http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:06:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2012/01/30983/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2012/01/30983/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:17:48 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30983 Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting A touching project, about an ordinary person, who is as ordinary and in the same time as extraordinary as we all are ordinary and extraordinary. Self portraits, full of fun, and later on touched by sadness, and that´s how life is, tears and laughter, and everything in between. source:vimeo]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2012/01/30983/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/10/adam-broomberg-oliver-chanarin-dora-fobert/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/10/adam-broomberg-oliver-chanarin-dora-fobert/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:14:04 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30807 Dora Fobert, Untitled, ca 1942, From the Archive of Adela K. Dora Fobert, b. 1925 Photographer, Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–42. Assisted Jakub Boim, official ghetto photographer. Began her own series of portraits of women in the Warsaw Ghetto shortly before being deported to Treblinka, August 1942. These photographs were saved by Adela K, a survivor of [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/10/adam-broomberg-oliver-chanarin-dora-fobert/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/emmet-and-elijah-gowin-maggie-12/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/emmet-and-elijah-gowin-maggie-12/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:46:38 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30731 Game Player, 2001 image by Elijah Gowin MAGGIE IS THE OLDEST PERSON I KNOW Maggie is the oldest person I know. As she first wandered into the frame of the camera, I realized she was the authentic link that breathed life into the backyard contraptions that I had started to build. Eyes worn tired and [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/emmet-and-elijah-gowin-maggie-12/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/emmet-and-elijah-gowin-maggie/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/emmet-and-elijah-gowin-maggie/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:34:06 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30653 Willie and Maggie Cooper at Reva´s, Christmas, 1963 image by Emmet Gowin MAGGIE Margaret Ennis Booher Cooper, affectionately known as Aunt Maggie, is 98 years of age. She lives alone in the same house she and her husband, Willie Commodore Cooper, moved into when they were married in 1930. Emmet and I live just down [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/emmet-and-elijah-gowin-maggie/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/sibylle-fendt-i-want-you-to-be/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/sibylle-fendt-i-want-you-to-be/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:53:09 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30510 image from the project Gärtners´ Voyage by Sibylle Fendt In summer 2008, Lothar Gärtner and his wife Elke decided to dare a big voyage – most probably their last one. They had been traveling Europe on caravan all of their joint lives. Two years before, Elke had come down with Alzheimer’s disease. Lothar wished to [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/sibylle-fendt-i-want-you-to-be/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/portfolio-page-redesigned/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/portfolio-page-redesigned/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:20:04 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30432 Zoltán Jókay/ Portfolio]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/portfolio-page-redesigned/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/zoltan-jokay-not-on-vacation/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/zoltan-jokay-not-on-vacation/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:42:23 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30384 image by Zoltán Jókay from: “july, 2006″ I didn´t stop blogging, and I am not on vacation. I am just reconstructing my portfolio page. No spare time left for blogging. See you soon. For the relaunch of my portfolio page I am going through the images I took the last years, since my book was [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/09/zoltan-jokay-not-on-vacation/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/paolo-patrizi-migration/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/paolo-patrizi-migration/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:30:25 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30288 image and text by Paolo Patrizi Migration linked to prostitution The phenomenon of foreign women, who line the roadsides of Italy, has become a notorious fact of Italian life. These women work in sub-human conditions; they are sent out without any hope of regularizing their legal status and can be easily transferred into criminal networks. [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/paolo-patrizi-migration/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/sia-joo-hiang-transformation/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/sia-joo-hiang-transformation/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:25:30 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=30032 image by Sia Joo Hiang inspired by an image from my series growing up, 2000-2003 I woke up in the middle of the night. To early for starting the day, but already wide-awake. Staying in bed would have resulted in a lot of tossing around trying to catch a bit of sleep. I went to [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/sia-joo-hiang-transformation/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/annette-elizabeth-fournet-scarecrow/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/annette-elizabeth-fournet-scarecrow/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:16:55 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=29956 image by Annette Elizabeth Fournet]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/annette-elizabeth-fournet-scarecrow/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/alnis-stakle-a-secret-about-a-secret/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/alnis-stakle-a-secret-about-a-secret/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:52:34 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=29858 image by Alnis Stakle from the series: “Broken Line” Alnis Stakle: 2008 – … The work series ‘Broken Line’ is a visual investigation that is both autobiographical and documentary about the lost identity and the hopeless life of the last Soviet generation in Latvia. I have lost faith in photography as medium to inform about [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/alnis-stakle-a-secret-about-a-secret/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/jeffrey-silverthorne-candy-store-of-flesh-3/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/jeffrey-silverthorne-candy-store-of-flesh-3/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:55:03 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=29664 image and text by Jeffrey Silverthorne Boystown, The Perfume of Desire, USA – 2009 The land along the Texas-Mexico border, a borderland, is a place for a psychological or physical passage/transgression. A Boystown is a group of bars or clubs that gringos and some Mexicans go to for entertainment, and or to have sex with [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/jeffrey-silverthorne-candy-store-of-flesh-3/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/dana-popa-not-natasha/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/dana-popa-not-natasha/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:51:30 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=29520 images and text by Dana Popa “This work is dedicated to Dalia and all the girls who allowed me to have a glimpse of their souls and dig up a hidden and painful past. I hope I did it the most delicate way.” “Natasha is a nickname given to prostitutes with Eastern European looks. Sex-trafficked [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/dana-popa-not-natasha/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/alessandra-sanguinetti-childhood-imagined/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/alessandra-sanguinetti-childhood-imagined/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:03:40 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=29369 image by Alessandra Sanguinetti The Couple, 1999 from her project: The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams. Sam Mirlesse: Could you tell me a little bit about how you first got your start as a photographer, and what your first inspirations were—how it was that you began taking pictures? [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/08/alessandra-sanguinetti-childhood-imagined/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/zhe-chen-self-inflicted-wounds/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/zhe-chen-self-inflicted-wounds/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:53:08 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=29156 image by Zhe Chen One thing is certain; What begun as just cause became just excuse. (Jeanette Winterson) When I stumbled over Zhe Chen´s project “The Bees” I was hit by the visual quality of her work and hit again by it´s terrifying content. I was moved, and I still am. My imagination went on [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/zhe-chen-self-inflicted-wounds/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/nikolay-bakharev-raw-paradise/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/nikolay-bakharev-raw-paradise/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:30 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=28981 image by Nikolay Bakharev Nikolay Bakharev in Conversation with Luca Desienna of Gomma Magazine - Translation by Olga Ippolitova – Series Baharevland Nikolay Bakharev’s emotive and controversial images are important social documents that enlighten and inform the viewer. The subjects – freed from oppression by this oppurtinity to express grace and fragility, desire and control, [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/nikolay-bakharev-raw-paradise/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/olya-ivanova-images-from-an-eastern-country/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/olya-ivanova-images-from-an-eastern-country/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:05:55 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=28873 image by Olya Ivanova self portrait Olya Ivanova photographs her protagonists as if they would be her friends. The setting is rural; her images have the look and feel of an east European Country. They remind me of happy childhood days during my summer vacations in Hungary. Though I was born in Germany the Hungarian [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/07/olya-ivanova-images-from-an-eastern-country/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/adam-broomberg-oliver-chanarin-mr-mkhizes-portait-other-stories-from-the-new-south-africa/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/adam-broomberg-oliver-chanarin-mr-mkhizes-portait-other-stories-from-the-new-south-africa/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:55:13 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=28194 image by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Mr. Mkhize has been photographed twice before in his life. The first was for his Pass Book, which allowed the apartheid governement to control his movements. The second was for his Identity Book, which allowed him to vote in the first democratic elections in 1994. Ten years later, [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/adam-broomberg-oliver-chanarin-mr-mkhizes-portait-other-stories-from-the-new-south-africa/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/jh-engstrom-shelter/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/jh-engstrom-shelter/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:01:43 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=27923 image by JH Engstrom “Loneliness is a strange bird. If it is called upon… at first it comes like a quiet stranger and slowly befriends you. It then starts to seep into the skin… to live inside of you as sort of an ally… to strengthen you in your pain, as a place to escape, [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/jh-engstrom-shelter/feed/ 0 http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/glen-erler-childhood-moments/ http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/glen-erler-childhood-moments/#comments Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:23:38 +0000 Zoltán Jókay http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/?p=27806 image by Glen Erler The sound of Glen Erlers photography immediately triggered something very personal in me when I stumbled over some of his images. I then was looking for the common denominator that is connecting his photographs, and it might be, that I found a thread, best described by himself in his introductory statement [...]]]> http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2011/06/glen-erler-childhood-moments/feed/ 0