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A pleasant evening
« on: February 26, 2015, 10:12:14 PM »
Tonight I've had a chance to attend a very pleasant event - an evening with Czech photographer Josef Koudelka. There were images screened as well as some prints as part of the exhibition This Place, some talks and discussion as well as screening of two new documentaries (one not completely finished yet) about him. 

I was once more amazed by his vision which is truly inspiring and often quite challenging, but also by his humble "normality".. A true character.

The main topic of discussion was his project Wall about the wall separating Israel from Palestine. I have recently got my copy of this book and I cannot recommend it enough. (But that is also true about his other books..)

PS two cellphone  snapshots (sorry) - one from the talk and one from the unfinished film Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land.



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Re: A pleasant evening
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2015, 09:25:02 AM »
quite the evening you must've had, Andrej! :)

and wow~ he's using some serious panorama cameras!
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Re: A pleasant evening
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2015, 10:23:01 AM »
Indeed, Jonas, it was quite an event..

As for the cameras, as seen in the documentary for the panoramic stuff he's been using two Fuji's G617, but he seems always to carry at least one 35mm camera - most often some OM stuff and occasionaly an XPan - but you've never seen an x-pan with such a worn out outer body.. But as he ephasized, the most important piece of exuipment is a good pair of shoes :)

There was also a screening of a new Czech documentary called "Records" (Záznamy) which is following his journeys in Poland, Moravia, Bohemia and Slovakia, mostly taking images of people - some folklore events, religious pilgrimages etc... which was ineresting because in his latest published works there are NO people, only their traces in the landscape (natural or indeed man-made)... It seems - and he said so as well - that there is a huge amount of this "people stuff" waiting to be put together in a book of some kind...
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Re: A pleasant evening
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2015, 11:40:17 AM »
Great photographer! You must have had a memorable evening-I'm envious :)
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Re: A pleasant evening
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2015, 01:16:47 PM »
Ditto.
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Re: A pleasant evening
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2015, 03:38:55 PM »
I saw an exhibit of his work at the Getty and was very impressed, though I left feeling a bit sad. Maybe that was the point.
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