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issue No. 4 VII 2011;

4’33’’

cover by: Brendan George Ko

Poncz Magazine EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Maja Dabrowska (maja@ponczmagazine.com) DEPUTY EDITOR Piotr Winiewicz (piiter@ponczmagazine.com)

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Brendan George Ko My life is a series a photographs, the more ambiguous the image the more true it is to the memory. I have been struggling for years to make photographs capture moments, to crystalize them in their entirety, but that is impossible. There is a split between memory: the details, proportions, and sequence, to the feeling. The feeling is a ghost-like phantom that can move freely from its origin, sometimes even walking through walls. What I am trying to capture in my images is a vague meaning, something perhaps lost in all the layers that attribute to each image, and the only thing holding down each image to the next is atmosphere. It is the mood, the look of the real, it puts one in the photograph, as they remember a memory of their own, or perhaps not a memory but a feeling that has been lost from its origin. I have lived in the desert, I have lived by the sea, part of the lives of my parents has been transcended in me, my history seems all but confused on where it starts. Brendan George Ko graduated from The Ontario College of Art & Design, where he studied photography and sculpture. Currently he recents in Toronto, where he is represented. His practice is split between staged studio work to documentary.

Brendan George Ko

The Barking Wall I remember as a kid I used to cover my face with my hands, and peek at the world through my fingers. I could see the world, but the world couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see me. Nowadays I find myself assimulating with the hybrid, a creature I share a betwixt nature with. We are both between two worlds; having multiple origins, and demand our own realm, such as a gothic castle, a tomb, a fortress of solitude, or limbo to serve as a haven for those lost in-between. I seek to create a peace with a conflict of belonging. The Barking Wall serves as a vault; a collection of visual memories that cross-pollinate with lived experience, and extended history (of past generations, oral tradition, and cinema), and spawn new hybrid moments. Applied layer after layer, these confused memories let go of specific places and time, and drift like phantoms, roaming free through the fields of imagination, meeting the visitor half-way, and letting one create their own narrative. I am channeling the spirits of my past, summoning together to form monuments that last for a moment. And then they disappear, into the milk of dreams. Forgotten not.

Brendan George Ko http://www.brendangeorgeko.com/ http://photo-ma-graphy.blogspot.com/

4’33’’

Editorial When we started working on this issue we were not aware upcoming changes. First, and the biggest change is that Piiter moved to Beijing – so it’s a large scope of new possibilities. In the meantime we were asked to curate a slideshow on the Lodz photo festival, where we came up with a new idea of our magazine and website. We will go with the flow. Right now … when all this things happen we wanted to focus on the heart of PONCZ – our magazine. It’s a silent issue. We wanted to find silence in pictures because they say that a silent mind and most of all being in silence is an important step in a spiritual development. Our purpose was to once again create a new series gathering single pictures out of context to try make you experience this state of mind and soul. Some of the pictures are part of very personal series. Some of them are selection of photographers as they decided what remind them of our idea. So is it possible to capture silence? Or is photography just a capture of a silent world? Is it freezing everyone and everything to make you keep the greatest scream in your pocket? Or is it still screaming there?

Zhe Chen

Carles Rodrigo

Leonie Hampton

Zhe Chen

Inka Lindergรฅrd and Niclas Holmstrรถm

Ellen Kooi

Anna OrĹ&#x201A;owska

Andrej Glusgold

Andrew Miksys

Carles Rodrigo

Timothy Archibald

Matthew Monteich

Inka Lindergรฅrd and Niclas Holmstrรถm

Martina Hoogland Ivanow

Noah Kalina

Ambroise Tezenas

Noah Kalina

Adam Jeppesen

Anna OrĹ&#x201A;owska

Li Wei

Zhu Moo

Anna OrĹ&#x201A;owska

Adam Jeppesen

Martina Hoogland Ivanow

Adam Jeppesen

Matthew Monteich

Martina Hoogland Ivanow

Carles Rodrigo

„They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out.” John Cage speaking about the premiere of 4’33’’.

Photographer’s index 1. Brendan George Ko www.brendangeorgeko.com/

14. Ambroise Tezenas www.ambroisetezenas.com

2. Zhe Chen www.zeiss.com/

15. Adam Jeppesen www.adamjeppesen.com

3. Carles Rodrigo http://carlesrodrigo.es/

16. Li Wei www.liweiphoto.com

4. Leonie Hampton www.leoniehampton.com ( Léonie has just published her first book. Enjoy it on http://www.leoniehampton.com/home/books/ )

17. Zhu Moo www.zhumoooo.com/

5. Martina Hoogland Ivanow www.martinahooglandivanow.com/ 6. Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström www.inkaandniclas.com/ 7. Ellen Kooi Hindeloopen - IJsdame, 1997 www.ellenkooi.nl/ 8. Anna Orłowska http://annaorlowska.com/ 9. Andrej Glusgold www.glusgold.com/ 10. Andrew Miksys www.andrewmiksys.com/ 11. Timothy Archibald www.timothyarchibald.com 12. Matthew Monteich www.matthewmonteith.com/index.html 13. Noah Kalina www.noahkalina.com

Thanks to all the artist and special thanks to our dear friend Brendan George Ko for supporting Us with this issue. Poncz Magazine EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Maja Dabrowska (maja@ponczmagazine.com) DEPUTY EDITOR Piotr Winiewicz (piiter@ponczmagazine.com)

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