Yet Another Bandshot

My very first shoot this year was something small and unofficial with the local singer-songwriter Tjandra, who came round to my studio with his band, instruments, and a lot of enthusiasm.  We decided to use props which I had handy in the ‘prop room’ – among them an old phone, a typewriter, a world-globe. Trying …

Summer on windowsills

  I found a bunch of slides (which, incidentally, I’ve promised for months to archive…) this morning before I left in a rush to go hang out in a semi-studio to practice/work/brainstorm on a secret project. I played around a lot with an (analog) synth and slides. SLIDES! I want to work with slides again …

the world’s finest grain

It’s really quite a thing that I have had this sitting in my kitchen for 5 days and it hasn’t been opened and tested yet. I am a big lover of analog photography (my finances disapprove of that when I go shutter-crazy, think Argentina trip 2005: 2 weeks, 13 planes, 5 locations and 25 rolls …

heading for disaster

Yesterday I took a walk around my neighbourhood. I found a building that had been completely destroyed from the inside and is being turned into a hotel (I think). I only had my pocket-digicam with me, and besides there were workers staring at me so I promised myself to come back with my analog+digital Canons; …

from up close everybody has faults, he said

the problem about being in a conceptual art class is that sometimes, you start thinking conceptually even when you don’t want to; I’m doing a few tests for this new project I am working on. It’s sort of an extension of the “back to the old house/zwischenworte/theories on abandonment” project which keeps growing and growing. …

MUSIC+HEARTBEATS

long time no posted. my bad, I have been busy. and not just procrastinating, complaining about the weather, and listening to a lot of music. I was planning something awesome with my brand new partner in crime. We are setting up a show. and now just any show.. but a really cool PHOTOGRAPHY show. The …