“Take your eyes for a walk. Anytime I get off my keister and go looking around and engage people, something always happens,”
Tag: Martin Kollar
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Juxtapoz Magazine – “Provisional Arrangement” by Martin Kollar
Juxtapoz Magazine – “Provisional Arrangement” by Martin Kollar
Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée, Martin Kollar’s new work, Provisional Arrangement, considers that which is temporary in a world made up of provis…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/provisional-arrangement-by-martin-kollar/
Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée, Martin Kollar’s new work, Provisional Arrangement, considers that which is temporary in a world made up of provisional situations and solutions.
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12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot
12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot
For a land so deeply entrenched with history and conflict, Israel is not an easy subject to approach in a photography project, especially from a single standpoint. Born out of an idea by Frédéric Brenner, a French photographer who has long explored Jewish
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/02/a-new-collaboration-sees-twelve-photographers-turn-their-lens-on-israel/
‘This Place’ is the title given to the internationally touring exhibition that presents the work of twelve artists who were commissioned to research and work in Israel and the West Bank, created primarily between 2009 and 2012 by Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall and Nick Waplington. Together, they act as a heterogeneous narrative of a conflicted, paradoxical and deeply resonant place.
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Martin Kollar: Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2014 « The Leica Camera
Martin Kollar: Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2014
Martin Kollar was 2014′s Oskar Barnack Award Winner for “Field Trip,” a portfolio of images taken in Israel. In the above video, he describes the idea behind this work and how he tried to focus on the future instead of the past.
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Leica Oskar Barnack Award
International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is an international photo contest for photographers. Awarded will contemporary, outstanding reportage photography.
via International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award: http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/en/#/en/winner/winner-2014
Martin Kollar, born in what was formerly Czechoslovakia, receives the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his project Field Trip, a portfolio of photos taken in Israel.
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Martin Kollar: “Nothing Special” examines the often bizarre world of Eastern Europe during the post-Soviet era
Capturing the Wacky World of Eastern Europe
Although he doesn’t admit it fully, Martin Kollar seems to have a pretty good sense of humor. “Usually, as it is in life, people who make funny films…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/03/30/martin_kollar_nothing_special_examines_the_often_bizarre_world_of_eastern.html
Although he doesn’t admit it fully, Martin Kollar seems to have a pretty good sense of humor. “Usually, as it is in life, people who make funny films are usually very boring,” he said. “It rarely works the other way around.”
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l e n s c r a t c h: Martin Kollar
Slovakian photographer, Martin Kollar, lives in Prague and seems to have a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
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Army Cooks: recipes for survival and victory! – lens culture photography weblog
Photographer Martin Kollar and filmmaker Peter Kerekes have been documenting Army Cooks from all over Eastern Europe and beyond, as part of an ongoing project that started in 1991. In his brilliant introduction to the project, Kerekes begins: “They are ordinary men in aprons worn over their uniforms, whose task is to feed the army. They take care of the operation of a giant stomach, a big hungry child with its moods – the Army.”
Check it out here.
