Happy Friday everyone!
Today’s inspiration is one of my favorite photo by the talented Japanese photographer Shinya Arimoto.
By the way, happy father’s day to all the wonderful dads out there!
The Friday photo by Carte Blanche : today, we’re feeling girly with Julie Cerise!
And this could be the perfect print to celebrate all the loving mums in the world this Sunday. Happy mother’s day!
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More about French talent Julie Cerise and her wonderful photos: http://www.gallerycarteblanche.com/collections/julie-cerise
Today Friday’s inspiration is by great photographer Tomas Van Houtryve.
Internationally recognized as one of the leading photographers of his generation, Tomas van Houtryve documents critical contemporary issues around the world.
This photo taken at the American Ballet in Cuba is part of his first monograph, Behind the Curtains of 21st Century Communism published in Spring 2012 and of course also available on Carte Blanche website!
And here comes a new Friday photo by Carte Blanche:Rediscover this amazing series ‘Mobutu Palaces’ by French photographer Gwenn Dubourthoumieu.
Great article (in French) in the nice magazine ‘Feuilleton’ and of course more details on Carte Blanche website!
It’s Friday, and today the Friday inspiration by Carte Blanche is a soft and tender Polaroid by Saya Chontang.
Celebrate beauty and femininity with the photos of this young French photographer who seems to understand women’s dreams…
Today is Friday. I nearly forgot about the Friday photo by Gallery Carte Blanche! So much in my mind lately.This is the last Friday of Gallery Carte Blanche on Valencia Street in San Francisco. The physical gallery will be closing on Sunday.
Yes it’s a little sad, but it’s only a break. Stay connected to know what we will do next and in the meantime keep following us online.
And the good news is that for the next 2 days everything - books, prints, frames - in the gallery is 25% off. And it includes this awesome photo by Matthias Heiderich and a lot more!
See you there this week-end!
With the new Winogrand show at the SFMOMA fresh on our minds, we thought our Friday photo should give you just a little more street photography inspiration! Check out the amazing work by Greek street photographer, Petros Kotzabasis from his series, Street Life, Greece.
About the Series: Street Life, Greece:
Petros Kotzabasis’s photos explore life around him and within him, using only the street life of the small Greek town where he grew up and lives to investigate and describe his own feelings and fears
About Petros Kotzabasis:
Petros Kotzabasis was born and still lives in Komotini, a small town in the north of Greece, where he has taught photography since 2007, to students of the Democritus University of Thrace. He learned to take photos by standing on his family’s doorstep and making up stories about the people passing by in the street.
New to the gallery bookstore is the third installment of Carte Blanche’s permanent collection artist, Shinya Arimoto’s popular “Ariphoto” magazine series. This volume documents a trip Arimoto made to Tibet.
This weeks Friday photo is by the amazingly talented Wang Yuanling from his series on the Yangtze River in China, River Basins.
About Wang Yuanling:
Born in 1980 in China’s Chongqing Municipality, Wang Yuanling received a degree in Chinese Language and Literature before beginning to work as a photographer. He lives and works in the city he grew up in, the subject of his images, which have been exhibited and recognized around China.
About the series River Basins:
Born and bred on the banks of the Yangtze River, Wang Yuanling naturally turned his camera to the people whose lives are shaped by its waters. His images of his home town, Chongqing, tell the story not only of that place, but also of daily life across China.
DONNA J. WAN
‘Waterland’Gallery Carte Blanche is pleased to announce the opening of WaterLand, a solo exhibition by Donna J. Wan on Friday, February 15th, 2013.
Water has always been an important theme in art - both as a vital element for humans and the planet and as a sacred symbol of purity. Water covers 71 percent and 140 million square miles of the Earth’s surface. It is a source of life, food, beauty and recreation, and the center of rising environmental concerns. We all use water - in our homes, at work, at play, and in our industries - and we are all part of and responsible for its condition and future. As water becomes a scarce resource, it threatens to change almost every aspect of our lives.
Through her photographs, Donna J. Wan doesn’t try to make a political statement about humankind’s impact on the environment. She observes and reports what she sees about how people experience and are affected by water. Our footprints on the landscape are unmistakably visible in her work, but her photographs invite us to reflect on how our perceptions and identities are shaped by the land and the water surrounding it. More than beautiful sceneries, her work highlights the different ways in which we experience and interact with water in the landscape - for recreation, function, or contemplation. She shows us that water can be a source of enjoyment, peace, awe, and even fear. But, because humankind continues to squander and pollute it, her photographs also inevitably question what is at stake if we continue to alter the landscape and the role of water in it. At our current pace of development and water usage, will scenes like the ones captured in her photographs soon become visions of the past?About the Photographer:
Donna J. Wan was born in Taiwan and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. After receiving a BA in economics from Stanford University and working in the corporate world for a few years, Donna decided to pursue her love for art, and completed a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. Having grown up in New York City, she only recently developed an interest in the natural world.Donna’s landscape photographs reflect a continual search for her to understand and express how perceptions and identities are shaped by the landscapes that surround us. She takes photographs in both the United States and Asia and in both the natural and built environments.
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