KONTOR

Jenny has made a cool blog for KONTOR. Have a look at the postings from time to time; http://kontor7a.wordpress.com/

Book published

How quickly the days disappear and I'm still engulfed in various projects, but no closer to uploading scans in my blog. I'm now trapped in wintersnow again, but I at least managed to finish my project on Japan during the past year. I spent quite a few months editing a book, and had input from lots of good people, both fellow photographers and some who just love looking at images. This is the final result - the images will be uploaded on my website and the book can be viewed here:

Don't touch life in the pond by Lise Baltzer | Make Your Own Book

Family

Is your family always familar? What will you discover when you turn your camera toward your family members, especially your immediate family. The series Days with my father by Phillip Toledano is a very moving portrait of a relationship between a parent and child.

Winter in TZ color

I cannot remember when it was last this cold for this long. All of January has been freezing and with far too much snow; it's not fun anymore. The only sensible thing to do is to curl up in front of the fireplace - or go somewhere else.

I have a few boxes of TZ film for my SX-70. They've expired and the colors have gone sligthly weird, but sometimes that actually works in a quirky kind of way.

© 2010 Lise Baltzer

Freezing my toes off

Last week winter hit Denmark big time, or maybe it was just because I was outside for excessive amounts of time, making long exposures and freezing my toes off in the process. But there was something so satisfying about being on the road again with Hjemstavn // Revisited, and though the purpose of the trip was to hang and open the exhibition in Janus Bygningen, of course we had to take a drive around the neighbourhood and shoot some new material.

Leaving Lindbjerg on Sunday afternoon felt like being in Todd Hido land, a photographer whos work I am inspired by and find very tranquil but also somewhat disturbing to look at, sort of the same feeling I get from our own images in Hjemstavn // Revisited.

© 2010 Lise Baltzer

I'm buying an Imacon scanner now, so I can finally get some of the endless rolls of film scanned and post more images here on '400NC'.

Revisited // Hjemstavn on the move again

Clearly I thought I would have much more time on my hands when I created this blog than what has been the case. I've started a new job, and I must admit that attending to my blog has not been on the top of my list of things to do as priorities have been elsewhere.

But, now it's time for Revisited // Hjemstavn to move to a new location. On Monday the exhibition will be dismantled from the ArtCentre Silkeborg Bad where it has been on show for 4 months, and move to Janus Bygningen. We will be setting up this coming week and opening on Saturday 9th January. I'm looking forward to seeing all our photos and videos again, and also to create a new visiual impression in new surroundings. We will have a new installation for this exhibition, and it will be good to get a few days of intense work with the group.

© 2009 Grupperingen Hjemstavn

work in progress: Hellas

© 2008, Lise Baltzer

My father-in-law is Greek and we are going to Greece a couple of times each year. About two years ago I started bringing my Yashica and shooting in the neighbourhood south of Athens where he lives. This is a work in progress, and to some degree reflects on his day to day life, but is also my view on 'icons' of Greece.