Rajasthan workshop student photographs.....
Chenoa Maxwell "Introspections"
Giacomo Pompanin "ARTvertisment"
Albertina d'Urso "Spirit of Shekhawati"
Susanne Hakuba "Crossings"
Shannon Guerrico "My Favorite Place"
Prashanth Vishwanathan " Shekhawati Paintings: An Abandoned Legacy"
Some wonderful shots from all! Looks like India has inpired the team....I particularly like the work of Albertina and the sensibility of Chenoa... These pictures bring me memories of the trip I also did there a while back.... Eric
Posted by: Eric Espinosa | January 26, 2008 at 04:21 PM
All grand stuff I also really like Albertina's work.
Posted by: Harry | January 26, 2008 at 06:17 PM
I love the work especially Shannon and Prashanth.
The middle diptych by Shannon G I find very beautiful. georgous colors, deep and saturated and a tranquil, quiet atmosphere. seems like the photog was present but unknown or unimposing. connected in a way that seems natural.
the 1st shot by Prashanth stopped me cold. hypnosis by the childs eyes. the mind of the child is so beautiful, not afraid to look straight into my eyes, laughter, light and dancing. sparkling, i know life is good when I see this work.
top shelf.
Posted by: wrobertangell | January 27, 2008 at 02:58 AM
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."-Rabindranath Tagore ....
it has always seemed to me that one of the most beautiful and important and also difficult and elusive things about India, writing about her, photographing her, listening to the story and songs and sad dances of her people is that India, that ocean of all things, defies, continually, our expectations of it...it's beauty and it's sadness, its immeasurable wealth and poverty, its unchanging eternally changing face...i cant imagine beginning for in truth is seems there are never beginnings or endings with india: only transformation, continually...
the smoke from the body of the lotus with a black goat prowling along the edge of pool-blue-sea, song...larger than us and smaller....
that, i see above, in all the stories...all of them, the incandescent and reborn, the clear-wounded and the petal-picked time...
gorgeous efforts all, above all comes out india, and maybe thats the measure of the strength of all these essays....
the beginning of all endings, as wing'd counted music...
congratulations to the photos above, all....
"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
Rabindranath Tagore
--running
bob
Posted by: bobblack | January 27, 2008 at 12:15 PM
I have to admit I am a bit at odds with the type of picture taking in so many of the WS. At the same time, personal, but yet, following a certain trend (at least I see it as a trend) of "not-quiteness", if I had to use one word at the moment.
I like Susan's and Prashanth, the best, showing not so much a stance, but making chance and serendipity work for what they wanted to show us. I applaud them too, for stating it in their short title. It is sometimes good that the viewer is not totally left alone to decipher meaning, and we tread in the realm of..."quiteness" ;-).
Posted by: Herve | January 27, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Very good work from all. Not a cliche in sight...the highest praise I can give and the first time I have seen this from a group in India.
Albertina's images are closest to those I would have liked to take had I been there...too bad everyone is so sad! (not a complaint about the work...just sorry for them that they aren't enjoying themselves) Sometimes the babies are scared if they haven't been photographed before.
Nice to see work from Susanne after all our PM's answering her questions about travel in India. Hope you had a great time!
Posted by: cathy scholl | January 27, 2008 at 12:47 PM
I would like to see the diptychs a bit larger. I opened them in new tabs but even so they are a bit too small to appreciate properly. Everybody seems to have a strong single :o)
Posted by: Joni Karanka | January 27, 2008 at 01:55 PM
I would like to see the diptychs a bit larger. I opened them in new tabs but even so they are a bit too small to appreciate properly. Everybody seems to have a strong single :o)
Posted by: Joni Karanka | January 27, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Amazing works! I really like Giacomo Pompanin's theme. And Albertina d'Urso's images are intriguing.
Posted by: 'Pong | January 27, 2008 at 07:36 PM
WOW, great pictures!! My favourites are Albertina and Giacomo, I feel they are very very involved into their issues.
Posted by: Claudio Valerio | January 28, 2008 at 08:37 AM
"Introspections" is beautiful and dreamlike. I love it. " Shekhawati Paintings: An Abandoned Legacy" is a great idea well executed, particularly the first image. The black dog is perfect. I'd like to know how he got from France (Koudelka 1987) down to India to make an appearance in your essay. :) I enjoyed the closeness of "Spirit of Shekhawati" also.
Posted by: Kelly Lynn James | January 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM
all are great..and Chanoa did something really special!
Posted by: Aga Luczakowska | January 28, 2008 at 03:49 PM
I love this body of work. I think it is the strongest workshop work I've seen here. I'm very impressed! Thank you. I agree with Aga, but all are something special.
Posted by: janet | January 28, 2008 at 10:01 PM
I like the minimalism of Chenoa Maxwell's "Introspections".
Posted by: asher | January 28, 2008 at 11:06 PM
PANOS GETS IN: ( lights slowly go down... "yellow "atmosphere... feeling... suddenly,.. everything turns blue...
panos starts spitting:
Chenoa Maxwell "Introspections"
photographs ( number 2nd & 4th- frrom top to bottom)...
very nice ... really great...
Giacomo Pompanin "ARTvertisment"
picture no: 4... very "natgeo"... though... very "safe"....
i really "hate" it, because it "traps" the "animal".... with a remote control... probably drinking a beer from the liquor store, across the street...
Albertina d'Urso "Spirit of Shekhawati"
panos thinks: All of them are great,... or almost there!...
Susanne Hakuba "Crossings"
... the 2nd and the last one.... my favorite... the LAST ONE... THE VERY LAST ONE...... of Susanne's 4 pics...
Shannon Guerrico "My Favorite Place"
... very, very, very NATGEO... enough said...
Prashanth Vishwanathan " Shekhawati Paintings: An Abandoned Legacy"
1st and last are AMAZING... EXCELLENT... but please, please, throw the wide angle lenses away... they make your beautiful work look "weak" and "cold"...
All that...
peace
Posted by: Panos Skoulidas | January 29, 2008 at 12:38 AM
HELLO ALL....
just back in new york and trying to get my "act together"...my stuff is all over the place, so give me a chance please to get organized....
yes, shannon's work needs more physical size...all student work from now on will be shown larger size on the new website...and i will post more of shannon's work and two more India students soonest and on the new space....
herve, i do not see the "newer way of seeing" as a trendy, but more as "evolution"....and, particularly in the case of India, as avoiding cliche....yet, i do take your comment seriously and will do a post to discuss the "evolution of seeing" at some point soon...
cheers, david
Posted by: david alan harvey | January 29, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Trend I wrote, David, not trendy, If I may correct you.
It is hard to bring out debate on the net, for all kind of reasons, most often, sites end up with glorification of anything posted, and dissent, even slight, as party poopering.
It is just impossible that people involved in arts or expressive crafts, get so unanimous and think only of a bare few lauding words when looking at other's works.
On the other hand, such discussion as you mention, brought up by you, will untie tongues ( or fingers I guess) and we can go beyond queuing up as if aligned, not one ear showing, in a cheerleaders parade.
Bring it on, David! :-))))
Posted by: Herve | January 29, 2008 at 01:32 PM
it started smelling gunpowder again... in here...
it feels like home again...
Posted by: panos skoulidas | January 29, 2008 at 02:35 PM
Well, My first sentence may sound like a snap back, which it was not, David's inputs are too much of the kind that provoke participation, not frustration. And smyleys are there to show one's frame of mind, fortunately!
Re-reading him, the Y in trendy may have been a typo, actually.
Posted by: Herve | January 29, 2008 at 04:16 PM
HERVE, PANOS...
i wrote "trendy"...not a typo...but i simply misread what you wrote herve..sorry..there certainly is a semantic difference...but, my answer would still be the same....i do see an "evolution" in seeing as we have always seen an evolution in seeing......tastes change....particularly with regard for the "literal"....but before i try to say something even remotely engaging, let me get unjetlagged...i must sleep now, but i do like this topic and will post something to get us all going!!! you two, for example, good probably not be more different from each other....i am only guessing, not having "met" either one of you...but, so what?? i think it absolutely perfect that we can challenge each other...and both of you have said things in the past that i totally agreed with and some things that i totally disagreed with...like with herve, i think it the most sophisticated when the viewer "has some work to do" (but then again, i just came back from the Cohen brothers "No Country for Old Men" , and panos, i cannot imagine shannon's diptiks having anything to do with anything natgeo would publish (??) but .again, a big fat so what??? as far as i am concerned the whole point of this forum is exactly that...a forum...definition: free wheeling discussion.....and so what if we do not agree??? herve, keep writing and i might see your point and panos, your "shotgun" has hit the mark straight up so many times..anyway, guns please back in your holsters gentlemen (for the moment)....i need to be awake for this one!!!
cheers, david
Posted by: david alan harvey | January 29, 2008 at 11:28 PM
I am different from Panos, just traffic....I hate traffic, that's why I have a motorcycle :-)
But David, I work, I work, as a viewer, I think you know that a bit. And my being at odds is no rejection of the work or stance of the photographers. I just dive into it, surrounded by photography/ies, by the work everyone here submits or links. A tug of war it is, a splashing of convictions, stirring of emotions, overflowing tides (not trends, then), churnings of the Seas of milk, and pulling from all sides... exhausted, but ready to battle again.... Passion defeats infatuation, then challenges love and...and...
Good morning!
Posted by: Herve | January 30, 2008 at 01:17 AM
I love traffic... Traffic is my refuge, my excuse, the only time I can think, post, read and nurture myself...even shave...
I'm in traffic RIGHT now by the way...
I hate bikes unless its a mountain bike...
My greatest diploma and achievement should be my drivers licence...
anyways,goodmorning Herve,
morning ALL, goodnight jetlanged David...
just like the Walton's family..
peace from L.a
Posted by: panos skoulidas | January 30, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Quick question, here and on the other blog:
Are any of those that post here headed for the Olso workshop?
L.
Posted by: Liam Lynch | January 31, 2008 at 04:24 AM
i like Guerrico's diptychs, don't recall seeing many of students use it before, why?. i like the 2nd and 3rd, they join seemlessly, so i get sense of this places really inhabiting the people and why this could be a favourite place, like it is an extension of them, makes this pictures feel panoramic almost :)
the first i like also, is this a farm girl? the sky look like a ploughed field, intentional? very subtle.
Posted by: Negobe | January 31, 2008 at 05:36 AM
Can someone please help me with whether and how to attend the workshops? Are they held for real or online?
Posted by: palmskov | February 03, 2008 at 04:21 PM