Franck Bohbot _-_ Swimming Pools

Franck Bohbot is a French photographer who currently lives and works in New York. His series Swimming Pools captures a variety of public swimming pools devoid of people. The clean composition brings the architecture and colours of these spaces to the fore. “The delicate compositions capture the large-scale, oddly intimate buildings with bursts of color and reflections and evoke the sensory experience of swimming pools; all the while expressing the architectural lightness of the structures as they contrast with voluminous bodies of water.”

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^ DILLON MARSH - ASSIMILATION ^

In the vast barren landscapes of the southern Kalahari, Sociable Weaver Birds assume ownership of the telephone poles that cut across their habitat.Their burgeoning nests are at once inertly statuesque and teeming with life. The twigs and grass collected to build these nests combine to give strangely recognisable personalities to the otherwise inanimate poles.

In 2003 I graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art. During the course of my studies I was drawn to photography and I have remained passionate about it ever since.

Over the years I have also developed a love for travel and this has led to a natural set of photographic series documenting the various places that I have visited.

My main focus as an artist in recent times, however, has been directed towards my landscape series. In these series I seek to find things that are out of the ordinary, picking them out of the landscape where they might otherwise blend in. I choose objects that can be found in multitude within their environment so that I can depict a family of objects in a series of photographs. By displaying each project as such, I feel I am able to show both the character of the individual members, and the characteristics that make these objects a family.

dillon marsh

::Li-Han Lin::

Li-Han Lin is a Taiwanese-German photographer who was born and raised in Hilden, Germany before moving to Los Angeles , New York City and Taiwan. His work reflects his unique background, exploring themes of identity, friends and family . He has contributed to Monocle Magazine, Vogue Japan, GQ Japan, Nylon Japan. He has also shown work at the S+S Gallery in Taipei and is currently exhibiting at Pavlov's Dog Galerie in Berlin. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

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() Carla Liesching - The Swimmers ()

My work explores human relationship to structure, particularly ideological shifts in geographic organization and narrative. I am fascinated by the historical quest to envision the globe as a whole, to mark out its territories, to draw lines upon it. I view these maps and borders as physical manifestations of our desire for stability, familiarity and fixedness; a desire that manifests equally in the personal identity narratives we construct as we delineate the parameters of our selves. I am interested in what seems to be a global shift, or rupture, in the way that we perceive our selves in space and interact with the world. It is a condition characterized by an unrelenting sense of displacement and a subsequent search for belonging that can no longer be tied to one fixed geographical or ideological position. Through my work I seek to explore new ways of realizing the self within this unstable space. My photographs depict an imaginary terrain; the human subjects are both an embodiment of an attempt to navigate and a faux-ethnographic study – a native/explorer of an uncertain land. The staged photograph, in turn, becomes a relic of our expedition as we peer into the abyss of unknowable possibilities.

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