I just got back from a little road trip where I pretty much drove to all four corners of the country. I took in the Apprentice boys march in Derry to Puck fair in Kerry two events I've always wanted to go to, and both on opposite sides of the spectrum of Irish life. One rooted distinctly in British protestantism, the other in native Celtic culture.
Photography Documentry's are about as common as hens teeth on TV, thankfully the internet has raised to light many rare gems from the genre.
Here is one about Robert Frank, featuring his work on the Americans and also his experimental film carreer. What is interesting about this clip, is that it has Eliott Erwitt giving an interview in Lederhosen (seriously).
Not much time for personal work these days. On top of that my internet at home is down so I have to use it at work. Long story but it's a load of shite.
Anyway I got back a roll from the x-pan. I thought I'd upload some photos, it's still a learning process, but I'm getting the hang of it. I still have to learn to master the 35x24mm format, let alone the 65x24mm.
I just got my copy of Robert Frank's " The Americans", which they have republished for the 50th anniversary of it's release.
Flicking through the photos it made me think about the stereotypes that it challenges, although it's not quite as powerful as it was back on it's initial release as we now live in a world of challenging and ugly pictures.
According to the great artist Jörg Colberg, street photography is rubbish "For me, looking at street photography is like watching a "sitcom" like "Friends": the jokes are all just a bunch of fairly lame one liners". Quoted from his Blog
According to him, pictures like this, are meant to truly ask question's and stimulate the viewer, personally I've seen better work in an Ikea catalogue.
I just found this gallery on Ken Rockwell's web site, entitled Alien Artifacts.
Now for those of you who follow his camera gear advice. How can you in any way shape or form take what he says seriously, judging by his belief that a civilisation who had no knowledge of physics, with primitive buildings made of clay mortar, which actually were alien spaceship launch pads.
Here is more from Smithfield Horse Fair in Dublin, these were taken on the first Sunday of this May.
I still have most of my films to develop from my trip to Slovenia and Budapest, most of Italy as well. I whipped up a batch of XTOL, and these are the first from it. All shot on Tri-x, Leica m6 35mm zeiss lens, no cropping or editing of any kind.
I just saw Esafian's wonderful Gypsy photos on DeviantArt, and it reminded me I have tons of Gypsy horse fair photos taken over the last few month's, that I should upload since they've been gathering dust in a filing cabinet.
Hi Seamus! Sorry to hear about the internet troubles you're having. Hope the summer's been treating you well otherwise! It's been a while, but I finally managed to update my gallery here a bit - I know, it's a little miracle! :) Take care x
It's been a while. Just been doing some catching up. Great to see your new stuff (well, what photobucket hasn't fucked up)! Good to see the M6 is treating you well and have a great trip mate!
Hi Seamus Just found your blog via Chris. You've got some really great stuff going on here. I look forward to spending some time catching up. Cheers Mark
Nice page Treamus, Please click on the CASSETTE displayed on my page to listen to the music. Thats me signing and rapping on the first song. I also produced and wrote it. Strange enough, my EX-GIRLFRIEND's brother played the guitar. Things that I mentioned in the song came to pass in real life. Please listen to get the full STORY. I wrote the song but didnt think what I happened to simply create out of exploration of the art would actually happen to me.Please don't forget to VOTE. Over and Out. C.R.I.$.I.$.
overall enjoyed your photos, great eye! I hope I didnt overload you with comments, but when I see something I like I like to let people I know I appreciate...and then I go on to another picture....and i like that one too....
Happy to find you here! By the way don’t listen to that double chined bitch curator. Your photography rocks...you just haven’t met the person who understands it yet. Personally I like your style, I feel like its a window through your eyes. Cheers!
I really enjoy your work. Very casually, circumstantial and comical, it does have meaning! Much to the eye of the interpreter, wonderful. Unfortunately I have crossed over to the dark side of DSLR's and I haven't really gotten the swing of it yet. I think I need to get my ass out of the exhaustingly blah, US and hug my film camera close again.
I really really enjoyed looking at your photos. I don't know what those so-called "curators" were thinking, but your work certainly has depth, humour and grit. Keep at it
