Aventuras de América Del Sur

Posted on February 1st, 2012

An adventure it was, an adventure featuring classical elements. Lows, highs, challenges, disappointments, adversity, darkness, light, sadness, solitude, tears and smiles. Got a bit bumpy in the middle there, but it all sort of worked out in the end. The story of my life. But let me backtrack some. July 2011, Copenhagen. I talk to Daniel Milnor and Adam Weintraub and soon after excitedly sign up for the PhotoExperience.Net workshop in Peru in December. The thought then becomes, with no other plans and since I am going to Peru, might as well inflate the trip into a couple of months of exploration of this, for me unknown continent. In my mind are day dreams of a South American adventure, jumping around the continent in…

Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Landscape, Peru, Photo, Photography, Portrait, South America, Travel

Tagged: adam weintraub, buenos aires, chile, cusco, daniel fox, daniel milnor, la paz, photoexperience.net, salta, santa cruz, santiago

America Del Sur in Print

Posted on January 29th, 2012

Two and a half month I traveled and worked in América Del Sur. Having the opportunity to shoot almost every day I made a fair amount of images, street and documentary photography and some portraits. Images that I am now just starting to look at. And there’s nothing like prints to edit, sequence, select and judge images. So I very loosely selected a handful of images that looked interesting, turned out to be 185 images, about 3-4% of what I had captured. I made small prints of all of these and now I can play with them. Spread them all over the floor of the boat, touch them, shuffle them around, sequence, select them. Prints just speak to me in a way pixels on…

Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Landscape, Peru, Photo, Photography, Portrait, South America, Travel

Tagged: america del sur, analog, argentina, art, bolivia, chile, creative, daniel milnor, film, peru, photoexperience.net, prints, process

Peru Photo Story: Solitude

Posted on January 23rd, 2012

The Andes. Ancient and majestic mountains, windy, cold and unforgiving. The road snakes through the desolate and uninviting landscape. The sky is white, the wind fierce and colours are muted to a stark monochrome mood. Yet, here in this extreme environment people live and make their lives. More a mood than a story, these pictures were made in the Andes mountains of Peru driving from Arequipa to Chivay. This was the third story I submitted for the group reviews in the brilliant Adam Weintraub PhotoExperience.net workshop with Daniel Milnor. The solitude spoke to me instantly. I know it well having mapped out that feeling intensely. I chose black and white as I wished to do a different story at this time in the workshop,…

Categories: Landscape, Panorama, Peru, Photo, Photography, Portrait, South America, Travel

Tagged: adam weintraub, andes, black, daniel milnor, desolate, photoexperience.net, smogranch, solitude, white

Peru Photo Essay: Christmas in the barrios

Posted on January 17th, 2012

“Stop!!!!” – I am quite sure it was Amy who first screamed what we all wanted, to stop the car. We had just spotted these wonderful people dressing up in the ‘barrios’ neighborhood of the town of Arequipa. Out jumps 9 photographers, like a task force, causing quite a stir. Fortunately the incredibly cool and nice people loved having 9 photographers documenting their small intimate Christmas festival, one of my favourite events in the entire workshop and unscripted, entirely by chance that we happened to be passing by. They invited us to stay and partake in the festivities, wanting to share their food and beer. What incredible hospitality, 9 photographers show up and they instantly invites us in to dinner. Peruvians are cool. This…

Categories: Peru, Photo, Photography, Portrait, South America, Travel

Tagged: adam weintraub, daniel milnor, documentary, peru, photo experience, photojournalism, storytelling

Copenhagen Nightwalking

Posted on October 26th, 2011

Charlene Winfred, a dear friend of mine, has a great long running photo series on Nightwalking featuring some awesome images of Perth at night. Long have I promised her to do a similar shoot in Copenhagen. Long have I had plans to wake up at 2am in Summer and go night walking – at Summer darkness does not win over light until around midnight. That never happened, so instead I spent two freezing evenings in October roaming the city and I have finally captured a few images of Copenhagen by Night – read on.

Categories: Copenhagen, Denmark, Panorama, Photo, Photography

Tagged: charlene winfred, danmark, københavn, night, nightscape, nightwalking

The Road

Posted on October 13th, 2011

I am driving in the desert. Just driving. The road runs straight as an arrow to infinity. Makes me feel safe. Feel less. The desolate nothingness is overwhelming and pleasingly numbing. Calms the storm. The hypnotic hum of the wheels mix in with the music. Drown out the voices. The car has become an extension of me. I feel in control. Driving the car pauses just enough brain cells to halt the free fall. A fast moving car turns out to be a perfect place to forget about my problems. The desert is my sole companion. My only conversation for a month was provided by border patrol officers–pulled me over near Mexico. I pass small towns. There is a world happening somewhere but I…

Categories: Arizona, California, Landscape, Nevada, New Mexico, Panorama, Photography, Travel, USA, Utah

Tagged: desert, douglas coupland, gus van sant, jack kerouac, my own private idaho, road, road trip

James Price Point video and Exhibition

Posted on September 27th, 2011

If visitors arrived from another planet and took an overall view of our common problems, I presume they would tell us “overpopulation, lack of drinking water, lack of food, and you are ruining your own home, your planet”. Now; it would be naive to think we can do without the natural resources of our planet such as natural gas, but we must act in a sustainable way, and not succumb to greed and short sighted solutions – such as placing the world’s largest gas hub right in one of the world’s few remaining areas of wilderness. Having previously blogged about James Price Point perhaps you are already familiar with the campaign to save James Price Point and have the world’s largest gas hub built…

Categories: Australia, Broome, Kimberley, Landscape, Outback, Panorama, Photo, Photography, Travel

Tagged: environs kimberley, james price point, save the kimberley, walmadan, wilderness society

Asia Stories book release

Posted on September 9th, 2011

I am proud to present my book Asia Stories featuring stories from Papua New Guinea, Laos and Cambodia. The images in this book contain some of the stories that have affected me deeply during the first two years of my life on the road. The experiences I gathered, people I met, places I visited, and lessons I learnt, changed me almost completely. Little exists of the person I was before. The books is 138 pages, hardcover with dust jacket and printed on gorgeous thick Mohawk uncoated cotton paper with a lovely textured art feel to it. Watch a video about the book: Asia Stories is for sale via Blurb.com, you order the book directly on the Blurb website and the book is shipped…

Categories: Cambodia, Landscape, Laos, Panorama, Papua New Guinea, Photo, Photography, Portrait, Travel

Tagged: blurb, book, charlene winfred, photo book

The town of Pangkalan Bun

Posted on August 19th, 2011

All my sensory inputs are experiencing firsts. My nose detects a unique mixture of tropical humidity, heat, people, teak wood huts, spices, fried meat, fish, vegetables, sewage and diesel exhaust from boats. The colours are vibrant and rich. Everything is painted in saturated tones, longboats, huts and clothes. Colourful advertisement posters are utilised as decoration. It seems all the colours of the world has gathered to party in this town. The river is life, the river is where the children swim, where the laundry is done, where the sewage floats, where the longboats’ engine puffs black smoke, where fishing is done; the river is the source of all activity. The river is alive with sounds, children laughing, people talking, cooking food, hanging out, water…

Categories: Landscape, Panorama, Photo, Photography, Portrait, Travel

Tagged: borneo, indonesia, kalimantan, orangutan, pangkalan bun, river, tanjung puting, village

Limited edition of my upcoming photo book

Posted on August 11th, 2011

I am presently (with great help from my editor Charlene Winfred) putting the finishing touches on my upcoming photo book, something I am very excited about. The 138 page book has been carefully edited, sequenced and written and features 4 stories from Asia, essays and more than 60 images, from Papua New Guinea, Laos and Cambodia. The book will be 25×20 cm in size and printed on gorgeous professional Mohawk heavy fine art paper. To the right is a sneak preview from the layout in Indesign. The book will be available via Blurb.com and available to order in 2-3 weeks. I am considering selling a batch of limited edition signed copies and would like to hear if there’s interest in this. The price for…

Categories: Cambodia, Landscape, Laos, Panorama, Papua New Guinea, Photo, Photography, Portrait