I’m the_abecedarian, this is One More Blog, and today we blast your eyeballs with some hot pink heat and then gently cool them down to your particular standard body temperature with black and white therapy. We have a huge mix of styles and subjects this week; be sure to click through to see the rest of the artists’ work!
Gallery Gems
Pink! So pink, it’s nearly monochrome. This week’s banner image is a simple, domestic scene, but one that makes the tiny details stand out: the reflection, the cloth on the stool, the wallpaper… it is both quiet and striking at the same time.
Stuck out in the hot sun, the guard takes shelter in the meager shadow of an empty advertisement frame. The tan tiles evoke a landscape of cracked, dry earth or sand. The large empty spaces between the sparse bits of furniture seem to take an eternity to cross. Our thirsty eyeballs drift upward, toward the striking contrast of the cool water only to be held back by the order: “DO NOT CROSS THE RED LINE”.
Sometimes an image can reveal something essential about the subject’s nature. This image reveals just how amped up that doggo gets when it sees another dog, a squirrel, a person, or anything else of interest pass by. Dawson Leary achieves beautiful framing of the subject between the curtains, the siding, and those completely devastated shades. The shades further serve to break up the regular angles and straight lines present in the rest of the image.
While there are tons of photos of jetties and docks, Mymmy here brings us a rarer, almost subverted version of the image. The dock somehow glows and undulates against a dark, smooth sea. The clouds seem to zoom off into the top right-hand quarter of the frame, drawing the eye to a point in tension with the focal point at the end of the dock. The longer you look, the more there is to it.
Here, Emillio continues his beautiful series documenting the cultural dress of his models. Here, Nameera takes on a formal, almost archaic three-quarter pose, but sits outside the studio, contextualized against the curved shapes of the railing supports. Notice the diagonal of the saree matching the diagonals of the bracelets and contrasting against the other details of Nameera’s outfit.
Working with dancers, performers, contortionists, and performance artists of all kinds can be incredibly fruitful for a photographer. Here, Emre works with Sude İnce, who performs an exhibition called Yuva (or “home” in English) and adds his own artistic vision to it. The light and movement in the scene are rendered in a gestural, almost calligraphic way, with Sude appearing almost as a written letter or character on an illuminated manuscript.
Community Collaborations
Holga vs. Diana
Managed by Ezo and Hot Pink Bulb
The battle for plastic supremacy continues! Here, eeenmachine takes on Daido-esque levels of grain, blur, and contrast, but carefully maintains the coherence of the image. This impressionistic style negates any technical weaknesses of the camera to provide us with the essence of the scene, rather than a clinical documentation of it.
And that wraps up our blog for the week! Be sure to shake out any film grain that got on you from that last one before you go back inside — it’s like glitter: once it gets in, you’ll never be fully rid of it. Big thanks to all the contributors this week and to you for reading.
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