June 2010
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WatchUP THERE (by The Ritual Project)
Short film looking at advertising from a different angle - from the eyes of the men who paint adverts on the sides of buildings in NY. Men who stand in the face of technological change; men whose craft is on the way out.
Word of warning, it’s also an unashamed Stella Artois advert.
May 2010
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Article about some of my work on the aCurator blog →
Julie Grahame runs the incredible aCurator magazine, an online website dedicated to showing new photography in a format which images do not often get online - the full screen.
She has also very generously written a short piece about some of my work, and I’m really happy with the way it came out. You can check it out at the below link:
http://www.acurator.com/blog/2010/05/max-colson.html
WatchNewspaper Blackout Book Trailer
[If you want a bit more info on where you can find more examples of this new form + what I think about it, then check out my post below]
(via Austin Kleon)
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WatchThe Century Of The Self - Part 1 of 4
Documentary which concerns itself the processes and ideas behind mass communication, and looks at its past. It’s rather unsettling in quite a lot of places.
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Indre Serpytyte →
There are photographers and then there are photographers.
Indre Serpytye’s State of Silence concerns itself with her father’s death in mysterious circumstances (he was the Head of Government Security in Lithuania and died in a ‘car accident’), and is one of the most striking, visually stunning things that I have seen for a long time.
Exploring the human...
WatchJ.J. Charlesworth’s interview with Renzo Martens (Part 1 above, Part 2 below)
(Tumbled from Art Review)
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An Interview with the Magnum Photographer Martin... →
I read this interview with the Magnum photographer Martin Parr which was conducted by the website Bint PhotoBooks recently. I just thought it gave a nice insight into the mind of a photographer who is working in the currently cash strapped professional market. I also think it’s a great demonstration of the need for photojournalists to go beyond the confines of literal documentation and...
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On being accessible
“My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the ‘depth’ that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop… A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in...
April 2010
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A Bit About Myself →
My name is Max Colson and I have a digital camera. I have an entirely self-taught background in documentary photography. I am a little hesitant about calling myself a photojournalist however.
My most recent work concerns the influence that commerce has on photojournalism and what that means for the visual reporter. I am currently producing a video which deals with this topic. To date I have...