Fotografieke

If you haven’t heard of the Keep Calm And Carry On postercraze, you’ve either been living under a rock for quite some time, or you’ve been living under a rock for quite some time. Only with the latter you’ve done so on purpose. Because let’s face it, we’re all terrible sheeple sometimes. Not pretty.

It’s been fun for a while, the phrase is ironically fitting. But come on, is it really necessary to buy a Keep Calm And Carry On tee and prance around in it??

My answer to that is..

Don’t Believe The Hype!, a print by Nate Duval

If an original piece of art goes way beyond your budget, there’s always the screenprinted posters to look out for. There are so many brilliant prints and posters out there – of which most of my favourites turned out the be gig posters, go figure! – that I owe a couple of them a post at the very least.

Let’s start with Strawberry Luna. Last year I was googling images when my attention got caught by a Tori Amos poster, created by her. It turned out to be part of a post on the More Ways To Waste Time blog, where I wound up snooping around for the next hour.
This coincidental moment inspired me to start blogging, actually.

So here’s a little round of applause for the talented Strawberry Luna and a selection of her work.

Tori Amos

The Decemberists

The Dandy Warhols

We Are Scientists

What Made Milwaukee Famous

Spoon

See her Etsy shop and website for more!

Some more eyecandy for ya:

Gig posters from Vera, Groningen.

Thomas Dybdahl

I Am Kloot

Gem

A print by Laurie Hastings (Etsy / website)

All I want

A poster by Cricket Press (Etsy / website)

Fleet Foxes

Print by pleasebestill (Etsy) / Jen Renninger (website)

Everything Is Going To Be OK

If you’re interested there’s a great site for browsing hundreds gig posters: gigposters.com.

‘Behind Walls / Beyond Walls’ – Eastern Europe before and after 1989

The Noorderlicht Photography Festival is gaining more international popularity with every year it seems. I think it’s completely justified, considering the well thought-out themes each year. The themes always give a colourful perspective of a certain era, culture or continent, and more importantly: it’s shown in a very social light. This is what gives the exhibition it’s spark and depth.
This year’s Noorderlicht Festival shows photographs from around 35 photographers, who all have a special bond with Eastern Europe, either because they’ve lived there or just visited places and got caught up in the  social and politic issues before 1989 or the commercial whirlwind after 1989.
Either way, every photograph comes with a story, and it’s fascinating to get sucked into all the stories, solely by looking at all the faces you will walk past in this exhibition as if they’re the people you pass by on the streets every day.
The Noorderlicht Photography Festival is being in two Dutch cities in turns, Groningen and Leeuwarden. The Frisian Museum in Leeuwarden will host this year’s exhibition from September 7th until October 26th, with various satellite exhibitions throughout the city.
For every possible detail, visit the exhibition’s official site.