insightsproject

Produced by "insightsproject"
Camera, Edition and Music by Daniel Negrín
Todd Hido Workshop, Amsterdam, June 2012

Special thanks to Todd Hido, Daniel negrin, Lorena Morin and Joao Linneu

see below the short film, or better said: teaser for the short film called "some words about photography" to be made by daniel negrin from the canary islands.

daniel spent a full week with us following the workshop, sometimes as a friend, helping out, as a participant or as an observer... quiet, hiding behind his camera.

finaly, after many months of work and distractions, he will present his completed

Sergei Bykov was a participant of the Garage workshop with Michael Ackerman, Amsterdam February, 2010

We wanted to highlight some of the new work by our friend Sergei, recently returned to his homeland, Russia. His images are terrifying yet comforting - for us this is a photographer to not loose out of sight.

Soon we'll publish more images and a link to the gallery that presently represents him in St Petersburg.

Find his post on the "participants gallery" here.

Joakim Kocjancic is born in 1975 in Milan, Italy. Since 2006 he lives in Stockholm (Sweden), working as a freelance photographer. He studied painting and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Carrara (Italy) and a MA in photojournalism at LCC in London (2005).

All his work is in black and white and analogue, it's about a subjective vision of cities and its people in our western culture. It's an artistic document of our time. You could define his work as: "a personal street/straight photography, direct and intuitive, with a grittier mood".

Joakim has been represented at the Fotofestival in Rome, selected at Viewbook photostory in 2010 and for MONO (Gomma mag) in 2012. He is going to have a personal exhibition at Galleri Kontrast in Stockholm and at Forma in Milan this coming autumn.

"I followed the workshop in Amsterdam with M. Ackerman. I loved the garage/studio place where we had the workshop. We used the space also as a studio and we all could take portraits of each other, it was very liberating seeing everybody taking pictures in their own way. The Insight family has been very helpful and welcoming creating a good energy within the group. It has been an intensive and inspiring week." - JK

Joakim´s website

Richard van Bennekom ( 1973) studies at the Photo academy in Amsterdam.

He started to discover the world of photography behind the lens of a digital camera. Experimental photographing leads him on a journey of exploring various techniques and camera's where nowadays he mostly prefers shooting on film. Richard focuses primarily on documentary portrait within the surrounded landscape.
Selected by GUP magazine as one of the hundred most talented photographers for New Dutch Talent.
Photo's from his two ongoing projects "Within" and "The fourth dimension" will be published in the special catalogue of GUP in April 2012.

See his website here and his blogspot here

¨The Insightsproject family has an understanding, 'insight' and an eye for photography with a sense. This is given in the collaborations with renowned photographers and their well organized workshops.
Keep up the good work guys!¨

Cindy Jansen about Lover get down:

"Lover get down gives an impression of a sadomasochistic encounter, embedded in daily activities and surroundings. Places where a masteress leans against a kitchen sink, a woman lies stretched out on a bed, and a wig hangs down form a closet. With this photo series Jansen likes to raise questions as: How do we nowadays deal with morality? Can we shamelessly and without any consequences step out of one world into another? The response of the audience places the work in a wider, sociological framework; that of contemporary morality and ethics."

Cindy was a participant of the Michael Ackerman Garage workshop in Amsterdam.
Visit her website here: www.cindyjansen.com

Participant of the Garage workshop with Michael Ackerman, Amsterdam february, 2010

Sergei Bykov's website

Based in the city of las palmas, the insightsproject is a family adventure.

We organize photography encounters with photographers who are willing to share their very personal and fascinating way of telling their unique stories of everyday life.

insightsproject workshops creates meeting spaces where internationally renowned photography artists, doing amazing work, will stimulate, confront and inspire professional and aspiring photography talents from all around the world.

Lorena Morin & Ary van Giesen