Remember the cosy inn at Carmel from a couple of posts ago? Well, this image is just to show how we can choose what to convey from almost any situation. It is an image of the curtains in our lovely room and was exhibited as part of the group show ‘Shadows’ at A.Smith Gallery with the title “In Another World”
“Avatar”
A new body of work is up on my portfolio website. It is also the first series that make it to the website in it’s finished, Lightroom edited form. There’s a lot of work to be done with re-editing but I love the results. Even if the difference can appear to be minor I feel they are significant.
“Time heals all wounds”
I spent all day yesterday on a project that has waited a long time – editing all the photos of my canvas work. I needed Lightroom to do that as all the shots needed straightening. The mounted photo canvases are all 60*60 cm with the photos sewn onto the canvas with cross stiches at each corner. There’s no photoshop involved. All elements are cut and glued and all photos are as shot.
Below are the rest of the canvases I just posted on my portfolio, now in a quality I dare put my name to. These plus many more are exhibited at Ishøj Kultur Café, Denmark, until Tuesday.
“Tug in”
“Take me for a ride”
“A rose is a rose is a rose”
“The veil”
“Invasion of the body snatchers”
“What the?!”
“Pull up a chair”
While I won’t be hanging on the wall in the upcoming exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, “Transformations – The Ordinary Made Extraordinary”, I did make it to the on-line annex and the catalogue with the above image from my series Invisible.
API is short for Art Photo Index. It is a “searchable, visual database of selected photographers and photo-based artists from throughout the world.” I am honored to have been invited to join, especially when I view the work of the amazingly talented artists represented. If you have time to kill, it won’t be wasted browsing websites found at API.
“Invisible”
‘Flappergastet’ is such a great word. For once I have a chance to use it. I submit to several art photography competitions every months, some are juried gallery exhibitions, others are more like real competitions. Yesterday the winners were announced for two of them and, no, I didn’t win. But I made it to the finalists/nominees in five of the seven categories I submitted to.
Five? They didn’t even tell me. I went to the webpage to study the images there. When I got to the category of Invisible Women I found some very familiar images and a very familiar name. I was more than a little excited just to have made finalist. Then I checked out all the categories of the two competitions and at the end I was able to add the following lines to my resumé:
– All in a single evening.
As always there is an image with my post. This is from my selfportrait series – finalist in Invisible Women and Selfportrait.
“Go on, you know you want to…”
I just got this image accepted among the forty images to be shown at “Car Culture”, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, November 5 to 23, 2013. It’s a name that pops up frequently when I share the info on group exhibits but I can assure you that it is a diiferent juror every time.
This image was shot in Sonoma, CA, this summer at a classic car exhibition at a vinyard where I dragged my family to so I could sweat in the sun while taking pictures of cars I would be hard pressed to find at home.
“In another world” – this image just got accepted for the juroured group exhibition, “Shadows”. On view at A Smith Gallery, 105 N Nugent Ave., Johnson City, Texas from October 4’th to November 9’th 2013 or on-line at asmithgallery.com.
I can add that the shot was taking from our room at The Green Lantern Inn at Carmel this summer.
Black man’s burden, white man’s burden, any man’s burden…
What do we carry, how do we carry it and how do we carry ourselves?
We all carry something – bags, water bottles, scars, excess weight, tattoos, emotional pain. Some of what we carry is evident as they are physical objects but the rest we can only speculate about.
With this body of work my intention is to focus on what people physically carry but to encourage the viewer to look deeper. I chose to make the images faceless as faces often draw our attention. My aim here is to look beyond facial expression.
We all have preset notions about a person from the way they look but often these notions tell us more about ourselves than about the person we are looking at. By considering what clues to the personality we can glean from just looking at the center of a person, what they carry, and how they carry themselves we might gain an insight into how we view ourselves.
Tiltle: Escape
This photo can presently be found at the 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles as part of the jurored group exhibition, Urban Landscape.
“When I’m sixty four” from the series “In the eye of the beholder” will be part of the group exhibit The Art of Nostalgia at PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont, from August 13. to September 6., 2013. I’m so excited!
Aug. 13 – Sept. 6, 2013
Karins Fotos 