IZASKUN GONZALEZ

Izaskun Gonzalez's photography work has a dreamy feel, with a twist which has a hypnotic effect, the moment you discover her creations. The images are beautifully coloured and manipulated with different filers and Photoshop.
    

 Photography by Izaskun Gonzalez

1. When did get take your first camera, and how long have you been a photographer for?

 I purchased my first camera in my late teens and have been taking photographs for 20 years.

2.Did you study photography, if yes where? Or are you self taught?

At Middlesex University I studied graphic design; where I spend most of the time in the dark room and developed my passion for photography.

3.How would you describe your style and method?My style is like my method:  “Experimental Passion”

4. How do you feel after a photo shoot? Could you describe feelings & thoughts that go over you while you taking pictures?
It feels like an inside cloud to me like a very excited, urge..

5. Were you at the beginning of your photography career drawn into a certain subject matter? I have always been  fascinated by derelict buildings and sexy women.

Photography by Izaskun Gonzalez

6. How do you feel when people interpret your work differently?

I do respect any interpretation; when I publish an image it is then up to the audience to judge and analyze. 

7. Do you find London more inspiring than other places?
Inspiration is in my head. I love being in new places but they don't really inspire more but feelings are.

8. Where do you go in London, and what do you do in London to get inspired?

Luckily, I work at Resistance gallery. I have never seen a place with so much diversity in every sense. It is a highly visual place with lots of images that fill my head. From Mexican wrestling, performances, exhibitions, vampire nights, Japanese bondage...

9. Who is the biggest influence on your work, and why?

There are several artists whose works I adore like Witkin, Godart, Bergman, Saudek.  I love collecting images and have big passion for old time photography
and cinema.

10.You live and work in  East London, which is the habitat for many artists, tell me about the scene of East  London, why  East , what is the attraction/ how does is it contribute to your work?I am very busy with my art and don’t have much time to explore the rest of East London.
As I mention I work in the Resistance Gallery where many amazing events are happening. It is a very visual place: with wrestlers, beautiful fire dancers and Kimbaku which is an art itself. Many artists with great works exhibit here; it is the place where a creative mind wants to live.

 Photography by Izaskun Gonzalez

11. What is for you the best thing about being a photographer?-I don't really consider myself a photographer. It is one of the mediums I use to express myself. I do paint; make objects like masks and dolls. I use photography to create another world.

12. What is for you the worst thing about being a photographer?There is no going back for me so there is  nothing wrong with it.

13. Which one of your images is your favourite one, and why? I could choose  each image as all of them have their moments of importance to me.

14. Who is your favourite photographer right now? I couldn’t think of anyone right now.

15.Where have you displayed your past works? I have displayed and have permanent work at La Maison, Espacio espora, Vallery, Charada, Puppa Tattoo these are in Spain. Galerie l'art de rien , France. Sexy Art Gallery, The Netherlands. Resistance Gallery, London. Montreal Fetish week. Rubber ball, London.

Photography by Izaskun Gonzalez

16.How do you manifest your business? This is far from being a business. I don’t have a business plan.

17 . Would you be rather be rich and create by order? Or would you rather express your individuality and style and not earning much money? I would rather live as I do, it’s not too bad.

18. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? I have never seen myself in the future.

19.What is happiness for you? There is not such a thing. I'm content with having as much time as possible on earth..

20.Would you like to use this opportunity to carry a message to other artists, photographers or in general? Not at all. I was never good at giving advise.

Photography by Izaskun Gonzalez

http://compulsivebehaviour.net/

BRIGTHON RIOT 1964

M O R A L   P A N I C

Brigthon Riot 1964

The contrast between Rockers and Mods is very distinctive. Rockers are wearing leather jackets and ride heavy motorcycles, they listen to 1950’s Rock and Roll like Elvis and Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent. Rockers considered Mods as snobs, effeminate and weak. Mods in the contrary are wearing sharp suits and driving scooters; they love Ska, R&B and northern soul music. Mods saw Rockers as uncultured and slightly dirty.

Mods

Rockers

On the Easter weekend in 1964, around midday Mods and Rockers gathered in Brighton at the Palace Pier chanting and jeering at each other and threw stones. The teenagers staged a mass sit-down on the promenade when police were using horses and dogs trying to disperse them.
The situation escalated that over a thousand Mods and Rockers were fighting at Brighton beach and the promenade. They bullied tourists, locals and frightened elderly residents; they threw deckchairs at each other, broke them up and set them alight. Council flat windows were smashed, a hardware shop and a pub were destroyed.

Brigthon Riot 1964

A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. According to Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972) and credited creator of the term, a moral panic occurs when " condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests." Those who start the panic when they fear a threat to prevailing social or cultural values are known by researchers as "moral entrepreneurs", while people who supposedly threaten the social order have been described as "folk devils."

Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension and in which disagreement is difficult because the matter at its center is taboo. The media have long operated as agents of moral indignation, even when they are not self-consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiety or panic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

Brigthon Riot 1964

                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                Annette Heart

BRIXTON RIOT 1985

C I V I L  C H A O S

In 1981, the whole United Kingdom was affected Britain by a recession.                              Brixton is a deprived area with a high number of unemployment, social problems and a predominantly black community. This part of London suffered two riots in 1981 dubbed " Bloody Saturday " by Time Magazine and the 1984 shooting of Mrs Groce. Both riots were related to incidents where the police and black civilians collided. 

Brixton Riot 1985

On the 28th of September in 1985, the Brixton Riot started in Lambeth, South London.

This was the second major riot which the area had suffered in the space of four years.

It was sparked by the shooting of Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce. The police were looking for her son Michael Groce in relation to a suspected firearms offence- and assumed Michael Groce was hiding in his mother's home. It is stated that the police did not give any required warning (which left residents thinking that a raid is about to happen). Mrs. Groce was in bed, when the police began their search. Michael Groce wasn’t found there at the time of the shooting, and Mrs. Groce was paralysed below the waist by the police bullet.

Brixton Riot 1985

Mrs Groce had migrated from Jamaica to the UK as a young woman. Instantly, most locals regarded this incident as further evidence of institutional racism by the Metropolitan Police. Rumours were spreading very fast through the community that Mrs Groce was shot dead. Large crowds gathered in front of the local police station and started chanting anti – police slogans and demanding immediate justice to all police officers involved. Very fast, aggression grew between the primarily white Metropolitan Police and the primarily black protesters which spiralled into street fights.  In the next 2 days, the police lost control over the ongoing growing numbers of protesters and the situation escalated into pure violence and crime, many shops were looted, cars set on fire and destruction caused where ever possible. The photo-journalist David Hodge died of head injuries a few days later; he was photographing a gang of thieves ransacking shops, many arrests were made.

Brixton Riot 1985

                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                             Annette Heart

 



ENGLAND RIOTS 2011

D I S O R D E R

London Riots 6-8th Aug 2011

Numerous London boroughs and districts of cities and towns across England suffered widespread rioting, raiding and arson, between the 6th  and the 10th   of August 2011.
London witnessed shocking scenes of violence increasing the emergency services beyond limit on the third night of rioting in the capital.
Buildings were burned down, shops plundered, and officers assaulted with improvised missiles and petrol bombs as gangs of hooded and masked youths laid junk to streets right across the city.
The violence exploded in daylight in Hackney, east London, where police confronted rioters throwing missiles and setting fire to bins and cars. One officer could be seen lying on the ground after being hit on his shield by a missile.
Various buildings were set alight in Croydon, south London, one enormous fire demolishing the 100-year-old Reeves furniture store. The fires were so brutal that approach roads into Croydon were thick with smoke leaving some residents battling to see or breathe.

London Riots 6-8th Aug 2011

The violence exploded in daylight in Hackney, east London, where police confronted rioters throwing missiles and setting fire to bins and cars. One officer could be seen lying on the ground after being hit on his shield by a missile.
Various buildings were set alight in Croydon, south London, one enormous fire demolishing the 100-year-old Reeves furniture store. The fires were so brutal that approach roads into Croydon were thick with smoke leaving some residents battling to see or breathe.

         London Riots 6-8th Aug 2011

Psychology of riots:
Riots are a form of civil chaos characterized by anarchic groups striking out in an impulsive and extreme rash of violence, destruction or other crime. While individuals may try to lead or control a riot, riots are typically disorganised and demonstrate pack behaviour.
Riots often happen in reaction to a perceived frustration or out of conflict. Historically, riots have occurred due to deprived working or living conditions, authority repression, taxation or conscription, disagreement between races or religions, or even the result of a sporting event. Some claim that rioters are motivated by rejection or oppression with legal channels through which to air their distress.

         

                                                                                                                Annette Heart

FANTASY - Themes

FANTASY

Escapism into Reality?

People use fiction to escape from their daily lives. But how do we know that we don’t escape into reality, or another reality which we haven’t experienced yet? Before we know, all the science fiction and fantasy movies are actually preparing us for our future.  Our minds are conditioned from an early age and it is uncomfortable for any human to start thinking against the stream. We are built with a very short memory to make us moving ahead.

"I LIVE IN A WORLD OF FANTASIE,  SO KEEP YOUR REALITY AWAY FROM ME, ISEE WHAT I WANT, I WANT WHAT I SEE SO THATS ALL OK BY ME

                                                                                                             
by Itzah C. Kret

Photography by Miles Aldrige

http://www.milesaldridge.com/

I AM DREAMING IN THIS DREAM WORLD, AM I DREAMING IT ALONE ?
                                                                                                      by Annette Heart

Photography by Solve Sundsbo, Model  Alla Kostromicheva

Photography by Solve Sundsbo, Model  Alla Kostromicheva





Photography by Solve Sundsbo, Model  Alla Kostromicheva

IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?

                                     by Annette Heart

 



Model Jessica Stam- Photography by Solve Sundsbo

http://solvesundsbo.info/

Solve Sundsboe focuses on volume, lines and graphics and alters his images with superimpositions, use of filters and transparency, creating truly remarkable pictures. His style is recognized by all of the big names in the industry, marked especially by his expertise behind the lens and his unequivocal ability to constantly reinvent his own technique.
by Annette Heart

I DREAM WITHIN A DREAM



Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
                                    by Edgar  Allen Poe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
                

ALL MY LIFE I HAVE HAD THE SAME DREAM
                                               by Annette Heart

Photography by Chris Anthony

Photography by Chris Anthony

Photography by Chris Anthony

       

  http://www.chris-anthony.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy