We are not the Last

Last week I was in Barcelona for a summer course in banking theory in combination with a lot of Catalan culture. Art festivals, small galleries and local Tapas Bars. Suprises. At a warm afternoon I was dwelling in the streets of Eixample, the art disctrict of Barcelona. All galleries were closed except one. In the gallery a discovered the Work of Zoran Music, a Slovenian painter. Famous is his series of drawings 'Nous ne sommes pas les derniers' (We are not the last), which he made in the concentration camp Dachau. Beautiful paintings. On the site of the Jewish museum in New York, you could find some of his work. Also the following quote:

"When we were in the camp, people would often declare that this sort of thing could never happen again. When the war is over, they said, a better world will come into being and such horrors will never recur. . . . But then, as time went by, I saw the same sort of thing starting to happen again all over the world – in Vietnam, in the Gulag, in Latin America – everywhere. And I realized that what we had said in those days – that we would be the last people to experience such things – was not true: the truth is that we were not the last."
– Zoran Music

A discovery of a very interesting artist.

Domingo Milella - Paesaggi

Two pictures of Domingo Milella his exhibition Paesaggi (landscapes), currently at the Amsterdam photography museum FOAM. Domingo Milella is an Italian photographer, educated in NY, who made a serie of urban landscapes in Albania, Turkey, Italy, Tunesia and Mexico.

Two human landscapes, taken in one of the most densely populated and chaotic cities in the world, buth both photos breath tranquility and order. Very special.














Cuautepec, Discaria, Mexico City, 2004 © Domingo Milella

Cuautepec, Notturo, Mexico City 2004 © Domingo Millela

Survivor's Tale - Afghanistan

A short documentary of the Australian photographer Stephen Dupont who narrowly escaped from a suicide attack in Afghanistan.

Click here to watch.

Uncontacted Indians in Brazil

This remarkable photo on the frontpage of the Volkskrant (29-05-2008) is one of the first pictures of an uncontacted Indian tribe in the Amazone near to the Brazil-Peru border. The photographs where taken by Gleilson Miranda, who worked for the Brazilian government, and published by Survival International, an NGO for tribal people. Many uncontacted tribes are in danger because of loggers and the Western deseases they bring with them. Three red painted Indians firing arrows on the airplane who discovered them.

Last Supper

In the Arts Section of the Volkskrant (10-06-2008), this photo of Adi Nes grapped my attention. Macho Isreali soldiers in the same composition as Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'.















Adi Nes (1999), Untitled (The Last Supper)

Tibet: A Simple Life

Last summer I visited an photo exhibition on Tibetan peasants in the 798 art district in Beijng. The photographer lived in Tibet for 9 years, which resulted in an amazing documentary on life in rural Tibet. I forgot the name of the photographer and even on google I was not able to find something back of the photos I saw. Yesterday, I went to the overview exhibition of 60 years of Magnum (a famous American Photo Agency) in Amsterdam and saw a photo which had a very similar style as the foto's I saw in Beijing. After some google-work it turned out that the photographer Lu-Nan was indeed the photographer of the Beijing exhibition. Below, you could find a small impression of his work.

The composition, sense of light and space are breathtaking.














Lu-Nan TIBET. Xigaze, about 300 Km west of Lhasa, in the Himalaya Mountains. A man and a girl during the Autumn harvest. 2002














Lu-Nan Three women under rest. Tibet, 2002













Lu-Nan TIBET. Xigaze, about 300 Km west of Lhasa, in the Himalaya Mountains. An oracle.

For more photos, please visit:

Magnum Photos, Tibet: A Simple Life

Stellet Licht

I was completely broken after this film. Stellet Licht (Silent Light) is set in a Nothern Mexico, self-contained, very religious Mennonite community. A man is torn by his sence of guilt, since he cannot choose between his wife and his secret lover. Emotions are very intense and filmed with long beautiful screenshots.

http://www.stelletlicht.com/