MOTS D’IMAGES
JANUARY 2012 - ISSUE #3
EditorialS Happy New Year!
“Beyond the borders ... we must look ...” - Jacques Brel We want to offer our Happy New Year wishes and say « We shall embrace heaviness, lightness and beauty of life and recover a sense of humanity, be lulled by the hospitable memory of the human world, have an ear on our emotions and throw down the materialism that consumes us, we shall put down the walls that surround us and look up at the horizon. We shall overcome ! » The photographer is an explorer, but also a witness that captures a unique perspective of the essence of beings and things, their intimate textures, their secret dreams, sometimes their misery and their hopes forever. In the January issue, we present photos and paintings that are like « passing notes », « sharing notes », those images are a fragile and powerful writing which is like a whisper, « because the murmur may be older than the lips »... Enjoy the Issue! Florence Besson
COPYRIGHT & DISCLAIMER Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission by MiM is strictly prohibited. All information and credits are accurate at the time of publication, but are subject to change. WEB QUATERLY MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3 - PUBLICATION : January 2012 EDITORIAL : Florence Besson - besson.florence@gmail.com Design : Olivier Besson - besson.olivier@gmail.com COVER : Naomi Fiss - naomi@naomifiss.com HTP://WWW.MOTSDIMAGES.COM © 2012 MOTS D’IMAGES MAGAZINE
lSOMMAIRE 4 FOCUS
16 GLANCE
24 GLANCE
34 FOCUS
40 FOCUS
46 GLANCE
52 WORDS
Dreamers awake or absent TUGBA YUKSEL Nudes, the fruit and the flesh NAOMI FISS Daily almost as it is IRMA HASELBERGER Dialogues Günter Ludwig Snow on the ultimate night Morteza Toozandehjani Don’t be afraid of the dark Dew Time for a moment Octavio Paz
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 3
FOCUS
l e s k
ug
b
by
4 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
T
ü Y a
FOCUS
6 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 7
FOCUS
8 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 9
FOCUS FOCUS
10 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 11
FOCUS
12 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
T
ugba Yüksel Dreamers awake or absent A deep and discrete poetry as well as a desperate irony emerge from Tugba photos, they are just like particles suspended in the air which make visible a ray of light. These emotional particles come to us as a slow, continuous and silent flight, but yet quite eloquent : lassitude, worn faces, wandering, a flame that falters, but still shines…
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 13
FOCUS
14 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
Tugba describes photography as « a picture painted by a camera which captures light and life in a split second… ». She adds « Photography, this unique and brief instant when hands shake and heart beats faster and both things make seconds and life become more valuable. »
Want to discover more Website http://www.fotoyla.com
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 15
GLANCE
N
by
aomi Fiss
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 17
GLANCE
N
aomi Fiss
Nudes, the fruit and the flesh She got her first camera, a Kodak Disc, from her parents on her 16th birthday and started taking glamour shots of her friends, recreating the images she saw in Seventeen Magazine. Now mother of two children, she creates graceful, sensual and flattering photographs of pregnant women and their newborns, babies and children. « I am the other » said Gérard de Nerval, Naomi photographs the forthcoming life and let nudes appears to the surface of the world with a great refinement. By exploring her work, a question arises : are creation and ethics a single movement which is the basis of our inner being ?
18 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 19
GLANCE
20 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 21
GLANCE
22 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
Want to discover more Website http://www.naomifiss.com
GLANCE
24 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
I
rma Haselberger
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 25
GLANCE
26 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 27
GLANCE
I
rma Haselberger Daily almost as its is “As a child I helped my father when he was working in the darkroom, the developing process fascinated me” Irma worked for 25 years as an artist and an architect. She photographs with a great aesthetic interactions between humans and urban environment, her photos allude to an other reality and evokes an other world, the hidden dimension, this space that man keeps between himself and others, between himself and the urban, a mysterious space that since always he build around him. Irma has participated in diverse art projects and her photographic work has been featured in several exhibitions.
28 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 29
GLANCE
30 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 31
GLANCE
32 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #1 #3
Want to discover more Website http://www.irma-haselberger.net
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 33
FOCUS
G
ünter Ludwig
Dialogues Charcoal, chalk, color, fabric, paper, the black of the mining, the ocher of the German soil, everything contribute to create the opulent world of Günter Ludwig.
34 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 35
FOCUS
36 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 37
FOCUS
His art is made of contrast, scratches, drops, constellations of colors as many fragments that maintains a constant dialogue between the visible and the intuitive. Human anger, nostalgia, eroticism also are the expressions use by GĂźnter Ludwig to question our fears and doubts concerning the basis of our present humanity.
38 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
Want to discover more Website http://www.g-ludwig.de/
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 39
FOCUS
M
orteza Toozandehjani He is from Téhéran and his photos have the shade of a Persian tale : “There was someone, there was nobody” that is to say as in our own lives that we do not know what is the part of reality and what is the part of magic... “Beyond good and evil there is a field I will meet you there.” ~ Rumi
40 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
FOCUS
42 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 43
FOCUS
44 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
Want to discover more Website http://www.facebook.com/m.toozandehjani
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 45
GLANCE
46 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
by
D
ew
GLANCE
D
ew
Her work explores equally bright colors than darkness just like both side of human being. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” Anne Frank
48 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 49
GLANCE
50 | MOTS D’IMAGES | ISSUE #3
Want to discover more Website http://www.facebook.com/kakibumi
ISSUE #3 | MOTS D’IMAGES | 51
WORDS
O
ctavio Paz
His various collections of essays engage culture, linguistics, literary theory, history, and politics with a level of originality and erudition that is unrivaled; these and his poems form a breadth of work that expresses, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, “the existence of a plurality of possibilities for harmony and truth, outside the limited range of our inherited dogmas.” Paz was awarded the Cervantes Award in 1981, the Neustadt Prize in 1982, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. Paz died in 1998.
52 || MOTS MOTS D’IMAGES D’IMAGES || ISSUE ISSUE #3 #3 52
Time for a moment “The eye thinks, the thought sees, the sight touches, the words burn.”
ISSUE #3 #3 || MOTS MOTS D’IMAGES D’IMAGES || 53 53 ISSUE
THANK YOU, SEE YOU IN 3 MONTHS COVER : NAOMI FISS MOTS D’IMAGES MAGAZINE ISSUE 3 - PUBLICATION : jan. 2012 EDITORIAL : Florence Besson besson.florence@gmail.com Design : Olivier Besson besson.olivier@gmail.com HTP://WWW.MOTSDIMAGES.COM © 2012 MiM