Dieter Appelt Dieter Appelt, Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel, den der Atemhauch Schaft, 1979 A-t-on assez dit et écrit que la photographie arrête le temps, qu'elle fige l'instant pour le pétrifier dans la nécropole du "ça a été" ! L'œuvre de Dieter Appelt montre qu'il n'en est rien. Ses photographies ont une qualité de tactilité matérielle, de condensation du temps et de la lumière qui sont uniques sur la scène artistique contemporaine. Il empoigne la pellicule photosensible comme un sculpteur pétrit l'argile. Comment faire sentir que la chose photographiée - cette chose pouvant être aussi bien un être vivant, une composition d'objets ou une construction réalisée spécialement à cet effet - que cette chose visible sur le papier photographique continue à palpiter et à émettre vers le regardeur de ces vibrations qui caractérisent tout être vivant ? Ce n'est pas tout. Ce dernier aspect est frappant dans la série des "têtes". Dieter Appelt matérialise de façon très inattendue une vision de Kleist.
Tereza Vlckova Colin Delfosse Congolese wrestlers – Kinshasa, 2011-2013 Kinshasa is a stormy and turbulent city. Those who lay down their hats at Ngili airport, harassed by border guards, porters and scalpers still have to pass the administrative hassles and fight to get a taxi and understand what turbulent means. Crowded bars, small boutiques and crappy hostels surround the main road to the city centre. Hundreds of vehicles pile up in a huge traffic jam where pedestrians, cyclist and bikers wriggle into. The sweat and dust stick to your skin. I encountered this thrilling spectacle by accident when I was shooting a project about mining in the province of Katanga. Back in the Congolese capital few month later, it didn’t take me long to find those athletes again. I’ve been also hypnotised when I saw it for the first time. This urban theatre circled by a rope is copying after traditional dance as much as the pantomime histrionics of American wrestling.
Alexander Gronsky Photography François Deladerrière Todd Hido Photo nature et photographies animalières - Aube Nature | Archive TAMAS DEZSO PHOTOGRAPHER HERE, ANYWHERE (2009 - ongoing) The map of Hungary is speckled with capsules of time. During the political transformation twenty years ago, as the country experienced change it simply forgot about certain places – streets, blocks of flats, vacant sites and whole districts became self-defined enclosures, where today a certain out-dated, awkward, longed-to-be-forgotten Eastern Europeanness still lingers. There are places which seem to be at one with other parts of the city in a single space, but their co-existence in time is only apparent; places which decompose in accordance with their own specific chronology, determined by their past, such that what remains would then either be silently reconquered by nature or enveloped by the lifestyles of tomorrow’s generations. Of the inhabitants, who have never fully integrated with majority society, soon only traces will remain, until they, too, disappear in the course of time.
Brad Moore-Photographer