Guardian Angel "Benjamin Kanarek"

Born in Toronto, Canada, where he grew up. He was never quite sure what he wanted in life and fell in to many things by accident.
He played drums in a few punk rock groups, one of which was called the "Existers" that was produced by John Cale and another called the "Poles" that had a semi successful hit called "Telex Love". In the subsequent time frame he entered Carleton University where he studied Architecture and went on to work in several companies including Webb, Zerafa, Menkes & Housden.. who were best known for designing the CN Tower in Toronto.
After a serious accident where he fell from a five meter mezzanine, he literally fell in to photography. His second ever shoot was an advertising campaign in Toronto. He was the first Canadian photographer to ever shoot Kim Alexis for the cover of Chatelaine. He moved to Los Angeles and stayed there for just over a year and moved to New York. In NY, he shot quite a few campaigns as well as the Dayton Hudsons Christmas book with Andi McDowell, Elle MacPherson, to name a few. He shot several covers for Vogue SA. He moved to Milan where he shot for Harper’s Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. He came back to Toronto for a short stint and got back to Europe. It was suggested that he try Paris. After six weeks in Paris, he was given an opportunity to shoot the Haute Couture for L’Officiel. Since then Paris became his base where he also is composing Pop-Rock music for several artists in France.

Benjamin has consulted as a creative director for worldwide agencies and clients.

He recently launched we-r-you.com of “r” technologies as a consulting creative & strategic director.

Benjamin was VP responsible for the branding, strategic marketing and advertising campaign of “r”. Benjamin also introduced the concept of the “event driven portal”, known as “r” events.

He is also the founder and responsible for the concept and development of a revolutionary Internet platform that you will all being hearing about shortly!

Life is an ever changing ever fluxing ride... to be continued...



Some of the magazines he has been published in include:

L’Officiel Paris, Vogue Italy, Vogue Paris, Vogue Brasil, New York Daily News Fashion, Women’s Wear Daily, Votre Beauté, Biba, Flare, Chatelaine, 100 Cose, Madame Figaro, Dealer Deluxe, Oyster Magazine, Deutsch Magazine, All Access, Icon, Issue One, Tank, No Name, West East magazine…

Benjamin Kanarek

Floating Venus "Linda Cartridge"

LINDA CARTRIDGE

FLOATING VENUS
22 nd of April to 28th of May 2010




In water,on it, below it or sideways Linda Cartridge she comes up with her mental eye and technology by creating spaces of vitality and poetic suggestion.

For a year and a half the artist was submerged in pools with different models for an experience of prenatal,primary and Basic.

The works are intended to attract viewers to the female germ broth has created. It is an invitation to return to g with the intention to suggest freedom of the primitive, that they Orly have the fluids  of the fetus and mother, it should perhaps be felt in the original big Bang, creating cracks, breaks and new rebirths.

Venus floating is a sample of photographs taken in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Oslo which exceeds, in the way of work, the genre. Using analog photography-made Films as a first material, manual intervention will subsequently work on negatives, Photo by photo, camera by camera, resulting in Works base on the picture and end up in other genres.

Her iconic Hasselblad is like a pencil with which Boceta basic lines of the final Photo. Craft touches and some digital intervention timely, necessary poetry reaches to say what you mean. She has succeeded in changing the medium, leaving the air by the mother liquor, leading to feminine strength, subtle and without interruption at sites where we seem to have been.

LINDA CARTRIDGE

Muestra: VENUS FLOTANTE

22 abril al 28 mayo 2010

En el agua, sobre ella, debajo o de costado Linda Cartridge se nos aparece con su ojo mental y tecnológico creando espacios de vitalidad y de sugerencia poética. Durante un año y medio la artista se ha sumergido en diferentes piscinas con sus modelos para vivir una experiencia prenatal, primaria y básica. Los trabajos tienen la intención de atraer al espectador a ese caldo femenino germinal que ha logrado crear. Es la invitación a volver a flotar con la intención de sugerir la libertad de lo primigenio, aquella que solo tienen los fluídos del feto y su madre, la misma que quizás debió palparse en el big bang original, crujidos de creación, de rupturas y nuevos renacimientos.

Venus flotante es una muestra de fotografías tomadas en Buenos Aires, Montevideo y Oslo que superan ampliamente, por el modo de trabajo, el género fotográfico. Utilizando la fotografía analógica hecha con películas de cine como primer material, trabaja posteriormente con intervención manual sobre los negativos, haciendo foto sobre foto, cámara sobre cámara, resultando así obras que parten de la fotografía y terminan en otros géneros.

Su icónica Hasselblad es como un lápiz básico con el cual boceta las líneas de las fotos finales. Con toques artesanales y alguna intervención digital oportuna, llega a la poesía necesaria para decir lo que quiere decir. Ha logrado cambiar el medio, dejando el aire por el líquido madre, llevándonos con fuerza femenina, sutil y sin interrupción, a espacios de liberación donde nos parece haber estado ya.

Damián Masotta

Abril 2010

Linda Cartridge
photographer

Lives and works in Oslo and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The series Floating Venus  is an ongoing project and was in a solo-show in Buenos Aires in april and may, this year.
At the moment some of the work is in a collective show also in Buenos Aires.
In august some of the pictures are going to a photographic art show in Lima, Peru

www.cartridge.no

http://casalindacartridge.blogspot.com/

William Ropp

DARKROOMS IN NORTHERN LIGHT presents the French artist William Ropp - enjoy his work at 7th LANE - Photography from heaven and hell , Lilleakerveien 4B, Oslo.


Opening hours thursday-sunday 12-5 PM.

EARLIER WORK

"EW9" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered.

"EW8" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered

"EW7" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered.

"EW6" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered

"EW4" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered

"EW3" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered.

"EW2" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered.

"EW1" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered.

"Chess Player" Artist: William Ropp, Technique: Black and white toned silver gelatin print. Size 40*50 (ed 10), 50*60 (ed 12), 100*120 (ed 8) printed by the artist, signed and numbered

ellen-k FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

William Ropp

(lives and works in Nancy, France)

William Ropp is known for the unique style in which he captures the mysterious aspects of human nature. Placing his subjects in absolute darkness during extended exposures, he uses a flashlight to paint a magical effect of illumination and shadow in what he calls ‘The dance of light’. ”My pictures were influenced by me working at the theatre, and I struggled to liberate myself from theatrical expression. This continued until I stopped using actors as models, replacing them with ordinary people I met.” Ropp often works in a studio, using a powerful torch as illumination, forcing him to expose for as long as ten minutes. In the darkness the models have little to focus on, and their stare is redirected towards the viewer. Seemingly coming from a different time, these human beings unify ancient mysteries and timeless questions in their appearances. William Ropps images takes us to different levels of reality and invites the viewer to occupy with the anthropological question of being and non-being. In his portraits of children their facial expression does not fit in the presentation of the ever-cheerfull child. The viewers childhood emotions and memories might be awakened.

Ropp produces his own richly toned, traditional gelatin silver prints. His photographs have been exhibited extensively in museums and galleries around the world, and his work has been published in several books including one devoted to the Children series, as well a twenty-year retrospective, and the recently published “Dreamt memories from Africa” (april 2010)

standing in a river waving a stick#2

Tom Tveitan Photography

A “little” rain never hurts "Kihle Photo"

A “little” rain never hurts

Hooked up with Oskar Mellemsether and Vegar Edvardsen for a shoot here in Trondheim. We wondered over to Ilsvika, a part of town which offers a wide variety of backgrounds. Without any real plan about how the images were going to be or where to take them, we wondered around in the rain stopping at random spots. I’m very thankful for my Dakine Sequence backpack for keeping the equipment dry (one of the best buys of my life!). A fun shoot and now we’re all waiting for summer and sun which has not yet come.

Kihle Photo

Tine Poppe "CURTAIN DOWN"

 Fra de to siste forestillingene i den gamle Operaen.

TINE POPPE er opprinnelig grafisk designer. De siste 12 årene har hun imidlertid både fotoillustrert og designet en lang rekke bokutgivelser og romanomslag. Jobber nå som kommersiell fotograf på portrett, mote og reklame i tillegg til bokdesign og egne fotoprosjekter.

KOMMERSIELL - www.tinepoppe.no

UTSMYKNING - www.tinepoppegallery.com

BLOGG - www.vrangtekst.com (i samarbeid med forfatteren Ingvar Ambjørnsen)

Self-Portrait Darkrooms #2

Goran Popovic Coga

Geir Danielsen

Ivar Bjørdalsbakke

Øyvind Antonsen

Bryllup | Cathrine & Anders

Fotograf Henrik Kreilisheim