FMP participants

HildeMaassen
Jul 8, 2020
5 min read

Updated: Jul 25, 2020

a search through websites for photographers and their work and ideas that integrates.

Milo Keller

Milo Keller is, as a professor, interested in the way images are made in this time, treated and shared on the web. The developments of creative potential offered by new technics such as augmented reality. I strongly support that idea. I think that technology and not being afraid of it, just jump into the deep and experiment with it, look for new possibilities and use it in ways that "are not intended" shows new possibilities. And it is also fun. Although I don't see it back in his personal work.

A trend Keller sees is that advertising agencies want a more personal "amateur" look for their campagnes since that is wat people see and engage with on a daily basis. This is something that I strongly recognice. I have often had that discussion with my colleagues. I think that for a photography course you have to teach people well, while they regularly refer to magazines or shelters where bad photos could be seen "doesn't that company deliver the same quality?" My answer: "correct, but it is not good yet". I believe that it is about a trend and that we will automatically come again when it must be good and quality will be asked for.

David Fathi.

Interesting in the work of David Fathi is the way he combines different technics, ways to exhibit, light and materials in one installation. The work it selves is about a real person or a phenomenon science related looked at from as much as possible angles.

Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson collaborates with scientists and researchers. Her subject the earth in the context of geological time and change. I was told to have a look at the way she presents the work with is minimalistic. As Fathi she combines different approaches, technics and materials to become on installation.

This image reminds me of my 3D prints.

Katie Paterson: First There is a Mountain 2019

Sarah Pickerin

Sarah Pickering investigates falsity and deception in her wolf. Therefor she uses the process of photographic image making. She examines the frequent gulf between documentation and that which is documented. I saw this talk and although I get the story it doesn't resonate with my work for me.

In the book Revelations - Experiments in Photography by Ben Burbridge (that I found on the site of Sarah Pickerin) a history on science photography. Amazing examples.

Deadpan Photography

For the first time I heard the term deadpan photography. A name for the form of photography that "shows what is" without emotion. It doesn't seem to be staged. Although for me it does not evoke emotion, just one of emptiness, unease and emotionlessness. Not something I aim for in my photography.

Tacida Dean

The work of Tacida Dean has a sense of history, time, and place, light quality, and the essence of film itself. The focus of her subtle but ambitious work is the truth of the moment, the film as a medium, and the sensibilities of the individual. I love the way the work looks.

Although the images here look to be photos they are made with gouache and charcoal pencil.

Tacita Dean. 2016. My English breath in foreign clouds.

Matthew Brandt

In his work Matthey Brand experiments a lot with photography and technics. That is what I like about it.

For the series Lakes and Reservoirs he uses the water collected on the location to let it "ate away" at the layers of pigment and color inherent to the surface of the print. That way the print is an unicum. Using the water that way is what he does in a lot of projects.

Matthew Brand. 2014. Lakes and Reservoirs

Ji Zhou

Ji Zhou explores illusions of landscapes human made. He makes the landscapes to then take images of them.

Dafna Talmor.

The series constructed landscapes is made of collaged and montaged colour negatives shot across different locations in the world. The work is about transformation and manipulation, memory and time.

Abelardo Morell

Abelardo Morell uses camera Obscuras to make combinations of spaces and the outside world or the texture of the ground with the outside world. When they blend together to create a new reality I like them the best. I find all his work very appealing visually.

The series TIME, LIGHT, OPTICS remind me of the science photography.

Abelardo Morell. 1997 -Camera Obscura: The Grand Tetons in Resort Room

Abelardo Morell. 2012. View of the Golden Gate Bridge From Battery Yates

Abelardo Morell. 2012. View of Cathedral Rocks From El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite National Park

Mark Dorf

Mark Dorf work Sith the idea of constantly transforming elements in the digital culture.

When the captured or calculated representation is compared to its real counterpart or source, often an arbitrary and disconnected relationship is created in which there is very little or no physical or visual connection at all thus resulting in questions of definition: data vs. object. When viewing a 3D rendering of a mountainside, one can see it holds a familiar form to what we experience in the landscape, but there is no physical connection to reality whatsoever – it is merely a file on a computer that has no mass and holds only likeness to a memory. Even further, when translating the file into the most basic of languages, binary code, we see just 1’s and 0’s – a series of numbers creating representation from a language composed of only two elements that have no grounding in the natural world. These transformations generate a parallel reality – one without its original referent, a copy with no definitive source.

Dan Holdsworth

Dan Holdsworth works together with scientist and uses specialised software to show what is normally not able te be seen. It expands Holdsworth’s interest in what has been called the “geological turn” in art.

Brendan Austin

His work is about the examination of nature and our influence on it as well ad the questioning of truth in the photographic reproduction. For this series he printed images of the mountains on the paper used for newsprints and folded the paper and taking images of the results. This process was repeated a couple of times.