Book review Week 2 - Jocelyn Bain Hogg

I first came across Jocelyn's work whilst I was looking at Skinnydip the agency I did my internship with last year, The firm a collection of black and white photographs looking at the extensive underworld of organised crime here in the UK, shot on Leica M6 and R8 cameras and lenses. Jocelyn's work gets us behind the scenes of this seedy industry, his approach feels that not of an outsider but of someone who is accepted by these gangsters. from life to deaf Jocelyn hasn't just focused on the highs but shows life and deaf of his subject. Neither glamorising nor judges, this work gives an honest view of their lives.
Images © Jocelyn Bain Hogg

Website

So for our digital module, we are being asked to make a website, still have a bit to do, but here's a screen shot of what it looks like at the moment,














I'm going for a really clean easy on the eye aesthetic, as I personally think this works best with documentary/editorial photography. This will be done by next week so I will post an update when this is online.

2009 Paris-Photo

So activity on here has increased probably because I should be making my website and I procrastinate so bad, really do reckon I have ADHD, anyway the winner of this years BMW-Paris Photo prize for contemporary photography has gone to Dutch photographer Karijn Kakebeeke, her photo os a young Afghan women with a football, now a member of the country's first ever woman's team, from the series Bend It Like Beckham.

It's definately worth checking out Karijn's other reportage work such as lostfatherland and Pornweek.

An-My Le

So in an attempt to get me using the library more than just research for my projects each week the aim is to showcase

a book, first up is An-My Le's Small Wars which is broken up into 3 black and white photo essays; Viet Nam, Small Wars

29 Palms. Viet-Nam the homeland of the photographer shows us the country in not the war torn, poverty stricken country

that we know from the 60's, but an updated version of the mid 90's of growth and regeneration, there are subtle reminders

of the past, a bullet ridden wall, a destroyed building the backdrop for a farmers field.

Small wars the first series of staged wars shows Viet-Nam veterans re-enacting scenes from the Viet-Nam war in a forrest in

Virginia.

29 Palms presents an American West being used to perform the war in Iraq, training the marines for the conditions they

are going to endure when in battle, a performance the marines pay three different roles, that of themselves but also both as I

Iraqi police and terrorists with anti-American graffiti in the villages and the marines, the scenes are so realistic that if the context

was not given you may be mistaken to believe they are actually images from the war itself.

Anyway here are some images from the book.

Lauren Greenfield

Lauren Greenfield's project on foreclosure crisis in America, mixing still photography with video.

Lauren Greenfield's "Foreclosure: Death of the American Dream" from Frank Evers on Vimeo.

Garry Winogrand (1981)

Interview With Garry Winogrand from 1981, not great quality but well worth a listen.


More from Mr Winogrand here.

Stephen Vaughan - Ultima Thule

So one of the best things about being back at AUCB, is having a gallery on campus, at the moment Stephen Vaughan's Ultima Thule is exhibitioning and will be until the 27th of November, the project takes it's name from an ancient historical term to describe the mysterious northern frontier, representing a distant unknown region at the extreme limit of exploration and discovery. The large format photographs explore the connections between geology, archaeology and history. the images reveal landscapes marked by volcanic activity, shifting tectonic plates, vast glaciers and steaming sulphurous pools. (Words from the exhibition guide, tried scanning but came out really badly)

Martin Schoeller

So I have been going on for a while about a catch up on the exhibitions I have been visiting over the summer. As soon as I landed in Paris I noticed Martin Schoeller was having an exhibition at A. Galerie, it seemed like it was more aimed at art buyers as a sort of Paris this is Martin Schoeller, not really a theme to the exhibition more just a showcase of his recent portfolio, but the oppertunity to see large prints of photographs taken on 10x8 should never be missed. Here is the flyer for the exhibition. (On a side note Zidane is one of my heroes).