September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
3 posts
Nerijus Rimkus
Images from Lithuania based photographer Nerijus Rimkus
See more of his work here: http://nerijusrimkus.com/
Lina Scheynius: Book 02
June 2009
8 posts
Todd Hido
In a the last six months nearly everyone I know has become unemployed, or at the very least, found themselves pretty destitute. These images from Todd Hido’s Foreclosed Homes series are especially beautiful right now, though they also feel disturbingly close at hand.
See more of Todd Hido’s work on his website
http://www.toddhido.com/
Pierre Debusschere
www.pierredebusschere.com
David Lynch Interview Project
(David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini photographed by Helmut Newton)
Check out this wonderful new project from David Lynch.
121 episodes to be posted through the month of June, each interview conducted with one randomly selected person found while on the road.
After watching the first two, I am genuinely surprised by how entertaining they are. In just 3-4 minutes the interviews are able to...
“My overall take on portraiture is its overwhelming failure to transcend its...”
– What makes a great portrait? on Conscientious
May 2009
36 posts
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassionate Eye
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX
Part X
It's the Photographer not the Camera →
Article about Magnum Photographer Alex Majoli who uses Digital Point and Shoots for almost all his assignments (found at 2Point8)
Wild at Heart
David Lynch’s Wild at Heart was one of those movies that, though disliked upon first viewing, became an outright obsession for me a few years later. Everything about it made me long to make something as beautiful and as rich…as utterly strange and captivating. The feeling lasted about a year and a half.
It’s always sad when something that once drew you close comes to leave...
A place to wash the heart
Monika Bielskyte was born in Lithuania but since 2005 is based in Paris. As an artist she mainly works with photography & video based installations that also include texts & music.
A place to wash the heart chapter 1A place to wash the heart chapter 2 prologue
This project is work-in-process, it has 5 chapters that are connected together but can also be read separately. ”A place...
Jon Edwards
These Jon Edwards’ evocative portraits remind me a pre-raphaelite Ophelia.
Eleonora
Hello contributors and viewers.
I’m truly thrilled to start contributing for the Piston blog. My name is Eleonora. I was born and raised in Florence, Italy. Now I’m living in Paris. I usually introduce myself as a fashion designer, but I think that the peculiarity of my work is to express concepts and suggestions about fashion through differents disciplines. I’m influenced by...
paul herbst
paul’s works are really amazing. check them out at
http://www.paulherbst.net/
or
http://my-shit-is-gold.net/
Bill Henson
Controversial Bill Henson’s deep, dark images almost always wake me out of creative apathy.
Gallery: Young Kyu Yoo
I don’t really know anything about Young Kyu Yoo except that he is based in New York and he’s working on his Portfolio, but his images are striking.
Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann
Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann, found at fabulous Wassenaar Magazine
A Few Things
Hello, my name is Miranda and I’ll just say this:
I like watching movies, I like eating ice cream, I like small creatures and tangled hair.
I love the way that wind feels when it stirs my hair, and the warmth of it on my skin. I want to experience things that recreate this feeling; a sort of gentle freedom, a quiet abandon, a moment so soft and natural that it could become dangerous...
Pardon My Wandering Eyes
Hello Pistonites.
I was lucky to have been featured in the first Piston issue and I´m exited to now have been asked to join the Piston contributor crew.
My work explore the concepts of memory, friendship and intimacy, the idea of he meeting and the question of how much and what you ever really are allowed to see of another human being. No matter how close, familiar or intimate the relation. I...
Boo
About Me, Quickly. I was born, 1983, in Santa Cruz, California. I moved to Seattle, Washington. I moved to Kaneohe, Hawaii. I moved to Kailua, Hawaii. I attended Montessori Community School. I attended Maryknoll Schools. I grew 177.8 centimeters. I moved to San Francisco, California. I attended California College of the Arts. I interned and worked for Future Farmers. I moved to Berlin, Germany. I...
essays in light
thanks a lot to ramon and the piston magazine team for their invitation to contribute to their great blog.
just a few words about me and my work: i am a self-taught artist, photographer, whatever from the black forest, born on halloween night ‘76. instead of an academic art education, i spent my whole puberty in the local video rental store and watched an odd mélange of science-fiction and horror...
Walter Pfeiffer: Interview Magazine
Read more on Interview Magazine!
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Brian Sorg: Davey
I met Davey in October of 2005. He was 13. I have been photographing him, his friends and family, and his life ever since.
Tell us a bit about yourself…who are you, where do you live, what are you doing besides photography, do you make a living out of it? I am a photographer/artist living in Chicago. I was on the 7 year plan in college, first pursing a business degree and eventually...
Hannah Starkey
© Hannah Starkey
The People in Hannah Starkey’s (b. 1971, Belfast, Northern Ireland) film-like Photographs don’t do much. They live in freeze frames of daily Life, buried in thought in Cafès, on the Street, public Toilets while doing their Hair. What seems to be like spontaneous Narratives of Urban Life, Race and Gender, densely filled with Identity Issues, are carefully staged and...
Tribble Mancenido
Pillow Talk, © Tracey Mancenido-Tribble, James Frank Tribble
Miranda Lehman
Miranda Lehman, Website update!
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Call for Contributors!
We started to work on the first real issue of Piston this week. It’s going to be entirely dedicated to contemporary Portrait Photography driven by influences like intimacy, nostalgia, nature, urbanity and zeitgeist. To expand our online and offline endeavours we are searching for contributors with a strong sense for this topic.
There are few possible ways to contribute: be a guest editor...
“An aspiring photographer can, without too much difficulty, find methods for...”
– pause, to begin
Shen Wei
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THESIS REPORT I
“Besides the Work for Piston I’m doing my Thesis at the Moment, it’s a very personal and intimate Piece on People and Friends that had a huge influence on me. I’m going to keep you updated on the process via this Blog. More coming soon…
- Ramon”
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Jake Rowland
Family Album and The River Rock Variations Constructed Portraits 2004-06
by Jake Rowland
“In November of 2003, I began creating images in which I digitally combined the portraits of several people to form individual fictional character portraits. My subjects for these combined portraits were members of my family. I photographed using a medium format camera, scanned the resulting...
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Linus Bill
Linus Bill wins the 24th Edition of the Hyeres Photography Competition. Congratulations!
See some selected work in the 0 Issue of Piston. By the way…you can order it here via PayPal. Thanks Azita!
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KUDÁSZ GÁBOR ARION
Urns, 2005, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Pension, 2005, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Shelter, 2006, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Doberman, 2006, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Undergrowth (Man and Son), 2006, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Candle, 2006, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Playground, 2006, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Safety Light, 2006, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Sleepers, Pop Festival, 2005, © Kudász Gábor Arion
Excerpts from...
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Nacho Alegre
All Pictures © Nacho Alegre
“Imagine if the Internet had emerged in the early
twentieth century. The...”
– Words Without Pictures, 3 January 2008, Jason Evans, PDF
Jennifer Loeber - Zeig Mal
© Jennifer Loeber
© Jennifer Loeber
© Jennifer Loeber
© Jennifer Loeber
“The idea to shoot nude portraits came about as I rode the NYC subway and pretended not to notice, across the aisle, a man fumbling to remove his clothes and expose himself to me. He looked distinctly uncomfortable yet wholly determined in his goal. His great drive to reveal himself to the commuting populace was...
Surprise! Surprise!
Two new additions to the Piston Flickr! Family:
Claire Sloan
Grant Harder
April 2009
27 posts
Feature: Jen Davis
Jen Davis - Self-Portraits
In this body of work, I deal with my insecurities about my body image and the direct correlation between self-perception and the way one is perceived by others. Photography is the medium that I use to tell my story through life, an outlet for revealing my thoughts and opinions about the society in which we live. A society that dictates beauty based on ones physical...