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Charlotte Thรถmmes
Lake of Death
The love that we have for Polaroid is already known by all of you, but with “Lake of Death” Charlotte Thömmes leads it to an higher level. In this interview she explains her story with photography and tells us about the magic of this project. It was born from a personal moment, created during a trip between California and Nevada. Charlotte transforms the lifeless Death Valley in an alien landscape colored by the hand of a painter, making it a brand new place, powerful and own. re are many trends and tendencies, that frighten me. It is obvious to everyone that we already My name is Charlotte Thömmes, i`m a fine art have a lot of problems when it comes to environphotographer. If i’m not traveling, you’ll find me mental and social issues. in Berlin, Germany. Positively I imagine a future where we all learned to treat each other and our environment peaceful What is your relationship with nature? and respectful. Hi Charlotte, please introduce yourself.
“Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her, powerless to leave her and powerless to enter her more deeply. We live within her and are strangers to her. She speaks with us all the time, but does not betray her secrets. We work on her constantly, yet have no power over her. She is the only artist, working-up the most uniform material into utter opposites, arriving without a trace of effort, at perfection. Each of her works has an essence of its own, each of her phenomena a special characterization, and yet her diversity is in unity.” (Goethe) Sometimes I suffer from the feeling of being detached from nature. Living in a city, facing pollution, not knowing, what is in the food you buy, the term “circle of life” can become abstract.
What is Photography?
I don’t want to paint the future black, even if the-
Mostly the little shiftings of light and shadow
Depending on how it is used: A snapshot freezing time and space, a memory, a document of reality, an image that lies, a way to capture emotions, an expression more than its literal presentation, a form of art. In you site you talk about the norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, in which way he has influenced your work?
His work gave me thought-provoking impulses about the environmental side of photography. As a photographer, you or your lab, work with a lot of chemicals. I was at odds with myself, that with every picture, in which i want to honor natuWhat is wild for you? ral beauty, i leave so much waste behind. These thoughts got me started to do environment The roaring ocean and the dense jungle. friendly projects like chlorophyll prints, unique sun-printed leaves. Now I also develop my films What is for you an end? and a beginning? with caffenol, a homemade developer brewed It is the same, every end is a beginning leading out of coffee and soda, to lessen my impact. to an end again. Like a circle. Or a spiral, as a circle sounds like endless rounds with the same How did you get into photography? mistakes. I started after recovering from a serious accident A phrase of your renaissance. in 2000. I picked up my fathers old camera and build up a small darkroom in my flat. Looking Even bad situations can become something good. back i would say, that the feeling of fugacity of With time and change of attitude, everything can my own life brought the necessity to capture flebe a good lesson learned. It is just important to eting moments in time. overcome your self-pity. In 2003 i took it to a serious level and began to study photography. 20 years from now, how do you think the World will look? Where did you get inspiration?
inspire me. Every object or landscape changes within the right light into something magical and beautiful. Also big sources are, in no particular order, my dreams, nature, poems, music and traveling.
Even places that may look unspectacular on first sight, can become truly magical and beautiful in the right light. Who are your favourite photographers?
How much affects your travels on your work? There are plenty of talented people out there, but to name some : Traveling is a big part of my work. Finding myself I can’t take my eyes of the beautiful and poetic in a different cultural and natural environment is images of Masao Yamamoto and Nicholas Hua good way to open my senses. And as natu- ghes. ral surroundings and landscapes are my main subjects, i shoot my projects mainly while tra- What kind of camera do you use? veling. Back in Berlin, i then edit and print the I work with different kind of cameras, depending images. on the project. That ranges from small or large All your Photos are made in wonderful place, format, SX 70, Holga or homemade pinholes. but which is your favorite place to shoot? In your project lake of death you express a Every place has its own beauty and atmosphere. concept of xc, endless and lifeless, talk us
the hottest and driest places on earth. The colors of the land and the stones are breathtaking. The year before my father suddenly died and the And standing in that hostile and unreal landscaattendance of death was all around me. It made pe made me feel small and humble. The valley is me think about the momentariness of life again. one of the harshest but most beautiful places i’ve We all know, that death is where all our life paths ever seen and so the perfect equivalent for what heading to, but most of the time we push those i wanted to express. thoughts aside, as they make us feel small and Which manipulation techniques did you use? our lives uncontrollable. I wanted to find a metaphor for these feelings and create images, that show a “lifeless� envi- I took the pictures and let the hot desert wind dry ronment, a landscape, apparently denying to hu- them. At home i peeled the back off and worked mans but on the same revealing the immense on the surface, washing away some parts, while others stayed. beauty that lies within everything. about it.
How did you choose the location?
Why you chose to use a Polaroid for this project?
I went on a road trip through California and Nevada visiting several national parks along the way. The delicate colors of the polaroid films are just The images were taken in Death Valley, one of adorable and i wanted to add an additional layer
on the images, something unseen by the eye, but felt emotionally. So polaroid seemed to be the adequate material for this project. What kind of film did you use? SX 70, slightly expired.
Do you have some project in progress? I tend to work on different projects at the same time. I just finished a new series of chlorophyll prints, which will be printed on vinyl covers next year. And i also work on a long time project about human interventions in natural environment and on some hand-colored lumen prints.
What do you think of Impossible project films? Where people can find you and your works? I haven’t tried them enough to deliver a judgement. But i honor the people for their effort to keep instant photography alive. We have a perfect question for you by Andy Jenkins that in our last interview wants to know if Is there a particular type of photography or alternative process you’ve yet to explore that you’d like to try and why?
You find my pictures, exhibition dates, news etc. on my website: www.charlottethoemmes.de What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? Is there a “dream project”, no matter of place, cost- or time factor, that you wish to realize?
That could become a long list, but one of the next steps is, that i want to learn how to print with photopolymer plates, as it combines two of my interest, photography and printmaking. I really like what you say in your artist statement on your site, do you think photography is now affordable for everyone and has become almost a game? Through handy-cam and digital cameras, photography is affordable to a large number of people all around the globe and the amount of digital snapshots is rising everyday, but i don’t think that makes it a game. We are mostly visually coined and in my opinion digital snapshots function as part of our memories. Theses images provide us with a simple possibility to out source pieces of our memory. It can be easier to participate in someones memories by looking at pictures rather than listening to solely words. The loss of these precious documents of time, no matter if it is the only hand-painted wedding picture or your entire data volume, is sad for most people. Only the fatal tendency to snapshot everything with hundreds of pictures instead of enjoying moments with all their essence and all our senses confuses me. Over the years I rather absorb a beautiful sunset instead of taking memorized pictures of it.
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FLORIA
Ffukushima, i
AN RUIZ
invisible pain
Photography is a magical thing, you can create something powerful with cheap stuff and overcome the fear in order to tell the truth. The human eye and the pain captured by a simple pinhole: this is the work of Florian Ruiz who tells us, in seasons, a terrible year in Fukushima. On 11 March 2011 after the tsunami Tōhoku, Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima suffered heavy damage. Florian took his pinhole and captured the invisible pain of radiation. This project earned him the second prize in the conceptual category for the World Photography 2013. Hi Florian, please introduce yourself.
World will look?
After Law and History studies, I am now a teacher. I started teaching in Syria and that allowed me to travel around. At the beginning I intended to have a kind of « humanist » point of view in desperate, stained, and disillusioned social situations, expressing the atmospheres, feelings, and sensations of desolate places. So, I took pictures of the intimacy of prostitutes’rooms in Pakistan, the frustrated hopes in a mining town in Mongolia, the day workers’ vagrancy in a forgotten area of Osaka... I try to capture the in-between, life at the margins, and borderlines of lives and places. I am currently using rudimentary photographic equipment, a pinhole camera, to capture the ghostly of the destroyed interiors of dwellings and the intimacy of people in the aftermath of the tsunami that wrecked havoc in Japan. My ambition now is to test the bounds of photography by challenging its ability to render an image of what is invisible by means of time and distortion. I am currently living and working in Tokyo. My most recent work, « Fukushima, invisible pain » is second in the Conceptual category for (the) World Photography 2013 (competition) and finalist of the International Emerging Artist Award 2013.
Like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said « You’re not supposed to expect the future but to make it happen ». Talks us about Fukushima, invisible pain.
Within the natural environment and in the areas surrounding cities across Fukushima prefecture, I have captured the invisible pain of radiation. With an ear to the rhythm of the seasons as in traditional Japanese engravings and inspired by their refined, uncluttered style, I hoped to capture the fleeting moments, the movements of climatic phenomena, and the ever-shifting perceptions of nature, where radiation accumulates the most. I used a pinhole camera with long exposure times to create a record of the presence of radioactive danger. A dosimeter measured the level of radiation in milliSieverts (μSv) received during each exposure. Each photo is an accumulation of visual fragments taken in the same location but from different angles, always accompanied by the radiation level to which my film was exposed. The result is a combination of all those elements. A process of staggered superimpression creates a vibration, a departure from the reality of What is your relationship with nature? the subject that reveals the presence of radiation in the image. The process reinvents and twists As a city dweller I’m in love with the urban jungle. the very landscape, leading to a sort of vertigo After 7 years spent in Japan , I’ve learnt to con- or malaise linked to the quivering of the invisible. ceive nature under a new angle. I realise that I’ve My ambition with this project was to find a babeen influenced by the Japanese shintoist way lance and organization in a chaotic world, while of life. This approach results in the respect of emphasizing the intransience of beauty. the strength and beauty of nature. This relationship with nature also modifies time perception Why and how did you start this project? since nothing lasts; everything can be destroyed by a natural phenomenom like an earthquake or On March 11th, I was in Tokyo. Two days later a typhoon. We have to cherish fleeting instan- I was living in the south of Japan to avoid the ts. Much to my surprise, from now on, I can be incoming radioactive cloud as much as possible. touched by cherry blossom trees. (Why? Don’t Then when I came back, I felt it necessary to go leave it hanging here as it seems like an abrupt to devastated places and make a photographic thought with no explanations.) subject of the destroyed interiors. It seemed obvious to me that I had to show this chaos through 20 years from now, how do you think the feelings more than objective reality. I remembe-
red then an interview of my favourite jazz musician, John Coltrane, who said about his music: « I don’t know what i’m looking for, …, Something that hasn’t been played before. I don’t know what it is. I know I’ll have that feeling when I get it. » The idea to take pictures about « the invisible pain » was born, show something I had never seen before. Which message would you want to send? My aim was to capture a kind of no man’s land in nature. I wanted to show a dehumanized world like a French movie from the 80’s , « Malvil », that made a deep impression on me. The entire western part of France was destroyed by a nuclear apocalypse. I kept this in mind with the cinematographic shot of landscapes emptied of life and enveloped in a cloak of black mist.
started raining and the teachers started yelling « Abunai, Abunai... » « danger, danger ... ». They immediately left the place to go inside to avoid the radioactive drops. Do you encounter trouble with the local authorities? Did they hinder you? I didn’t have any trouble because I always stayed in the authorised perimeter which was 30 km away from the nuclear power station. Which are your instruments for work? For the pictures I used a very cheap plastic camera, a wide pinhole Holga 120 WPC and a dosimeter to measure the radiactivity during the time exposure.
Why did you choose a pinhole? What do you hope people will get out of viewing your photography? I use a pinhole to portray the unexpected, the fortuitous, and the deformed as a multiple reality. I’d like to portray beauty in the perceived chaos. It allows me to distort the colors and shapes, to Then also to suggest a link between a contempo- capture unreal aesthetic of the devastated interary form of photography and a kind of abstract rior created by the Japanese tsunami. Such tools painting such as some of (first name) Turner’s allow me also to capture the Fukushima landscalandscapes. pe as time unfolds. Were not you afraid of radiation? (Did you Which type of film do you use? use some protection or measuring device?) I use medium format (6x12) because I like their Of course I am, but a friend of mine working for density and that allows me to print a variety of the French company AREVA who specialises in sizes. nuclear matters gave me a dosimeter to know the level of radiation. He gave me some advice What you think about digital technology ? It like throughly cleaning my hands before eating destroying the analogic world or creating noand to wash my clothes each evening. I also stalgia You have some future projects? brought most of my food with me. I don’t like the featureless and cold aspect of How was this experience? digital pictures. This technology brings an overabundance of stereotyped pictures. From now I was really intimidated at the beginning since on, my work is focused on the way to catch thinthe danger is invisible. My only point of reference gs that usually you can’t see. More and more, I was my dosimeter that rang sometimes during move towards abstract photography. I’ve started the night when the radiation level rose faster. a subject about ghost towns in China and about For the amount of time I spent there, the exposu- sacred places in Japan that used to be described re level was reasonable. as « space of invisibly visible forms». It was during the spring season that radiation levels were higher because of the rain. Once I was Where people can find you and your works? in a school playground in Fukushima city (picture with the cherry blossom tree) speaking with www.florianruiz.com children who learned some French. Suddenly it
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A talk with...
CARLA CASCALES ALIMBAU
Carla is an art lover. A full art lover. Graphic illiustrator and photographer from Spain, from her works we can see her passion for analog photography and nature. In this interview she tells us about her two projects “Getting lost” and “Roads”, two works full of emotions and feelings. A journey into nature and in ourselves, everything sourrounded by soft colors, water, peace and quiet.
the paintings and telling me stories about them, I loved the colors and I liked to imagine who were I’m a graphic designer, illustrator and photo- those strange characters. I remember Magritgrapher from Barcelona. I’m truly passionate te really struck me and still today is my favorite about design, especially handmade projects, painter. When I was 12 I joined an art school as textures, art, photography and illustration. I love an extracurricular activity to learn to paint and to travel, to take pictures, to capture simple, true draw, since then I have never stopped to have and beautiful moments in life. More and more I a very direct relationship with arts, It relaxes me realize how important it is to share experiences and makes me feel good. and learn from the people around me plus most of the time I work by myself as a freelance so in Where did you get inspiration? my spare time I like to enjoy it with my friends and family in something related with arts, trips, I find my inspiration in nature. There is nothing exhibitions, films, books, hot tea and good vege- more simple and amazing than the natural light, the color of the trees, the changing seasons, the tarian food. shapes of the water, the texture of the leaves… It’s amazing how in nature all the elements comWhat is your relationship with nature? bine to function in harmony, as illustration, typography and colors do it in a good design. For me Nature is inspiration, harmony. Hi Carla, please introduce yourself.
What is for you an end? And a beginning?
Who are your favorite photographers?
Every night end with what does not make you I love very different styles: Sophie Calle, Richard happy because every morning could be a good Avedon, Diane Arbus, William Klein, Dorothea Lange, Chema Madoz or Joan Fontcuberta, new start. A phrase of your renaissance. Have less, do more. What is your Refuge?
In the modern time all is digital, and you are full analogic, so what you think about digital technology? It destroying the analogic world or creating nostalgia and bring him back?
I love digital too and I use digital photography for My friends and family. my graphic design work, for me are two different tools, I love the old texture from analog photo20 years from now, how do you think the Wor- graphy and the non immediate process, some ld will look? kind of imperfection and warmth that bring to the images. Hopefully better than now. Which are your instruments for work? What is Photography? I have some digital and analog cameras. To capture moments What kind of camera do you use when you How did you get into photography? shoot? One day I decided to try my mother’s old Nikon analog, I just loved it. And in art in general? My father has always been passionate about art, at home we had many art books. When I was a child we spent hours looking at the pictures of
As digital cameras I have a Canon and a Sony and as an analog an old Nikon and a Polaroid I bought in a street market. How is your relationship with the camera? They are more than a tool for me, I have a lot of affection for them.
Talks us about your two project “Getting gner and what I love the most and what distinLost” and “Roads”. guishes my work is that I try to work out of the computer, mixing different arts to always give an Getting Lost represents the feeling we are con- special and organic touch to my work. stantly locked in by our own day to day routine, monotony. We just need to get lost sometimes, Do you have some project in progress? to escape to find ourselves, to go back to where we come from, Nature. This project is the result Next month I’m going to Bordeaux I can’t wait to of a beautiful rainy weekend in a little wooden take pictures in the snow. house in the middle of the forest. All the pictures were taken in Fontcoberta (Catalonia, Spain). Where people can find you and your works? Roads is a Photography project carried out mostly from inside a a car, on the way from Praia do Gincho (Cascaes) to Sintra, Portugal. The lights and objects blend into the rain and turn into spots suggesting the way. These pictures represent the metaphor of taking a decision. Sometimes when we decide we feel confused, we have trouble seeing beyond clearly, but despite the difficulties the fog becomes diluted and we gradually manage to reach our destination. How were they born? Spontaneously, while traveling.
www.carlacascales.com www.commeuneimage.es Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you? Do what you love and love what you do. What would you like to ask our next Interviewee? How do you get inspired for your projects?
How did you choose the location? In both projects did not plan the location, I portrayed the trip I was doing. Which camera do you use? An old analog Nikon. Both project have rain and need of freedom, peace and wilderness, why this choice? Which message do you prefer to send with these works? I love capturing natural phenomena, landscapes, places where the sky blends with the land, they are a particular place but it could be anywhere, they represent the opposite feelings that we sometimes have. You’re also a great graphic designer, an art made of a lot of other arts, typography, photography, drawing etc.. Which your favorite and why? I love arts in general, I work as a graphic desi-
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BEST OF.. I like plant I
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with recipes & photos by 333Bracket and Eni Turkeshi
Spinach Rolls Ingredients for the dough : - 300 gr flour - 1 tablespoon baking yeast - some yogurt - salt for the filling: - 400 gr spinach - some chopped dill and parsley - a bunch of green onions - a little amount of oil to be used to cover the rolls layers. - an egg white - some Black Cumin for covering of the rolls How to: After preparing the dough and letting it wait for a while covering it with some wet fabric , take small portions from it and open them using a dough roller. Remember to use some starch while doing it , it helps. Try to open the dough as much as you can. Chop the spinach, onions, parsley and dill finely. Afterwards put this mix on the opened dough layers and roll it .Cut it in small parts afterwards. Cover them with the egg white and put black cumin seeds above. Cook in oven previously heated in180 C until they are ready. Place the first layer of pre-cooked lasagne, and cover them with a layer of pesto cream; on the pesto, create another layer of ricotta and spinach cream and sprinkle with 40 gr of grated cheese. Now, cover up with a half of smoked provola dices. Cover up all of this with the second layer of lasagna, and repeat the same procedure, holding some pesto by, which will be used for the coverture of the third and last layer. Put the baking pot in the oven (which should be already hot) for one hour, with the temperature of 160째.
From TWTGE the flower issue, Yummania, photo by Eni Turkeshi.
Aubergines in Tahini topped with green onions Ingredients: - 2 large aubergines - tahini paste (available from any world-food supermarkets) - 5 green onions - olive oil & vinegar How to: 1) Pre make a bowl and mix a fair amount of the Olive oil & Vinegar into a marinade, throw in some Salt & Pepper, Slice the aubergines and and deep soak each one in the marinade, rose plate them inside a glass pyrex of your choice, tuck in the oven for 45min/190째C and flip the auberigines twice in that time. 2) Make the Tahini (however you like it, just add water, lemon, a hint of olive oil and garlic or whatever!) chop the Green onions. 3) Take that delicious pile of aubergines, spread them nicely on a plate and sprinkle Tahini on top as you like. throw in the onions on top, and serve with bread.
From TWTGE the home issue, I like plant I like cook it, photo by 333Bracket.
Nectarine & Apple Cobbler Ingredients: - 1/2 cup unsalted butter (Vegans, use margarine) - 1/2 cup granulated sugar - A generous 1 cup all-purpose flour - 1 tablespoon baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon - pinch of ground nutmeg - 3/4 cup milk (Vegans, use almond milk) - 3 sliced yellow flesh nectarines + 2 sliced granny smith apples, skins left on - 1/3 cup brown sugar Preheat the oven to 175C. How to: 1) Melt the butter in a small sauté pan set on medium heat until it bubbles and turns a nut brown colour. keep an eye on that butter as it can go from browned to burnt in just a few seconds. the butter will have all sorts of browned bits in it, that’s good! Pour the butter into a baking dish. (do not try a pie baking dish as it will overflow!) 2) In a medium bowl, stir together the granulated sugar, flour, baking powder and spices. add milk and stir. 3) Pour the mixture evenly on top of the melted butter AND DON’T STIR. Without mixing, arrange the fruit nicely over the top of the batter and sprinkle with brown sugar. 4) Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until the top turns golden brown. the batter will migrate from the bottom of the pan to cover the fruit. Yum! Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
From TWTGE the lomography issue, 333Bracket, photo by 333Bracket.
RABARBARO is out now
Rabarbaro is the new project by The World Through Green Eyes, open to all the type of artist, a magazine to give space to all the artists out of the nature theme and over the photography, for each type of art, inspired by the ‘70 school and fashion magazine. Rabarbaro is the Italian word for rhubarb, a root, as the new artist comes from under the ground to grow and gives flavor to new things, gives new smells, new tastes.
Read the first number for FREE only on www.magpile.com/rabarbaro. Spanish version by Maria Florencia Lampugano. Cover by Bianca Gutman.
THANKS A special thanks to Teresa for been so kind for make the special video for this issue, thanks for your time, to 333Bracket and Eni for their special recipes. I would also like to thank Carla, Charlotte and Florian for their time and patience, thanks also to Lorenza and Matteo for help me as always with translation and impagination. Finally, a big thanks to all the Photographers for submitting their wonderful photos! Hope you like it, Lu
In this issue:
333Bracket
www. 333bracket.com
Carla Cascales Alimbau
www.carlacascales.com
Simona Belotti
www.simonabelotti.com
AurĂŠlien Buttin
www.flickr.com/aurelien-buttin
Luca Tommaso Cordoni
www.mrcarbonmonoxide.carbonmade.com
Matteo Cordoni
www.flickr.com/meconyo
Henry Driver
www.henrydriverart.tumblr.com
Ilaria Ingravalle
www.flickr.com/ikorosphotography
Bastian Kalous
www.flickr.com/bastiank
Catherine LemblĂŠ
www.catherinelemble.com
Viviana Levrino
www.cargocollective.com/viannavi
Kiley Melicker
www.letitberawphotography.blogspot.com
Lorenza Panelli
www.flickr.com/53332557@N08
Suji Park
www.cargocollective.com/sujipark
Teresa Romano
www.teresaromano.tk
Florian Ruiz
www.florianruiz.com
Matt Sanchez
www.cargocollective.com/ttttarantula
Evelin Saul
www.flickr.com/audedansdemoi
Désirée Soave
www.flickr.com/desireesoave
Charlotte Thömmes
www.charlottethoemmes.de
Eni Turkeshi
www.yummania.wordpress.com
Bruna Valença
www.flickr.com/brunaburton
Š The World Through Green Eyes