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"Issue 4 of Radiate Magazine includes great photography by

Andrew Quilty, Artur Eranosian, Thierry Clech, John Goldsmith,

Kay von Aspern, Ania Vouloudi, Todd Gross and Simon Becker.

116 pages of photographs and interviews."







www.radiate-magazine.co.uk/issue-4
www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/551248
issuu.com/stuegan/docs/radiatemagazineissue4

simon becker
photographien

11. januar (*20h00) - 22. februar 2013
galerie f92
fehrbelliner straße 92
10119 berlin

and some obligatory french gobbledygook for you:

"The pictures on display are not connected by a common location, time or chronology. Neither do the contents, that is the individual photographs' subjects, objects, and little stories, follow any continuous linearity. This is not about 'reportage', 'street photography', or a photographer's 'diary'. The integral link between the photographs eludes concrete identification and remains intuitive, unsettled, and often abstract. A portion of this world is being documented that doesn't necessarily lie within the indicative spectrum of 'who'/'what'/'where'. Time, Place, Identity, and superficial purposes of the photographed diminish in importance and leave space to phenomenological, geometrical/aesthetical or even empathic views on the communication of form, bodies, gestures, artifacts, etc. and their order, arrangement, and movement.
Questions are being evoked instead of trying to descriptively explain what has been documented."

i am preparing a rather large exhibition in january, everything else has to step back a little because of this (and because of studies, and because of things that actually spit out a bit of money instead of swallowing it by the bucket). more photos from my recent projects, travels and every-day-berlin-quagmire will follow. some day. surely, you must all be very excited. so so very excited. because these photos are probably one of the most important things in your otherwise still very spectacular lives, if not your sole reason to wake up in the morning and keep breathing actively throughout the day.
i enjoy addressing an anonymous mass of potential virtual replies as if i was talking to a huge crowd of eletrified fans, primarily female, wearing my official merchandise, and ready to throw their underwear in my general direction. thank you, thank you.

tomorrow i'm going to the netherlands for two days of sanding parquet floor or something.
then i will go back into the forest to try and make fire with two sticks and a few curls of chest hair.

here's a few stupid photos nonetheless.

bellamy hunt was kind enough to feature me on his site.
check it out here: japancamerahunter.com/2012/10/featured-photographer-simon-becker/


japan photos will follow.

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i was away again, i got home again, now i'm leaving again and i think i will be back again too soon.

here's a photo that tells you nothing.

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back on june 5.

blog.

this might only be of interest for german speaking people. in the 'travel section' of the frankfurter allgemeine zeitung (april 26, 2012)
there will be a feature/article about what I produced (as in 'photographs') in vancouver last year.
I don't know exactly what it's going to look like, so I'm eager to see it myself.
www.faz.net




...and a photo:

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I have a little feature in the lfi magazine, along with three other interesting "street" photographers. and there's also two very nice portfolios by costa manos and tomas munita.
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I finally got around to putting together a new book. And because it turned out kind of big and rather expensive, I thought I'd add a smaller, reduced "pocket" version (64 frames instead of ~100 in the "big" version). They are both a little more sophisticated and imo "richer" than my previous try "reciprocities": I now have photos on every page, not just one per double page, and they are supposed to "work" together on one or another level. It is subdivided in four geographical (not chronological) chapters: berlin, léman (lake geneva area), london and vancouver. Those who bought the recoprocities book might find that I used 4 or 5 pictures again as they just made sense in the sets they're in, but there's also quite a few frames in there that I have never shown to anyone before.

If any of you should decide to support me by buying one or two, my profit is about 10-12€ per copy sold and I promise to spend it all on my photography.

Here's the links:

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(the previews show the complete book, both come in "matt premium" paper, which I find to be nicer than the glossy one).

thanks for having a look.





and a photo:

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I'm going to be in Vancouver, BC for the rest of the month.

so long!



oh, and I finally got this: