Urban Parks - London (2)

Garden adjacent to the Tate Modern in London:

©2009 Daniel Marchand

Pond in Battersea Park, London:

©2009 Daniel Marchand

Urban Parks - London (1)

Battersea Park, London
©2009 Daniel Marchand

Parks in Capitals

When we accepted the suggestion of friends to travel to London in November to take in some theatre, I thought of adding a photographic assignment to the journey. We planned a one-week stay in London for which we rented a flat on New Globe Way with this view of St-Paul's Cathedral.

We decided to spend an extra week in Europe and visit Berlin for the first time and end up in Paris for Paris Photo.

For my "photographic assignment" I thought that I should concentrate on landscape and take only a film camera, the new Bessa III 667 by Voigtlander. Actually, I also packed the Holga for the fun of it, and the iPhone for the inevitable snapshots. My goal was to get photos of some urban parks in each of the cities visited and to juxtapose them with photos taken, also in November, in Ottawa. A visual comparison of sort of urban parks in four capitals cities, in the same month of November.

I will be posting some of the photos here over the next few days and weeks and hope to have a complete series ready for my website early in the new year.

New photos soon...

As soon as I have scanned my photos (22 rolls) from London, Berlin and Paris.

IMAGING THE URBAN FABRIC

For Architecture Week (October 2nd-9th, 2009) instructors, alumni and students of the SPAO Portfolio Program will present a selection of architectural photographs examining Ottawa’s urban fabric.

Selected works will be on view in SPAO’s Red Wall Gallery and/or displayed in the NCC Infocentre during Architecture Week. Two of my photos will be shown at the NCC InfoCentre and one at SPAO.

Vernissage at SPAO: October 2nd, 2009, 18:00 – 21:00

ON VIEW
October 2nd to October 9th, 2009
Mon-Fri 11:00-18:00, Sat 10:00-15:00, Sun and late evenings by appointment or chance.

LOCATIONS
Red Wall Gallery - School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa
168 Dalhousie Street at Bruyère, Ottawa
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National Capital Infocentre
90 Wellington Street at Metcalfe, Ottawa

Canada's War Museum

©2009 Daniel Marchand

mus-mus @Paris : Results announced

The team at mus-mus has just announced the results of @Paris, their second on-line collaborative show. 122 invited and selected photographers are part of this show.

The members of the jury for this year's competition were Denise Wolff who recently left Phaidon to become Book Editor at the Aperture Foundation, well known photographer and promoter of color photography Stephen Shore, and photographer Gil Blank.

I am happy to say that the photo I submitted is included in the final selection.

I am doubly happy to find myself in the company of photographers whose work I admire such as Magnum photographer Alec Soth, Beth Dow , Brian Ulrich, Shane Lavalette , Stephen Shore and Corinne Vionnet.

Thanks to the mus-mus Team and congratulations to the selected photographers.