Performing Metamorphosis

Titling is always a really tricky thing. How it sounds, what it means, how it reads and so on and so forth. I still have two images that need titles for this series, but I think I've found the name for this body of work; sculptures, images and all.

Performing Metamorphosis

It refers to the performance aspect of the work as well as the transformation and hybridization of materials and characters.

Newbies currently in post production

(Yet to be titled) © Dida 2009

Still working on both of these. 'Anathema' was shot last night. I just started working on it today.

Anathema © Dida 2009

Dash Snow

I had never heard of Dash Snow until I was randomly 'art surfing' the other day. Dash Snow was a New York artist known for his confrontational and startlingly beautiful Polaroids of underbellies and oddities, an imaginary freak combination of Martin Parr and Nan Goldin.

His images retain a certain rawness in their act of documentation as much as they reflect an eye for the theatrical and shocking.

More images at www.tinyvices.com (portfolios)

All images © Dash Snow taken from www.tinyvices.com

i heart photograph

I love this website. It is perfect for when you want to discover something new or find yourself in need of some inspiration.

http://www.iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/

Tape Projects

"Tape Projects is a collective of young and emerging artists who champion provocative, temporal, audio-visual works and site-specific performances by our peers in and around Melbourne.

Tape Projects seeks to promote the wealth of talented and underrepresented young and emerging artists in Melbourne and throughout Australia, who practice media art and hybrid forms not necessarily suited to the traditional gallery format. As young and emerging artists ourselves, we believe in supporting our highly skilled community by creating new opportunities for the screening and showcasing of accomplished experimental art.

Through a programme of performances, artist talks, site-specific events, screenings and publications, Tape Projects showcases diverse temporal and cross-media works by Australian and international artists.[...]"

- http://www.tapeprojects.org/

A friend told me about this the other day. Seems like a thing worth checking out.

International Photography Awards

I am proud to say that "Down a Rabbit Hole" (2008) received two honorable mentions in this years International Photography Awards.

Last years competition saw close to 23 000 entries from 124 countries around the globe.

http://www.photoawards.com/en/

New work for 2009

Lusus Naturae © Dida 2009

Untitled © Dida 2009

Run, little Piggy... © Dida 2009

The Others... (working title) is a continuation of my previous body of work, Down a Rabbit Hole (2008). This series is concerned with exploring fears of the unknown in tensions created between the natural and the fabricated. These photographs are dreamscapes; they reflect on the ‘theatre of the mind’, a balance between memory and fantasy, fear and desire, the light-hearted and the grotesque.