..What I strongly believe is that this is not a rogue set of cops;
this is standard practice. It is what it is. It's the utter terror of a
wayward bureaucracy..
..Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
(1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with
the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture
three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red,
green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and
projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images...
Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, Khan of the Russian
protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva, now a part of modern Uzbekistan),
full-length portrait, seated outdoors, ca. 1910.(Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC)
Laying
concrete for the dam's sluice, 1912. Workers and supervisors pose for a
photograph amid preparations for pouring cement for sluice dam
foundation across the Oka River near Beloomut.
Prokudin-Gorskii rides along on a handcar outside
Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway along Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk
in 1910. (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC)
Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara, (present-day Uzbekistan), ca. 1910. (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC)
I
hope everyone is doing well! The Last couple of months have been fairly
eventful for me so here is the news in brief from the frontlines. If
anything in particular takes your interest, you
know the score ..Pink for the Link..
‘In
order to make work that critiques the very thing that it eventually
embellishes, the work must conceal its agenda behind deliberate layers
of intersecting imagery and absolute conceptual
rigour. The work must have entire conviction that it is not just
another Google project.’
~ Christopher Thomas
Some very generous people also gave me space and time in the following amazing publications.
I
also had the opportunity to work with loads of great organisations and
galleries, who let me participate in exhibitions across the UK and
Ireland!
• ‘Between Here and There’,Castlemead Bristol,
• 'This Offset Space' Little Green Street Gallery, Dublin
• ‘Between Here and There’, Tower Warf, Bristol,
• "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" Sallynoggin CFE, Dublin.
All in all a big thanks to everyone who has made all these great opportunities possible! 2012 has so far been a great year.
Should be a lot more news to come in the next month, but you’ll have to wait until next time to find out,
Same bat-time, same bat-channel..
Muchos Love,
Dave
Legal Disclaimer: I am not Batman, nor have I ever claimed to be said Batman. Neither am I associated with exploding sharks, helicopters and/or Robins.
..Anthropocene
in the May 2012 issue of Esquire Magazine Russia. This has definitely
made my year :)For those of you who like me aren't fluent Russian
speakers, you can find the translation below..
..A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we've seen.
And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What's happening is
that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we're being
domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and
the Internet - MARK D. PAGEL..
