this week...
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I was asked to choose (and comment on) some favorite images from this week's contributions to the "Six of the Best" group. Here are the results.
1. solo exhibition (@SUSU Tokyo) by Kenshi Daito.
This image has been haunting me so I was very happy to see it show up in the "Six of the Best" pool. While I really like Kenshi Daito's work in general there is something about this installation shot that enhances the photo-in-a-photo's mysteriousness. Throughout the exhibition (see his photo stream) he uses the gallery's handsome decor as a foil for images that feel like lost oddities from years past.
2. Prey by venusascends.
This artist has been pursuing a disorienting and intimate vision that in its combination of dreamy atmospherics and somewhat claustrophobic use of vignetting embodies the idea of desire in a rather visceral fashion.
3. Driftwood by sierraromeo [sarah-ji].
Sarah-Ji usually takes fairly "conventional" photographs of the everyday. Sometimes, as in this picture, she shows us just how strange our world is.
4. Lost Eve in the Middle of Eden by La Lumière.
A consistent favorite of mine, La Lumière use the pinhole camera to wonderful effect. Here we are confronted by - yet kept at a dream-like distance from - beauty.
5. Picture restoration studio Antwerp by Martin Beek.
Martin Beek is an astute chronicler of museums and sacred spaces (he is also a wonderful painter). In this particular image I really like the way the restorer's ordinary, perhaps even mundane, work is framed by angels and transformed by the reflected light.
6. isadora azul by Bernardo Castanho.
I love the way that much of this image has an underwater haze and flow to it, but then that mischievous face rises up: riveting.
7. Beach Sheds by Colourdodge.
I like the way this image has a distinct structure: foreground = grass, middleground = buildings, background = sky. Variations within that structure and painterly effects contribute to help make for a rich image.
this week...
...
I was asked to choose (and comment on) some favorite images from this week's contributions to the "Six of the Best" group. Here are the results.
1. solo exhibition (@SUSU Tokyo) by Kenshi Daito.
This image has been haunting me so I was very happy to see it show up in the "Six of the Best" pool. While I really like Kenshi Daito's work in general there is something about this installation shot that enhances the photo-in-a-photo's mysteriousness. Throughout the exhibition (see his photo stream) he uses the gallery's handsome decor as a foil for images that feel like lost oddities from years past.
2. Prey by venusascends.
This artist has been pursuing a disorienting and intimate vision that in its combination of dreamy atmospherics and somewhat claustrophobic use of vignetting embodies the idea of desire in a rather visceral fashion.
3. Driftwood by sierraromeo [sarah-ji].
Sarah-Ji usually takes fairly "conventional" photographs of the everyday. Sometimes, as in this picture, she shows us just how strange our world is.
4. Lost Eve in the Middle of Eden by La Lumière.
A consistent favorite of mine, La Lumière use the pinhole camera to wonderful effect. Here we are confronted by - yet kept at a dream-like distance from - beauty.
5. Picture restoration studio Antwerp by Martin Beek.
Martin Beek is an astute chronicler of museums and sacred spaces (he is also a wonderful painter). In this particular image I really like the way the restorer's ordinary, perhaps even mundane, work is framed by angels and transformed by the reflected light.
6. isadora azul by Bernardo Castanho.
I love the way that much of this image has an underwater haze and flow to it, but then that mischievous face rises up: riveting.
7. Beach Sheds by Colourdodge.
I like the way this image has a distinct structure: foreground = grass, middleground = buildings, background = sky. Variations within that structure and painterly effects contribute to help make for a rich image.