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Spraygraphic Interview with Photographer Roeland Verhallen
By Spraygraphic | July 30, 2010
Spraygraphic Interview with Photographer Roeland Verhallen
SG: Please tell us about yourself. Where do you currently live and work?
RV: I’m Roeland Verhallen, a 20-year-old autodidact photographer. I currently work and live in The Netherlands.
SG: What mediums do you work with, and what kind of equipment do you use?
RV: I mainly work with my digital SLR, a Sony a700, but have been experimenting with film on the side in a Hasselblad 500C and a Pentax Progam+.
SG: Describe your working process when creating a new work.
RV: Since I mainly work in series, I often start out with some initial images in mind, certain ambiances I want to create and a particular theme I want to explore. I then spend quite some time thinking and planning how to create these photographs, tweaking the final image along the way in terms of props, location, etc.
SG: What kind of things do you do when you get blocked or find it hard to create something or simply uninspired?
RV: I wait.
SG: Where are you currently finding your inspiration?
RV: Everywhere. As tacky as it might sound, beauty is everywhere and so is inspiration. I try not to actively look for it, but carefully take in my surroundings since they might form the input for a photograph later on.
SG: Do you bring your camera with you everywhere with you or do you leave it home when you go out on the town?
RV: Only when I go somewhere with friends do I take my compact Pentax SLR. Even on holiday I often purposely leave my camera in my bag to make sure that I am actually aware of my surrounding, instead of constantly experiencing it through a camera viewfinder.
SG: What is your dream art assignment?
RV: Complete artistic freedom.
SG: What is your favorite color?.
RV: Cyan
SG: Who is your favorite photographer? And Why?
RV: Very tough question. Every photographer has something I like and something I don’t. So I’ll leave this one unanswered.
SG: What book/magazine are you reading this week?
RV: Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
SG: Any final words of advice?
RV: Just figure it all out yourself, it’s very rewarding.
Topics: Artist Interviews, International-Art, Photography | 2 Comments »
Joao Ruas Illustrations
By Spraygraphic | July 29, 2010
Joao Ruas Illustrations
Topics: Animal Art, Ilustration, International-Art, Paintings | No Comments »
You Tube and Guggenheim YOU TUBE PLAY
By Spraygraphic | July 28, 2010
You Tube and Guggenheim YOU TUBE PLAY
The digital era is being embraced by the art world, and now YouTube users have the chance to have their work featured among the likes of Warhol, van Gogh and Picasso at one of the world’s most renowned art establishments, the Guggenheim Museum. While the curatorial process can take years to result in Guggenheim exposure, winners of YouTube Play’s project will be displayed at the Guggenheim in October this year. We’d love to have your readership submit their work!
Guggenheim and YouTube Play’s partnership was developed to uncover the “most creative video content in the world.” The Guggenheim will select a shortlist of submissions to be evaluated by an international jury of experts and celebrities from the worlds of art, design, film and video, with the final 20 videos on display at the Museum.
for submission details: visit http://www.youtube.com/user/playbiennial
Topics: Museum Events, News Worthy Events, You Tube videos | No Comments »
David Platt’s Art
By Spraygraphic | July 28, 2010
David Platt’s Art
In his work David reconciles opposites. He depicts a psychological landscape where inner and outer space converge, where creation and destruction are indistinguishable and where micro organisms fuse to become macro organisms ad infinitum. Out of the abstract soup emerges corporeality, whose forms and contours are undifferentiated, existing for a timeless instant before reintegration and death.
In 2006, he underwent surgery on his arms. During that time he developed the staccato line technique that would eventually become his signature style. At first, the use of line represented the injured nerve that ran the length of my arms, then the bandages that soon followed, then appendages, then individuated organisms, and finally, all things.
Topics: Animal Art, Paintings | No Comments »
The Works of Matei Apostolescu
By Spraygraphic | July 27, 2010
The Works of Matei Apostolescu
Topics: Graphic Design, Ilustration | 1 Comment »
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