Ella Rubeli on Street Photography:
the act of street photography relies on the presence of forces that are beyond human control: light, chance, time.via Two cutting edge photography shows at Monash Gallery of Art by Ella Rubeli.
Showing posts with label Trent Parke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trent Parke. Show all posts
Friday, November 20, 2015
On Street Photography - Ella Rubeli (Fri 20 Nov 2015)
Sunday, May 17, 2015
On Photography and Memory - Trent Parke / Suzie Keen (Fri 13 Mar 2015)
Trent Parke on Memory and Photography:
I’m really interested in the subconscious and memory and how those things can suddenly re-surface, especially through photographs.
Monday, May 4, 2015
On Trent Parke and Life - Nick Mitzevich /Gina Fairley (Fri 27 Mar 2015)
Nick Mitzevich on Trent Parke and Life :
By stripping himself bare to reveal his own imperfections, Parke pursues the bigger meaning of life and in doing so he challenges us, to reflect on our own lives.via The world loves Trent Parke … who? by Gina Fairley.
And that is what I have pretty much done here. That's maybe why I can relate to his work and motivation.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Trent Parke and The Black Rose - John McDonald / Spectrum / SMH (Sat 25Apr 2015)
Parke is a storyteller, and the story is that of his own life captured as if in the fragments of a broken mirrorvia Review: photographer Trent Parke's double shot of darkness by John McDonald.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Margaret - Exhibition Tour Guide - The Black Rose / Trent Parke (Mon 23Mar 2015
James Brickwood on Portrait Photography:
I like to keep it quite close and intimate and I like to highlight the subject, that's why I have a clean background.via Spectrum Now: photographer James Brickwood captures Ed Sheeran's softer side by Sophia Phan.
Margaret you are a champion: a fantastic tour - I loved your enthusiasm and I learnt so much more about Trent's work. Keep doing what you are doing. Thanks for allowing me to take these photos - I think your enthusiasm for what you do, shines through strongly in these photos. Again, with thanks for the Tour and Photos.
PS - What I took from Trent's Black Rose Exhibition: The Circle of Life: Conception, Birth, Living, Dying, Death and what follows - Fate and Destiny - Luck, Chance and Serendipity (my own Trent Parke Serendipity Story).
Monday, March 23, 2015
On Imagination - Trent Parke / The Black Rose (Mon 23 Mar 2015)
Trent Parke (*) writes on Imagination (*):
Symbolically the Balck Rose represents death, or the overcoming of a long journey. It is the search for absolute perfection as the Black Rose does not truly exist. It is also referred to as Black Magic.via TRENT PARKE: THE BLACK ROSE (*).Imagination is the key to the whole Black Rose. It is the most important thing. Imagination is always so important to me. And Dreams allow you to get to those places you can't get to in your normal day to day working. They up open things up you could never possibly think of.
Friday, March 20, 2015
On Photography and Light - Trent Parke / Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore (Sun08 Mar 2015)
Trent Parke on Photography and Light:
You walk around at times thinking the whole world is a painting. Light is my work.via The photographer who made Australia his canvas by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore.
Trent Parke: The Black Rose opens 14 March at the Art Gallery of South Australia, as part of the 2015 Adelaide Festival..
Off to Adelaide for the day on Monday to see this exhibition. A kindred spirit in life and photography and he has inspired my own efforts in many ways. Maybe more on this next week ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
On Taking Photographs - Trent Parke / The Eye of Photography (Thu 18 Dec 2014)
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
On Photographic Projects - Trent Parke (Wed 27 Aug 2014)
Trent Parke (*) writes On Projects (*):
Most of my projects last for years. I don’t feel I can achieve anything worth saying in a few weeks in a place. I have always been interested in why I am drawn to something and why I eventually push the camera button. Most of it comes from memory, the subconscious and events I experienced growing up.via An interview with Trent Parke - Try Hard Magazine (*) by Try Hard Magazine (*).
Both stops in Milan (*) were short (about an hour) and these were quick shots taken with baggage in hand, explaining the wonkiness of each photo. I always remembered the 2005 photo and see it often amongst my favourite photos (*) on Picasa.
In 2005 (*) were heading north to Interlarken (*) from Genoa (*) and Jenny was with us. This time we heading to Bologna (*) from Zurich (*).
The Canon Pro1 (*) I used in 2005 has always been my favourite camera and the sensor gave beautiful textured and coloured images [see here (*)]. It was definitely a quirky camera, but my favourite.
It stopped working in January 2009 on our last Main Range (*) walk with Jenny. An omen of sorts I should think. It's last few images were ghostly white with faint silhouette's of Jenny and Joanne at the Summit (*) of Mt K.
I have said it few times here over the years, when I have talked about past photos, I think I saw my photos better back then. I was less knowledgeable and more naive. In some ways it has helped me understand what Bono (*) was trying to say in front of large crowd of fans at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge (*) looking into Manhattan (*) when he said (*) it was about:
a time in our lives when we did not know how powerful it was not to know.Finally, as Trent's quote from above mentions, I think these two photos are about memory (*) and the subconscious (*). They are also about change - even though nothing really looks that different about the roofs, nine years have passed and so much has changed. Maybe that's what I was trying to say here (*) about change (*) before we departed.
So, I am happy to have these two photo, the opportunity to make them and these random thoughts here now.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
On the Photographic Process and Discovery - Trent Parke (Wed 27 Aug 2014)
Trent Parke (*) writes On The Photographic Process (*) and Disocvery (*):
Question everything. Make work that is meaningful to you. Take time.from Interview with: Trent Parke (*) via jotoole: (via An interview with Trent Parke - Try Hard... (*) by Douglas Lowell (*).
I have always found that mistakes and accidents usually lead to the best discoveries.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
On Happiness and Sadness - Trent Parke / Guardian Photo Blog (Fri 14 Mar 2014)
Trent Parke (*) writes Happiness (*) and Sadness (*):
I find happiness (*) in sadness (*) in a strange way – there is something that uplifts (*) me and keeps me waiting, looking for the next thing.via Trent Parke lets his camera play God in inspired new street portrait series (*) by Alex Needham (*).
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
On Photobooks - Brian Rose (Mon 17 Feb 2014)
Brian Rose (*) writes Photobooks (*):
Despite the digitization of photography - or perhaps because of it - we are in a golden age of photography books. There are now numerous websites, blogs, and Facebook groups that review or sell photo books, and all of that virtual infrastructure helps build community and encourage sales. But without local bookstores, where one can browse, discover, pick up and feel, fewer photo books will reach the public. Simple as that.via New York/Bookstores Still Essential (*) by Brian Rose (*).
Monday, September 2, 2013
On Inspiration - Trent Parke / insideout (Wed 21 Aug 2013)
Monday, December 24, 2012
On Photography - discovery and your place in the world - Trent Parke
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Minutes to Midnight - Trent Parke
A great insight into this body of work which will be published as a book in mid-August..
It depends on where you come from and what you've been influenced when growing up, the reaction you will have to specific imagery [..] it just depends on what has happened in your life to bring what you bring to these images, what that conjour up and what they mean to a specific person. [..]
It's important that people react to the images from their own perspective from where they have come in life.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Trent Parke Exhibition - Stills Gallery / Darlinghurst (Fri 09 Mar 2012)
Friday, March 9, 2012
Red - Darlinghurst (Fri 09 Mar 2012)
Picasa Contact Sheet - Darlinghurst (Fri 09 Mar 2012)
Sunday, September 4, 2011
look behind yourself, the light is always different – Trent Parke
“While walking the street constantly look behind yourself, the light is always different.” – Trent Parke (*)
Look Behind Yourself - Avenue du Mont-Royal / Montreal (Thu 25 Aug 2011)
Friday, December 17, 2010
Geoff Dyer on Trent Parke (2010) - American Suburb X - (Fri 17 Dec 2010)
I have a Google Alert for Trent Parke, an Australian Photographer who is a member of Magnum and in-public (who BTW have just celebrated their 10th birthday).
Most days I will get one or two alerts come through on my Google Reader. Normally, they don't lead to anything interesting or something I don't already know about him. However, I received an alert that quickly drew my attention. It was titled:
Geoff Dyer on Trent Parke (2010).
As Andrew Bruce posted today on Trent's Facebook Wall:
easily the best piece of writing on Parke to date
Have to agree and it is definitely worth a read.
A bit of a ramble to follow. I have known of Geoff Dyer for sometime. At least since around the time of the publication of his book, the The Ongoing Moment (Guardian Review - 16 Oct 2005). A novel and rather modest approach to writing about photography - he claims that he does not even own a camera:
"I am not a photographer ... I don't even own a camera."
I enjoyed the book and appreciated his knowledge of photography. In particular I enjoyed his writing style and the metaphors he used to get his ideas across - you will see this in his article on Trent.
[on writing about the book, The Seventh Wave] The surface of the sea is a film separating two worlds, that of water and that of air. Though absolute the distinction is perpetually on the brink of dissolving, melting away. People fly through the water as if suspended in a turbulent sky, or float through great clouds of aquatic light. That’s what water is for Parke and Autio – liquid light. Forms dissolve, blur, swim into and out of focus. Quick and silver, the water is a flash-flood of mercury.
On to Trent Parke. I have followed his progress since he was photographer with the Sydney Morning Herald back in the early 2000's. He had two photos in the first Sydney Looking Forward Exhibtion back in 2002. I wrote about one of the photos here. Indeed the post is one of the more popular pages residing in my little blog.
In 2003 I bought two copies of the two books he had published at that stage:
Both books appear to be long out of print, by the looks of the Amazon Used Books prices.
Looks like I have done alright with these purchases (they were about $50 each from the Stills Gallery). I could not help myself other than to buy two copies of each. They were just beautiful. I have a soft/weak spot for photography books. I can remember catching the train after work, upto Kings Cross and then walking into Paddington to the Stills Gallery. I took quite a few photos with my litte IXUS. Must drag them out of the archive to find out the exact date of purchase of the books. A job for another day.
I will close with a quote from Geoff Dyer's article on Trent:
Later works will continue but intensify the Dream/Life vision so that, at its most extreme, Sydney becomes a kind of ghost city, in the process of being annihilated by light. A passer-by will be transformed into an accidental super-hero: Solar-man, a bleached absence of pure radiance! (Part of the fascination of this picture is of the photographer-as-magician kind: how did he do that? The difference between magic and photography is that the spell remains unbroken even when the technical explanation - which, in any case, I cannot recall - is forthcoming. [GeoffE: maybe some discussion here will help: How is this done? (Trent Parke) at photo.net - 31 Mar 2004)]
An article by the Sydney Morning Herald's Tim Clayton giving some background to the working environment that Trent Parke evolved.
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