Mound by Alison Schulnik. It’s fantastic, so go watch it fullscreen!!
Hin Chua
Ever since I was a young boy, I displayed a keen enthusiasm for military history and strategic theory. However, as time passed this interest became increasingly disconnected and marginalised, completely at odds with the preoccupations and activities consuming the rest of my life. As a result, it took a while for me to realise that much of ‘After the Fall’ is about battlefields: just not the traditional war zones, rich with the screams of men and the smell of death, which have been recorded almost pathologically on screen and print.
Instead, it directs its gaze to the ongoing environmental struggle taking place beyond the boundaries of our cities, where the urban zoning system begins to blur and unravel. I identify potential locations throughout the world using Google Maps and have become increasingly experienced at ‘reading’ the terrain from a bird’s (or more accurately, a satellite’s) perspective.
For me, these photographs explore the effects of the conflicts and collisions that are gradually and chaotically reshaping the spaces around us, played out in slow motion with unpredictable, often disturbing results. This silent hand-over, the transformation of one environment into another, may speak to something deeper within our collective memories: the alteration of places we once knew, an inexorable reminder of the inevitability of change… a farewell to personal Edens.
(hin chua)
Katy Grannan
For the past three years Katy Grannan has roamed the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, photographing strangers. Her subjects are most often people whom others pass by without notice, anonymous individuals who have now been transformed by photography’s peculiar magic.
Grannan photographs her subjects in front of the type of white stucco walls that can be found anywhere. She works midday when the strong noon light, in tandem with the white walls, transforms her city streets into outdoor studios. The light is precise and indiscriminate, delineating in high-pitched detail Grannan’s hustlers, strutters, addicts and beauty queens. The timeless characters who populate Grannan’s Boulevards are a compendium of street types rendered with mesmerizing intensity, separated from their counterparts of past centuries by little more than costume or hairstyle.
Kelli Connell, Double Life
I don’t want to give too much away about the series. It’s best to go and experience it yourself at kelliconnell.com. You will love it.
I just changed the name of my blog.
Pickles & ponies is gone.
I think it was time to upgrade this blog somehow. I’m going to focus more on series instead of single images and I like to be more of a serious photography blog, rather than just another inspiration blog with a quirky name.
I hope you’ll like the change, and I hope I’ll keep up with the regular posting, ’cause I tend to forget.
Love.
