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shoot # 56 – Art photo gift and gateway for you

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Lund, October 12, 2016
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Content  

• Welcome to shoot – a gateway to the art world
• New editions, including Mark Rothko
• Art Evening in Lund: the “photolution”
• Collages from Iran
• Instagram – let’s follow each other!
• Abstract photography video
• Venice: Can it still be saved?

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Dear Art Friend

Welcome to shoot # 56 – A gateway
The photo above is a digital gift – a moment of joy or reflection – to you from Oberg PhotoGraphics.

A special welcome to many new subscribers and social media and other friends – here is the preceding shoot. 

shoot aims to stimulate art curiosity and share positive stuff. It’s a gateway to the online “flip” GlobalArt Magazine, the blog I write as an art recommender, not art critic.

shoot wings into your mailbox now and then. Sometimes I also shoot just a single image your way – exclusively for shoot recipients.

I believe in global networking, sharing and in positive energy. Please share with me if you have news and views.

New editions including one of Mark Rothko
Oberg PhotoGraphics’ homepage has changed to become more easy to navigate. Several new works uploaded, see Recent Editions. I’m proud of them all.

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Konstkvällen i Lund 2016

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Untitled Street Photo (Photo Painting) © Jan Oberg 2016

Lund – 10.oktober 2016

Hej konstfoto-vän

Konstkvällen i Lund 15 oktober

Hos Öberg FotoGrafik är det öppet på Konstkvällen 17-23 på Vegagatan 25
Välkommen till dig och dina vänner eller familj.

Två nya saker…
En är att jag kommer att visa ett antal okonventionella “photo paintings” (se ovan ett ex): Foton som ser ut som oljemålningar.

Foton ifrån Iran – otroligt annorlunda, gästvänligt och kultur-intensivt presenterar jag med hjälp av ett antal små collage där mina bilder berikas av iranska mönster, kalligrafi och symboler:

Iran Collage # 4, 2016 © Jan Oberg

Det blir mycket att se och höra på lördag: Abstrakt fotografik, suddiga bilder av Montenegros majestätiska berg, foton av “döda” skulpturer samt Jesus och Buddha på Victoria & Albert Museum i London som alla fått nytt liv genom mina multi-exponeringar.

Samt två storformat-bilder ur min Rouen Cathedral Suite som inspirerats av Claude Monet (1890-talet) och Roy Lichtensteins serie (1969).

Väldigt blandat och mycket experimentellt! Även om allt är fotografi ser inte allt så ut!

Kulturnatten och Konstkvällen är just det: Vad jag har på gång för tillfället. Läs om utställningen här.

Mini-föredrag med debatt och allt om ny fotoboks-hemsida
17:00-17.30 samt 20:00-20:30 Foto-lution – Fotografins revolutionerande förändring som påverkar allt.

Hela kvällen finns fotografen Kwesi Olsson på plats och presenterar sin nya hemsida för högklassiga fotoböcker skoobotohp.com och visar ett urval.

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Shoot # 55 – Newsletter from Oberg PhotoGraphics

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Lund, September 4, 2016
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Venice Morning 2012 © Jan Oberg

Content  

• Venice: Can it be saved? • Iran • Abstract photography • Victoria & Albert Museum • Landskrona Photo Festival • Instagram • Cultural Night in Lund, Sweden:

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Dear art photography friend

Shall Venice die?

It’s been known for quite some time that Venice in Italy is sinking and being destroyed also by over-tourism: 20 million per year in a city of 56,000 inhabitants whose number has fallen dramatically the last few years.

Many of you may have visited Venezia. Can you imagine it dead? I can’t, but it is a realistic scenario and I’ve written a bit about this tragedy on my art blog inspired by art historian Salvatore Settis’ recent wake-up call in the International New York Times and his new book, If Venice Dies.

I forward modest ideas about what can perhaps be done to stop this slow death, world attention to it being one.

But where is the EU in this? Where is the world beyond the market and profit-making? Venice is about a world heritage, not just Venice or Europe.

The photo above is from that unique city, shot at the best time of the year there, in early January when there are almost no tourists.


Anonymous in Venice © Jan Oberg 2015 – Click

Welcome to shoot # 55
It’s a digital gift and will appear only here and on my homepage, a moment of joy or reflection to you from Oberg PhotoGraphics.

A special welcome to many new subscribers and social media friends. Here is the

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New exhibition – “People Of Islam”

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Welcome to my new exhibition 

“People Of Islam”
Selected images from Iran, Iraq, Marrakech and Somaliland

April 3-6, 2015 – Easter – Every day 10-18 – after that by appointment only.

About the exhibition
People and milieus from Islam which the Western world is in constant conflict with.

I did fact-finding in Iraq 2002 and 2003 and already before the war, the Iraqis were hard hit by the inhuman sanctions.

Since 2012 I work every year in Iran with peace and photography. Somaliland I visited in 2014 (and 1977-81) – and the images from Marrakech, Morocco, are just two months old. The man above is Barber Lahcen in Marrakech and here are some thoughts on taking photos in that amazing city – with pictures.

It’s pictures of suffering but also of beauty and diversity. I want to show – and am happy to also talk about – the fact that there are many other images of this culture than the one you get in the mainstream Western media.

It’s my little contribution, as peace researcher and photographer – to building bridges. Because we simply must!

Practical info
1. Takes place parallel to “Konstrundan” but I am not a member of it. Open April 3-6 all days 10-18.
2. If you have not visited me before: The exhibition is in my studio, a modest space, and there will be about 40 images in formats from A3+ to A1.
3. If you can’t make it April 3-6 you can set up an appointment any time on:
obergphotographics@gmail.com or +46 738 525200.
4. And if you are far from Sweden: most of the images will soon be on my photo homepage (see below).

Hope very much to welcome you soon !

Jan Oberg

 

A peep into my photo studio

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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