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No multi-invites and graphics..Thank you 
I found this little dogs with their mother in the mountain, their mom was so thin , she had 8 babies, so I decided to take food every two days so she could feed her self and her family
S-NOCTURNUS posted a photo:
Two feelings when I watch palestinian children dying..Sadness then Hate for the jews..
Cep Danie (a bit busy) has added a photo to the pool:
Almost touch down…!
Warming-up jari telunjuk buat jeprat jepret kamera biar ga kaku …
Internet lagi lelet mode = on, uploading foto ini pun sambil "tertatih-tatih"
Yuuuk… mareeeee!
Temps d’écouter
J’ai reçu un e-mail m’invitant à une visite guidée de l’exposition « Distance et proximité» organisée par le Goethe Institut de Tunis(1). Mais, je me suis trouvé dans une situation surréaliste puisque j’ai dû écouter une phrase dans la langue de Schiller puis sa traduction dans celle de Rabelais pour pouvoir la comprendre en arabe (je le suppose ! En fait, a-t-on tranché cette question existentialiste de savoir dans quelle langue saisissons-nous les choses… !). Entendre une phrase du genre: « Thomas Ruff photographie les détails des intérieurs de maisons et en a fait un style… » ou encore : « Cette photographie qui parait ne mettre en scène qu’une salle vide est en fait celle qui a connu un grand événement historique : la division de l’Allemagne lors de l’Accord de Postdam ». Et pour finir, entendre : « Gurski est un des photographes les plus connus et les plus côtés [sans aucune autre justification]…il photographie les gens dans des espaces immenses car encore enfant et habitant la campagne il avait peur d’être rejeté » sont des commentaires qui ne valaient pas le déplacement. Je ne dirais pas « fin de citation » puisque il pourrait y avoir dans ces immenses salles du Palais Keireddine des échos maléfiques qui auront dénaturé les paroles de cette jeunes allemande venue spécialement de Germanie pour nous expliquer, soit ce qui était devant nos yeux soit de justifier maladroitement ce qui n’avait pas lieu de l’être. C’est ce que l’on inflige souvent à l’art contemporain : un discours essayant de lui faire dire ce qu’il n’a jamais prétendu revendiquer… L’art contemporain se contente d’affirmer qu’il est là…Tout simplement.
Temps de faire
Dans ma dernière chronique(2), j’évoquais le grand photographe Avedon à travers une description du portrait qu’il avait réalisé du sénateur Obama, aujourd’hui, je viens vous parler d’une autre image signée aussi Avedon.
Dovima et les éléphants. Richard Avedon. 1955
Cette photographie révèle une grande maîtrise, aussi bien de la technique que du langage photographique. D’abord, rares sont les personnes qui remarquent que ce cliché est en noir et blanc tant la force qui en émane bouscule notre quiétude bien avant que nos cônes et nos bâtonnets de notre rétine ne s’en rendent compte ! Le contraste poussé à outrance dans le choix des éléments de composition est si intense que la palette chromatique est devenue comme par magie une question secondaire. Le modèle est d’une grâce féerique. Profil hautain et snob, cou interminable, décolleté audacieux, corps enveloppé dans un fourreau sombre, Dovima, mannequin de chez Dior, semble charmer (étymologiquement cela s’entend ensorceler) que ce soit ceux qui regardent son dos ou ceux qui contemplent sa face.
Certains ont vu dans cette image une évocation du conte de Jeanne-Marie Leprince : La belle et la bête…ils se sont trompés. Ou alors nous les avons mal compris…qui est la bête et qui est la belle ? Ces éléphants sont-ils furieux ou pris de panique ? N’avez-vous pas l’impression que nous autres spectateurs sommes en fait de part et d’autre de Dovima…nous aussi, sommes enchainés, démunis, incapables de faire quoi que ce soit devant cette créature mi-ange mi-démon. Les allusions mythologiques ou érotiques que suscite cette photographie sont innombrables…
Avedon, contrairement au portrait d’Obama qu’il nous livrait tel quel, se faisant passer pour un Photomaton de hall de gare, se place ici dans le fauteuil du metteur en scène ; disposant les composantes de son image à sa guise pour nous en faire voir de toute les couleurs…
Temps de crise
Claude Perez revient occuper les cimaises de l’Aire Libre d’el Teatro(3). Je l’ai déjà dit et je le répète, ses récentes photographies n’ont rien à voir avec ses œuvres antérieures. Une raie de lumière se réfléchissant dans la mer, un personnage passe, à pas lent, en course ou nous offrant son profil et hop une photo…c’est dans la boite coco. Le photographe « s’amuse », après, à les multiplier à l’endroit à l’envers…à satiété. Permettez-moi cette analogie, de loin cela fait une série de motifs donnant un certain effet papier peint.
Personnellement je n’ai ressenti aucune émotion devant ces photographies-puzzle que l’on accole tète bèche, ou en frère siamois !!! Tout cela est une question de goût, mais quand on lit la liste des œuvres exposées on est surpris (moi en tout cas) de lire que vous pouvez devenir possesseur de cette œuvre pour 3500 dinars. Là, nous sortons du domaine des opinions et des préférences pour entrer de plein pied dans celui de l’économie. Nous n’allons pas faire la somme du prix du tirage, du cadre, de l’amortissement de l’appareil photo, des frais de déplacements, du pourcentage à concéder à la galerie en cas de vente…Non cela serait déplacé ! Puisque en fin de compte nous pourrons trouver, par simple soustraction, la valeur du travail artistique.
Mais, jetons un coup d’œil à la cote de quelques photographies vendues aujourd’hui en France. Avec 3500 dinars, un peu plus de 2000 €, vous pouvez vous offrir (pour les fêtes de fin d’année) ou vous permettre d’accrocher dans votre séjour un Portrait d’un enfant déguisé en arlequin réalisé par Lucien Clergue (tirage argentique signé par le photographe de format 22 X 28,5) à 280 €, pour 300 € vous serez l’heureux acquéreur d’un superbe Nu académique de Jean François Jonvelle ( tirage de format 30 X 40 cm avec cachet à sec officiel du photographe) ajoutons dans le caddy une œuvre de Mario Giacomelli intitulée La Buona Terra (tirage au platine signé, de format 15 X 10 cm) à 130 €, allez ! Ajoutons de la fantaisie ! Un magnifique tirage couleur, d’époque, en superbe état de format 20 X 25 cm d’Apollo 10 en orbite autour de la Lune au prix de 130 € (un tirage similaire fut adjugé précédemment à 1000 €). Le restant de la monnaie servira à s’acquitter des frais de port !
Temps d’envoyer vos photos au World Press
Il y a un mois, je découvre une info bizarre sur le site de l’Arab Press Network. « La majorité des images les plus fortes aujourd’hui viennent du conflit qui déchire la région arabe, mais ce sont souvent des photographes non arabes qui prennent ces clichés. « World Press Photo est conscient de l’importance d’encourager et de soutenir les photojournalistes dans leur propre région », assure Michiel Munneke, directeur de la fondation organisatrice du World Press, qui explique que la fondation est actuellement engagée dans des programmes de formation pour les photographes en Égypte et au Maroc, et a pour projet de mettre en place des sessions de formation au Moyen-Orient.…Les inscriptions au concours World Press Photo sont ouvertes et, cette année, les photojournalistes arabes sont fortement encouragés à participer et à exposer leurs talents…Pour l’édition 2008 du concours World Press Photo, nous avons vu une augmentation de 28 % du nombre de participants du monde arabe, mais nous restons néanmoins convaincus qu’un plus grand nombre de photographes de la région ont la capacité d’entrer dans la compétition », déclare Munneke.
Que cache cette insistante invitation ? Est-ce une des conséquences de la polémique née de la consécration de la photo de Spencer Platt réalisée à Beyrouth en Août 2006 ? J’ai déjà évoqué dans une de mes chroniques que si le prix était mérité, le fait d’inviter à la cérémonie de remise des prix du World Press Photo ceux qui figuraient dans la photo était étrange pour ne pas dire compromettant (4). Aujourd’hui, cette invitation vient confirmer mes suspicions. Le jury allait-il avoir comme consigne de favoriser les participants d’origine arabe ? Y’a-t-il volonté d’inverser les rôles…en lieu et place d’un photographe venu d’Occident pour couvrir un événement, le plus souvent sanglant, en pays arabe, le jury va-t-il consacrer un photographe libanais ou irakien (ou autre) auteur d’un reportage sur les élections américaines ou le crash de Wall Street ? Après le temps de l’orientalisme voilà venu le temps de l’occidentalisme. Si vous êtes photographe de presse envoyez sans plus tarder vos œuvres au World Press Photo, peut-être seriez-vous l’heureuse victime de cette discrimination positive. Edward Saïd n’avait pas prévu cela.
D’ici la date de la parution du palmarès 2008 en février prochain, Mach (Mahmoud Chelbi) me confirme que l’expo du WPP, édition 2007, sera parmi nous en janvier prochain…à suivre.
Temps des bague(ettes) magiques
La rédaction du journal Le Figaro a supprimé de la photo de Rachida Dati, la Garde des Sceaux, une bague de grande valeur. Baptisée « Liens » de chez Chaumet, le bijou est en or gris pavé de diamants, avec deux liens pavés de diamants, ce joyau a été évalué à 15600 €. Information glanée du site Rue89. Débora Altman, responsable de la Une du Figaro a indiqué: “La “Une” parlait du malaise entre Rachida Dati et les magistrats. On a trouvé que la bague se voyait trop et on l’a enlevé pour ne pas que les gens se focalisent sur ça et que ça créé une polémique sur le côté bling-bling. Ça a été fait dans l’urgence, il était 20h29 et on devait boucler à 20h30″. Les forums de discussion ont été juste après la parution de l’information pris d’assaut.
La Une du Figaro du 19 novembre et la photo originale réalisée par François Bouchon le 17 juin 2008
Effectivement, montre en main, cela m’a pris moins d’une demi-minute, avec le logiciel CorelPhoto Paint (TM), pour débarrasser l’annulaire en question de son lourd fardeau. Mais, toute une vie ne suffirait pas pour prendre la lourde décision de retoucher une photographie de presse, censée fournir une information correcte autant que l’article qui l’accompagne. Un acte d’une grande gravité. Je n’ai peut-être pas assez cherché celui, (ou celle !!!) possédant un sens de l’observation et une mémoire photographique aussi précise, ayant découvert la supercherie. Il (ou elle) mérite un satisfecit.
A croire qu’ils sont fous ces Gaulois, pour parodier la bande dessinée Astérix. Un ministre qui ne peut pas s’offrir, ou se fait offrir une bague de grande valeur, sans que le ciel ne lui tombe sur la tête, un responsable de rédaction qui joue à la baguette magique (outil de retouche de Photoshop), un inconnu qui découvre le tour de passe-passe, des internautes qui cherchent dans les catalogues des joailliers le nom du bijou et sa valeur, d’autres qui le comparent aux boucles d’oreilles de Ségolène Royal, alors que quotidiennement – à l’heure du passage des éboueurs – on ramasse des SDF morts de froid…Mais où va la France par Toutatis !!!
Temps de lire
Un grand nombre de personnes se plaignent de la longueur de mes chroniques. S’il est vrai que contrairement aux autres blogs celui-ci se singularise par des textes d’une certaine étendue, il faudrait préciser que la fréquence de publication n’est pas la même. Certains bloggeurs publient un post par jour, d’autres le font sans périodicité particulière alors que du-photographique conserve un rythme d’un texte par dizaine de jours…Amplement le temps de lire et de réagir s’il y a lieu de le faire. La lecture du portrait d’Obama (2) ayant été, dans l’ensemble, agréablement accueillis, je réserverais dans mes prochaines chroniques un chapitre pour lire une photo qui m’a marqué et donc influencé ma pratique photographique.
Hamideddine Bouali
10 décembre 2008
(1) (Ana)Chronique XXXVI ; « Le surmoi de la Photo !!! » du lundi 10 novembre 2008
(2) Chronique XXXVII ; « Ecce Homo » du vendredi 21 novembre 2008
(3) Chronique XXI ; « Une brève histoire du temps » du mercredi 21 mai 2008
(4) Critique V « Image presque parfaite d’un monde qui ne l’est pas ! » du vendredi 21 décembre 2007
N.B. : Vous trouvez que ce blog a du mérite ? Votez pour lui dans la catégorie Meilleure Blog en Français du challenge en cliquant sur ce lien : Tunisia Blog Awards 2008…merci d’avance.
Art that shocks is not necessarily meant to shock, but I would say that the fundamental aim is to reveal the hidden, the silenced, the unseen, and the forgotten. Such an art speaks what should not spoken and exhibits what should be not shown, a daring choice of the artist who seeks to distress the ordinary, the common, and the mainstream with the different and the alternative.
According to Michel Foucault, the official discourses occlude forms of knowledge that are different and distinct from them. Hence, the normal person is not the specimen; the good citizen is different from the delinquent; the normal straight cannot be a pervert; a girl cannot be a boy. Official discourses are but constructs, and when we tackle the question of gender, we may say that the demarcation between sexes is but a social and cultural construct, a wobbly duality.
An exhibition of daring photographs in the Gallery “Cine Son” in La Marsa is wrapping up this weekend after running about two weeks and bestowing an opportunity upon the lovers and enthusiasts of art and photography to discover an alternative perspective and representation of gender. Tarak Khalladi, a young Tunisian cineaste and photographer, an emerging talent, is one of the partakers in this exhibition. Speaking to Alarabonline, Khalladi said, “I think it is high time to offer the young Tunisian talents a chance to enter the arena of artistic design. Tunisian art has a lot to say and to offer, notably new and original techniques and perspectives”.
Presenting his work, Kalladi added, “I attempted to blur the boundary between the masculine and the feminine so as to shatter the demarcation line between genders. In photos, I tried to highlight masculinity that survives within extreme and intense femininity”. In black and white, the photos speak out a message, a modern or let us brand it a “postmodern message” that blurs boundaries and blows apart duality. Deconstructing, to use the expression coined by Jacques Derrida, the already-established official gender construct, Khalladi shot to some extent erotic, but expressive scenes: a woman girded with a bodice, an ode to seductive femininity; another woman dressed like a little girl clutching a doll, a quiz, a quagmire that pushes the viewers to ask quite a few questions, paradoxes brought into harmony through the camera of the artist photographer.
With Khalladi, art has no taboo as it digs into the secrecies and ambiguities of the body, the body that has it own aesthetics though always silenced. A new approach to photography, the young artist has adopted through mixing different techniques and making use of the skills he gained from cinematography. In an attempt to satisfy an audience that has been bored with minimalism and superficiality, the artist has conducted his research and enquiry taking the body as a starting point to convey a new perception.
It is worth noting, in this context, that Khalladi has worked with a number of Tunisian and foreign artists, notably painter Aicha Ben Mostapha throughout the exhibition that was held in El-Teatro in Tunis, Abdelaziz Mohsni, Sami Mrad, Claude Perez, Lamine Sassi, Chahla Soumer, Ahmed Zelfani and others.
Via [Alarab Online]
26 – June 29, 2008
Scheduling
Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar El Melh have become the great appointment of photography in Tunisia. Photographers from all sides: confirmed, new, children and the general public expect the last week of June to look, listen, do speak… all the senses will be arrested. Exhibits, workshops, panel discussions, slide shows a menu is also gratifying that teaching.
Exposures
Since its invention, photography continues to metamorphose, to the point where it seems that every photographer, creating its subject, invents its own medium. Each edition of the Rencontres is an anthology of looks from here and elsewhere previously. Venues from abroad or Tunisia, exhibitions are always a certain way of seeing the world. In Bamako as in Arles, Paris or Barcelona, the organisers: commissioner or curator, s’ingénient to build a theme events. In the exhibition galleries Fort Ghar El Melh – former penal colony – where for a long time any event basic freedom was banned today no restrictions are imposed. Meetings Ghar El Melh are a tribute, always renewed, the photographers who sublimate life.
Carte Blanche collectors The exhibitions last year Mustapha Bouchoucha and Victor Sebag had a great success. This year Beit Bennani and Iadh Behi return to submit their shots heart. “Anonymous” is a selection of photographs without mention delved into the fund Beit Bennani, but whose documentary value is undeniable. Soler was the photographer for a long time that any s’arrachait Tunis, he was the photographer official ceremonies, the reporter whose photos illustrated journals from the early twentieth century and a portrait of talent. Iadh Behi offers a choice of savoir faire of this photographer.
Round Tables I: “The pictures today”
(Led by Amar Dhaya, University)
It is possible to consider photography as an area that is sufficient in itself, a stirring panorama as broad as the imagination allows the photographer while being containing photographic. It is also possible to meet a different picture, known as plastic, worked or “photoshopée”, which spans areas, erases labels and demystifies history.
The first provided a wealth of world-famous photographers, a significant amount of works that take the icon. The second, because newer, less is known to the public. Visible only in the galleries, it is for the moment, confidential.
These two photographs meet sometimes violently, through their tenants, with arguments by critics texts and rarely through the works or theories.
All of this leads inevitably to, once again, seeking a definition of photography and a statute for the photographer.
Round Tables II: “The photograph in these relations with the media”
(Led by Mohamed Elhedef, journalist and photographer)
What information should be mostly in their paper version without photographs? A non-illustrated article seems sometimes suspect because the photographers, amateur or professional, are ubiquitous. But this beautiful marriage between the press and the picture is sometimes acrimonious. The scenes of households are becoming common to the point where it is periodically to the brink of collapse.
Photographs published out of context of achievement, false stories, even photographers who manipulate their works have become commonplace.
Like always trains arriving on time and nobody speaks and who become the subject of a scandal without precedent when one of them shows a slight delay, photography fills often marvel at its role . The debate, introduced by a review of photographs that have surprised, shocked or outraged, analyze the path that follows an image of the photographer drive. Course mined, chaotic and often dangerous.
The Night meetings
The evenings of meetings will be set aside for photography, how can it be otherwise, thirst that we organize and you look. In the vast courtyard of the first fort, projections will be organized to add to the vision, the sound of music accompanying commentary or a photographer. Jean Claude – alias Father Fourat – Imed and Donia show every night bêtisier Encounters. This year, a slide show will allow the public to assess programmes carried out by photographers who hope to win “The challenge for Ghar El Melh” trophy that will crown the creativity and boldness.
Photography workshop for children and adults
The workshops, as their name suggests, are more than one site preparations. The result does not count more than the work leading thereto. “The Wall images”, “Life, face and portrait”, “Their photos… our legends”, “Family Album,” are some of the workshops where children give free rein to their imagination, fantasy and innocence. The photographers will be invited to take part and children by the hand to the wonderful world of photography.
Journal of Meetings
Le Corsaire écumera the shores of Ghar El Melh for the third consecutive year. Auditors reported the course of the event, interviews with photographers, citations to remember, excerpts book to read, memorize vocabulary, helping heart of poets, are the topics.
Photo Academy
The Academy of Art in Carthage is a new private school to teach photography in Tunisia. With equipment at the cutting edge of technology, experienced teachers will be glad to show you how to use your digital camera, make a portrait studio and exploit the possibilities of Photoshop. A team of students from this institution will cover the highlights of the day and will screen his interviews and reports each evening.
Back in a work, photography by A. Kahia
What other event could pay tribute to Abdelhamid Kahia? Les Rencontres hope enroll in the Tunisian landscape photography as a reference to consult. A slide show, made after his great book “Tunisia” published in 1964, will explore photography Abdelhamid Kahia, one of the few masters of photography Tunisia.
After midnight
“After midnight” is a meeting, informal and relaxed on the beach of Sidi Ali El Mekki, where interrogations, which have always accompanied the photographer, will be raised. What is a good photograph? The photographer must seek to be happy or to please the public? And the art market! Should we follow or ignore? These are some of the questions which no reply has been unanimously. Here and nowhere else, the digressions are allowed if desired, photography leads to everything and what better place to escape the starry sky of Tunisia and the beach of Sidi Ali El Mekki? The echoes of discussions last year, which ended at sunrise, still resonate today. Some went to bed others have had enough strength to go eat doughnuts and start a new day. The meeting is also this: a performance of physical endurance.
The animations
June 26
09h-12h: photography workshops for children
“Guided tours of exhibitions with Hamideddine
“The wall images with Rania
“Your photos… our legends” with Hajer
“Life, face portraits” with Rabaa
16h-18h: Workshop for adolescents and adults
“Picture Academy”, with the Academy of Art in Carthage
22h to 00h: Nocturnes.
The information (students of the Academy of Art in Carthage)
“Back in a work, photography by A. Kahia” Hamideddine
Slideshows contributing to the Challenge Ghar El Melh
“The bêtisier of the day” by Jean Claude alias Father Fourat, Imed and Donia
Beach Sidi El Mekki
00h to 02h: “After midnight, meeting informally with photographers.
June 27
09h-12h: photography workshops for children
“Guided tours of exhibitions with Lilia
“The wall images with Rania
“Your photos… our legends” with Hajer
“Life, face portraits” with Rabaa
16h-18h: Workshop for adolescents and adults
“Picture Academy”, with the Academy of Art in Carthage
22h to 00h: Nocturnes.
The information (students of the Academy of Art in Carthage)
Slideshows contributing to the Challenge Ghar El Melh
“The bêtisier of the day” by Jean Claude alias Father Fourat, Imed and Donia
Beach Sidi El Mekki
00h to 02h: “After midnight, meeting informally with photographers.
June 28
09h-12h: photography workshops for children
“Guided tours of exhibitions” with Marianne
“The wall images with Rania
“Your photos… our legends” with Hajer
“Life, face portraits” with Rabaa ”
“Reporters at GEM” with Lilia
16h-18h: Workshop for adolescents and adults
“Picture Academy”, with the Academy of Art in Carthage
Panel I: “The pictures today”
22h to 00h: Nocturnes.
The information (students of the Academy of Art in Carthage)
Slideshows contributing to the Challenge Ghar El Melh
“The day of the bêtisier” by Jean Claude alias Father Fourat, Imed and Donia
Beach Sidi El Mekki
00h to 02h: “After midnight, meeting informally with photographers.
June 29
09h-12h: photography workshops for children
“Guided tours of exhibitions with Nathalia
“The wall images with Rania
“Your photos… our legends” with Hajer
“Life, face portraits” with Rabaa
“Family Albums” with Lilia
16h-18h: Workshop for adolescents and adults
“Picture Academy”, with the Academy of Art in Carthage
Panel II: “The photograph in these relations with the media”
22h to 00h: Nocturnes.
“The bêtisier of the day” by Jean Claude alias Father Fourat, Imed and Donia
Slideshows contributing to the Challenge Ghar El Melh and awards ceremony.
“Back in a work, photography by A. Kahia” Hamideddine
Special Info (students of the Academy of Art in Carthage)
Beach Sidi El Mekki
00h to 02h: “After midnight,” Farewell.
Via [Du photographique] freshly translated fron French with Google.
For two weeks starting May 23th, Al Marsa (A Tunis suburb)would be totally busy with arts: a lot of exhibitions of painting, sculpture and photography especially open for amateurs showing up their skills, a challenge is in the middle of the event, in fact last year’s photography winner was Zied a close friend and an extremely talented photography who survived a film photography experience with a devil’s eye. The deadline for sending the works is over and I may be doing something next year, I’m wiling to get there myself and take a look around.
A pre-selection is already available including a lot people I know:
Téja Guiza
Image de Tunisie II
Emna Chaabouni Profil
Harmel-Mezhoud Fethia
Mosquée
Trabelsi Faten
Evasion 2
Ben Soltane Mohamed
Location gratuite d’espace
Souissi Douraîd
Sans titre I
Sans titre II
Paatto Megdiche Jacqueline Fatima
Ben Saîd Amira Le Printemps
Les barques
Fakhfakh Yassine Damier
Equilibre Selon…
Chelbi Mondher Fernand
Ben Naouar Lobna Mosquée
Coupole
Ellouze Yassine Filles
Bahri Imen Les couleurs de la vie
Ma Richesse
Shili Leîla Nature Morte
Sans Titre
Khrouf Kchaou Aîda Concept
Azaîez Khedija Café Expresse 1
Guiga Nebiha Soleil des moissons
Composition en violet
Ben Othman Med. El Hedi Impressions D’Afrique
Medini Mohamed Femme à la contrebasse
Mehiri Mounir L’arbre comme je le vois I
L’arbre comme je le vois II
Bennani Ines Sans Titre I
Sans Titre I
Soumer Henda Bécassine
Ben Jemaa Moncef Regard
Mosbah Chiraz Sans domicile fixe
Lueur Errante
Mahjoub Alia
La Lumière
Bouafif Jamila Nature Morte (Oignon)
Dziri Anis L’artiste
L’impasse
Sami Hedia Interruption
Richesse
Yoann Cimier
L’ouverture
Péninsule
Hosni Noura Théière
Feuille géante
Slim Zahra Désir Elle
Consommation télévisée
Bouzdira Hazar Vision
Ben Ayed Maya Entre les lignes I
Entre les lignes II
Gmach Nasri Takrouna
Chouchène Afifa
Un mot dans le vent
Mot libre
Labat Henri Black Mona
Sidommou Imed Sabbat
Chemin Obscure
Skik Rabaa Quarantaine
Incarcération
Saadi Tharouet Cadence
Ferchichi Miriam Danse contact
Lignes radioactives
Take a lokk at [Mars Arts(French)]
And thanks to Jeune Tunisiene to let me know.
Photoblog des Tounisiens autour du monde stands for the French of Tunisians around the world photoblog is community workout started by Safone back in august 2007 in a move to gather the most of the photos taken by Tunisians around the world most of them locally and a the rest around the world, the photolog is gathering more than 30 bloggers and a hundreds of photos going from simple travel shots to professional artworks. The community is getting bigger and bigger and they do have the own Facebook group. Honestly I like the idea of having one place gatheri9ng all those photos but I did get disappointed by the quality and the disorder of the content, I would like to advice the guys to work on a little bit to brush up the design, put the credits of the photographers, give a little description of the photos and have rotating themes. Anyway I’m just glad to see such a work and give an applause to the contributors and hope the them good luck and more success.
Last Saturday night, riding the empty metro with some jerk friends nd taking some memorial photos (refer to my photolog) when suddenly a security customer (usually assigned to the metro through the hottest nights with increasing violence in Saturdays and beyond the midnights service) get out the driver booth and told me :”taking photos in the train is prohibited !! give me your camera !”, so my reaction was a big exclamation, my friends stood up and I told him that we were taking self photos, as he smelt the breeze of alcohol he gave up his fury.
The point is every time I tried to take a photo some guy usually the security forces, or even a simple employee, shows up and ask me to stop taking photos, as if I were shooting a nuclear plant or his daughter naked, damn world ! how can I practice photographing if everywhere my cam becomes a spy’s gadget ?
As locals taking photos of the market, people, the little wood next to your city around is always are not welcome : they will ask you to stop, or who you are ? or in some extreme cases :”show me you ID !”, ans so on, even I have developed many techniques of camouflage such as holding the cam in my hand and press the trigger, or try to find a hideout where nobody would notice me, or just talk with the people around creating some kind of friendship that leads to a unlimited photographing license, sometimes I have even paid to take shots.
Despite, If you’re a tourist to a resident foreigner (or just look like), you’ll just get smiles everywhere and take photos as free as a you were shooting your personnel garden, the police, or the people around won’t disturb your open photo workshop : God Bless Tourism !
I don’t understand this exaggerated awareness about the camera, or is it just about the media ? thus that most of the Tunisian think that all local photographers are working certainly for a newspaper, and their rear is justified as the press has been publishing unauthorized photos of many people without any permission for decades (the law has been fixed a few years ago), and all those photographers were pretending to be just making photos for joy or as souvenirs !
But the point is that Tunisian don’t really understand photography, except wedding or ID portrait, here in this country we don’t trust a man with a Camera, just because we don’t know him or we haven’t asked for his services, we don’t see the photos with art issues as they could harm our life making us uncovered.
It’s in the late years with the increasing popularity of the digital photography, that usual people shoot in the open air and that people are accepting those devices becoming a usual tool to memorize warm moments or just for fun, led by the outnumbering of the cell phones with camera, the freak is still on, but it’s getting less expressed to avoid getting damned as a retarded and primate person.
For the police two main reasons are making photography a real state enemy:
First, as those toys cam make videos, they have lately a useful tool to many people who started a propaganda videos, sex scenes or event took shocking videos who instantly spread over the web. Two stories are making sense to this : Two high school teacher shoot their self while making love, and the other is about a dancing policeman.
Secondly, the terrorism threat is making our national security more aware of … everybody, yes me and you and the guy pissing on the wall, as I’ve said before, we have no thought about art coming through photos, if you’re making a photo of the metro, you’re certainly getting ready to blow it, if you have take photos of an office, you’ll certainly come by night and steal its precious documents and if it’s not you, you’ll certainly send it to someone else, if ever you have no intention to any of those terrifying actions, someone in the web will use you photos as a material to harm our beloved republic. In one word, we don’t need your photos you can still make peaceful pencil drawings in a paper.
I have asked to colleagues graduated in law to find to make research and find me all about photography in the Tunisian law, the output will be published as soon as possible, and then I’ll get rid or may be of all this stupid behavior.
Finally, I just want to say , that I want make photos for fun, I don’t want to get nagged by a dirty bastard every time I tried to make an artistic photo,I don’t want to harm none, and I’d like to hear from your experiences and how do you faces such problems.
This is just a republish of an article I did write 2 years ago, since that things haven’t changed a lot.
Yeondoo Junf a Korean photographer tracking down all the time more exciting and relevant experience have a very spooky project based on children drawings that he have been able to turn into photos, a marvelous artwork.
The project was featuring a number of children drawing brought to life caring for the details, you know that kind of drawing: blue sky, shinning sun and grass, it’s obliviously basic drawing that can make the most complicated task to make them real.
Take a look at [Wonderland 2005]
…and two for tea….but he’s so loneley as can be…playing with his saxophone…sure not waiting for me!
(Ti chnowa , lil dharoura al chi3rya ou barra :p)
kat_mac has added a photo to the pool:
Two hours out and two hours back. Too bad we forgot to bring water.
Sandton Convention Centres, Johannesburg. 13 au 16 mars 2008.
The curated show As You Like It is a unique element of the Joburg Art Fair. Simon Njami and Thembinkosi Goniwe have selected 29 emergent contemporary artists to exhibit the ‘now’ of contemporary African art making. The show provides an overview of the general themes in contemporary African art along with a fresh perspective of the scope of the field itself.
I’m really delighted to see such events promoting photography in Africa and more happy to see two Tunisian artists on the list, Africa needs a voice a way to show up the way it wants to, as a major photojournalism victim the stored life in the continent was always a wasted potential behind the scene of war and starving.
Go to [Joburg Art Fair]
Sandton Convention Centres, Johannesburg. 13 au 16 mars 2008.
The curated show As You Like It is a unique element of the Joburg Art Fair. Simon Njami and Thembinkosi Goniwe have selected 29 emergent contemporary artists to exhibit the ‘now’ of contemporary African art making. The show provides an overview of the general themes in contemporary African art along with a fresh perspective of the scope of the field itself.
I’m really delighted to see such events promoting photography in Africa and more happy to see two Tunisian artists on the list, Africa needs a voice a way to show up the way it wants to, as a major photojournalism victim the stored life in the continent was always a wasted potential behind the scene of war and starving.
Go to [Joburg Art Fair]
