When I visited the Sector 6 (that’s a district in Bucharest) city hall, I had the opportunity to see the photos from the Bucharest in black and white photo exhibition again. For a while our photos will make more lively the cold walls of this public administration building. Probably photos in colors would do a better job with this, but black and white was the theme.
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Together with a good number of photographers from the “Asociația Bucureștiul meu drag”, I am part of the group exhibition that opened yesterday evening in one of the most active subway stations in Bucharest, Piața Unirii 1. The theme is our city and the pictures will stay there for all of you too see for a month and a half. Even from the first day many heads were turning.
I know I was expected to have a picture of me in front of my own creation, but so far I have no such photo, but I have something not bad either: a picture with a young couple finding the vicinity of my picture the proper place to kiss. That was one of my highlights of the event, as another was when another couple got close to my pictures, trying to identify one of the marathon runners, who may be their friend (but he was outside of the DOF).
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After last December at F64, this evening the City Lights photo exhibition opened again at the Carturesti books store in Bucharest. You can find our pictures hanging from the ceiling at the photography books section. Be fast, as the exhibition will stay open only for a few days.
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This happens all the time: I had to send pictures for an exhibition, the rule was “up to three”, the first and second choices were easy picks, but to make the number and maximize my chances, I picked a third one, an image from the 2012 Bucharest marathon. Of course, the jury selected the third one, which was, in my opinion, the least representative. But as said above, this is not unexpected, it happens all the time. More on the exhibition near the end of the next week.
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Saturday at F64 in Bucharest we opened Salonul Artiștilor Fotografi din București (Bucharest Artist Photographer Salon), the third edition. It will stay there for a couple of weeks, so you can see our pictures there – 32 photographers are represented.
As you can see in the re-enactment above (pic made by Carmen), my picture is a moment from an Indian wedding, shoot last year in Kolkata when my friend got married (I only hope his wife, Anwesha, is not mad at me for the selection).
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I teased about it a few weeks ago, I am part of the City Lights (ro: Luminile Orașului) photo exhibition which opened yesterday evening at F64 in Bucharest. It will stay there a couple of weeks and in January will move at Cărturești near Piața Romană.
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For a project I was required nine night pictures from a city so my choice was a series of photos made this year in Prater, Vienna. Stay tuned for more info on the project (in a couple of weeks).
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As a joint project with Carmen, we made a desk calendar for 2013, it features photos from both of us put in some random order (you’ll have to guess who is the author for each).
Update: here’s a tutorial for making your own Inkscape calendar layout design
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Delicious baked apples
Baked pumpkin
Gingerbread
Apple juice
And my great photo (actually, not that great).
And a lot of people there to admire… their own photos, their friends photos and eat all the food. The Bucharest in black and white photo exhibition opened!
I told you the food was delicious? Yep, we ate it all 😀
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Last Friday in the very center of Bucharest, on the fence of the Bucharest Museum (very close to Piața Universității) opened a new photo exhibition I am part of: Freeze in the summer hot (Ger in arșita verii). It will be open for a couple of weeks in the street, for anyone to see, it contains black and white winter photos, the refreshing thing to see in one of the hottest summers I remember:
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Finally, the Tryptich photo exhibition opened yesterday evening at the Serendipity tea house in Bucharest, I was there with my picture made of 3 photos.
My series of Indian fishmongers was one of the 22 pictures there, 21 photo collages and a painting collage, they are on display for two more weeks.
With a mix of genres, is likely a visitor will find something to like, give it a try.
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I learned today about one of my CC licensed pictures being used on Ard Technica on an article about software patents. Of course the usage is properly made, with credits and linking back, that’s how it is supposed to be (still not perfect, they didn’t say CC-BY-SA about the picture, but that is said on the link they provide).
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A preview of my pictures for the Triptych photo exhibition to be opened in a few weeks. Called Fishmongers is a series of street photos from my Indian trip.
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In the last few days I worked preparing the technical side of a group photo exhibition, called Triptych, where 21 photographers and a painter will expose their creation made from 3 images. The opening is Monday 6 August 2012 19:00 at the Serendipity tea house in Bucharest.
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Cancan is one of the most known local tabloids focusing on celebrities and such stuff (to judge its level, the article I am talking about here is about a Facebook fight between a dancer and the nephew of a rich guy) and I just discovered back this January they used a couple of my photos for an article, here’s a screen capture from their website:
Obviously, they had no legal right to post them, neither from the photographer (me), nor the model (Alicia), it looks like they just lifted the images from a Facebook album of mine (stupid them, they could have obtained better quality from the g+ equivalent album) (the model has also a copy, but she put on her profile only one of the two images used by the tabloid).
On the legal side, the photos on Facebook are just put there, so they are full protected by copyright, according with the Romanian law. On Picasaweb/Google Plus, where there is such an option, I have put them under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike, which still require an user (Cancan in this case) to credit the author and keep the license. Is true I did a mistake: forgot to add a watermark, which I do with images like this which are likely to be misuses, but the presence of a watermark was no influence on the law and copyright (copyright is applied by default) and the tabloid modified the crop anyway. They act like everything is online is free to use, which is false but used by other media outlets from the entire world.
So what I am doing next? Nothing, I won’t sue the tabloid (probably they expect that much, people to be busy with other things to sue them), but I will post the pictures here, for reference and for people to be able to see the original, compared with the tabloid editing. I do like to share content and I do it all the time, but under the rules I want, which means most of the time a Free license.
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