Is anyone else seeing this connection?
© David Noonan/Photographer: Unknown.
October 9, 2011
Unfashion by Mariana Lucia Marquez
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Fashion design, in its avant-garde form, has a disposition to become (fashionably) unfashion. In Mariana’s work, she interprets a recent show of Hussein Chalayan to explore how a performance may “succeed” by failing to live up to its idiom. Her thesis takes its cue from Jérôme Bel’s notion that symbolic failure on stage, far from undermining the performance, produces a palpable artistic surplus. Find out more at www.marianaluciamarquez.comTitle: Unfashion – Bonnie Bird Theatre, Trinity Laban
Choreography: Mariana Lucia Marquez
Performers: Diina Bukareva, Alenka Herman, Emma Zangs
Sound: Soundtrack from Hussein Chalayan’s “S/S 2003 Manifest Destiny” Show
Lighting: Andy Hammond, Ashley Bolitho
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July 26, 2011
Procrastinating!
Hmm I should be writing an essay on postwar Japanese photography but I just found this funny video of Nobuyoshi Araki at work whilst researching for it that I thought I’d share. He looks like he’s having so much fun! Anyway, now back to the essay…..
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June 28, 2011
Quote of the day:
In photography there is a new kind of plasticity, the product of instantaneous lines made by movements of the subject. We work in unison with movement as though it were a presentiment of the way in which life itself unfolds. But inside movement there is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye.
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January 14, 2011
Welcome MAPJD
I’m happy to announce that I have just started on the part-time MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography course (MAPJD) at London College of Communication. Part of the course requirement is to keep a blog – you can follow my progress here (under MAPJD) along with my other news. So to my fellow classmates, I look forward to spending the next 2 years hearing more about your work and here’s a brief synopsis of what I do…..
I am a London based documentary photographer and photographic facilitator and have been working in the industry for the last 13 years. Prior to this I assisted photographers for about 3/4 years. I’ve worked mainly in community settings with charities working on projects with; refugees, individuals with special needs, children/young adults with learning and behavioral difficulties, young people that have been excluded from school, teenage parents and the elderly. I have also worked as an artist/photographer-in-residence in a number of diverse institutes and I volunteer with the Helen Bamber Foundation, a human rights organisation that helps to rebuild lives with survivors of gross human rights violations – I teach photography as part of their creative arts programme.
My current photographic work predominately explores issues around the landscape (social, political, urban, suburban and natural environments) including relationships between people and their environment. One project I am working on ‘LUNGS’ is an ongoing photographic study of greenspaces in urban areas and how people use these spaces. You can read more about this project on my website under ‘greenspaces’.
My reasons for wanting to enrol on this course include; to further develop my practice and hopefully take it to another level, producing work with a much stronger narrative. I would also like to pursue more in-depth project work in the future and feel that having an MA will help when applying for funding plus it ‘should’ improve my theoretical/critical analysis which will also help with this.
I feel privileged to be able to participate on this course under the guidance of esteemed tutors and a supportive network of peers. The journey begins……….
August 16, 2010
Interviewed on PAS’s blog
August 16, 2010
Limited Edition Prints now available @ Photography Art Store
Over the last few months I have been working with Karen Rapp at PAS getting these new releases ready and I’m delighted to announce that they are now available as limited edition prints on their website. You can view them here.
Mojave Desert, California.
August 4, 2010
