maraxgraphy

      George Nobechi is a Japanese photographer. His work captures the feeling of isolation and disconnection from the world. His exhibition "Here. Still" which is part of his bigger project, "Unmoored" focuses in on watching the world through a small frame. This project was started by Nobechi after going through a very difficult patch in his life, loosing his father at the age of nineteen, and carrying on with his life to help support his family. Yet to no avail, he never felt whole. It seemed as though everything was coming undone and the solution was to leave and that's what Nobechi did, he left without a destination. Nobechi wounded up in a hotel room at Lake Louise, Canada and began reminiscing of the times his father took his family there, he began to feel a longing to talk to his father again and that was when the series "Here. Still" was born. Nobechi recalls his childhood in Tokyo as "organized chaos" when he looked out his window to...

 

 

      The documentary "Faces Places" captures street artist JR and Belgian film director Agnes Varda on their journey of capturing France's beauty through its people. Their strategy of completing such a project was to become friends or familiar with the immediate community and the people that they were photographing. This not only gave JR and Varda an insight on what the people were like in each community they visited but it made the project more wholesome and personal. The purpose of their photography project is to bring communities together through the stories that the artworks depicted. JR and Varda visited a former coal-mining town and spoke to a woman named Jennie who seems to be the only one left living in a miner's home which was set to be demolished. After speaking to her and learning of her story along with talking to neighbors from the community and learning the significance of the coal mines to the community, Varda and JR took a headshot of Jennie and put t...