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dinsdag 28 juli 2009
vrijdag 10 juli 2009
Bart Sorgedrager Improvised Explosive Devices Photography
Er is een weg naar de vrijheid Op een gebied van 1 kilometer bij 350 meter aan de huidige Lunettenlaan bevond zich van januari 1943 tot begin september 1944 het Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, zoals Kamp Vught officieel heette. In totaal waren er in die periode ruim 31.000 mensen voor kortere of langere tijd gevangen. Na de bevrijding in 1944 kregen het gebied en de gebouwen van het voormalige concentratiekamp nieuwe functies. Weinig andere locaties in Nederland kennen zo’n bijzondere combinatie van functies op zo’n beladen plek als de Lunettenlaan.
Naar aanleiding van de viering van 65 jaar bevrijding van Zuid-Nederland heeft Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught vijf fotografen gevraagd om het thema vrijheid vanuit één specifieke locatie aan de Lunettenlaan te verbeelden. Deze site geeft een voorproefje van hun bijdragen.
De titel van de expositie is ontleend aan het boek ‘Er is een weg naar de vrijheid. Zeven maanden concentratiekamp’ (1965) van Jaap Hemelrijk, die één nacht doorbracht in Kamp Vught voor hij op transport werd gesteld naar Buchenwald.
De expositie is mede gefinancierd door de Provincie Noord-Brabant en het V-Fonds en is te zien van 7 mei t/m 23 augustus (vrij entree).
Bart Sorgedrager (1959)
Kamp Vught was het enige SS-concentratiekamp buiten de grenzen van Nazi-Duitsland en werd opgezet als een modelkamp. Naast uiterst sobere barakken voor de gevangenen werd een flink deel van het 350.000 vierkante meter omvattende terrein ingenomen doorfraaie bakstenen bedrijfsgebouwen voor de Duitse en Nederlandse SS, die in het kamp de respectievelijk leiding hadden en als bewakers fungeerden. Na de bevrijding werden deze gebouwen onder de namen Van Brederode en Lunettenkazerne in gebruik genomen door de Koninklijke Landmacht.
Vanuit het perspectief van het thema vrijheid richtte Bart Sorgedrager zich op de huidige functie van de Koninklijke Landmacht en met name het trainingscentrum van de Genie aan de Lunettenlaan in Vught. Vanwege de betrokkenheid bij vredesmissies in Afghanistan enIrak speelt de opsporing van ‘Improvised Explosive Devices’ of ‘bermbommen’ een belangrijke rol in dit trainingsprogramma. Deze onzichtbare (berm)bommen vormen immers een levensgevaarlijke bedreiging voor de uitgezonden militairen. Sorgedrager toont hoe deze geïmproviseerde en vaak op afstand te bedienen explosieven er uitzien, in combinatie met videofilmpjes van Amerikaanse militairen over de vernietigende werking ervan.
donderdag 9 juli 2009
Houses in Detroit Photography
A Forgotten Detroit Remembered By SAMANTHA STOREY
When Kevin Bauman began photographing Detroit’s derelict houses in the late ’90s, his intention was to create a record of the homes before they were torn down to make way for new development. Using an old Hasselblad camera, Mr. Bauman, 37, a Web developer and freelance photographer, shot them straight on, in the style of commercial catalog photography.
“I wanted to leave the houses alone and not put too much of myself in them,” he explained.
A decade later, most of the structures are still standing, as development in Detroit never reached a fever pitch. And as the houses continue to deteriorate, the photographs, at 100abandonedhouses.com, provide a beautiful and heartbreaking record of what were once some of the city’s grandest properties.
Inkjet prints of the images are available for $35 each, and Mr. Bauman is donating 30 percent of the profits to the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity. “I don’t think a single person from Detroit has ordered any,” he said. “If you grew up looking at these houses, it just makes you mad.”
Houses in Detroit Photography
A Forgotten Detroit Remembered By SAMANTHA STOREY
When Kevin Bauman began photographing Detroit’s derelict houses in the late ’90s, his intention was to create a record of the homes before they were torn down to make way for new development. Using an old Hasselblad camera, Mr. Bauman, 37, a Web developer and freelance photographer, shot them straight on, in the style of commercial catalog photography.
“I wanted to leave the houses alone and not put too much of myself in them,” he explained.
A decade later, most of the structures are still standing, as development in Detroit never reached a fever pitch. And as the houses continue to deteriorate, the photographs, at 100abandonedhouses.com, provide a beautiful and heartbreaking record of what were once some of the city’s grandest properties.
Inkjet prints of the images are available for $35 each, and Mr. Bauman is donating 30 percent of the profits to the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity. “I don’t think a single person from Detroit has ordered any,” he said. “If you grew up looking at these houses, it just makes you mad.”
Sexual freedom and illusions Summer of Love Photography
This summer the Noorderlicht Photogallery brings you Summer of Love, a blistering exposition in which four photographers take up sexual freedom and illusions.
Emmanuel Guillaud roamed through Tokyo at night. Until the sun rises is his new installation about loneliness, about men who wander through parking lots and and school yards: public places which by night change into a temporary ghetto. They hope for chance encounters, are 'in search of a kick without obligations', or actually of intimacy� When the sun comes up they leave again, preferring to forget what has happened. Emmanuel Guillaud (France, b. 1970) lives and works in Tokyo. He was the first Western photographer to receive the Tokyo Wonderwall Award (City of Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum of Photography). The installation until the sun rises is being shown for the first time by Noorderlicht.
Katharina Hesse, in Human Negotiations, gives us a different picture of the prostitution industry in Bangkok, Thailand. She followed a number of women outside working hours and interviewed then extensively about their lives and their background, their choices and their motives. It appeared very much the question whether our Western image - women as powerless victims of the Eastern sex industry - can be maintained. Hesse dares to oppose the stereotype of sexual slavery with an intimate, and at the very least ambiguous picture of ordinary women who make a better life possible for themselves and their children by selling dreams. Katharina Hesse (Germany, b. 1966) studied Chinese Language and Culture in Paris and worked as a journalist for the German television broadcaster ZDF and for Newsweek. She is self-taught as a photographer. Her work has appeared in Courrier International, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Marie-Claire, Neon, Newsweek, Stern, Vanity Fair and other publications.
Yevgeny Kondakov asked himself the question: what happens when the most repressed country in the world is exposed to mass-market consumerism and a government that does not care what ordinary people do? In Russian Sexual Revolution he demonstrates that not only an economic and political revolution took place in the former Soviet Union, but also a sexual revolution: in all its wildness, its strangeness, its vulgarity, and its innocence.Yevgeny Kondakov (Russia, b. 1961) is a freelance photojournalist. His work has been seen in Stern, The New York Times, Time and Paris Match. He is co-author of the photo investigation How do Russians love? His photo book Russian Sexual Revolution appeared in 2008.
Amy Touchette in The World Famous *BOB*, documents the life of a female burlesque dancer living in New York. Raised in California, *BOB*'s eccentricity as an adolescent eventually led her to a life of alienation and destructiveness. Waking up from the nightmare, she viewed moving to New York as her second chance and an opportunity to finally live out her fantasy of being a star. Amy Touchette followed *BOB* for four years and was able to get a look inside her life, without restrictions, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Amy Touchette (USA, b. 1970) is a freelance photographer and teacher's assistant at the International Center of Photography in New York. Summer of Love is curated by Wim Melis.
Noorderlicht Photogallery Akerkhof 12 Groningen, The Netherlandsadmission freeopen Wednesday through Sunday 12 AM - 6 PM
Noorderlicht Photogallery Akerkhof 12 Groningen, The Netherlandsadmission freeopen Wednesday through Sunday 12 AM - 6 PM
Sexual freedom and illusions Summer of Love Photography
This summer the Noorderlicht Photogallery brings you Summer of Love, a blistering exposition in which four photographers take up sexual freedom and illusions.
Emmanuel Guillaud roamed through Tokyo at night. Until the sun rises is his new installation about loneliness, about men who wander through parking lots and and school yards: public places which by night change into a temporary ghetto. They hope for chance encounters, are 'in search of a kick without obligations', or actually of intimacy� When the sun comes up they leave again, preferring to forget what has happened. Emmanuel Guillaud (France, b. 1970) lives and works in Tokyo. He was the first Western photographer to receive the Tokyo Wonderwall Award (City of Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum of Photography). The installation until the sun rises is being shown for the first time by Noorderlicht.
Katharina Hesse, in Human Negotiations, gives us a different picture of the prostitution industry in Bangkok, Thailand. She followed a number of women outside working hours and interviewed then extensively about their lives and their background, their choices and their motives. It appeared very much the question whether our Western image - women as powerless victims of the Eastern sex industry - can be maintained. Hesse dares to oppose the stereotype of sexual slavery with an intimate, and at the very least ambiguous picture of ordinary women who make a better life possible for themselves and their children by selling dreams. Katharina Hesse (Germany, b. 1966) studied Chinese Language and Culture in Paris and worked as a journalist for the German television broadcaster ZDF and for Newsweek. She is self-taught as a photographer. Her work has appeared in Courrier International, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Marie-Claire, Neon, Newsweek, Stern, Vanity Fair and other publications.
Yevgeny Kondakov asked himself the question: what happens when the most repressed country in the world is exposed to mass-market consumerism and a government that does not care what ordinary people do? In Russian Sexual Revolution he demonstrates that not only an economic and political revolution took place in the former Soviet Union, but also a sexual revolution: in all its wildness, its strangeness, its vulgarity, and its innocence.Yevgeny Kondakov (Russia, b. 1961) is a freelance photojournalist. His work has been seen in Stern, The New York Times, Time and Paris Match. He is co-author of the photo investigation How do Russians love? His photo book Russian Sexual Revolution appeared in 2008.
Amy Touchette in The World Famous *BOB*, documents the life of a female burlesque dancer living in New York. Raised in California, *BOB*'s eccentricity as an adolescent eventually led her to a life of alienation and destructiveness. Waking up from the nightmare, she viewed moving to New York as her second chance and an opportunity to finally live out her fantasy of being a star. Amy Touchette followed *BOB* for four years and was able to get a look inside her life, without restrictions, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Amy Touchette (USA, b. 1970) is a freelance photographer and teacher's assistant at the International Center of Photography in New York. Summer of Love is curated by Wim Melis.
Noorderlicht Photogallery Akerkhof 12 Groningen, The Netherlandsadmission freeopen Wednesday through Sunday 12 AM - 6 PM
Noorderlicht Photogallery Akerkhof 12 Groningen, The Netherlandsadmission freeopen Wednesday through Sunday 12 AM - 6 PM
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