Bogdan Dziworski - "Interesujący jest tylko człowiek" /Magdalena Rudzka/

Bogdan Dziworski

Znakomity fotograf i operator, nazywany czasem polskim Eliottem Erwittem. Romansował ze słynną Agencją Magnum, ale wybrał film. Z fotografii jednak nigdy nie zrezygnował i niebawem ukaże się jego nowy album. Z Bogdanem Dziworskim rozmawiamy o współczesnej fotografii ulicznej, sztuce patrzenia i szukania tematu.

Umawiając się na wywiad, powiedział Pan, że fotografia to Pana hobby. Czy tak jest naprawdę?

Fotografia, jaką ja uprawiam to jest rzecz nieopłacalna, tylko wariaci mogą sobie na to pozwolić. Ja raczej żyję z czego innego. Fotografię traktuję więc jako hobby.

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The Godfather of street photography - text Trey Taylor

King of the streets and master of cinema, NY-born, Paris-based William Klein is still going strong…

Taken from the January issue of Dazed & Confused:

I was born in the last house on Fifth Avenue, on 109th Street and Fifth Avenue. It was kind of a middle-class semi-dump. All we had was the radio. We had no record player and of course no television.
My grandfather came from Hungary and he had a clothing store. My father inherited it, invested the money in the stock market and lost it all in 1929. Then we had to move and I ended up on 108th street and Amsterdam Avenue, which was even more of a dump. My mum didn’t work but she helped my father. He became an insurance salesman, like Willy Loman in the play. He was a guy trying to make a few bucks who thought America was the greatest place on earth and that he was gonna make it someday – but he never did.
I went to school like everybody else. The thing was, in my family – you know, a lower-middle-class rich family – you’d have to get good marks and get into a high school where you could do the four years of high school in two and a half, especially if it was part of City College. City College was free, but it was hard to get in. It was really nothing like the American vision of college – no campus, no girls – it was just somewhere to get an education. I got a degree in sociology, but I wanted to be an artist.

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An uncommon eye by Stephen Shore

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Legendary American photographer Stephen Shore is training his lens on digital media with his first eBook

To say that Stephen Shore's career is era-spanning is putting it lightly: at 17, he fell in with the Warhol crowd and photographed Andy, Edie Sedgwick and the other bright young things of the Factory; in his 20s, he photographed his road trip from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas in 1972 and pioneered the use of color in fine-art photography while doing so; now four decades into his career, he has just released his first eBook on iTunes, a moving image iBook that captures New York as only Shore sees it.

Something + Nothing, his first solo show in London for over six years, opens at Sprueth Magers, incorporating classic images from his early career as well as work from his new series, Ukraine, which captures Eastern European Holocaust survivors in their homes, villages and cities. As always, Shore always has his eye trained on the constantly moving, mutable future. Dazed speaks to the legendary photographer about the digital medium and his ever-evolving work.

“Everyone thinks they’re making photographs, and in a general sense they are – but there is a language of visual thinking that an experienced photographer can see"

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The lost boys of Bucharest

 

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Exploring the generation time forgot in post-Communist Bucharest

Fashion photographer and filmmaker, Joost Vandebrug’s latest project sees him roaming the streets and tunnels of Bucharest. In a world devoid of parental guidance, the stereotypical tropes are there; drug abuse, run-ins with the law, gang-mentality, yet they are eclipsed and often subverted by the familial bond between these so-called ‘Lost Boys’ - Bucharest’s youth left behind after the fallout of Communism. Led by a myserious tattooed character known as 'Bruce Lee', the group make up just four of an estimated thousand homeless children who end up forming tunnel communities together. 

Vandebrug has been documenting the lives of these homeless boys since 2011 and is now gathering together over 6000 stills and 30 hours of HD footage, all ready to be aired but in need of a financial boost. Through Kickstarter, Vandebrug and DUST magazine, who will be the art-producers for the project, are looking for pledges to make the book, “Cinci Lei”, a reality.

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