Obama's People

The Israeli photographer Nadav Kander shot portraits of Barack Obama's top members of his incoming administration. The 52 portraits are published on the New York Times website. Have also an eye on Nadav Kanders other photographic work, such as Yangtze - The Long River, Chernobyl - Half Life, Bodies and some his portraits, respectively of David Lynch on Nadav Kander's official website.

Diagonale - awarded austrian films 2009

Gran Diagonale Price Feature: Michael Glawogger, Das Vaterspiel
Grand Diagonale Price Documentary: Constantin Wulff, In die Welt; official website
Diagonale Price for Innovative Cinema: Michael Palm, Laws of Physics
Diagonale Youth Jury Prize: Marvin Kren, Schautag
Diagonale austrian editors association aea Price: Anja Schürenberg, Rimini and Michele Barbin, PianoMania
Diagonale Diocese Graz-Seckau Prize: Bernhard Braunstein/David Gross, Pharao Bipolar
Diagonale Austrian Association of Cinematographers AAC Prize: Enzo Brandner, UNIVERSALOVE and Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 7915 KM; official website
Diagonale Kleine Zeitung Audience Prize: Marco Antoniazzi, Kleine Fische; official website (german)

6400 ASA picks of introduced films at the Diagonale film festival:

The Making of FUTBOL, Helmut Köpping, Michael Ostrowski: A film about the true, unadulterated essence of Austrian Football Culture.

And finally a very austrian film: Der Knochenmann, Wolfgang Murnberger after a novel by Wolf Haas; official website
Trailer (german)

6400 ASA launch today

The 6400 ASA Blog has been launched. Stay tuned.

Recording the crisis

Why we’re taking photographs of beautiful people, whilst we are in the midst of a paradigm shift and the economic crisis is spreading?
Brain Ulrich shows himself surprised on his blog that not more artists react to environmental conditions. Inspired by his post Cara Philips wrote an interesting post The nature and purpose of photography, discussing why the contemporary photographic art scene behaves in this passive way. In the course of reading her interesting post, I came across some statements regarding differentiations of photography: art photography, amateur works, etc. Well – to be honest, I’m still confused about what in photography is denoted as art, as amateur work or scrap. But that’s an other story.

Never mind. Independently, I started taking photos of the artifacts of ongoing occurrences.

Selected Exposure: Car storage at a car production site, Graz
© Christian Wagner

Lay Flat – A new print publication on photography

Lay Flat aims for publishing the best in contemporary fine art photography and writing on the medium. The first issue “remain in light” comprises works of Tim Davis, Darius Himes, Cara Phillips, Shane Lavalette, Eric William Carroll and Jason Fulford.

6400 ASA pick: Tim Davis

Format Festival 2009

A fist full of upcoming movies 2009

TOKYO - THE MOVIE
dierected by Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax, Michael Gondry



13 TZAMETI
directed by Gela Babluani



MILK
directed by Gus Van Sant



CHE - THE MOVIE
directed by Steven Sonderbergh



HUNGER
directed by Steve Mc Queen


Finally a blockbusters from which i currently don't know what we can expect from it: Inglorious Bastards, the new movie from Quentin Tarantino.