“ a happening ” PHOTOGRAPHS

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深瀬昌久 Masahisa Fukase /// 鴉 RAVENS

Karasu (鴉 / Ravens). Yokohama: Sōkyūsha, 1986. In Japanese and English.

Malick Sidibé /// surprise-parties

Malick Sidibé

Interview with Malick Sidibé via lensculture

Chad States /// Cruising

States holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and a BA from Evergreen State College. His book Cruising will be released in the fall of 2011 by Powerhouse Books. He received the Established Artist Grant from Delaware Division of the Arts in 2011.  He participated in Center’s Review Santa Fe in 2010 and was an Artist in Residence at Light Work in the summer of 2009. His work has been exhibited at venues including Hous Projects, New York; Randall Scott Gallery, Brooklyn NY; Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA; Chashama Time Square Gallery, New York City; Daniel Cooney Fine Art Online Auction; FLUXSPACE, Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; and Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York City. His works on the permanent collections of Light Work in Syracuse, NY as well as Light Work Permanent Collection Syracuse University Syracuse, New York as well as the Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.

L.A. Women  ///  Joachim Schmid

In December 2010, Los Angeles Police Department released one hundred and eighty photographs that were found in the possession of a serial murder suspect. All of them are photographs of women. These women may or may not be residents of Los Angeles, they may or may not be prostitutes (as were the women in the investigation). They may or may not be murder victims. We don’t know. We don’t even know whether the arrested suspect took these photographs himself.
Without knowing where the photographs come from, most of them wouldn’t be worth a second glance; for you and me, that is. Of course this is different for friends and family of the women depicted. And it is certainly different for the person who took these pictures. From the testimony of one surviving victim we know that the woman was first photographed, then shot, and then raped before she was dumped in the street.
Most of the women were clearly alive when the photos were taken; some are smiling, some are posing. Some appear to be asleep, they may or may not be sleeping the big sleep. Some of them may have been shot soon after or just before the photographer shot the picture. We don’t know.
It is actually the fact that we don’t know anything – apart from the context where these photographs come from – that makes them so eerie. We want to know more but the pictures don’t tell us. We look at them and they look at us. That’s all there is.

Shinjuku only of him　///　Haruto Hoshi

“They” is to escape from Japan in the near future… Please wait a little. 

Sophie Boursat’s pape