Exhibit and Workshop/Project at Benetton Foundation

I will be exhibiting work from Fertile Geometry at the Benetton Foundation in Treviso near Venice, Italy opening on Dec 1,2012. I have also been invited by the Foundation and Steve Bisson of Urbanautica to participate and help organize a landscape  project  with about 5 other photographers located in the rural areas near Venice.  Here is link to info regarding the workshop/project  and how to become involved.

Here is fairly recent image from my ongoing Allotment Garden Project

Urbanautica Interview with Peter Brown

Here is a very good interview I conducted with Peter Brown for Urbanautica here

Emmet Gowin on process

If I made pictures that featured people,  Emmet Gowin’s photographs would be  one  of my models.

From an interview with Emmet Gowin by Sally Gall for Bomb Magazine:

…..Everything that makes you an artist in a sense is the way things are understood; how they fit together in ways that have not been understood before. How can you discover the inherent value that’s hidden in things that you haven’t yet seen? It’s in that sense that you want to do something new. And you know that it’s chance that’s going to put those things together. Only chance can bring together new combinations in a way that is revolutionary. No one ever discovered anything really important intentionally.

and:

……You have to make a room inside your own ego for what you don’t yet understand, and hold open the possibility that this is what you’re actually looking for. And that then becomes a very personal matter rather than a universal one, because you can’t account for what other people don’t know. But you can acknowledge inside yourself those things which you did not perceive until the encounter forced you into a recognition. You cannot keep score of that for anyone else, but you can acknowledge transformation of your own perception by experience. When you find something about yourself, you don’t throw it away, it’s a treasure. It’s symbolically very important because it acknowledges a transformation in yourself.

Jessica Auer Interview

Another interview I conducted with a Landscape Photographer – Jessica Auer from Montreal. Interview here

Landscape Stories

I am currently  featured in a great landscape site,Landscape Stories under the theme of Traces.

Scott Conarroe Interview

I recently conducted this interview for Urbanautica with Canadian photographer Scott Conarroe . Good reading!

Paper

Wolfgang Tillmans – “At the most basic level, all I do every day is work with pieces of paper.  I shape colors and dyes on paper, and those objects aren’t the reality they represent. I understood that early on, and it was the beginning of all my work. How does meaning take hold of a piece of paper?  Why does this paper carry a charge? It’s the brain, it’s our humanity that brings life to it. What matters is how we shape the things on the paper, somehow forcing it to become a representation of life, or experience. People always think that a photograph is bodiless, that it’s not an object unto itself but merely a conduit, a carrier of some other value.”

-From a Gil Blank interview with Tillmans originally published in Influence magazine

Paper

-David Byrne and the Talking Heads

Hold the paper up to the light
Some rays pass right through
Expose yourself out there for a minute
Some rays pass right through

Take a little rest when the rays pass through
Take a little time off when the rays pass through
Go ahead, mix it up, go ahead and tie it up
A long distance telephone call

Hold on to that paper
Hold on to that paper
Hold on ’cause it’s been taken care of
Hold on to that paper

See if you can fit it on the paper
See if you can get it on the paper
See if you can fit it on the paper
See if you can get it on the paper

Had a love affair but it was only paper
Some rays they pass right through
Had a lot of fun, could have been a lot better
Some rays they pass right through

Take a little consideration, take every combination
Take a few weeks off, make it tighter, tighter
If you know it was never, it was never written down
Still might be a chance that it might work out

Hold on to that paper
Hold on to that paper
Hold on ’cause it’ll be taken care of
Hold on to that paper

Don’t think I can fit it on the paper
Don’t think I can get it on the paper
Go ahead and rip up, rip up the paper
Go ahead and tear up, tear up the paper