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Heart of Darkness
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Luko
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08/06/2010 06:44:09
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Pour moi il s'agit d'un grand retour, sur plusieurs niveaux - il y a bien entendu la question de ton retour a Vanatu, a ces Tristes Tropiques dilapides et exploites comme jamais - mais il y a aussi pour moi personellement le retour de Luko a plein gres dans cette communaute.
Comme toujours chez toi on a droit a un "double scoop", c'est a dire a des textes tres riches qui tiennent debout tous seuls d'ailleurs mais qui, allies a ces images percutantes, resonnent encore plus fort.
Il y a parmi ces images uniformement bonnes quelques veritables perles, je cite "Yasur" (TERRIBLE!), "Reggae Nighthawks" (digne de Hooper) et "Ghost Dancer" (fou ce que tu as pu faire avec un peu de "flare").
Bien sur c'est l'ensemble qui compte dans un projet et ici, on ressent a travers ces images une profonde tristesse, un monde jadis si innocent et decent, maintenant en friche, viole, abandonne, comme ce qui reste de ton ancienne ecole. On ressent aussi toute la rage que ces scenes fonr naitre en toi. Et comme on ne peut jamais plus retourner a Hoi An, je crains qu'on ne puisse revenir a Vanatu non plus.
Je m'imaginais ton enfance la-bas assez diferemment - je te voyais en Nouvelle Caledonie, a Tahiti meme, allant au cinema sous les tropiques avec tes copains. Et puis apres cette escale recente a Lutece, quand j'ai vu de mes propres yeux ces objets chez toi, j'ai compris un peu plus a quel point tout cela fait partie de toi, pas comme des curiosites, des antiquites, mais comme des totems de touts le jours, enfin des symbole de ta propre culture a toi, oui. Ca, ce fut une revelation pour moi, que ce tres beau projet ne fait qu'amplifier...
"L'humanité s'installe dans la mono-culture; elle s'apprête à produire la civilisation en masse, comme la betterave.."
(CLaude Levy-Strauss)
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Heart of Darkness
by Luko G-R [Luko]
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Traz
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Hugh
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08/06/2010 06:08:13
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Well it's an unmitagated YES from me, Hugh. After that very entertaining, dizzy Taj thing, you showed a real cinematic sense with "Traz", not only in the actual look of the pics but in terms of narrative. Therew ere so many echoes to well known classics like "The birdman of Alcatraz" - it took a little while for you to settle into some tonal range for your BW, but when you did, you had us and you never let go. The sheer variety of shots and POVs would earn you kudos in any case, but the intelligence behind each shot, the willingness to search that little bit harder for an original viewpoint, for an extra touch of irony, really paid off.
I think I can speak for all of us, Hugh when I say: welcome back, man. And may you share many more projects of this calibre!
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Traz
by Hugh Siegel [bombilla]
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Traz
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Hugh
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08/06/2010 06:08:08
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Well it's an unmitagated YES from me, Hugh. After that very entertaining, dizzy Taj thing, you showed a real cinematic sense with "Traz", not only in the actual look of the pics but in terms of narrative. Therew ere so many echoes to well known classics like "The birdman of Alcatraz" - it took a little while for you to settle into some tonal range for your BW, but when you did, you had us and you never let go. The sheer variety of shots and POVs would earn you kudos in any case, but the intelligence behind each shot, the willingness to search that little bit harder for an original viewpoint, for an extra touch of irony, really paid off.
I think I can speak for all of us, Hugh when I say: welcome back, man. And may you share many more projects of this calibre!
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Traz
by Hugh Siegel [bombilla]
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Traz
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Hugh
Siegel
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08/06/2010 06:08:04
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Well it's an unmitagated YES from me, Hugh. After that very entertaining, dizzy Taj thing, you showed a real cinematic sense with "Traz", not only in the actual look of the pics but in terms of narrative. Therew ere so many echoes to well known classics like "The birdman of Alcatraz" - it took a little while for you to settle into some tonal range for your BW, but when you did, you had us and you never let go. The sheer variety of shots and POVs would earn you kudos in any case, but the intelligence behind each shot, the willingness to search that little bit harder for an original viewpoint, for an extra touch of irony, really paid off.
I think I can speak for all of us, Hugh when I say: welcome back, man. And may you share many more projects of this calibre!
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Traz
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Heart of Darkness
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Luko
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26/05/2010 05:19:36
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I see that I have arrived here rather late, so I will not make comments on individual photos. But I find the prose accompanying the project make it perhaps more coherent than the photos alone. Several of the photos are striking in color and composition, one with a nod to Webb, others somehow remind me of another personality in PH, but each is compelling. Forgive me for saying so, but the intensity of introspection in the prose does not appear to be matched by that expressed in the early photos, until I began to see those with flares--then I begin to see the synergy. The mysterious light begins to reveal the anguish in the dark recesses, with shapes of the cap reminiscent of Pinoccio's nose, with errie figures stepping out of circles of light, distinctly recognizable as islanders, begin to make sense. The diptych is surprising and solid, and helps set the stage. Look forward to the rest of it.
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project :
Heart of Darkness
by Luko G-R [Luko]
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