Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV}

Kategorie: Photography

  • John Sutton | selected photographs

    John Sutton | selected photographs

    „In 1978 I was 23 years old when I moved from Boston to New York. Like many at that age I had little money, lived precariously, and was anxious to find a place and purpose in the world. Being in survival mode for extended periods shaped me in ways I’m probably still not aware of. The world of the late 1970’s, in flames economically, politically, and socially, was, if nothing else, a challenge. I did what I could to stay out of the way and find islands of refuge.

    Looking back, photography appears as one of those islands. (mehr …)

  • Simone Massera | I Am Not What You See and Hear

    Simone Massera | I Am Not What You See and Hear

    I Am Not What You See and Hear (2011)

    Loneliness is not a function of solitude. It’s not about being alone; it’s about feeling alone. Our world is mediated through our individual and always subjective perception of it, giving us the illusion of being the absolute centre of the universe. This makes us feel we are special and unique. With this uniqueness comes a sense of being always lonely. We seek love and acceptance wherever we can find it in order to transcend our loneliness. Filling our lives with online friends and pursuing these kinds of relationships, we often use the superficiality of digital interactions as an anaesthetic against this condition, this existential angst. (mehr …)

  • Tom Griggs

    Tom Griggs

    Tom Griggs‚ beautiful and intimate pictures give me a feeling of being understood by somebody I don’t actually know and have never met before. They immediately connected to me, an inner view that lets you close to him, a slow attention to tiny everyday details that let me into his life. His work is an ongoing narrative about life, death, loss and transience told with a sophisticated use of color and light; his pictures are literally shining. (mehr …)

  • ACMV at fototazo

    ACMV at fototazo

    Actual colors may vary was invited by Tom Griggs of the fantastic fototazo to participate in his „f100 series“ on photographers who deserve more recognition:

    ☞ Read more about our recommendations on fototazo. (mehr …)

  • Barry W Hughes | Failed Photographs

    Barry W Hughes | Failed Photographs

    Failed Photographs (2011) is a collection of photographs taken from my family albums. In each case the photographs display an obvious visual failure to that which was originally intended. Photographs like these have existed in many family archives for decades, but until recently the use of digital cameras – and on the spot editing – has resulted in the decline of such mistakes. (mehr …)

  • William Miller | Ruined Polaroids

    William Miller | Ruined Polaroids

    „I have been, for most of my career, a photojournalist. In this context, I have been interested in interpreting through photography, stories and narratives that I encounter in the world. Here the camera is the tool with which I focus outwards. That said, I find myself in the unusual position of perusing a photographic endeavor whose only narrative is the internal processes of photography itself. (mehr …)

  • Umter Magazine | Issue #3

    Umter Magazine | Issue #3

    Umter Magazine Issue Three is out now! Issue #3 is a celebration of the current contemporary visual artworks, featuring work from the UK, USA and Germany.

    Contributing artists:
    Leanne Downs / Ellen Jantzen / Matt Kerr / Jessica MacDonald / Kati Mennett / Dead Porcupine / Julia Schiller / Paris Visone

    Umter Magazine is a visual-arts based online magazine. It aims to showcase artists while pushing forward an ongoing critical discourse within contemporary photography and image-making. They curate and publish online issues (PDF) bi-monthly, and will be posting themes for issues and calls for entries.
    Editor and founder, Joe Gasior, started Umter Magazine after graduating from University as a way to stay involved with image makers and create a photographic conversation.

    Download Issue #3 here
    → Umter Magazine

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    Related (external) links:
    → Umter Magazine on LENSCRATCH

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  • Werner Amann | American

    Werner Amann | American

    Werner Amann’s photo book ‘American’, deals with the people and landscapes of America. For this, he developed a visual language, in which cineastic clichés and semblances, meet intimate and fragile moments. (mehr …)

  • Collin Avery | Here nor There

    Collin Avery | Here nor There

    „In the project entitled, „Here nor There“ I am continuing to examine my interest with the intricacies and oddities of my immediate environment. As a child, I always remember being very keen to my surroundings and paying close attention to the quiet nuances often overlooked by others. (mehr …)

  • J A Mortram | Market Town

    J A Mortram | Market Town

    For the last 18 months together with people on or far beyond the outskirts of my local Market Towns community I have been recording through collaborative environmental portraiture, audio and video interviews coupled with straight documentary shoots their life stories and memories, musings, hopes and struggles. (mehr …)