January 2011
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December 2010
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September 2010
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Inspiration: North by Northwest
Last night I watched Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller North by Northwest with Cary Grant. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable movie that feels much fresher and modern than I expected anything from 1959 to feel. The only thing that distracted me from the engrossing story line, though, was the wonderful photography and lighting in the film. I thought I’d discuss a couple of scenes here, because I...
August 2010
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June 2010
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Inspiration: Annie Leibovitz at Fotografiska
A new museum of photography, Fotografiska, opened just the week before last in Stockholm. I got to pay a visit since I was already in Stockholm to, among other things, photograph Christel for this project and eat dinner at Mattias Dahlgren’s restaurant Matsalen — the 25th best restaurant in the world.
The top-floor café has these stunning views across the city, appropriately framed...
May 2010
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Process: A plan
Although I had intended to write about a few other photographers’ work as inspiration first, it seems high time now to describe how exactly I’m going about this project.
The still photograph has been with us for almost 200 years, and while there have been major developments in the way these still images are produced, the result hasn’t changed much at all. Photographs are still...
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Introducing my ten friends
In chronological order:
1986: I am born.
1989: I meet Erwin. We will go to playschool, primary school and secondary school together.
2000: I meet Siri at a children’s summer camp near Rimbo in Sweden.
2005: I meet Helen and Christel at Kulturama in Sweden, where we study photography together.
2006: I meet Gearóid during Freshers’ Week in Trinity College Dublin. I meet my...
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Welcome to 10 Friends
Welcome to 10 Friends, a photo project that I hope will take me my entire life to complete. In a nut, I plan to make ten portraits of my friends this summer, and repeat the exercise every ten years. There are a few details to be worked out along the way, and I’ll be documenting those in this blog. One important feature of the project is that my friends will be photographed at home, or...