LandscapeProjects POC (piece of cake project) & others

Loan Nguyen, landscape with figures. Loan Nguyen lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied the School of Applied Arts in Vevey, where she graduated in 2000. After taking part in different group shows all around Europe, she had her first show at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff in Paris in 2003, which is now representing her. Since 2003, her work was shown at the Wagner & Partner Gallery in Berlin, the Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles, and at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. http://www.pocproject.com/author/loann/#1

Simon Roberts, landscape with figures Simon Roberts was born in 1974 in South Croydon, London, and studied a BA (Hons) Degree in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield (1996). His photographs have been exhibited widely with recent solo shows at the National Media Museum, UK, EX3 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, and Shanghai’s Museum of Contemporary Art, China. They are represented in major public and private collections, including the Deutsche Börse Art Collection, George Eastman House and Wilson Centre for Photography. In recognition for his work, Roberts has received several awards including the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society (2007) - offered for a notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer, a National Media Museum Bursary Award (2007), grant from the John Kobal Foundation (2008) and was most recently commissioned as the official Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee (2010) to produce a record of the UK General Election. He has published two monographs, Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007) and We English (Chris Boot, 2009). http://www.pocproject.com/author/simonr/#1

Friederike von Rauch, architecture Friederike von Rauch lives and works in Berlin, Germany. POC member since 2009. Following her training as a silversmith Friederike von Rauch studied Industrial Design at the Universität der Künste, Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts). She developed an interest in architecture during her work as a location-scout for large film productions. She was also awarded with work scholarships and was nominated for the several Prizes. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe. Two large book projects have been realised with the renowned publishing house Hatje Cantz. In recent years the artist has made a name for herself with her approach to spaces and landscapes that is characterized by reduction and concentration. She is represented by FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin and Gallery 51, Antwerp. http://www.pocproject.com/author/friederikev/#1

Bert Danckaert (°1965, Antwerp, Belgium) studied photography at the Academy for Fine Arts and the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts (NHISK) in Antwerp (B). Since the mid nineties, he has been working as a photographer and has showed his work in several solo and group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. Besides his artistic activities, Danckaert also writes about photography for several newspapers and magazines (mainly {H}ART) and has worked as freelance curator. He is associate professor of photography at the Academy of Antwerp (B). In 1999, Danckaert started the series 'Make Sense!' which was published as a book in 2006. From 2007 on he is working on a series entitled 'Simple Present'. In 2008 his second book 'Simple Present - Beijing' was published. http://www.pocproject.com/author/bertd/#5

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond Mathieu Bernard-Reymondis a French photographer living in Switzerland. He studied in politics, and art history in Grenoble, France. His photography deals with landscape, architecture and the media. His use of new technologies aims to question the photographic medium through a new poetic approach. In 2003 he was awarded the HSBC Fundation for Photography Prize. In 2005, he won the No-Limit Prize of the International Festival of Arles (France). In 2006, Paris photo and BMW chose to give their first prize to works by Mathieu Bernard-Reymond. In 2009, he was awarded the Arcimboldo prize for Digital Photography. His work has been exhibited in numerous places in Europe, United States and Asia, and has found its place in the collections of both private individuals and public institutions like the Musée Nicéphore Niépce (F), Musée de l’Elysée (CH), and Fonds National pour l’Art contemporain (F). http://www.pocproject.com/author/mathieubr/#1

Raphael Dallaporta, conceptual photographer Documentary photographer Raphaël Dallaporta, born in France in 1980, has garnered international acclaim for his thoughtful and engaging projects. He is concerned with public issues addressing human rights as well as more symbolic subjects such as the fragility of life. His long term projects which combine text and images are a product of his collaborations with professionals from a wide range of fields. He has worked closely with a landmine clearer (Antipersonnel), a reporter who covers social work as it intersects with the law (Domestic Slavery), forensic pathologist (Fragile) and most recently archeologists (Ruins) … Raphael Dallaporta is the winner of the 2010 Young Photographer ICP Infinity Award and FOAM’s 2011 Paul Huf Award . Solo exhibitions include “Raphaël Dallaporta, Protocole” at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, in 2010, “Autopsy” curated by Kathy Ryan at the New York 2008 Photo Festival, and “Antipersonnel” curated by Martin Parr at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2004, among many others in Europe, Asia and New York. His work is included in the collections of the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris and the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris. http://www.raphaeldallaporta.com/project

Hiroshi Sugimoto, conceptual photographer. http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/portfolio.html            

Theaters I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and- answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes.  

 

 

 

 

Architecture Early-twentieth century Modernism greatly transformed our lives, liberating the human spirit from untold decoration. No longer needing to draw attention from God, all aristocratic attempts at ostentation have fallen away. At last we avail ourselves of mechanical aids far beyond our human powers, attaining the freedom to shape things at will. I decided to trace the beginnings of our age via architecture. Pushing my old large-format camera’s focal length out to twice-infinity―with no stops on the bellows rail, the view through the lens was an utter blur―I discovered that superlative architecture survives, however dissolved, the onslaught of blurred photography. Thus I began erosion-testing architecture for durability, completely melting away many of the buildings in the process.  

 

 

 

Jurgen Nefzger http://www.juergennefzger.com/work_fluffy.html  

I was born in Germany in 1968 and moved to France in 1990 to study at the French National School of Photography in Arles. I have been living in France since then and I find the double cultural influences a nourishing background that continues to sharpen my sense of observation. The fact that I grew up within a generation marked by a strong political commitment made me aware, early in my life, of problems that we still seem willing to ignore. Besides my work as an artist I teach photography at the Fine Art School of Clermont-Ferrand. My work is represented by Françoise Paviot Gallery, Paris. What I like the most in photography is the very direct relationship that it has with reality. It cannot be disconnected from the subject. By adopting a documentary style, I explore themes closely linked to the impact of society on the environment, which allows me to take a political stance in the world. I perceive the contemporary landscape and its conflictive aspects as symbolic of the evolutions of a consumer society in crisis. Questioning environmental issues is a leitmotiv in my work. I previously focused on suburbia and the failures of urban planning in the nineties and addressed issues like pollution or nuclear power since the turn of the century. In current projects, I am exploring ways of working on landscapes moulded by the financial and economic crisis that we are experiencing today. My projects are often carried out over several years resulting in large series of pictures. Besides exhibitions, I’m very interested in the process of editing my work.