How do you get the residents of a multicultural and underprivileged neighbourhood interested in photography? That was the main hurdle facing project coordinator Lisa Kleeven when she opened West Side Stories on Amsterdam’s Confuciusplein in May 2010. Helmed by FOAM’s education department, the project to create a neighbourhood structure offering free photography classes and workshops to area residents has become a huge success.
When instant photo maker Polaroid threw a goodbye party to ‘celebrate’ the fact that they stopped making cameras and films Polaroid fanatic Florian Kaps ran into Polaroid technician André Bosman.
Photography has been with us for over 165 years and is more popular than ever. In 1997 around three billion rolls of film were sold world-wide. This corresponds with 67 billion photos, or more than 2700 new photos per second. But nowadays photographic behaviour can no longer be calculated, since almost everybody looks at the world through a digital camera. An angle on the causes and effects.
An etching technique in which a black and white slide is exposed and developed on a polymer-coated metal plate, after which it is inked and put under the press.
Men might think about sex every seven seconds, but I think about project titles.
As essential as the desire to create, is the innate desire to experiment with our creations: to use playfulness, technology, or artistry to make something entirely new and unique.
A wedding was celebrated at the rooftop. Nabil’s nephew kissed his wife and from the ramshackle balconies neighbours sang songs to seal their love.
When we think about Japan, we might end up amongst a mixed up diversity of terms and Japanese topics. Exotic, legendary, far away oriental land. Prominent History, Zen, samurais and kimonos, sunrise landscapes, temples surrounded by gardens full of cherry blossom trees, mount Fuji, Haiku poetry. Extremely good manners and quite a number of cultural stereotypes. Japan, cradle of new technologies, over populated large cities and photo cameras all over. Photo cameras? What about Japan and photography?
An artist needs a stage, and so does a photographer.
You can make prints at home using refined printing processes. For instance, the techniques available are Bromoil, Cyanotype, Gum Bichromate, Salt Printing and Argyrotype. I’ll be using the latter to print brown, sepia-coloured pictures.