Snow Motion February 18, 2010
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- Images from Finland Copyright Elina Moriya
Elina Moriya is the daughter of a Finnish mother and a Japanese father whose work from Kinshasa, Congo I first came across in Lunatic Magazine.
(Lunatic Magazine was created in 2007 by Karl Blanchet, photographer and member of the collective Luna (www.lunaphotos.com) and is co-managed by Eric Hilaire, picture Editor).
She has been kind enough to submit new documentary / fine art images from her recent trip to Finland.
It’s been a record breaking winter in many parts of Europe causing trouble, chaos and death.
She writes from London: “despite of all this, I wanted to record the beauty of snow, its different textures and to freeze the moment and the mood of “life in snow motion”.
Represented in the US by
Wonderful Machine
http://www.wonderfulmachine.com/country/england/photographer/elina-moriya
and with her images distributed by
Lensmodern
www.lensmodern.com/
Elina Moriya’s work crosses both documentary and conceptual art photography areas.
www.emoriya.com
Perth New Year’s Eve January 3, 2010
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- Ska dancer New Year’s Eve Northbridge Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Jon Madd Ska dancer Northbridge, Perth Photo Bohdan Warchomij
It was a week of tragedy and firestorms and loss for the people of Toodyay, a country town an hours drive from Perth and a New Year’s Eve of music, energy and violence in the city as revellers saw in 2010. Metaphor Online wishes the world peace for 2010. The photos that sum up the revelry and tragedy approaching New Year’s Eve were taken by Darren Smith and Bohdan Warchomij in Perth and Toodyay.
- Northbridge, Perth Arrest 4am Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Clean Up New Year’s Day Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- 4 am arrest Northbridge, Perth Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Ray and Rose Barwell property Toodyay Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Frank Korzeniewski with a burnt out Olympus camera Toodyay Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- David Perrie at his property in Majestic Heights Toodyay Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Ray and Rose Barwell at their burnt out property in Toodyay Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- ‘The Origin’ concert Steel Blue Oval in Bassendean NYE Photo Darren Smith
- ‘The Origin’ concert Steel Blue Oval in Bassendean NYE Photo Darren Smith
- Fireworks at ‘The Origin’ concert Steel Blue Oval in Bassendean NYE Photo Darren Smith
KIBERA November 6, 2009
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Robert McPherson was born in Norway and studied Photo Media at Edith Cowan University in Perth, West Australia. He has photographed Kazakh nomads in Mongolia and recently completed an assignment in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a freelance photojournalist based in Norway.
http://www.robert-mcpherson.com
Exhibitions:
“Photoelmundo”, curated by Max Pam, Perth Australia(2005)
“Absolute Power”, curated by Max Pam, Perth Australia(2006)
“Scan Art” curated by ANSA, Melbourne, Australia(2007)
“Juvenarte” curated by ANSA, Oslo, Norway(2007)
“Fotografiets dag” Tønsberg, Norway(2007)
“Fotofreo”, Metaphor Images projection: Fremantle, Australia (2008)
KIBERA
Kibera is Africa’s largest slum and it is located in Nairobi, Kenya. It houses one million people squeezed into less than a square mile. Most people living in Kibera have little or no access to basic necessities, such as electricity, clean water, toilet facilities and sewage disposal. The combination of poor nutrition and lack of sanitation accounts for many illnesses and deaths. There are 50,000 AIDS orphans currently surviving in Kibera, often cared for by grandparents, in over crowded orphanages, or left completely unattended. Schooling for children is rare and dependent on the ebb and flow of family finances, trapping them in a cycle of poverty.
CUTOUT October 12, 2009
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CUTOUT: Marnya Rothe is a Perth photographer undertaking a Masters in Photomedia at Edith Cowan University.
Originally from Adelaide where she studied environmental science, Marnya Rothe’s love of fashion photography and fashion photographers such as Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton and their use of narrative elements in their work has generated the surrealist elements in CUT OUT. The women she photographs, confined by their domestic space, trapped in their working environment, are part of a dialogue between the photographer and her subjects. The women are specifically 2D objects, cutouts rephotographed, not photoshopped, that sometimes blend and sometimes overpower the space they are in. They are objects that tell compressed stories that are themselves products for consumption and analysis. In ‘Morning honey’, the woman lying in the toast rack anwers and invites questions. The brooding darkness in the photo of the woman of ‘Light My Fire’ leaves us with uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty, ambiguity and death.
There are strong parallels to Guy Bourdin’s work in the use of colour and the use of an erotic conceptualism. In Marnya Rothe’s strongest photos the feminine ‘goddess’ plays her role with a double edge that helps us reexamine feminist theory and women’s sexuality.
Marnya Rothe will be exhibiting at FotoFreo 2010
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 October 5, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Metaphor , add a commentTime to get involved. Entries for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 close on 1 November 2009
The National Portrait Gallery invites all Australian residents to enter the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010. The exhibition will be displayed in the new National Portrait Gallery building from 20 March to 24 May 2010 and will subsequently tour to a select number of Australian capital cities and regional centres. The Prize is an annual event intended to promote the very best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers.
With the generous support of Visa International Service Association, the National Portrait Gallery is offering a prize of $25,000 for the most outstanding photographic portrait.
http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/nppp.php
Welcome to Metaphor Online September 21, 2009
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The Road to Pripyat Ukraine. Photo Bohdan Warchomij
The Road to Pripyat Ukraine. Photo Bohdan Warchomij
Welcome to Metaphor Online, a blog designed to be a resource and asset to promote Australian and International photographers.
Photographer and photo editor Bohdan Warchomij has created Metaphor to feature work by emerging and established photographers working in different genres. Metaphor is a reminder of the power and presence of the image in everyday life. Metaphor will direct readers to photo artists, photo agencies, collectives, publications, and multimedia projects that inspire vision and promote photography.
