The 6 AM project, decluttering and some other enthusiastic experiments
There are no other enthusiastic plans. Just these two, but it sounded good for the title. Anyway, these two are quite a handful. Let me tell. The 6 AM project means I will wake up […]
View ArticleAll That Stuff: a Photographer Revisits His Childhood Home
Photographer Geoff Johnson lived in this house until he turned 17. Behind the Door is series of photos he took when he had to go back to this place, after his mother passed and the […]
View ArticleMy happy five days trip back to Cluj
For the last five days I’ve been back to Cluj, in Romania, the city where I went to University and where now I travel for a course to learn about biography counseling (if curious about […]
View ArticleBeijing to Sankt Petersburg: a surreal trip made and documented by Dee O’Connell
Hey, you know what? I almost decided to show you some photos of Iceland, with that kind of isolated landscape and towns with 5 inhabitants. But then I thought: it’s almost summer and you’re probably […]
View ArticleRunning further and faster, and the bits of nature that make it so great
My schedule is so packed with appointments and things to do nowadays. Sometimes I feel I cannot handle it anymore, besides a full time job I have two projects in development (one is a film […]
View ArticleFairytale: a Photo Series Imagined by a Child and Made Real by an Adult
I saw these photos and thought I’d like to live inside them. Then I read all sorts of things about the series. I’m not a big fan of big and twisted metaphors that completely lose […]
View ArticleMedieval Emoticons: the Delights of Seeing Art from Long Ago in a (Funny) New...
I’m a big fan of medieval art and representations. That’s especially when they are cherry picked around a subject. I previously loved these Ugly Reinaissance Babies, now I’m absorbed by these ‘Medieval...
View ArticleThe Idiot Box: a Touching Photo Series of Kids Watching TV Said to Point at...
This photo series has been circulating around the web recently. It has been described as a series portraying children’s vacant stares at the TV, but honestly they don’t look so vacant to me. Instead,...
View ArticleDoing Art and Being a Mom: a Photographer That Does Both and the Story of...
“I took Casper on his first road trip when he was three-months old and by the time he was one we managed to stay out most of each year for the next five years of […]
View ArticleThe Middle of Nowhere, the Mist and the Longing: a Series of Photos from...
I really really miss being in a forest. I felt it today, really strong, didn’t recognize it at first but then I realized what it was. I miss the forest and therefore I miss home. […]
View ArticleHey? Anybody still around?
I know what you’re probably thinking, this place became really really quiet. And that’s true. It’s been quiet for a while and I’ve been a busy bee organizing a festival called Spotlight:Romania, my...
View ArticleIt’s all happening! Spotlight : Romania is a showcase for the real photo...
Here is my big excuse for neglecting you and Passepartout for so long. It’s all happening now, not even a hurricane can stay in its way. The Spotlight:Romania exhibition I curated will be on from […]
View ArticleFirst #SpotlightRomania is a wrap!
And I’m in for a new project already, not sure which one though but I’m ready to find it or find them. The festival was great to make, great to witness it happening and be […]
View ArticlePainterly Peeks: Photos Capturing of the Lives of Photographer Arne Svenson’s...
Apparently, New York photographer Arne Svenson inherited a 500 mm lens from a friend who was passionate about bird-watching. Svenson didn’t know much about birds but he put the lens to good use, taking...
View ArticleIDFA 2015: Some Documentaries You Might Want to See // Part I
I’m starting to worry that Christmas will come and pass, we will enter 2016, half of it will be gone…and all the things I have to say about the docs I’ve recently seen will remain […]
View ArticleIDFA 2015: Some Documentaries You Might Want to See // Part II
People often ask me what recent documentaries I’ve seen and what I recommend them to see. When they ask me that, my first question to them is what are you looking for? What interests you […]
View Article17th Century Dutch Humor and What Hid Behind an Apparently Inoffensive Bush
The truth always prevails my dears, that’s what I have to tell you! They tried to cover it up in this 1643 Isack van Ostade’s A Village Fair with a Church Behind painting, and they […]
View ArticleLess Than a Week Left to the Oscars: If You’re Hoping ‘Amy’ Wins, It Probably...
A week from now, we will know which of the five shortlisted documentaries wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Bets are on Amy, Asif Kapadia’s film about Amy Winehouse. I really loved this film...
View ArticleMovies That Matter Festival: Chuck Norris vs Communism and What I Remembered
The first film I remember watching – ever – was one in which the main character is a guy dressed in white. Somehow I believe it was Alain Delon but I’m not sure what makes […]
View ArticleOld Passepartout, New Passepartout and a Trip in Between
Dear friends, After thinking long and hard about the changes I want to make to Passepartout, I finally reached some conclusions. Starting June 2016 you can expect some new sections on the blog: a...
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