fototazo: Erik van der Weijde

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3.04.2019

LatAm f100: Fabiano Lemos and Thales Pessoa

fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers, photographers, academics and others actively engaged with Latin American photography to pick two photographers whose work deserves recognition.

This project aims to highlight great work being made in the region today and also to provide a starting point in both English and Spanish for exploring contemporary Latin American photography. LatAm f100 is a collaboration between fototazo and the photographer and educator Jaime Permuth.

Today we continue the series with selections by Erik van der Weijde. His biography follows his selections.

fototazo ha invitado a un grupo de 50 curadores, galeristas, escritores, fotógrafos, y académicos - entre otros individuos seriamente comprometidos con la fotografía latinoamericana - a escoger cada quién dos fotógrafos cuya obra sea merecedora de mayor reconocimiento.

Este proyecto es una manera de celebrar el gran trabajo que se lleva a cabo en la región. Asimismo, busca proporcionar un punto de partida bilingüe en inglés y en español a las audiencias que deseen explorar la fotografía contemporánea en Latinoamérica. LatAm f100 es una colaboración entre fototazo y el fotógrafo y educador Jaime Permuth.

Hoy continuamos la serie con selecciones aportadas por Erik van der Weijde. Encontrará su biografía al final del texto.

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Fotos dos Outros is a project by Brazilian artist Fabiano Lemos aiming to collect the forgotten and thrown away photographs of others. I see this unique collection as a fresh way of looking at Brazilian photography and daily life, seen through the lens, or scanner in this case, of an artist who uses his sensibility to create a new context for the vernacular.

Fotos dos Outros [Fotos de los otros] es un proyecto por el artista brasileño Fabiano Lemos que apunta a coleccionar las fotografías olvidadas y tiradas por otros, veo esta colección única como una forma fresca de miarar la fotografía brasileña y la vida cotidiana, vistas a través del lente, o el escáner en este caso, de un artista que usa su sensibilidad para crear un nuevo contexto para lo vernáculo.

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Thales Pessoa is a young Brazilian photographer and film maker who can create intimate portraits of men living on and from the streets in South America. He uses analogue equipment to connect to these men and I deeply respect the how he handles the dangers these encounters sometimes carry. I am fascinated by never knowing the real intentions of the photographer and his subject within these encounters.

Thales Pessoa es un joven fotógrafo y cineasta brasileño que puede crear retratos íntimos de hombres viviendo en y de las calles en Suramérica. Él usa equipos análogos para conectar con estos hombres y yo respeto profundamente como él maneja los peligros que estos encuentros algunas veces conllevan. Estoy fascinado al nunca saber las intenciones reales del fotógrafo y su sujeto dentro de estos encuentros.

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Erik van der Weijde (1977) is a Dutch artist whose work consists of (self) published books and photographic series. Currently he teaches at the Rietveld Academy and works with Roma Publications.

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This series also includes responses from Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo, Paccarik Orue, Katrin Eismann, Dina Mitrani, Don Gregorio Anton, Cristina De Middel, Arturo Soto, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Livia Animas, Juanita Bermúdez, Susana Raab, the pairing of Victoria Holguín and Daniella Benedetti, Emiliano Valdés, Muriel Hasbun, George Slade, Marta Dahó, Elizabeth Avedon, Jorge Piccini, Rodrigo Orrantia, Sujong Song, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Oliva María Rubio, Jonathan Blaustein, Patricia Martin, José Luis Cuevas, Zully Sotelo, Alfredo De Stefano Farías, Gonzalo Golpe, Julián Barón, James Rodríguez, Misha Vallejo, Musuk Nolte, Cintia Durán, Alasdair Foster and Eder Chiodetto.

La serie también incluye contribuciones de Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo, Paccarik Orue, Katrin Eismann, Dina Mitrani, Don Gregorio Anton, Cristina De Middel, Arturo Soto, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Livia Animas, Juanita Bermúdez, Susana Raab, el dúo de Victoria Holguín and Daniella Benedetti, Emiliano Valdés, Muriel Hasbun, George Slade, Marta Dahó, Elizabeth Avedon, Jorge Piccini, Rodrigo Orrantia, Sujong Song y Nelson Herrera Ysla, Oliva María Rubio, Jonathan Blaustein, Patricia Martin, José Luis Cuevas, Zully Sotelo, Alfredo De Stefano Farías, Gonzalo Golpe, Julián Barón, James Rodríguez, Musuk Nolte, Cintia Durán, Alasdair Foster y Eder Chiodetto.

10.07.2011

Of Interest 10.7.11: Erik van der Weijde's "This is not my Wife"

Marc Feustel of eyecurious selected artist / photographer Erik van der Weijde for our ongoing f100 series on recognizing photographers who merit more attention for their work. In his post for the series, Feustel wrote "Erik van der Weijde is a prolific bookmaker. His work is all about the book form...He has a mischievous and irreverent sense of humour but his books also force us to think about the many decisions that are taken when making a book and how images relate to each other within that form."

Two years after the collaboration This is not my Son, van der Weijde and his small Dutch publishing company 4478zine are again working with Rollo-Press, a Swiss independent art publisher run by graphic designer Urs Lehni, this time in order to publish the book This is not my Wife. The book will feature photographs van der Weijde has taken of his Brazilian wife and family over the past few years. This is not my Wife celebrates the passions of both Erik and Urs: marriage, photography and publishing.

For this project they have started a crowdfunding campaign in order to partially finance its production, with a number of incentives for donation including unique drawings by Caetano, Erik's 10-year-old son, from Caetano's series This is not my Mother. The campaign page can be explored here.

7.24.2011

f100: Marie Quéau, Erik van der Weijde

fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers, photographers, academics and others actively engaged in photography to pick two photographers that deserve (more) recognition - the underknown, the under-respected as well as not-appreciated-enough favorites. A little more information on the project is available in the first post in the series here.

Today we resume the series after a summer break with responses from Marc Feustel.

We began the series with responses from Nicholas Nixon, Matt Johnston, Blake Andrews, John Edwin Mason, Aline Smithson, Colin Pantall, Michael Werner, Liza Fetissova, Laurence Salzmann, Bryan Formhals, Richard Mosse, Shane Lavalette, Amy Stein, Amani Willett, Wayne Ford, S. Billie Mandle, Leslie K. Brown and Gordon Stettinius.

Respondent: Marc Feustel is an independent curator, writer and blogger based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he is the author of Japan: A Self-Portrait, Photographs 1945-1964 (Flammarion, 2004) and the founder of Studio Equis (www.studioequis.net), an organisation devoted to broadening access to the visual arts between different cultures, with a focus on the relationship between Japan and the West. He writes for several photographic publications including European Photography, Foam, Fantom, Look and VU MAG and blogs at www.eyecurious.com.

Selections: Marie Quéau and Erik van der Weijde

I first discovered Marie Quéau's series Gojira at the Hyères Photography Festival. I was intrigued by the way the series combines a very wide range of different imagery to explore an abstract concept: the myth of Godzilla. Although she uses all sorts of images for this project—'classic' landscape, solarised abstraction, photo-montage, lo-fi gif—which come from sometimes totally unrelated sources, the result is extremely coherent and evocative without resorting to obvious references. The series is still a work in progress and it will be fascinating to see how it develops.

Erik van der Weijde is a prolific bookmaker (you can see a list of all his publications at www.4478zine.com). His work is all about the book form and his latest publication is a 5-part series of zines where he mixes his own images with work by five other photographers (Erik Kessels, Linus Bill, Takashi Homma, Eric Tabuchi and Paul Kooiker). He has a mischievous and irreverent sense of humour (the collaboration with Tabuchi is subtitled "modernist churches in France and the wife's butt") but his books also force us to think about the many decisions that are taken when making a book and how images relate to each other within that form.