Networkweek

It is again the time of the year when we photo students have the opportunity to visit photographers in their studios, homes, and galleries. I have so far been to visit Stefanie Grätz, who was a lovely lovely person and really wanted to give us her time and helpful advise, and Willem Poelstra, who was also very impressive and surprisingly new in photography (he only graduated in 2005, but I thought he was an old star or something).

Will add links later. Am exhausted, a long muggy day in Amsterdam and tomorrow a long workday also in Amsterdam.

Carolyn Drake

Carolyn Drake is a Turkish-based American photographer with lots of projects in the ‘stans; Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan etc. But also a very nice suburbia series.

Todd Fisher

Snapshotty commentary on everyday life… or something?

More at his site.

Harvey Finkle

Harvey Finkle has photographed Deaf culture, which is my subject for the Subculture assignment in documentary photography.

Agnes Dherbeys & Nepal

I’ve been following the political turmoil of Nepal somewhat; read a couple of books about the strange history of the Nepalese royal family and tried to understand the problems of the country in the larger context of being tucked somewhere between China and India.. Agnes Dherbeys is a photojournalist who has been following Nepal’s chaos.

I like the classic black and white photojournalistic style and her tones.. perhaps not that contemporary but still looks pretty damn good to me.

Jessica Dimmock

The Ninth Floor project. Hurts to look at, but still..

There’s also a film, a video snippet of which can be viewed here but not embedded..

D’you know what’s fucking scary? The way hard drug addicts start to sound like each other. During the last year of her life, when my friend was calling me, I did not recognize her voice on the phone. She didn’t sound like herself. She sounded like the woman on that video.

Ciney Militaria

I spent some time with people who like guns.. ammo.. uniforms.. world war II.. interesting and scary at the same time.

This was for Foto Reportage’s War project.