Double-double-take

Now on for some other photographer's photos that made me make a double take.  Oh, get ready!

Sascha Weidner

Grounded II, 2007.

C-Print, Diasec mount. 90 x 90 cm. Edition of 5

28 Aug - 31 Oct 2009

Galerie Zur Stockeregg
Stockerstr. 33
8022 Zürich
Switzerland

Woah, buddy.  This photograph is intense.  It makes me feel calm and uncomfortable because of the familiar, the eerie and the dissociation all at the same time.  The reverse horizon line, the ambiguity of the models and the relaxed nature of their hands makes me stare.  True art, if you ask me.

Sarah Pickering
Abduction, 2007.

C-Print, 120 x 96 cm, Courtesy the artist and Meessen De Clercq, Brussels

25 Sep - 17 Jan 2010

Manipulating Reality

Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina - CCCS
Piazza Strozzi
50123 Firenze
Italy

Within a show of 23 international artists, Pickering's work draws my attention and makes me want to dissect each element included in the photo.  The show's title, Manipulating Reality, draws me in even more as I wonder how little or how much the photograph has been manipulated.  That fire is extremely well captured in addition to the situation.

YANG YI

"Uprooted #12: Old Town of Kaixian, The Ring Road" (2007)

 C-Print. 100cm x 70cm, Edition of 12; 150cm x 105cm - Edition of 6. © YANG Yi. Courtesy of m97 Gallery.

5 Sep - 31 Oct 2009 

m97 Gallery
97 Moganshan road, 2nd floor.
200060 Shanghai
China

Speaking of having a lot of information to deal with, this photo by Yi takes the cake.  His photographs are based on dreams that he had about his hometown and the residents living under water before it was flooded.  The light/water gleaming through is beautiful and the situation is so calming yet full in it's impending destruction.