Takashi Homma was born in 1962 in Tokyo and studied photography at Nihon University College of Art. From 1991-92 he worked as a photographer for i-D magazine in London. 1991 he received the Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for “Tokyo Suburbia” and is represented by the Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo.
Takashi Homma is approaching photography as art and describes his own works as, “various attempts to question ways of seeing the world using photography.”
I was fortunate enough to ask Takashi Homma some short questions. Special thanks goes to Ken Iseki of “my new notebook” and “between the books”.
LIP: Which photo book influenced you the most and why?
TH: There are many. I like photography as art more than just straight photography, Ed Ruscha, for example.
LIP: What makes a good photo book for you?
TH: Good pictures.
LIP: “Tokyo Suburbia” is a classic and a hard to get photo book collectible, now you published it as an app for the iPad and iPhone. Which kind of role do you think e-books will take in the future of photo books?
TH: People now can access to the book easily as a reference. That’s good thing. And I believe it makes original more valuable.
LIP: With “Satellite 9” you had nine exhibitions and events all over Tokyo, accompanying your Retrospective “New Documentary” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Also you did a performance called “Rrreecconnstruccttt” together with Ivan Vartanian, where participants recompose cut up prints of yours, in order to question the nature of how an image is constructed. How important are these events and the dialog with the audience to you? Is this something the photography world needs more?
TH: Photography shouldn’t only be in the museum.
LIP: What was the last good photo book you hold in your hands?
TH: Wolkenstudien. Cloud Studies. Études des nuages (Spector Books)
LIP: Can you tell us what you are working on right now?
TH: Photographing mushrooms, cutting and re-editing photographs, shooting video, painting and more.
Boris Mikhailov was born in 1938 in Kharkov, Ukraine. He was working as a technical engineer, he started to take nude photos of his wife. When the KGB discovered the nude photographs, he got fired from his job at the factory, and began a full time career as a photographer. His photographic works are stretched between two extreme poles - documentaries and staged photographs. His work is a mixture of political and personal problems, connected by humour.
Rineke Dijkstra is a photographer and video artist. In her work she looks for specific characteristics of individuals in group contexts. The paradox between identity and uniformity. Her subjects are often people in a transitional state. Adolescents between childhood and adulthood. She manages to convey the vulnerable side of her subjects, caught at a decisive moment of transition in their lives.
“Her work is almost like an antidote. We’re so overwhelmed by images, not only of celebrities but of people trying to posture as celebrities or self-market, that having representations where that is really not what it’s about—personally I find the images very attractive for that reason.”- Jennifer Blessing, senior photography curator at the Guggenheim Museum.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Rineke Dijkstra’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Vanessa Winship lived for the past decade in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey and covers with her work especially the region of the black sea. Her work talks about the concepts of borders, land, desire, identity, memory and history. She is a member of the French agency “Vu”, and won several awards, like the Orvieto book prize in Italy, World Press Photo, Iris d’Or and latest the HCB Award 2011.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Vanessa Winship’s work here on Lost in Publications.
My second post is about Viviane Sassen’s photographic work in Africa.
I was impressed of it, the first time I saw pictures of her “Flamboya” series. Her different photographic approach on Africa, was completely new to me. The colors, shadows, poses and poetry in her pictures, show an Africa that I have never seen before.
Here is a short introduction of Viviane Sassen by herself.
“My name is Viviane Sassen. I grew up in Africa, partly, in Kenya. In 2002 or so, I decided to travel back to Africa together with my husband. When we reached the places I grew up, I just had very vivid dreams and memories of the time that I was a kid. For me, photography is a very intuitive process. I think most of my work has to do more with my own personality and, I don’t know, maybe with my own emotions and, it’s not that political. It’s not meant to be that political. And I like this kind of ambiguity. At least I hope you can perceive the work or read the work in different ways.”
You can see the entire page with all posts of Viviane Sassen’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Alec Soth was born 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and besides of being a member of Magnum, he also founded the publishing house Little Brown Mushroom in 2010, where he publishes one great book after the other.
“Alec Soth has created a photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers. On his frequent road trips through America, he’s drawn to loners and dreamers he spots from his car; sometimes he will do several pass-bys before striking up a conversation. Often that will lead to a portrait session with his large-format 8-by-10 view camera.” - Hilarie M. Sheets (Trolling for Strangers to Befriend)
This video gives you a good overview of Alec Soth’s work, and the way he looks at photography.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Alec Soth’s work here on Lost in Publications.
I am currently in Brazil, working on my project and of course having a little vacation, that’s why it took a while for me to publish a new page on Lost on Publications. But finally here it is.
All the best,
Sören
Paul Graham was one of the photographers in the New British Colour movement, who introduced colour saturation to the documentary and conceptual photography.
He is also interested in the photobook as an art object in itself, and an author of various essays about photography. His essay “The Unreasonable Apple” and “Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult” can be read on his site.
Fortunately today, when I wanted to publish this site, Paul Graham won the “Hasselblad Award”, one of the world’s most prestigious and highly doped photography prices. It couldn’t be a better timing.
The jury Statement gives a good overview about the person Paul Graham:
“Paul Graham is one of the most brilliant photographers of his generation. During the course of his nearly 40-year career, he has presented an extremely focused body of work, at once perfectly coherent and never monotonous. In images both sensitive and subtly political, he makes tangible the insignificant traces of ´the spirit of the times` we do not normally see. With his keen awareness of the photographic medium, he has constantly developed innovative forms of working with all aspects of photography. This makes him a profound force for renewal of the deep photographic tradition of engagement with the world.”
You can see the entire page with all posts of Paul Graham’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Rafał Milach is a polish documentary photographer and a multimedia storyteller. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, and the Institute for Creative Photography (ITF) in Opava, Czech Republic.
For more than ten years he has been working on transition issues in Russian-speaking countries and the Central Eastern European region. His pictures have been honored with World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, Photography Book Now, and New York Photo Festival awards.
2006, he created together with ten other Central Eastern European photographers the photo collective, “Sputnik Photos”, to document, promote, and spread knowledge on transition issues in Central Eastern European countries.
Rafał Milach pictures have an artistic approach towards the present. He works with videos, where he captures the atmosphere of the places he visits, and give the people he portraits a chance to speak. Altogether it is is a great viewer experience.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Rafał Milach’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Rinko Kawauchi is exploring in her work the poetry of the commonplace. What makes her work special to me, is how she is sequencing and editing her pictures in the books. Most of the time you look at the pictures side by side, so there seems to be some kind of visual or underlying association between the two photos on the facing pages, which can create a total different layer. It’s fun to look for the connections between the pictures, but it can be sometimes near impossible to understand them.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Rinko Kawauchi’s work here on Lost in Publications.
I would like to start Lost in Publications with one of my favorite photographers and project - The Sochi Project.
For those who are already familiar with the project, can get an overview of previous publications, interviews and videos, which might easily got lost in the vastness of the internet. And for those who aren’t familiar with it yet, have an opportunity to catch up with this great long term project.
I’m really happy to see all this information connected together and I hope you enjoy it as much as me.
Takashi Homma was born in 1962 in Tokyo and studied photography at Nihon University College of Art. From 1991-92 he worked as a photographer for i-D magazine in London. 1991 he received the Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for “Tokyo Suburbia” and is represented by the Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo.
Takashi Homma is approaching photography as art and describes his own works as, “various attempts to question ways of seeing the world using photography.”
I was fortunate enough to ask Takashi Homma some short questions. Special thanks goes to Ken Iseki of “my new notebook” and “between the books”.
LIP: Which photo book influenced you the most and why?
TH: There are many. I like photography as art more than just straight photography, Ed Ruscha, for example.
LIP: What makes a good photo book for you?
TH: Good pictures.
LIP: “Tokyo Suburbia” is a classic and a hard to get photo book collectible, now you published it as an app for the iPad and iPhone. Which kind of role do you think e-books will take in the future of photo books?
TH: People now can access to the book easily as a reference. That’s good thing. And I believe it makes original more valuable.
LIP: With “Satellite 9” you had nine exhibitions and events all over Tokyo, accompanying your Retrospective “New Documentary” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Also you did a performance called “Rrreecconnstruccttt” together with Ivan Vartanian, where participants recompose cut up prints of yours, in order to question the nature of how an image is constructed. How important are these events and the dialog with the audience to you? Is this something the photography world needs more?
TH: Photography shouldn’t only be in the museum.
LIP: What was the last good photo book you hold in your hands?
TH: Wolkenstudien. Cloud Studies. Études des nuages (Spector Books)
LIP: Can you tell us what you are working on right now?
TH: Photographing mushrooms, cutting and re-editing photographs, shooting video, painting and more.
Alec Soth was born 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and besides of being a member of Magnum, he also founded the publishing house Little Brown Mushroom in 2010, where he publishes one great book after the other.
“Alec Soth has created a photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers. On his frequent road trips through America, he’s drawn to loners and dreamers he spots from his car; sometimes he will do several pass-bys before striking up a conversation. Often that will lead to a portrait session with his large-format 8-by-10 view camera.” - Hilarie M. Sheets (Trolling for Strangers to Befriend)
This video gives you a good overview of Alec Soth’s work, and the way he looks at photography.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Alec Soth’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Boris Mikhailov was born in 1938 in Kharkov, Ukraine. He was working as a technical engineer, he started to take nude photos of his wife. When the KGB discovered the nude photographs, he got fired from his job at the factory, and began a full time career as a photographer. His photographic works are stretched between two extreme poles - documentaries and staged photographs. His work is a mixture of political and personal problems, connected by humour.
I am currently in Brazil, working on my project and of course having a little vacation, that’s why it took a while for me to publish a new page on Lost on Publications. But finally here it is.
All the best,
Sören
Paul Graham was one of the photographers in the New British Colour movement, who introduced colour saturation to the documentary and conceptual photography.
He is also interested in the photobook as an art object in itself, and an author of various essays about photography. His essay “The Unreasonable Apple” and “Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult” can be read on his site.
Fortunately today, when I wanted to publish this site, Paul Graham won the “Hasselblad Award”, one of the world’s most prestigious and highly doped photography prices. It couldn’t be a better timing.
The jury Statement gives a good overview about the person Paul Graham:
“Paul Graham is one of the most brilliant photographers of his generation. During the course of his nearly 40-year career, he has presented an extremely focused body of work, at once perfectly coherent and never monotonous. In images both sensitive and subtly political, he makes tangible the insignificant traces of ´the spirit of the times` we do not normally see. With his keen awareness of the photographic medium, he has constantly developed innovative forms of working with all aspects of photography. This makes him a profound force for renewal of the deep photographic tradition of engagement with the world.”
You can see the entire page with all posts of Paul Graham’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Rineke Dijkstra is a photographer and video artist. In her work she looks for specific characteristics of individuals in group contexts. The paradox between identity and uniformity. Her subjects are often people in a transitional state. Adolescents between childhood and adulthood. She manages to convey the vulnerable side of her subjects, caught at a decisive moment of transition in their lives.
“Her work is almost like an antidote. We’re so overwhelmed by images, not only of celebrities but of people trying to posture as celebrities or self-market, that having representations where that is really not what it’s about—personally I find the images very attractive for that reason.”- Jennifer Blessing, senior photography curator at the Guggenheim Museum.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Rineke Dijkstra’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Rafał Milach is a polish documentary photographer and a multimedia storyteller. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, and the Institute for Creative Photography (ITF) in Opava, Czech Republic.
For more than ten years he has been working on transition issues in Russian-speaking countries and the Central Eastern European region. His pictures have been honored with World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, Photography Book Now, and New York Photo Festival awards.
2006, he created together with ten other Central Eastern European photographers the photo collective, “Sputnik Photos”, to document, promote, and spread knowledge on transition issues in Central Eastern European countries.
Rafał Milach pictures have an artistic approach towards the present. He works with videos, where he captures the atmosphere of the places he visits, and give the people he portraits a chance to speak. Altogether it is is a great viewer experience.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Rafał Milach’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Vanessa Winship lived for the past decade in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey and covers with her work especially the region of the black sea. Her work talks about the concepts of borders, land, desire, identity, memory and history. She is a member of the French agency “Vu”, and won several awards, like the Orvieto book prize in Italy, World Press Photo, Iris d’Or and latest the HCB Award 2011.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Vanessa Winship’s work here on Lost in Publications.
Rinko Kawauchi is exploring in her work the poetry of the commonplace. What makes her work special to me, is how she is sequencing and editing her pictures in the books. Most of the time you look at the pictures side by side, so there seems to be some kind of visual or underlying association between the two photos on the facing pages, which can create a total different layer. It’s fun to look for the connections between the pictures, but it can be sometimes near impossible to understand them.
You can see the entire page with all posts of Rinko Kawauchi’s work here on Lost in Publications.
My second post is about Viviane Sassen’s photographic work in Africa.
I was impressed of it, the first time I saw pictures of her “Flamboya” series. Her different photographic approach on Africa, was completely new to me. The colors, shadows, poses and poetry in her pictures, show an Africa that I have never seen before.
Here is a short introduction of Viviane Sassen by herself.
“My name is Viviane Sassen. I grew up in Africa, partly, in Kenya. In 2002 or so, I decided to travel back to Africa together with my husband. When we reached the places I grew up, I just had very vivid dreams and memories of the time that I was a kid. For me, photography is a very intuitive process. I think most of my work has to do more with my own personality and, I don’t know, maybe with my own emotions and, it’s not that political. It’s not meant to be that political. And I like this kind of ambiguity. At least I hope you can perceive the work or read the work in different ways.”
You can see the entire page with all posts of Viviane Sassen’s work here on Lost in Publications.
I would like to start Lost in Publications with one of my favorite photographers and project - The Sochi Project.
For those who are already familiar with the project, can get an overview of previous publications, interviews and videos, which might easily got lost in the vastness of the internet. And for those who aren’t familiar with it yet, have an opportunity to catch up with this great long term project.
I’m really happy to see all this information connected together and I hope you enjoy it as much as me.
