Stuff we Love – unconventional landscapes.

Here are three photographers whose landscape work we’ve enjoyed recently for its originality and unusual approach…

Arito Nishiki

Arito Nishiki

In Northern Japan, Arito Nishiki photographs the wild weather on this ever-changing coast, capturing the vivid movement and the winter darkness. This series is named after a village that slipped into the sea due to the relentless erosion from the force of nature.  Immerse yourself in his world here.

Martin Venezky and Barbara Levine: Horizon

Martin Venezky and Barbara Levine
Martin Venezky and Barbara Levine

A beautifully balanced collage concept, perfectly executed to give a time-spanning cinematic appeal, both with their stuttering zoetrope construction and flashes of vintage film colour. More of these atmospheric visual vignettes here, and a fascinating insight into their creation.

Toshio Shibata

Toshio Shibata
Toshio Shibata

A considered approach that produces quietly and beautifully detailed images of landscape – especially water – and the infrastructure that contains and guides it.

“Infrastructure….can be found anywhere and addressed at any time – a silent object that allows for one-sided interpretation”.

Take in his pictures of unstoppable forces and immovable objects here and look over his gorgeous catalogue of published work here.

Volume of Light by Thomas Brown

Volume of Light is an innovative and interactive project, created in the studio by our friend and regular collaborator Thomas Brown. Beginning as a small series, it extended in scope to become a four year mission.

In an intriguing new approach to the way art is marketed, an online campaign encouraged people to adopt one of 469 images. We adopted image № G_150204_0097 – Just been thinking.

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As an adopter, you receive the book which is a directory of all the images. The book comes with a print of your adopted image, which is a limited edition of one, just for you. Each image is also shared on Instagram and Twitter with its newly bestowed name.

The project culminated with exhibitions in London and New York, and the recently published book.

It’s a beautiful object, with iridescent cover and rainbow foiled type – the video shows the lovely textures and colours.

Thomas explains:

“The assigned titles will forever be linked to the image.  Volume of Light wants to know what you see, how you see it and begin to understand why certain choices are made. It is an exploration and investigation of semiotics, the phenomenon of Pareidolia and authorship….Each image represents the record of an action, a passage of time and a movement of light…In their abstraction they represent no thing but leave space to become everything.”

 

“I can’t say VoL offers a new way of experiencing art…people are visually assessing the world every second of the day, but maybe for some people it causes them to think a little bit more about what they were looking at, or to reflect on their experience of looking. It certainly offered an interesting way to interact at the exhibitions.”

Volume of Light Exhibition

With all the images on display as small postcards the viewers were encouraged to take them from the wall to get a closer look and move through the space, breaking the conventional gallery environment.

You can adopt an image of your own at https://volumeoflight.com and see more of Thomas’ work at http://thomasbrown.info

Stuff we like: Bright geometry in modern architecture

It’s always amazing when someone shows us a new idea in architectural photography.

Norwegian photographer Øystein Sture Aspelund‘s vision of modernist architecture focuses in on details and textures of modern masterpieces, found by searching through Brasilia, Sao Paulo, rural Bulgaria, Valencia, Bratislava and the Italian coast. Infusing them with strong yet delicate tints of sunsets, cyan and rose, the sweeping and beautiful lines are reminiscent of a new colony on another world.

Your imagination can fill in the rest from these precisely observed details….

Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund
Cyan II by Øystein Sture Aspelund

All photos © Øystein Sture Aspelund
More work  at http://oysteinaspelund.com
The full series is also available for your appreciation on Behance.

Stuff we like: Synchrodogs

Ukranian duo Tania Shcheglova & Roman Noven work under the name Synchrodogs.

Using strictly film cameras “with different levels of crappyness” they create dreamlike and hauntingly beautiful visions with almost no retouching. Central to the work is their own nude bodies in expansive landscapes, with a constant stream of details, abstracts, patterns (and just whatever catches their eye) as accompanying wildcards.

Although they’re determinedly lo-fi artists, working with props, body paint and whatever chance provides, they’re already looking at a future direction in VR art. It will be fascinating to see what their agnostic creative force might bring to a new medium.

The Dallas Contemporary Art Gallery recently exhibited their latest project, Supernatural, inspired by “their own meditation technique”. With help from print sales and uncompromising fashion and editorial work, they took a 4000 mile road trip in the American Southwest –  from Big Bend to White Sands, from Vermilion Cliffs to Antelope Canyon.

As they say themselves: “Describing pictures makes it less interesting for the viewer to see them” so here’s a selection.

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All images © Synchrodogs 2012-2015

More at:

http://www.synchrodogs.com/

https://twitter.com/synchrodogs

https://www.instagram.com/synchrodogs_official/

Stuff we love : DEFENDER (R.I.P!)

Today (29th January 2016) will see the last Landrover Defender roll off the production line in the West Midlands. Almost 70 years since its inception this Iconic utilitarian creation will cease to be built.

As a celebration, here is one of our favourite series’ featuring the legendary vehicle. Photography partners Heckl & Menneman (he&me) masterfully capture its best side, that would be the snowy off-road one.

Salutes all round.

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Stuff we like : LINNNN

Here in the studio we like to share images that inspire us. This week we have come across the portfolio of photographer LINNNN. It’s so genuinely delicate, tender and beautiful with a very interesting colour palette of pinks, greens and blues. We find it very calming and even with such cold and acid colours on skin tones, she still manages to please. Hope you like it too!

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