New year's eve

I normally wouldn't post this picture, but it challenges my eye. It is a posed portrait of a woman and her three daughters. The three of them look like her in a different way and they make a troubling sight, but a nice one indeed.

Luxembourg, the sequel

I developed one of the two rolls of film I shot in Luxembourg (plus some photos in my retina that won't appear in public if I don't find a light meter). The results were average : many whoopie travel pictures but amongst them some good ones. I completely love this one, without being able to define why.

Divine Slide Film

I've received the scanned slide film today. Although the scanning was deceiving (I know the people in the photography shop meant no harm, this film just needs a crazy professional scanner), I managed, after some light Ps, to make them look like the originals. Have I told you how much I love slide film??

Above are some pictures from the schoolyear project and a bonus one.











PS: the third one looks nothing like this in the original. I'll get it re-scanned soon but I couldn't resist posting it. Even though it has a false bokeh

Yet again...

How many are there in my school year? maybe 90 people. I've already shot 12.
Big projects, the ones that last more than a day, I've never done. So I'm excited about this one...

A man.

As you can see, the schoolyear project is going on and on... I'm receiving the slide film today and soon I'll have new faces to show

The other me

There is a country, other than the one I currently live in, that I hold dear. It's the country where I grew up. Luxembourg.
There's a strange feeling that I have when I return there. Every time I see something changed, I feel disappointment. Regardless if the changes are for the best (which I don't think, anyway) I'd like it to remain the same as when I left. Seing the once bare fields filled with ultra-modern malls brings a frown to my face. And what about you? How do you feel when the place where you grew up changes?
I came here, having in mind to photograph this place, the things I feel here. But right now, I feel the emergency to do it. Because if I wait another 10 or even 2 years it will be less the place I used to know.
Be ready.

Example II

Wrapped in my shawl (the weather is chilly here) I've finally had the time to take a look at the rest of my most recent roll. I've found another example of the "photograph your schoolyear" project. Here it is :

What you've seen 'till now is in black and white, but I'm still waiting for an expired slide film with some more pictures. I guess my photography lover friends wouldn't appreciate this, but I felt that some means fit the personality of the subject more than others, so I used them respectively.
Let's see what this is gonna give...

Results

Do you remember the project I had started "photograph your school year" ? I've had the first results.


More of those coming soon...

I'm dazzled...

χαρης, originally uploaded by kallia fisaraki.

No, really. I'm dazzled because in this picture I see a friend of mine and I almost can't recognize him. Though the hippy summer look plays its part in this, I'd bet my head it's the photographer's "fault". Because I've seen recent pictures of her, and I see people, my close friends, the ones I see all day every day, and I can't even recognize them. She has the talent to show aspects of people in her photographs that they can't see. Can I do that? I have no fucking idea... If my bizarre monologue convinced you a bit, take a look at her flickr
You might not understand what I'm talking about, but she's got lovely portraits