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! https://vimeo.com/channels/obergphotographics/354391856 ... and a link also to his Venice homepage.
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…
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…
No other art form is going through so big and fast changes as is photography. We are witnesses to a photographic revolution, a "photolution". What is it? It has many element coming together in synergy. Here are some: • The smartphones, their ever smaller and lighter equipment with ever more imprssive camera performance. It belongs…
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 -…
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.…
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,…
WELCOME to Oberg PhotoGraphics studio ! A quick "guided tour" - some impressions of what I do and how I do art photography. So many who can't come to Lund, Sweden, have asked me to make such a simple video. I appreciate each and every comment you have! © Jan Oberg 2013
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…
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…
