Landscape Stories

11 mesi fa (1 nota)

#LS. 07 | Trees
#Ugnius Gelguda - Crimescapes
#Buffet
#Fotohof
#Andrew Phelps

Ugnius Gelguda - Crimescapes on Buffet →

Crimescapes is the newest book from the Vilnius based Lithuanian photographer Ugnius Gelguda.

I met Ugnius a couple of years ago when I was researching for a show I curated in Fotohof of contemporary Lithuanian photography. I was able to get Ugnius to Salzburg to make a body of work fitting into his ongoing series about the phenomenon of sensational newspaper headlines and the often obscure photographs which accompany them. The larger body of work in the book is based on the Lithuanian mass media, specifically daily newspapers which focus on disaster and crime. Because we are visual creatures, the atrocious and heart-renching events can’t go un illustrated so the images which we are often presented with headlines are simply symbolic metaphors alluding to the event. Ugnius’ work processes this gap between what the headline evokes, and what the illustration presents us. The book is broken into 2 sections, the Lithuanian work and the Salzburg series. Though the landscape changes a bit, it is interesting to see that the awkward relationship between text and image is universal.

It is published by Artbooks in Vilnius and cooincides with his show at the Vartai Gallery earlier this year in Vilnius.

Hardbound, 80 Pages. Lithuanian and English.

1 anno fa

#LS.06 | Cars
#Markus Krottendorfer
#Automarket Tbilisi
#Fotohof

Markus Krottendorfer - Automarket Tbilisi on Fotohof →

With Automarket Tbilisi the young Austrian photographer
Markus Krottendorfer shows in his b/w photographs the protagonists of a used car market in the capital of the Georgian Republic. The interest of the artist on the complexity of social structures and constellations brings him to sceneries that do not represent individual behaviours but collective acts under apparently chaotic conditions. He tries to challenge the possibilities and limits of the replication of realities especially through the pretended impartial medium of documentary photography, but also being part of the events.

1 anno fa

#LS.06 | Cars
#Markus Krottendorfer - Stock Car
#Fotohof

Markus Krottendorfer - Stock Car on Fotohof →

The book features a series of black-and-white photographs of stock car races in England. Race-modified production cars, some of them badly dented or covered in stickers, cars at a standstill, racing, flying through the air, colliding; scenes before and during the race, taken from and on the stands, from the edge of the track, and in the pits; drivers, mechanics, spectators; scrap heaps and brightly polished engine bonnets. The photographer’s eye is directed not just at the event itself, but also at its social environment as a whole.

As you leaf through the printed pages, the double-sided photographs of what was originally a slide show create the impression of a projected sequence.

The layout and the emotionally charged images are such that you feel transported back to the 70s. It’s British motor racing in its purest form.