#C21st

"If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."

 

~ Will Rogers

Photo Basel Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art, now in its 8th edition, is open!

The fair takes place during Art Basel week from June 12^th – 18^th  at Volkshaus Basel, just a short walk from Art Basel at the convention centre.

"What I try to achieve is to set up concepts using the human body as a base, while not making it the main focus of the picture. The result is a still image that is built around a person, but all parts of the whole are of equal importance. I reduce my pictures to content, composition, and form because this minimalist approach allows me to put equal emphasis on the idea behind the artwork and the entirety of the image. Portraying a sense of calmness with images that are built up based on geometric shapes is a recurring theme of my work."

~ Noell Oszvald

JEFFREY CONLEY

"AN ODE TO NATURE"

Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre

Opening June 09, 2023
June 10, 2023 - September 24, 2023

"Photography always just gives, it never takes away"

~ Cig Harvey

"In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen."

~ Sebastião Salgado

"I think of being out in the landscape as a time to harvest observations - then in the darkroom is the time where the observation finds its voice, its landing space in its physical manifestation as a platinum/ palladium print."

 

~ Jeffrey Conley

"I can’t stress enough how important observation is as the foundational component of being a photographer. It is all about noticing things; light, texture, form, the confluence of these elements within infinite combinations. Essentially my passion for landscape photography came through being a person who is a certain type of observant as well as someone who has always felt at peace and tremendously as ease out in nature."

~ Jeffrey Conley

"It’s difficult to get there, but once you manage to find your own voice it gets somewhat easier, because you know what you want to see in your images."

 

~ Noell Oszvald

“I am possessed by Photography”

~ Bernard Plossu

“You don’t take a photo, the photo gives itself to you”

 

~ Pentti Sammallahti

“The Sonoran Desert bloom is a magical time for us in this area. Thanks to the winter rains, brown and arid is replaced with a magnificent array of colors, with flowers popping up seemingly overnight. Cactus flowers in particular are the greatest gift. After hibernating and saving up their energy during the cold months, the mother cactus plant releases a display of hues and tones that one would think come from another world. This hand colored print serves as tribute to all the colors of prickly pear cactus you see around the desert during this blooming period.”

"When you're observant, inspiration can show up in the most unusual places, triggering a new idea to appear.”

~ Noell Oszvald

"Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses."

~ Christian Dior

"Real elegance is everywhere, especially in things that don't show it"

~ Christian Dior

“I like to get to know trees intimately. I spend a lot of time walking around them trying to become acquainted with them. In fact, it’s as though I talk to them.”

 

~ Michael Kenna

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”

~ Simone de Beauvoir

How to Force Blossoms

1. Acknowledge out loud your desperation for spring.

2. Find branches with plenty of buds on them.

3. Cut the stems at an angle.

4. Arrange in warm water.

5. Change the water daily.

6. Place in indirect sunlight all over the house.

7. Wait.

Warning — Forcing forsythia may cause a temporary aversion to violet, its opposite on the color spectrum.

~Cig Harvey

“Nature is in constant change and photography is particularly well suited to capture and amplify the swirling fluidity and the wonderfully serendipitous moments born of the ephemeral. Photographing nature is a very specific kind of exercise in mindfulness”

 

~ Jeffrey Conley

“Everything inside the frame is equally important”

~ Pentti Sammallahti

“I always had a strange feeling about how we order time into the past, present and future, as I never really felt that way."

 

~ Miho Kajioka

“For as long as I can remember I have felt most at peace outdoors. Nature has always been my refuge and sanctuary. I find the natural world to be endlessly wondrous in it’s range of character and texture, from moments of delicate intimacy and subtlety to the massively expansive and powerful”

 

~Jeffrey Conley

"I see my pictures like pages of a coloring book in which content is stripped to the bare essence."

~ Noell Oszvald

“The world has been always made of many different layers – even before the disaster. And there have been always problems, and beautiful things have always remained beautiful…”

~ Miho Kajioka

“I remember how I loved to walk through the fair as a little kid and look at all these rare birds that I knew I would never see alive. Years and years had passed since I thought about those birds, and I really wanted to photograph them.”

~ Laszlo Layton

"Everyone is free to figure out what the picture says to them. It’s very interesting to read so many different thoughts about the same piece of work.”

 

- Noell Osvald