MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
The retreat, located in South of France will take place over the course of 7 nights. The Photography Master Retreat is not only a critique but also a workshop-based experience that emphasizes self-reflection with the goal of advancing the participants’ practice to levels they may not have thought possible.
Enter Kelsey Lu; an artist who gathers much of her artistic inspiration from the motion of water and seems to spin out music thoughtfully and deliberately, much as someone would unravel thread from a wooden spool. Her tones are slowly and deeply hypnotizing. A cellist by trade, the non-shaving and gender-open 26-year-old carries the aura of an individual wise beyond her years.
When non-fiction filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin decided to profile their friend and professional rock climber Alex Honnold, they didn’t grasp the enormity of the danger the ace mountaineer would assume. Nor did they appreciate the full degree of the personal, professional, and ethical risks they, too, were about to take.
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922), a prolific filmmaker, film critic, and docent of American avant-garde cinema — and consequently nicknamed “the godfather” of American avant-garde cinema — passed away Wednesday, January 23, at the age of 96.
Dear Mr. Adrian Lyne, We miss your presence in theatres. Your films gather characters’ dysfunctions and mend their gloomy lives through the delicate haze of soft and natural lighting.
Like a lot of other film students in college, I had to watch the groundbreaking French film by Jean Luc-Godard, Breathless. Like a lot of other college students, I was a bit of an obnoxious
Columbine shocked the world in 1999. “It should never happen again.” Then, Virginia Tech in 2007. “It should never happen again.” Then, Sandy Hook in 2012. “It should never happen again.”
Chutian Shu is a New York based Chinese artist. Her work investigates surrealistic narrative which explores how people pose and interact unexpectedly with anonymous objects can create unfamiliar but poetic sceneries in both institutional and natural environment where we experience everyday.
A photographer accustomed to staging and controlling scenes in order to create his images, in 2017 Max Pinckers traversed into an environment that was completely staged, and yet absolutely out of his control when he traveled to North Korea on assignment for the New York Times. In his book Red Ink, Pinckers captures images from the capital city Pyongyang.
Thinking about “Carrie”, Sissy Spacek drenched in pig’s blood strikes a chord among cultural icons, but the classic film’s final scene astounds throughout cinema.The film’s surface layer illuminates a splatter flick, rather than the allegory of high school being Hell on Earth.
Steven Yeun: I apologize but I'm at Disneyland right now and there's a giant marching band in front of me. Maybe it's good background music.
Andrea Blanch: [laughs] It's not disruptive at all, thanks. First of all I wanted to say that you've made some great career choices. Quite extraordinary.
In certain music videos, the subject (typically the artist) spins stationary while the background whooshes out of control. I like to call it the “Intoxicating Spiral” because it creates a spinning effect.
“For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke a sense of humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war and if it is used well it can be a powerful ingredient in the antidote to war.” – James Nachtwey
Shohei Miyachi:
“My photographs explore role-playing and power dynamics in male to male sex acts.”
There is a strange and complicated relationship between photography and death. To be alive means to be constantly moving, to be constantly changing; when one’s heart stops one dies. The camera lens stops this, arresting life and forcing it into unnatural stillness.
