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8XDEC16
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8XNOV16
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Under the Skin
Story by René Delbar, participant of the Brussels KAGE Temporary Collective Workshop
Feel the pulse of the modern metropolis: vibrant, restless and chaotic. Always in change, buzzing with activity. Constantly fighting decay and rebuilding for the future.
Meanwhile we mortals, nothing but shadows and dust, go on with our everyday lives.
Mostly oblivious to what transpires below the surface.
X-Pro2, 23/1.4, 35/2, 56/1.2
Reflections about Surfaces
Story by Helmut Puellmanns, participant of the Brussels KAGE Temporary Collective Workshop
Our theme was surface(s). A surface is a border between inside and outside. A Surface can be opaque or transparent so it shows or hides. Reflections on a surface gives you different views of the same thing.
You can see through a transparent surface to the layers behind, feeling like an agent (spy). A surface can be what people show the world to hide their emotions.
Giant
Story by Patrick Dricot, participant of the Brussels KAGE Temporary Collective Workshop
(Just) Take a few seconds.
To think about.
That woman (that man) everyday.
The same train.
(Everyday) The same stairs.
Sometime, just too tired.
Even in the day, but she (he) knows.
That in the light, She (he) is.
A giant on the surface.
Surface
Story by Peter Ortmann, participant of the Brussels KAGE Temporary Collective Workshop
I love the complexity of the different layers of this series. Shot free hand and in a very short time while people are rushing from one end of the Brussels main train station to another one. The wall was built of clean white and reflective squares where some where printed with images I presume have been taken in the train station. We see people moving up and down, photographed in black & white and with a very slow shutter speed. We cannot recognize them but feel the rush. Without the context, the lines formed by the squares are unintelligible. We think we understand at first before realizing that we did not understand and stay superficial. Unfortunately, I forgot to look out for the photographer’s name.
Then another layer comes in. The bypassing people were also photographed in their movement. They could be part of the initial frame, but they are not. They do destroy the visual harmony of the grid lines and join the scene in color. At the same time, the formal, straight angle of view, reduce them visually to the initial two-dimensional canvas.
At the end we stand there with very few information and nearly no depth, no perspective, no visual details, no moods. Like every encounter during a rush hour, we stay superficial.
(Sur)faces
Story by Guillaume Lebur, participant of the Brussels KAGE Temporary Collective Workshop
8XOCT16
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8XSEP16
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