Interviewed on WIRED Raw File as part of an article about the photo collective here:
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Paris Nocturne
On the fringes of Le Marais, last nights with lovers feasting and hanging off window sills wreathed in curlicues of smoke.
Presenting work from “You Think You’re Safe Here” at Open Show Zagreb tomorrow night, with a small Q & A session after. Swing by if you’re in the Balkans?
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Atelijeru Meštrović
Mletačkoj 8
Zagreb, Croatia
8pm - 10pm (doors close promptly at 8)
“And the third loses it all” by Ying Ang
As part of the Centre for Contemporary Photography Documentary Photography Prize, 2011
February 3 – March 11, 2012
Opening night February 3, 6:30 - 8pm
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Cowra Regional Art Gallery
77 Darling Street, Cowra
New South Wales 2794, AustraliaNOTE* This work is currently on tour around Australia from 2012-2013. Please contact the Centre for Contemporary Photography for details.
I came across the work of 25-year-old freelance photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz “Memory Loss” and was immeditly captivated by his images. The serie, reminiscent of road trip movies, explore the notion of distance and disconnection. Mustafah spent three weeks driving across the country with the photographer Justin Maxon and gathered 52 rolls of film. Every image is like a little gem, an short candid istant of life, beautifully captured by this young and promising photographer.
You can read more on his work of Mustafah Abdulaziz and the American Road Trip Article for the NYTimes.com or visit his website.
“Deaullo Perry, truck driver from the transport company AJT as his team unloads boxes for the G-STAR RAW show.” by Mustafah Abdulaziz
“Alex in the Bywater on Halloween Day, New Orleans, October 31, 2011” by Mustafah Abdulaziz
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Mustafah Abdulaziz - Memory Loss
“I’m interested in the connection between how we as Americans present ourselves and our familiar environments and the subsequent disconnects created when we forget how we appear. In a time when our shared culture is represented in such polarising extremes, I looked for the line between me, the drifting outsider, and the scene that strives to appear one way but appears to me another.”
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This insightful series of images from photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz documents the inherent contradictions of everyday life. From the people awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Irene on Coney Island, to the patrol car stationed under a tree in Pennsylvania. Simply by seeing such ‘ordinary’ occurances, recorded photographically, Abdulaziz highlights the interesting juxtapositions that surround our ‘normal’ lives on a day-to-day basis.
“Chase Barker, 11 year-old with his first black bear, Franklin, New Jersey, December 6, 2010.” by Mustafah Abdulaziz
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