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.

Pruggern - Austrian ski resort at night

© Christian Wagner

Instant photography won't die

Since Polaroid stopped the production of instant films 2008 - the Polaroid photographers society was yelling. Now the good news: Ilford restarts the production of analouge integral films for vintage Ploaroid cameras in 2010. The rescue endevour was called The Impossible Projekt.
Impossible? Well because the Impossible b.v. team has to reinvent the film. The original parts of the films are based on a 40 year old technology. Some of the suppliers stopped their production of single parts, which has to be replaced by state of the art technology. Now Impossible b.v. has to fix 7 problems to restart the mass production 2010. They invite all interested people for participation to solve the problems.

Inauguration on the air

© originally broadcasted by N24; photographed and arranged by Christian Wagner
More about inauguration on the air on bo73 space: Issue "44"