review: 10 years of in-public