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Luca Nimcova: Unofficial
Luca Nimcova has made a small collection of the images that were taken in the eighties in her hometown in Slowakia by a commissioned photographer and put them together in one little volume and the second volume holds her own images and portraits from today. The black-and-white pictures from the 80s are mostly from official gatherings and are questioned as to their historic value and their ability to tell the truth not by a historian but by someone who appears in them and who cares about what they can tell about the past. Then Luca Nimcova started portraying the people again, sometimes bringing them back to the old settings, townhalls and schools, sometimes just photographing the life in the city today and these images make for some humoristic and emotional responses to the "found photos" from the first little book. The books come in a box and are nicely produced. I would go so far as to say this project has a distinct "Dutch" charm.
I very much recommend Luca’s own website "www.luco.sk/" www.luco.sk/ . Also there is a brief interview on lensculture www.lensculture.com/nimcova.html .
Onaka Koji: The Dog in France
Onaka Koji is among those Japanese photographers from the new generation that awaits his discovery outside Japan. In the beginning of the nineties Koji went for a short trip to France, to flee "personal problems" in Tokyo. Neither did he know French at the time, nor did he have any plans on what to do. The series that came out of it is sentimental and melancholic, in a way that reminds me of Laurence Sterne or Robert Frost. Not that the images are literary, but the mood the traveller seeks is solitary and sensitive. In later works Koji evades those dangers and his photos today have become simple and beautiful, "inevitable". His images are dense, nearly palpable, but not overwhelming nor very artistic. He is not overly concerned with his personal problems, and a picture of his drab hotel room does not result in nabel-gazing. His sentimental style never errs from the documentary approach he has learned from his elders (his first exhibition was with the Camp group in Tokyo). This is a small and very appealing book. And on his webpage you can find out more about his books and other projects. Koji is among those Japanese photographers to look out for!
13.12.2008
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