The EMOP or European Month of Photography did start this October. The chance to catch several exhibitions all over Berlin. I only have seen three of them so far but there were each pretty interesting.
Going to Brazil
Being relatively free in my schedule I could join a guided tour of the exhibition called The professor's Journeys - Six Expeditions Through Brazil In The 1930s with the curator. We were only four people, I was the youngest one, the pictures were in black and white and despite the photographer not being a professional the images were very clean and well composed.
Going back in time
Scanning the EMOP website it was difficult to keep in mind something as there are so many installations. But here and there images were catching my eyes, in particularly one from the Landesarchiv in Berlin and their exhibition Architecture on Glass - Photographs by Otto Hagemann.
I decided to join the vernissage of this exhibition and to reach the place it felt like going to on an expedition.
The Landesarchive are far far far away after the Tegel airport. I was basically cycling into the darkness for 12km. I arrived about 30min after the opening, just the time to listen to the last min of the opening speech. Opening speech declaimed in a lovely German administrative tone. It's not that it was in German, but you felt right away that you were not in a art gallery but in an official building, at the archive.
Once again I was the youngest, the open bar was open and the pictures really interesting. I skip the photo-geek part, it was medium format images printed on glass plates and more important the images were beautiful. Architecture photography have this formal aspect that highlights the beauty in building as only good architecture photographers can do. Sometimes they succeed to go away from their purely archive duty thanks as well to the exhibition curator.
After the In the Off
Each serious festival should have an Off program as well. So on my way back to civilization I stopped at the Wilmer Brauerei to attend another vernissage the same evening, this time the Monat Der Fotographie Off.
Different location, typical Berlin style, semi abandoned industrial building with images every where or different sizes and formats. Different population as well. I keep in my minds the images of the desert in New Mexico and those specifically from the Very Large Array radio telescope in the middle of nowhere, probably because I have been there a few years ago and it still feels like images from another planet.
Less than a week left and a lof of photo exhibitions to catch!
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20/10/2016
08/08/2016
Project Space Festival 2016 Week 1
Th3rd edition of the Project Spaced Festival, 31 days of organised ramble into the city to discover whatever you want to discover. Actually my approach is very naive when it is matter of art, at least as a first encounter I claim this approach for the pleasure to be surprised. I usually read the description of the event without too many expectation, wait and see. But after of course I like to get the feedback from connoisseurs in case I miss something.
day1
It's started at the ebullient space apartment project. Project space that I visited three years ago to interview Selda together with a friend Natalia. At this time Natalia had the idea to follow the festival program and to conduct interviews of each people behind the project spaces involved into the program, the result was pretty cool, all articles are here. Three years later the artists in residence at apartment-project have changed and the place is still full of energy.
day2
Sadly I couldn't join.
day3
This Wednesday it's the turn for insitu to be the art stage of the day. There is a tiny Tour de France spirit in this festival continuously traveling in the city. The event started at and in front of insitu and the people attending the event were shuttling between the space and the späti on the other side of the street. At some point the crowd slightly moved a few street numbers away to attend and be part of a group meditation. The weather was clement enough to not rain during the outdoor performance...
day4
In the program this year they are galleries, spaces from and outside Berlin. Tonight it's Köln and the people behind bruch und dallas. Having no physical place in town, their participation was the take over of a kind of no man's land located nearby the Gemäldergalerie.
The work presented reminds me signs left by aliens on the ground when they come to visit us, as many people I guess I almost walk onto the piece... The weather was so shitty that you couldn't distinguish really between the grey sky and the dark ground or the other way around.
day5
Arriving a bit in advance I used my time to get lost in the streets around the today's place Display. I usually don't stop around Yorckstrasse, just cross the area on my bike, now I know I should stop more often. That's also the pleasure for me with that festival, rediscovering Berlin by the mean of detours.
I enter the space, video installation in the first room and music instrument on the floor announcing later performance. People are slowly arriving. During the time I'm watching the video I can see people going to the back of the space, thinking they go to the bar, I also observe they are not coming back, so I went.
If the front room is full of natural light and toward the street the back is the complete opposite. One room with open door and people queuing to get in. A narrow room, lighted with candles, a bathtub and two women naked conversing while taking a bath and eating cheese, there is a big cheese wooden deck between them.
The spectators are watching the performance, there is something special with performances, it's not theatre, something between 3D cinema and live voyeurism and pure augmented reality or PAR not be confused with AR or VR... A down to the rabbit hole feeling, a visit into a parallel world for a short time, a strong contrast of atmosphere between the two rooms. Pretty cool.
day6
the shortest event ever. It started at 20:00 and finished at 20:05. I was one minute too late, could not get in but could see the people rushing to get in and out.
day7
a big part of my day was spent on my sofa reading. At some point I used the event of the day to leave early before meeting friends for a late Sunday drink in Kreuzberg. On the program a new place to visit for me called labor neunzehn. A slight touch of N.K. for the building and location of this project space, also music and before video projection. I only stayed for the video, pretty interesting even so almost nothing happen on screen, trucks working, glimpse of a people conversation, what I understood as a Californian environment judging the colors, like sitting on bench and watching, another PAR experience, qui a dit que le réel pouvait être ennuyeux?
day1
It's started at the ebullient space apartment project. Project space that I visited three years ago to interview Selda together with a friend Natalia. At this time Natalia had the idea to follow the festival program and to conduct interviews of each people behind the project spaces involved into the program, the result was pretty cool, all articles are here. Three years later the artists in residence at apartment-project have changed and the place is still full of energy.
day2
Sadly I couldn't join.
day3
This Wednesday it's the turn for insitu to be the art stage of the day. There is a tiny Tour de France spirit in this festival continuously traveling in the city. The event started at and in front of insitu and the people attending the event were shuttling between the space and the späti on the other side of the street. At some point the crowd slightly moved a few street numbers away to attend and be part of a group meditation. The weather was clement enough to not rain during the outdoor performance...
day4
In the program this year they are galleries, spaces from and outside Berlin. Tonight it's Köln and the people behind bruch und dallas. Having no physical place in town, their participation was the take over of a kind of no man's land located nearby the Gemäldergalerie.
The work presented reminds me signs left by aliens on the ground when they come to visit us, as many people I guess I almost walk onto the piece... The weather was so shitty that you couldn't distinguish really between the grey sky and the dark ground or the other way around.
Arriving a bit in advance I used my time to get lost in the streets around the today's place Display. I usually don't stop around Yorckstrasse, just cross the area on my bike, now I know I should stop more often. That's also the pleasure for me with that festival, rediscovering Berlin by the mean of detours.
I enter the space, video installation in the first room and music instrument on the floor announcing later performance. People are slowly arriving. During the time I'm watching the video I can see people going to the back of the space, thinking they go to the bar, I also observe they are not coming back, so I went.
If the front room is full of natural light and toward the street the back is the complete opposite. One room with open door and people queuing to get in. A narrow room, lighted with candles, a bathtub and two women naked conversing while taking a bath and eating cheese, there is a big cheese wooden deck between them.
The spectators are watching the performance, there is something special with performances, it's not theatre, something between 3D cinema and live voyeurism and pure augmented reality or PAR not be confused with AR or VR... A down to the rabbit hole feeling, a visit into a parallel world for a short time, a strong contrast of atmosphere between the two rooms. Pretty cool.
day6
the shortest event ever. It started at 20:00 and finished at 20:05. I was one minute too late, could not get in but could see the people rushing to get in and out.
day7
a big part of my day was spent on my sofa reading. At some point I used the event of the day to leave early before meeting friends for a late Sunday drink in Kreuzberg. On the program a new place to visit for me called labor neunzehn. A slight touch of N.K. for the building and location of this project space, also music and before video projection. I only stayed for the video, pretty interesting even so almost nothing happen on screen, trucks working, glimpse of a people conversation, what I understood as a Californian environment judging the colors, like sitting on bench and watching, another PAR experience, qui a dit que le réel pouvait être ennuyeux?
02/03/2016
Algo in mobile phone camera
Smartphones are becoming our primary camera and our primary way to consume images. The technical differences between those devices are shrinking. How do you differentiate between them?
Considering all devices coming with approximatively the same hardware from sensors to optic, the differences should come from the software. if you take Android OS, despite its presence on most of the smartphone, the manufacturers using this OS can still pre-load their devices with advanced options.
My point here is not to list or say which one is better than the other, but to highlight all the options now available. What I think is interesting here is to see what is considered to be granted from the user point of view: auto-focus, white balancing, hdr, face detection, low light condition, panorama and to wonder what people really understood of these tools. The marketing department surely has something to say about the last point.
To know a bit about the production workflow around this problematic, I really see the the battle of new algorithms/automatic image as the way for company to market their image (see the last Iphone campaign). A bit like the battle between film manufacturers (Kodak, Agfa, Fuji...) back in the days, where for the same ISO sensitivities (for me my favorite was 400 color by Fujifilm) the same color signal will appear slightly different on paper. The camera allows you to record the scene and the film/digital camera chosen will print the look of the final image.
So what can you really do? A lot will answer the emergency color scientist. It is super important and very interesting to study how our visual system is functioning, how it adapts with the light condition (eg. how to improve an image when observe on your phone in low light condition). All sounds pretty cool to me, color scientists can be useful.
La suite dans le futur.
Considering all devices coming with approximatively the same hardware from sensors to optic, the differences should come from the software. if you take Android OS, despite its presence on most of the smartphone, the manufacturers using this OS can still pre-load their devices with advanced options.
My point here is not to list or say which one is better than the other, but to highlight all the options now available. What I think is interesting here is to see what is considered to be granted from the user point of view: auto-focus, white balancing, hdr, face detection, low light condition, panorama and to wonder what people really understood of these tools. The marketing department surely has something to say about the last point.
To know a bit about the production workflow around this problematic, I really see the the battle of new algorithms/automatic image as the way for company to market their image (see the last Iphone campaign). A bit like the battle between film manufacturers (Kodak, Agfa, Fuji...) back in the days, where for the same ISO sensitivities (for me my favorite was 400 color by Fujifilm) the same color signal will appear slightly different on paper. The camera allows you to record the scene and the film/digital camera chosen will print the look of the final image.
So what can you really do? A lot will answer the emergency color scientist. It is super important and very interesting to study how our visual system is functioning, how it adapts with the light condition (eg. how to improve an image when observe on your phone in low light condition). All sounds pretty cool to me, color scientists can be useful.
La suite dans le futur.
16/09/2015
Etsy opening
Following my first exhibition of little planet pictures back in June in Morlaix - it's in Bretany - I did open a shop in Etsy a few days ago. The shop is called JeremieLittlePlanets for two reasons: one my name is Jérémie and secondly it is about my little planets images.
Have a look to the shop, like it if you like it, share it and even order images if you like them very much, they are great gift I heard.
Each images have been printed 5 times, 3 in 70x70cm and 7 in 40x40cm. Each copy is signed and numbered. Some of them have found lucky buyers, mostly in France until now in Paris, Nantes and Morlaix. But my images can't wait to travel more.
The selection of images we presented last June together with my friend Laurent from feelsen are the memories of time I had the last years in Berlin, Paris, Marseille, Szczecin, Polish coast, Reunion island forest, South of France...
Have a look to the shop, like it if you like it, share it and even order images if you like them very much, they are great gift I heard.
Each images have been printed 5 times, 3 in 70x70cm and 7 in 40x40cm. Each copy is signed and numbered. Some of them have found lucky buyers, mostly in France until now in Paris, Nantes and Morlaix. But my images can't wait to travel more.
The selection of images we presented last June together with my friend Laurent from feelsen are the memories of time I had the last years in Berlin, Paris, Marseille, Szczecin, Polish coast, Reunion island forest, South of France...
11/10/2014
Rencontres géographiques et temporelles aléatoires
If I don't find a job as a color or imaging scientist in a near future I could always apply as a physiognomist. It is my super power, I remember faces even some years later. This Saturday afternoon I was meeting one of my friends Natalia to take a portrait picture of the person she was interviewing for her blog - it's here, it is the following chapter of last August about project space, it's now about study space - and when I met Anna I had a beginning of flashback, I have met this girl with Natalia already - everything is written here in French and it was actually not her - a while ago, three years ago, all the memories about this day came back after some hours to my mind. But let's continue about today.
15:00 we meet in Hackescher Markt as we leave away almost immediately. The area is peaceful and quiet after 18:00 if you are going to the cinema, but before it's touristic hell on earth. We walk toward the Spree, take some pictures and I go back home.
19:00 quiet agenda for the Saturday evening, only a finissage in a gallery some hundred meters away from our home address. At the end of the Project Space Festival last August I met Andreas who is running the Greusslich Contemporary gallery.
My first plan was to stay shortly, to visit the gallery - gallery located in an apartment not on the ground floor - and to go home. I went home, but 3 hours later. Even so you are entering an apartment, you are entering a gallery. The white color on the walls, the light grey on the floor, the homogeneous lighting, the place itself or the volume is the part of the exhibition - but I'm probably influenced by the last month project space festival I have attended - which makes me a bit lazy when it's time to look at the art pieces selected by the curator. Being there is almost enough. Next time I will be less impressed by the place and will be able to pay more attention to the exhibited works.
All along the finissage small groups were formed, my group was constituted of two Germans women, one Austrian man and myself. Always a pleasure to practice my German skill in such condition, talking about art, color and irrelevant things while drinking beer.
15:00 we meet in Hackescher Markt as we leave away almost immediately. The area is peaceful and quiet after 18:00 if you are going to the cinema, but before it's touristic hell on earth. We walk toward the Spree, take some pictures and I go back home.
19:00 quiet agenda for the Saturday evening, only a finissage in a gallery some hundred meters away from our home address. At the end of the Project Space Festival last August I met Andreas who is running the Greusslich Contemporary gallery.
My first plan was to stay shortly, to visit the gallery - gallery located in an apartment not on the ground floor - and to go home. I went home, but 3 hours later. Even so you are entering an apartment, you are entering a gallery. The white color on the walls, the light grey on the floor, the homogeneous lighting, the place itself or the volume is the part of the exhibition - but I'm probably influenced by the last month project space festival I have attended - which makes me a bit lazy when it's time to look at the art pieces selected by the curator. Being there is almost enough. Next time I will be less impressed by the place and will be able to pay more attention to the exhibited works.
All along the finissage small groups were formed, my group was constituted of two Germans women, one Austrian man and myself. Always a pleasure to practice my German skill in such condition, talking about art, color and irrelevant things while drinking beer.
07/10/2014
Color science for beginners
I’m a color and imaging scientist who does photography, but sometimes I’m a photographer who does color and imaging research. Depending of the moment and the project one or the other will be predominant.
The practise of photography is always interesting to remind how the light is captured, how images are made. Know the acquisition process in details - light condition, lens used, subject or content - will always help when it is time to work on the images - be it for displaying the resulting images or for extracting automatically information from them.
These few lines are only a glimpse of what color science is. In my many attempts to explain what a color scientist does I came up with this little definition: a color scientist deals with light, its acquisition, preservation and reproduction, of course he also works with images. The term “color” refer to the visible spectrum - a color scientist is a multispectral imaging scientist with limited spectral boundaries - and by adding the word “visible” - visible to the human eye of course - we just extended the range of possible activities such as studying how a human eye does function, how do we perceive light signals, read images. From physics we come to philosophy.
Engineering projects which involve to work with images are often straightforward: you have an image, you need to detect some information, you use a define metric and it is done - almost of course. A color imaging project which involves art, artists and their work is different. Artists and scientists do not speak the same language, they may use the same tools but with different guidelines for sure... But that’s where the fun comes in.
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