“Stadtmensch vs Riket”

Frank Biringer

"Stadtmensch vs Riket"

- individual and anonymity -

real metropolis vs Lars von Triers "Riket"

How much individuals are we? Who are controlled by the masses.

Suddenly, in the middle of the mass, you see this one person -

and you know (s)he has a history. Character.

(S)he does not disappear in the mass - even if you do not know her or him.

Or is this only fiction? Because you experience the same in fictive environments.

Does it matter?

Is it right to take the picture? Do you steal anything; their reality, their history,

the film makers’ creation?

The photograph grabs the individuals anonymity, extracts it from its environment.

And exposes it in new worlds.

Is it legal; ethical? You say its art, creates discussion.

Think, focus on the essentials.

At the end the individual remains - with its history.

Treated with respect - either its fiction or reality.

Frank Biringer, oktober 2010

www.frankbiringer.com

Weddings by Martina Škrobot

Martina Škrobot

http://www.martinaskrobot.tk/

Don´t forget to dance...

Kjetil Karlsen

http://kjetil-karlsen.blogspot.com/

Kamil Vojnar

Kamil Vojnar

http://www.flyingblindpictures.com/

...like an angel, she sleeps...

...she is just dreaming...

...psst, just dreaming!

Fashion Summer Shoot

Photographer: Guro Zahir Storskjær

Models: Kristina Karlsen and Kari Helene Borch

http://www.photoartica.blogg.no/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fotograf-Guro-Zahir-Storskjaer/150236891726?ref=mf



TOMsing by Kathleen McIntyre

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Kathleen McIntyre

travel by Tarjei Krogh

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Tarjei Krogh

 THE STORY

I grew up in the seventies in an artistic millieu surrounding an Oslo jazz club. All through my childhood, I accompanied my mother, a painter and graphic artist, to exhibitions. My father, a data engineer, was responsible for my early interest in technology, physics, geometry, contrasts and compositions. At the age of ten, I inherited a camera, and I and my friends began to explore and play with this new toy. This game, for me, has continued for seventeen years. I realized that I got more satisfaction from static images.  I took over the running of a large second-hand vinyl record shop in Oslo. I borrowed equipment from supportive friends, and every day of those four years I went out and photographed people and everyday situations in Oslo.And each evening I sat up late sorting images and sending and receiving advice from established photographers via the internet.Eventually I received some calls, and then a big assignment for a well-known Norwegian firm. For the last five years I have been working full-time as a photographer with some of the biggest firms in Norway as clients. Decorations, photo-reportage, advertising. I am not the kind of man to go and visit war-hardened zones. I am very into natural light. A picture to me is like a perfect equation. Most evenings, when I empty my memory cards, I am as happy as a child on Christmas Eve.