Tom and Alizarin are a couple of young creative creatures that are now enjoying their honeymoon in a world wide road trip. Fortunately for us, they share beautiful pictures and fascinating stories about their adventures around the world in a great blog called Zroob.com.
Will you do things differently if you thought nobody was judging you? Would that thing be better that way?
Recently we added our photos to another photographer’s web site. We added a photo in which we are standing naked in front of the “Rabbanut” which is the judicial council for religious matters for Jewish people in the state of Israel. It was suppose to be our wedding photo, and we were trying to say that although according to the law we have to sign in there, we kindly refuse. We wanted to tell the world that we don’t agree with the convention of living together as “balls and chains” but rather as a joined adventure. We decided to share our belief of love as an added flavor and not having to ask anyone to validate this for us, especially if that person knows nothing of what we want out of this life and love.
In our art (Tom’s photos, Alizarin photos, writing and design) we sometimes say things that matters to us. Every now and then we create in a way that we produce something that is not just pretty. There is a risk in that. In this television controlled, fast and many stimuli world, a saying is often faced with puzzled, sometimes empty looks. Better yet are the post modern ideas in which anything is possible and the truth is as elusive as politicians. Still, we enjoy on occasion the thrill of juggling the truth as we see it.
Recently, we had an interesting nude project. I’m not writing “photography project” because it felt more than that. We asked regular people, not models, to participate. We wanted to create art that also changes the life of its models. As an experience, it was very exciting for all sides. We had 35 people stripping within three months. All amateurs. 4 of them couples. They all said after that besides the beautiful outcome, they feel they’ve been through an interesting experience that made them think and feel different things about their body and of nudity.
Why nude? I feel as if sex, and the human body is one of the relics of thought of the old dark ages. Along with human rights, and freedom, this was repressed and restrained by the religious institutes. Now is the time of self reliance, self conscious and human morality. Art is just the way to promote this. To show the world how beautiful it can look.
Peace Rally | Union Square, NYC | October 7, 2001 | Photographer Lorna Tychostup
Photography driven by social change. Social change driven by photography.
This is a great organization to help photographers be able to connect with people all over the world and document stories of the people. It is interesting to see how the organization connect viewers to see different photographers’ work and see the stories of different people. The organization not only help professional photographers, but as well as amateurs and students. There are many inspirational stories and photographs that you don’t see everyday.
Change the Truth—Uganda | By Gloria Baker Feinstein for Change the Truth
Photo Philanthropy’s Activist Award
Activist award Submission Open through October 1st!
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Submitted photos must depict the work of a charitable organization (designated by 501c3 in the US, or international equivalent) and be presented as a photo essay. All photographs in the essay must have been taken within the last 3 years.
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Chris Jordan’s images are evoking and really brings to a wake up call to what we are doing to our environment, or even ourselves. Every time you zoom in from a large scale image, you realize it is made out of a certain entity.
"Labirinth". 2008. Soil. 100 x 220 x 180 cm. Park Dina, Arsuf, Israel.
"Offering". 2008. Flowers, fabric. 100 x 1200 x 110 cm. Park Dina, Arsuf, Israel.
"Ritual Cut". 2009. Earth, grass. 4.5 x 60 x 75 m. Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, Latvia.
"Pyramid". 2009. Soil. 400X1200X1200 cm. Park Dina, Israel.
"White Curtain". 2010. Snow. 500 x 350 x 350 cm. Valloire, France.
"Round Balance". 2008. Soil, grass. 900 x 900 x 260 cm. Saint-Flour, France.
"Air Loop". 2010. Bamboo. 750 x 1300 x 200 cm. Bagasbas Beach, The Philipines.
"Braids". 2010. Grass. 50.2 x 10 x 15 meter. Green Gallery, Israel.
The artist is using many objects together to create beautiful textures and shapes that represent certain disturbing facts and statistics. The statistics that Jordan provides are astonishing: with the number of paper cups that we use each day, number of prisoners in the states, deaths from smoking, breast augmentation, and many more… It is amazing how us human beings are not aware of all the things we are consuming each day and being so careless to how it will affect our planet or even ourselves. Jordan’s creation in these large scale photographs are to show how unconscious we are of our surrounding and culture.
Tanya Preminger’s environmental art is both beautiful and smart. In the past few years Preminger has been very active in the fields of environmental art and land art, striving to connect people to nature, and improve the modern culture’s relationship with the natural world. For this purpose she established the Green Gallery Group, which works in the fields of Arsuf Kedem, displays annually a large collection of environmental art works made from natural materials, and speaks about the human contemporary connection to mother-nature. Her art is usually ephemeral, site-specific, and characterized by simplicity and a healthy sense of humor. The materials vary from Earth, wood, bamboo, plants and tree branches, and agricultural waste.
Sama Alshaibi is born in Iraq to an Iraqi father and Palestine mother. She is now an American citizen living in the States and teaching in post secondary institution. She is a multi-media artist who produces photographs and video art. Alshaibis’ art is strikingly powerful with its silent grab on the viewers’ attention with stories about suffer and the displacement of loss.
Alshaibi often uses her own body as both a protagonist and a site, linking struggles and the way that nations have affected and twisted lives in bodily performances. Her auto-ethnographic approach is informed by her own history of living in war, the double negation to her familial homelands and her countless encounters with those policing borders from the undesired. I admire her art and courage to render the history and the current affairs that is heavily looked at today. Her photographic and cinematic skills are full of stories behind them. It was very difficult to choose just a few images to represent her work, which is very aesthetic, powerful and diverse. Check out her website, it is a little old fashion (flash and pop-ups) but it does compliment her artworks.
Series of powerful photographs by Israeli photographer Shaul Golan. The renown photographer shot these five sets of pictures depicting multicultural city – in one sunny hot Tel Aviv day. Israel July 2010.
ArtPolitica is a collaborative blog about political art. Our aim is to expose contemporary works of art which express the artists' political and/or social stance and to evoke public discussions revolving their ideas.
