Jul 2011

Tjalf Sparnaay

Holländsk fotokonstnär.

John Akehurst fotograferar Ashley Smith

John Akehurst tar en serie bilder på den amerikanska modellen Ashley Smith för ”Black Fire, White Ice’, Harper’s Bazaar UK ( September 2010 ). Det var ett tag sedan, men inte sett bilderna förrän nu. Underbara tycker jag.

Citronparfait, kantareller & höstens sista ros

Bilder från min underbara HTC.

Vackra starka Pippi

Pippi looken är den finaste av alla.

Julstämning i Vasastan

Vi har massor med julstämning här. Underbart med jul.

Skirt med Holgan

Hämtat första rullen tagen med Holgan. De flesta blev en katastrof. En bild blev skir, suggestiv. Måste läsa in den, här bara tagen med urkassa mobilkameran. Från min ateljé/sovrum.

Ge mig en digitalkamera nu!

Ge mig en digitalkamera! Vi behöver en nu för att kunna fånga alla vackra ögonblick. En blomma som slår ut, ett öga som glittrar till, skummet på latten…

En Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 tro? Någon som har en begagnad att sälja till mig hör av er!

Kent Klich

Gaza Photo Album Kent Klich January 21–February 21, 2010

Hasselblad Center med bl a prisbelönta svenska fotografen Kent Klich. Bilder från ett sönderbombat Gaza. Starka, vackra, tragiska, trasiga bilder. Trots att inga människor syns, är de mycket privata. Som betraktare är det lätt att föreställa sig hur hemmen såg ut minuten innan bomben slog ner. Det som en gång var vackra hem återstår bara ruiner. Rekommenderas!

Civilians may not come under attack in war, it is written in the first lines of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Yet on the 27th of December 2008 Israel attacked Gaza by air and with troops as a military response to rockets fired at Israel from the area. In this conflict, 13 Israelis were killed in and around the twenty-two–day attack, including three by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards Southern Israel
During the offensive that continued into 2009, codenamed Operation Cast Lead, at least 1400 Palestinians were killed and about 5.000 were wounded. About 900 of the dead were civilians, among them 121 women and 318 children. More than 2,000 homes were totally destroyed and around 20,000 homes were significantly damaged, along with public buildings, hospitals, schools. Two billion dollars worth of destruction resulted. More than 50,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes. Israel has continued their two-year-long policy of walling off Gaza, closing all border crossings to the Gaza Strip. This policy extends even after Operation Cast Lead, with the result that Israel has prevented building materials from entering Gaza. Therefore no reconstruction has started nearly a year after, despite the world’s promises of trillions in aid. Thousands of buildings are still in ruins; the landscape is still one of devastation. Life moves haltingly within the rubble.
I arrived in the Gaza Strip the 18 of February this year, just after Israel’s immediate actions of war had ceased and people had begun to try to recreate some kind of everyday existence within the broken wasteland. My task was to document the inside story, the private sphere of the devastation, the ruined homes of families that had been fired upon. The work was accomplished together with fact finders from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights /PCHR.

Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide 2008 års Hasselblads pristagare ställer snart ut! Vilka bilder, så sköra men vilken kraft. Linjen, kompositionen, rörelsen allt är så vibrerande vackert. Det är äckligt bra helt enkelt. Måste se många gånger när de finns här i Göteborg på Hasselblad Center.