Latest news on bop-photolab.net, latest photos http://www.bop-photolab.net/ 2012-02-06T20:39:42+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net/ http://www.bop-photolab.net/img/logo_60.jpg text/html 2012-01-13T21:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/expo.php?expo=87&photographer=2 Hern's new exhibition is probably the most introvert one we have had to see from him so far. The introduction he is giving us looks like a complete lie: how can we imagine that these photos are only nature as he is telling us... Going back and forth from the images to their titles, we are trying to see the "link". The "link" between them all. The "link" between images and the global meaning. At some point, nature disappears and what we see are whole "scenes." Scenes of blur, of clearness, of incredibly large little things. But in the end a feeling is emerging from the overall exhibition and this feeling is... serenity... Well, maybe he is not a liar after all... Maybe... text/html 2011-12-06T21:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net//news.php We are happy to announce that BOP member Th (Arnaud Thurel) will be showing some of his pictures from China and specifically the silk road for a short show in Goncelin (France) at the end of December. A selection of fine prints of black and white pictures will be displayed in the main room of the redhouse of Goncelin. If you live in the vicinity we strongly encourage you to drop by and have a look. To be noted that there will be an opening on friday the 16th at 6pm.<br /> For more information please have a look at the flyer on flickr (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnaudthurel/6461815697/">link here</a>). text/html 2011-10-17T20:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net//expo.php?expo=85&photographer=7 For me, ""where do we go, what do we see" is an exhibition of a definite traveller.<br /> Emptiness is not vacuity. In the very hart of all the images resides a feeling of emptiness as if their was no answer to the question "where de we go ?" and if we were not sur of "what we see". These pictures suggest that the answer is inside each of us and invite to the reflection. In fact there is no question mark at the end. This is a statement: "I show you where we DO go and what we DO see". Then, in the empty spaces, an infinity of possibles emerges as soon as one takes time to dive into the images. It may be a bit frightening at the beginning but surely one finds something at the end something very personal. text/html 2011-09-23T20:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/expo.php?expo=86&photographer=21 When looking at Stephane’s pictures, even at the very first picture you watch, you can see that there’s a complete story inside them. And when I say you watch the pictures, I mean it. It is far from looking at simple images. Quickly, you fall into this strange world filled with black, more than white, blur, more than clearness. You can even hear the screaming in some images whereas after that another image seems to bring some kind of hope.<br /> The text “escorting” these photos is clearly indicating what Stephane’s pictures are looking for, searching for and in the end finding. I encourage you to read it carefully. text/html 2011-08-23T20:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/cph2011.php More than two months after our group exhibition, "BOP ... in search of humanistic photography" at the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2011, we would like to share some images of the event.<BR><BR> We created on BOP website a page dedicated to our exhibition, you will find some writings, but also pictures and videos. <BR><BR> The page will be updated regularly with new content. If you want to contribute to this page don't hesitate to send us pictures or videos you've taken during the festival. text/html 2011-06-05T20:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/news.php With this exhibition BOP brings a variety of points of view on the world. To do so we present eight coherent sets of black and white pictures with a transversal way of showing the world as we live in or as we live it.<br /> <br /> It can be an odyssey in which some BOP member embarks within the place he lives in, as in Barthélémy Longueville's recollection of a night trip in the streets of old Shanghaï, China, or as in Chris Huby's hunt for people in front of their environment all over the world, a metaphoric way of picturing solitude. Similarly, Arnaud De Grave has been tracking stories and the humans creating them in the dark streets of the world.<br /> <br /> However, it can be a work done not far from the very home of one member, looking at old time traditions, as in Jean-François Boujut's set about a chestnut oil mill, or as in Arnaud Thurel's ongoing work about brownfield land and abandoned places, both sets around Grenoble, France.<br /> <br /> It can also be a specific view on this little something which touches every human being as in Arnaud Rivière's set about communication or the lack of it, situated along the Silk Road in China, or as in Sebastien Hentz's study on exposedness also all over the world.<br /> <br /> Finally, a collaborative set of pictures from Arnaud De Grave and Chris Huby shot during a photo-trip in the almost forgotten Eastern areas of India is also presented as diptychs.<br /> <br /> Some of these sets are shown somewhere on the website, some are totally new sets ...<br /> <br /> BOP would like to thank the French Institute of Denmark for its help in the project.<br /> <br /> Links:<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hern42/5781325149/" target=_blank>Flickr flyer</a><br /> <a href="http://www.copenhagenphotofestival.com/programme/bop-in-search-of-humanistic-photography/" target=_blank>BOP on the festival website</a><br /> <br /> Stay tuned for some event in addition to the exhibition ...<br /> <br /> <img src="/img/flyerBOP-CPF_web.png" width=350pix alt="BOP ... in search of humanist photography @ Copenhagen Photo Festival 2011" /> text/html 2011-04-25T20:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/expo.php?expo=82&photographer=20 Today, BOP is proud to welcome Christophe's guest exhibition: "In the heat of the night." In his series you'll feel the rush of the photo-reporter, his short breaths and his admiration for fire-fighters. While many of us would have been stuck with fire aesthetics, Christophe strives to reveal the human dimension of the fight and its after-effects. Hold your breath, feel the heat and enjoy! text/html 2011-03-08T21:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/news.php Our fellow members, Chris (YuB) and Arnaud (hern42) have reached by chance the Indian territories near the Bangladesh border. It was not their initial plan, but from this unexpected trip, they bring a very powerful double exhibition. By following these two links [ <a href='http://www.bop-photolab.org/expo.php?expo=57&photographer=12'>YuB’s gallery</a> and <a href=http://www.bop-photolab.org/expo.php?expo=81&photographer=2''>hern42's gallery</a> ] you will discover two visions of the same reality, you will enter the life of some little known areas of India. While Chris is drawing close portraits in delicate gray tones, Arnaud is bringing us in the heart of street life, playing with contrasts, focus, shadows and smokes. These two exhibitions have the print of their own style, but they share a common approach of photography, their portraits open a world to us, simply conveying respect an kindness. text/html 2011-02-11T21:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/expo.php?expo=80&photographer=1 Longwei comes back to BOP after a long road trip along the south of USA. The vision he brings to us is far from what we are used to see in his previous exhibitions. First : he decided to shoot in colour, and that's really unsual for him. Then, you quickly realize when looking at these pictures that there is really emptiness all around : no people, no animals. Only remains the feeling that human came here, and that he left something before going somewhere else. The square format of the photos forces you to stop and watch them quietly. You try to go inside them and the colours, with so much blue, brings you to some extent in a special mood. For sure, you are not in New-York here, neither in Los Angeles or another big city, you are just in the middle of a huge and empty country. There's some kind of Stephen Shore's pictures in this exhibit, and in the end, a question rises in your mind : "hey man, what car were you driving during this trip ?" text/html 2010-11-14T21:22:22+01:00 http://www.bop-photolab.net Association BOP http://www.bop-photolab.net/expo.php?expo=78&photographer=18 At BOP, we are happy to introduce a new guest of ours: Unreadble has produced for us a powerful piece of work here, a glimpse of a small siberian village, of which I will never be able to pronounce the name or maybe only after a huge quantity of the local potato distillation product... Somehow we all have images wandering our minds of far east poor areas, their dirt roads, wooden houses, worn out cars and the great contrast between the richer but so distant big cities. It may have to do with Emir Kusturica's films, not to mention less famous artists. But this is not what Unreadble is offering to our eyes. He is not showing us what it looks like there, but on the contrary immerses himself - and hence ourselves - in the inhabitants' environment, shooting very close to people ; sometimes it feels like we see through their own eyes. The result is a perturbing, somewhat obscure, sad even sometimes, but always powerful and moving set of images.