It's so sad, - or funny! - sometimes... life. It's all about love. But mostly we, humans, don't see it. Prefer to ignore it. Quarreling, even fighting instead.
Short cuts is a play written by and based on the short stories from Raymond Carver. It focus on the life of ordinary people. Made into a movie by Robert Altman. In his "Short cuts' one of the stories is named: So much love and so nearby... (or something like that) The story is of course about our daily blindness.
O, I find out now that it's called: So Much Water So Close To Home
But.... but this is a great love story . And great music .
And if you want more...
(It's old-fashioned, it's sentimental, it's from another century.... YES. And sorry. I got lost in this music on this lonely Sunday in icy Lodz)
Sunday 31 January 2010
Thursday 28 January 2010
About Baluty Baluty (2)
In this second 'message' "About Baluty-Baluty" I want to tell more about the project itself.
This message is a direct continuation of the first message in this blog. (see About Baluty-Baluty )
But now I will more focus on content, ideas, attitudes, approaches and actions. What and How.
In 2008 I met Krzysztof Candrowicz, director of the Fotofestiwal Lodz, and he told me about Baluty and the thoughts he had to do a photography project in Baluty. This project would have be linked with the theme of the Lodz Fotofestiwal 2010.
The theme should be and is All my lovin' and it focuses on family and family relations. In short it is about the joy and the pain connected with being a member of a family. How do people experience family relations?
The idea of the Baluty-project was/is that for the 'Fotofestiwal Lodz' it should be nice to have something on this theme coming from the city of Lodz itself.
Candrowicz' had seen something of my previous projects and his thought was that a kind of more social, more natural and intimate view on families living in Lodz could be a good supplement to the year programme of 2010.
So, later - I proposed to undertake this project and his answer was 'yes'.
15/01/2010
So, in the Baluty-Baluty project we are going to focus on family and family life. For this I should like to work with approximately six or eight families in the two months before the opening of the Fotofestiwal Lodz 6 May 2010. That means that we are going to do the photo project named Baluty Baluty in March and April 2010 starting 8 March.
In the workshop each family gets one or more simple point-and-shoot camera(s). During the workshop they will have the opportunity to act as a 'real' photographer in their own life.
This message is a direct continuation of the first message in this blog. (see About Baluty-Baluty )
But now I will more focus on content, ideas, attitudes, approaches and actions. What and How.
In 2008 I met Krzysztof Candrowicz, director of the Fotofestiwal Lodz, and he told me about Baluty and the thoughts he had to do a photography project in Baluty. This project would have be linked with the theme of the Lodz Fotofestiwal 2010.
The theme should be and is All my lovin' and it focuses on family and family relations. In short it is about the joy and the pain connected with being a member of a family. How do people experience family relations?
The idea of the Baluty-project was/is that for the 'Fotofestiwal Lodz' it should be nice to have something on this theme coming from the city of Lodz itself.
Candrowicz' had seen something of my previous projects and his thought was that a kind of more social, more natural and intimate view on families living in Lodz could be a good supplement to the year programme of 2010.
So, later - I proposed to undertake this project and his answer was 'yes'.
15/01/2010
Trwają przygotowania do kolejnej edycji Fotofestiwalu.
Jego głównym punktem będzie wystawa “All my lovin’. Wszystko o miłości”, poświęcona relacjom rodzinnym i miłości.
W prezentowanych projektach znajdziemy więc humor, pasję, walkę, historię i kompromis, nieco nostalgii i dużo refleksji.
Jego głównym punktem będzie wystawa “All my lovin’. Wszystko o miłości”, poświęcona relacjom rodzinnym i miłości.
W prezentowanych projektach znajdziemy więc humor, pasję, walkę, historię i kompromis, nieco nostalgii i dużo refleksji.
Główny weekend zaplanowaliśmy na 6-9 maja. Sam festiwal potrwa do 30 maja.
Więcej informacji już w przyszłym miesiącu na naszej nowej, odświeżonej stronie internetowej.
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So, in the Baluty-Baluty project we are going to focus on family and family life. For this I should like to work with approximately six or eight families in the two months before the opening of the Fotofestiwal Lodz 6 May 2010. That means that we are going to do the photo project named Baluty Baluty in March and April 2010 starting 8 March.
In the workshop each family gets one or more simple point-and-shoot camera(s). During the workshop they will have the opportunity to act as a 'real' photographer in their own life.
Family, family-members and family-life will be the main overall subject. In this respect they will documenting their everyday life, family, (auto)portrait, friends, surroundings and for example the themes dreams, wishes, ambitions.
Acting in this way the family-members will get a special and most probably unexpected insight in their own life. For every participant this will be a meaningful experience.
Acting in this way the family-members will get a special and most probably unexpected insight in their own life. For every participant this will be a meaningful experience.
The Baluty-Baluty workshop will result in an exhibition in the Foto Festiwal in May 2010, most probably in the neigbourhood Baluty itself.
For sure it will also gives the visitor an unexpected and surprising insight in the lives of the Balutians.
Later more on Baluty-Baluty.
And.... take the time to listen to this music!
Sunday 17 January 2010
About Baluty Baluty (1)
Baluty Baluty! Baluty is a neighbourhood in Lodz , what actually means "boat ". Lodz is the third city of Poland and situated in the middle of the country.
The Baluty-district is neglected for a long time. First Jewish quarter, during WW II ghetto from where hundred thousands of people where transported.
Nowaydays it is a quarter where people live in bad social circumstances. Poor housing, often large families, sometimes living together in one flat. Ruines around are used as playground for children and temporary shelter for homeless people.
History is very present in Baluty , never far away. But probably not for the hooligans who seems to live it up themselves in anti-Semitic graffity. So welcome in Baluty!
Or... are this only obvious stereotypes ? Who are the 'Balutars'?
This question above is the key question in the photo-project, called Baluty Baluty, from which this blog is telling the story and the ins and outs day by day. Mainly in English or in Polish or even... sometimes... in Dutch (sorry!)
The Baluty-district is neglected for a long time. First Jewish quarter, during WW II ghetto from where hundred thousands of people where transported.
Nowaydays it is a quarter where people live in bad social circumstances. Poor housing, often large families, sometimes living together in one flat. Ruines around are used as playground for children and temporary shelter for homeless people.
History is very present in Baluty , never far away. But probably not for the hooligans who seems to live it up themselves in anti-Semitic graffity. So welcome in Baluty!
Or... are this only obvious stereotypes ? Who are the 'Balutars'?
This question above is the key question in the photo-project, called Baluty Baluty, from which this blog is telling the story and the ins and outs day by day. Mainly in English or in Polish or even... sometimes... in Dutch (sorry!)
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