If you’re in a rush (as I so often seem to be) it’s dangerous to visit Lens Culture, where a new issue is now on line. There is a ten-minute interview with Roger Ballen about his work, nicely done and one of the earliest of a new video series, Lens Culture: Conversations with Photographers, though perhaps the music was just a little overdone. There is another with Simon Roberts too.
Completely new to me were the black and white portraits of kids at play by which Jim Caspar found in a contest at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado that he was asked to judge. Some of Donna Pinckley‘s pictures have a quality that reminded me of Diane Arbus‘s kid with a hand grenade, (see the contacts and read more about Colin Wood, interviewed 41 years after the exposure in the San Francisco Chronicle.)
There is also a feature Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, a review of the book accompanying the show of 40 contemporary Korean photographers at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. With 13 images it gives what can only be a very partial idea of the work but may whet your appetite; if so, the book Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography (ISBN: 0300157533 / 0-300-15753-3, Tucker, Anne Wilkes; Sinsheimer, Karen; Koo, Bohnchang is available for around £18 including delivery from the cheaper UK suppliers.
Don’t fly out to Houston as Chaotic Harmony closed there earlier this month; but the page is still worth visiting for the audio there. Still showing in Houston is Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea continues until Feb 14th – and you can see an interesting presentation on it on their site. Chaotic Harmony will be on show at Santa Barbara from July 3 – September 19, 2010.
Too much more of interest to mention, and I have to get down to some other work. If you’ve got any time to spare don’t miss Lens Culture.
