Sports and action photographer Fredrik Clement. Alberto Oviedo Photography. Visual Culture Blog: Visual Studies, Visual Rhetoric and Visuality. Less travelled | UNLESS YOU WILL. The other week I received these splendid series “Shiftless” by Raffaele Capasso & Francesco Claudio Cipolletta. Over the last few weeks I became a bit confused about what is what and what I want. Usually I do a lot of research and look through a lot of websites for UYW, but the more folios I looked through, the harder it became to make a decision.
I guess there are times where we question everything. From what we are doing on a daily basis, to the more elaborate and seemingly unanswerable question of – what am I doing – what is art, where am I going next (unfortunately not to Tuscany), etc. And before I go I leave you with this fantastic quote by Allan Kaprow “Art could be (but might not be) doing art (whatever that is) as long as it cant be identified as such”. No Caption Needed. Mrs. Deane : nothing is too amazing to be true. Non-digitally manipulated hand print © Yaseen Al-Obeidy The Kuwait Weeks were born out of a conversation I had with Kuwaiti photographer Mohammed Alkouh, who is currently having a solo show at CAP Kuwait, which includes a number of his recent studio portraits.
We talked about his encounters in the traditional portrait studios, which gave him the love for the hand-colored image, and how for him those photographs, like real life instances of Oscar Wilde’s pictures of Dorian Gray, contained the presence and the youth of a family member now in advanced age or even deceased. And how the vintage image has this mysterious time-warp quality that we cannot shake off or stop being fascinated by — an addiction merciless tapped into and catered to by several online platforms, numerous photo books, collections, some galleries, eBay sellers and auctioneers.
Installation view with self portraits of Al-Obeidy over the years © Hester Keijser. Design You Trust. Boogie | photographer.