I do not know if you out there have heard about the Icelandic press and documentar photographer Ragnar Axelsson. I think you should because he is one of the finest Photographers of Iceland and generally a good guy. He has been working on documenting the dissapearing culture in the Arctic in Greenland for the past 15 years and finally we can enjoy the result of his work in both book format, lectures and exhibitions. He has lately been in Norway where he had a lecture about his images on Nordic light fotofestival, and now he is opening an exhibition at Perspektivet museum in Tromsø, Norway.
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How do you go about doing rural street photography in a town that has but one main road that runs through it at shoreline and the rest of its streets scattered here and there up the hills like snakes in a landscape. The answare is simple you do it just like the old masters would have done it. Be ready and wait for the moment to come. It can be a long wait but if you are not ready it will never come. ....Lets read more
Doing Raw street photography in black and white, like in this image of the chef of Leikangers Cafe Herman grilling for people at a festival night, is nice. In its simplicity it draws me back to the days when I used the Yashicamat 124G camera and the fun of using that for candid shots. This one is as simply done as there can be and the more I go out with my camera the more I leave behind of lenses and junk. One camera, one lens and maybe a flashgun like in this instance.. Those are the tools needed to make a picture. The rest of the tools are in your vision and mind. ....Lets read more
Censorship in photography is common. It is happening every day, in all the news media that we have, and its not always that good. But I guess it can be justified from time to time. Press photography is a delicate matter. Magazine photography is an other thing, and then we got the naked flesh to think about.How dangerous can that be.
I know it is a minefield to wander into, the deal of wikileaks and the latest developments there, but I could not but think about it when I remembered this Poster of a painting by Fernando Botero showing a naked woman in front of the bathroom mirror partly covered by an american flag, from the Usa my way series. We where in Amalie Island and this shop and gallery owner had put up a poster with the works of one of his artists. He got charged with spreading porn but as that did not stick, those puritanists that saw pornography in the image managed to presure the town council so badly that he was orderd by the town to remove the image on the grounds of spreading porn.
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For me photographing the purple dressed graduating students coming out of the church in New Orleance and having to walk between two police cars to get out to the streats where their family avaited to celebrate on this happy moment was surreal. ....Lets read more
