NEW! Favourite Artists and Photographers

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I've had a list of links to websites of favourite authors up on my blog for some time now. A list of favourite television series as well. Yet what I realised today is that I don't have any links up to websites / pages of artists and photographers whose work I enjoy.

Read an article today about monuments in former Yugoslavia and was amazed by the photos - absolutely loved some of the works! Photography is about more than the subject of course, however when the composition of the photo blows one away just as much as (or perhaps just as far as?) the stunning image itself does, you know you've found a winner. I wanted to share my enthusiasm, wanted to tell others how much I enjoyed the photos. Yet writing a simple blog post didn't quite feel like enough. I wanted to link to this photographer's website, to have that link up on my blog for all to see. Not just when reading a particular post, but always, all the time.

So, I'm adding a new list to the sidebar on the right. A list of favourite artists and photographers, people who inspire me, amaze me, intrigue me, whose work I like, love or enjoy. Because hey, it's my blog and I can add what I want to! For now, it's a relatively short list, however I'm sure that will change with time. As far as the photographer whose images inspired me to start this new list - check out the website of Jan Kempenaers, photographer extraordinaire. I really enjoyed his Spomenik (2006 - 2009) series of photos. The photos have been published as a book as well. Some background info:

During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War called 'Spomeniks' were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted. Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in this book as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer's enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture.
Source: Jan Kempenaers - Spomenik | Amazon.com

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