Imaginarium

My latest discovery is a book called ‘Imaginarium’ by Claire Rosen. A real treasure trove of ideas to stimulate creativity for art photographers, it focuses on the necessary components for developing personal vision, exploring artistic roots and areas of interest and explores aspects of artistic lifestyle, time management, previsiualization, production, and the viewer’s experience. The…

Three Ecologies

‘The Three Ecologies’ by Felix Guattari originally published in 1989 is a rich and complex post-modernist piece devoted to the search of the true reasons of contemporary ecological crisis. ‘Despite having recently initiated a partial realization of the most obvious dangers that threaten the natural environment of our societies, they are naturally content to simply…

1M views on @Flickr

Exciting news today is that my new environmental and travel photography website has been launched: http://stanislav.photography/. At the same time this week  my Flickr blog has reached a psychological threshold of 1.000.000 views: https://www.flickr.com/photos/environmentalartist/albums Thank you all! As a special treat the 10 most thoughtful and engaging comments on Flickr between 12 September and 01 October…

Rencontres d’Arles

Rencontres d’Arles is full of amazing personalities: famous and not-so-famous photographers, gallery owners, museum curators, journalist, photography enthusiasts, contemporary art aficionados, bloggers, journal editors, professors of contemporary art history and book publishers. This year the OFF programme (those exhibitions that didn’t get to the official selection of the Rencontres d’Arles festival) or off OFF programme…

Landscape into Art

It was an incredible experience to discover an old classic, the book ‘Landscape into Art’ written by Kenneth Clark in 1949, based on his series of lectures given as a Slade Professor in Oxford (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Landscape-into-Art-Kenneth-Clark/dp/0719536103). According to a contemporary Cambridge Review, ‘The importance of this book to art criticism and to the history of art…

Rencontres d’Arles

Continuing my Rencontres d’Arles photo series featuring art directors, gallery owners, photographers, collectors and members of the public enjoying the sunshine in Arles. Founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, writer Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette, the Rencontres d’Arles Festival became the longest-running and most famous photography festival in the world. Exhibiting…

Vilém Flusser

Vilém Flusser is one of my recent discoveries. Hugely engaging and a very powerful text re-contextualizing the photographic practice and our relationship with photography. Flusser considers images ‘mediations between the world and human beings’. He describes the nature of photography as a practice of magic and considers the invention of photography an event of a…

Rencontres d’Arles

First, some impressions. Arles is amazing for people watching. One could find movie characters not dissimilar to Don Corleone surrounded by the penetrating yellows of Cafe Van Gogh, the famous terrace depicted by the master painter himself. After meeting and discussing photography with one of the Magnum members I decided to focus more on people…

Rencontres d’Arles

Visiting Rencontres d’Arles is always a moveable feast. Portfolio reviews, exhibitions, talks, discussion forums, meetings, cafe life, private views, film screenings, the list goes on. In the next few posts I will be sharing some of the images made during my recent trip to Rencontres d’Arles capturing the spirit of the festival, the festival goers…