Category: How is it done?
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Dirk Braeckman at La Biennale
At La Biennale 2017The very “different” and moving photography by Dirk Braeckman at the Belgian Pavilion at Giardini. Here a little movie from Instagram – let’s follow each other! … and a link also to his Venice homepage.
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Déjà Vu, Syria And Multi-Media Photo Collages – The “Three In One” exhibit
This post is updated with new images, latest on October 19, 2017 This “Three-In-One” exhibition opened on the “Night Of Culture” in Lund, September 16 16-22, at Vegagatan 25. Then I did a few new things and changed some of those presented – that’s one of the joys with collages… – and, so, this is […]
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The “Victoria And Albert Multi-Exposure” Series
A series of five of a bust at the Victoria and Alberg Museum, experimenting with multi-exposure in order to achieve a sense of movement. I mean, how does one make marble sculptures come alive on a rainy Sunday afternoon in London? Additionally, this short video is an example of what I am going to use […]
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Creating “People Of Islam” and why the Iraq War made me a photographer
I opened this exhibition with the subtitle – Photos From Iran, Iraq, Somaliland and Marrakech – on April 3, 2015. It has come about in a quite natural way. I have worked in some countries where Islam is of fundamental importance and so been exposed to the people living there as well as their problems – […]
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Oberg art photo concept
Nowadays one must have a mission statement up front and any business must have a core concept. And of course people ask me now and then what kind of idea(s) my works are based on. Here is, in a nutshell what I can say: Art and peace are basic to my photo concept and, thus, to my life. […]
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Black girl with a pearl earring
This post is about the pastiche I’ve made on Johannes Vermeer’s iconic painting from around 1665 of a Girl With A Pearl Earring. There is both an interesting discussion about how it was – perhaps – painted and a movie inspired by the painting. And there is a discussion, of course, about who the girl is, […]
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Gemini G.E.L. – pionering print makers
For about 40 years I’ve followed the production of one of the world’s finest contemporary art printers – Gemini G.E. L. at Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. My father, F. W. Oberg (1913-1981) who founded gallery Ars Studeo in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark, in the mid-1960s and was a keen long-time art collector bought many […]
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Basel Flowers
A couple of years ago I took this iPhone image (with Hipstamatic app) at the central market square in Basel, Switzerland. I thought the colours around that yellow bucket were so crisp and a joyful and the Hipstamatic app created the frame, yellow to the left and pink to the right in amazing harmony with […]