Emily Blincoe

" Sugar Series "

 " Trick or treat ? HAPPY HALLOWEEN "

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" MEMORY EXTENDED "

 

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Elina Brotherus

Born in 1972, in Helsinki,Finland
Lives and works in Finland and France 

" I believe in experience. 

Creating images shakes me up; or, when life is 'shaky', 

I get the urge and passion to take photographs. "

  

 

" I work primarily in self-portraiture, sometimes incorporating other people who have a special meaning in my life. My work has a direct relationship to my reality. A person in the theater once told me that I was a good actress but this is not true. My whole method depends upon my being a lousy actress. It's only possible for me to photograph when something really happens, which makes the images authentic, emotionally genuine. Even though I construct images, I don't act or role-play, and in this sense my work is rooted in the documentary tradition.

I trust intuition and rapid reaction. I, too, have my 'decisive moments', but they differ from that concept as applied to classic photography. For Henri Cartier-Bresson, such a moment was a compositional thing: that fraction of a second when all the lines and elements on a two-dimensional plane meet in the most exciting way. My decisive moments have more to do with the contents of each image. They might last a couple of minutes or even a week. I would prefer, instead, to talk about decisive periods of time: 'The Decisive Day' rather than just a moment.

I do believe in the profound 'sameness' of human beings. People die and new ones are born; people fall in love and they separate. In every person's life there are both large and small tragedies, much and little happiness; there are emotions and needs. That is why fragments from my life might seem familiar to others as well. In a way I provide the viewers with a blank screen, a surface on which to project their own feelings and desires. Most often my work deals with love and its side-effects; the absence or presence of it in its different forms. "

" Photography, unlike painting, has a direct link to the reality. This is both its enchantment and its curse. People tend to treat photographs as documents: who is this person, or where is that place? I would prefer that we pay more attention, not only to the subject matter itself, but to how it is shown: what visual choices has the artist made, how has he/she solved certain problems, what is the structure of the image, the mood of it, how are the colors tuned? How does it affect us as viewers? "

Jimmy De Sana

( November 12, 1949 – July 27, 1990 )

Was an American artist and the key figure
in the East Village punk art scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

De Sana's photography has been described as "anti-art"
in its approach to capturing images of the human body,
in a manner ranging from "savagely explicit to purely symbolic"

"A photograph is how much you want to lie,

 how far you want to stretch the truth about the object.

 And, as photography is always based on real objects, 

 it lends itself, by means of technique or manipulation, 

 to explorations of what may appear to be an absence of reality, 

 balancing on an ambiguous line between concrete and abstract space, 

 between reality and illusion in a way that no other medium is able to do."

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