David Goldblatt in colour

My bachelor graduation exhibition is going to start on the 3rd of july. So I’ll keep it short. I came across some recent colour large format work from David Goldblatt who is known for his black and white work from South Africa. Goldblatt is one of the few photographers who put a lifetime (almost 50 years) in documenting South African society. Anyway, here are some photos:

Copyright © 2004 David Goldblatt
Joburg Colour, ‘Hacienda’ cluster housing development, Ruimsig, Strubensvalley, Johannesburg. 27 April 2004

Copyright © 2003 David Goldblatt
Joburg Colour, Clothes for sale on Freedom Square (now Walter Sisulu Square), Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg. 10 December 2003

Copyright © 2002 David Goldblatt
‘The mill, Pomfret Asbestos Mine, Pomfret, North-West Province, 20 December 2002′

Copyright © 2006 David Goldblatt
‘Incomplete houses, part of a stalled municipal development of 1000 houses. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, 5 August 2006′

Copyright © 2003 David Goldblatt
‘Johannesburg from the Southwest’

A survey on dutch landscape photography

I did some research in my bookmark and collected some photographers whose interest lies in the documentation of the dutch landscape. Here are some of them

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Population growth, economic activity and lack of space all helped to shape the Dutch landscape. Photographers André-Pierre Lamoth and Jannes Linders were commissioned to capture these aspects under the title ‘The Dutch Landscape’.

Jannes Linders

Jannes Linders

Jannes Linders

Andre Pierre Lamoth

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Hans Aarsman, also known as a writer and for his job at the Rijksacademie Amsterdam. He did some nice large format photography, standing on the top of his RV with a tripod and his camera. In my opinion one of the best ways to photograph the typical flat and wide landscape of the Netherlands.

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Frank van der Salm works with largeformat photography and his relationship to painting is quite obvious. Especially his new still lifes, which almost reminded me of some Jeff Koons collages…I appreciate the older work though.

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Gerco de Ruijter examined the dutch landscape with a self made kite for his camera. The process is quite accidentially, because there is no viewfinder or anything. What a nice way to let the wind do some work And there’s lots of wind in this country.

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Wout Berger did beside his landscape photographs also a lot of close up photography of landscapes. I also posted one of his photos earlier.

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Bas Princen is actually at the same gallery as Wout Berger. There are some other photos on the website. I can’t remember where I found this one. It’s one of my favourites from his dutch landscapes..

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And I also came across some photographers like Marnix Goossens for the first time. These two shown photos are not that retro-like as some of his work on his website.

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After Hans van der Meer started his project about the landscape of lower league football fields in the Netherlands, he started to do the same with more places around europe. Reminded me of my childhood in a small village

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Jan Kosters‘ interest lies in the natural dutch landscape (or what you actually call nature in the netherlands). He documented the whole coastline with his project “dutchscapes”