from the series: the goose bumps. the fallen man

sometimes one image is like a condensed 1000 page novel. cliche, i know, but just look at this one:

                                 joel meyerowitz 'the fallen man'

A Brief History of John Baldessari

expired homes

my mind is (over)occupied with houses these days. 
everyone who lives in london knows that looking for a flat is a nightmare you wouldn't want your biggest enemies to have. 
it's a wild wild west, with evil lettings agents with guns and shoe boxes dressed up as flats. 
if i loose and evil agents win - there's even no option for squatting anymore. in the crisis time, with more and more young people without work, the genius government decides to make squatting illegal, yeah, let's have even more empty properties and homeless people.

this is a project i did long time ago and to look through it is a nice distraction from my tired-of-agents-and-guns brains.
it's called expired homes and deals with an idea of home, of what makes building a home.


taking those photos i was looking closely at the phenomenon of squatting, not in sociological, nor political way, but in the means of a personal experience and an in-depth examination of emotions connected with it.
 
i was (still am) asking question about photography as a carrier of memories, an indefatigable carrier of parts of ourselves, of our worlds which do not exist any more.

there was life before photoshop ;)

Man on Rooftop with Eleven Men in Formation on His Shoulders: Unknown Artist, American ca. 1930 Gelatin silver print

my scanner got dusty recently. this long forgotten film helped it a bit. i love long forgotten films, still have a few of them waiting to be processed. tbc :)

marrakech marrrrrrrrrakechhh

kiev.
which has nothing to do with the stupid euro 2012, whatsoever.