Melbourne Silver Mine member Ravnish Gandhi’s first solo photographic exhibition has come together over several years of annual journeys to Paris. During these trips to the city that has become his muse Ravnish has learnt to capture Paris in a way which maintains the photographer’s role as observer.
An article from Mike Le Fevre on the irony of two photos, with some musing in-between:
It’s funny how things change, a few years ago I generally had a low impression of artists- through the nature of them being embedded in various small minded cliques and scenes. But over time I’ve come to appreciate the idea of individual artistic expression, the individual pursuit of photographic satisfaction. Which comes down to us, when we press that shutter button after making choices and feeling motivation. The light/latent image at that moment is captured. Making art is action.
Like Mugs/Jes’ shot here:
daydream by mugley.
Films come and go, unfortunately more films have been going than coming lately, some films even come back, though often, they are not quite the same as they used to be. These articles are about films that they never should have stopped making, though two of them only stopped because the company that made them folded.
The first film I want to talk about is Agfa Ultra 50, because, it was my favourite. Ultra 50 was possibly the best colour negative film ever produced, ever! It did for colour negative film what MSG did for Chinese food, it made it pop, but, it didn’t leave you wanting more 30 min later. Continue Reading »
