hey self defeater

"The flaws are part of it. That's what makes the poetry. And for that you need a bad camera. If you want to be famous, you have to be worse at something than everyone else in the world!' Miroslav Tichy.

the mirror

"The camera... is a kind of two-way glass that retains a double function: it is a window that delivers the *profilmic to an absent gaze and, at the same moment, a reflective surface that reintroduces us to ourselves." Michael Renov, from "Video Confessions" in The Subject of Documentary
*the “filmic” being everything that appears in the film, and the profilmic everything that exists in reality that receives a special destination in the film (like actors, props, decors) and leaves its traces on the celluloid.

Asthma Island

Idi I Smotri

Thank you Amy for identifying this image as one of the many powerful and horrific moments from the extraordinary 'Idi I Smotri'

AXIS: Curator's Choice

Selected by AXIS for Curator's Choice this week along with Susan Truseler who does some beautiful C-types exploring similar ground....

thirteen

belong

N words

bullied version

a previous image revisited. damaged by the elements. no photoshop.

fourteen (cine sound version)

from new series. new faces required.