WDKA STUDENTS ASSIGNMENT
September 10th, 2010A group of 40 students started the 9th of September with their assignment to come up with a guerrilla advertising campaign for the Image Festival.
A group of 40 students started the 9th of September with their assignment to come up with a guerrilla advertising campaign for the Image Festival.
Daniel Cohen studied photography at the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) in The Hague. Early 2007 he decided that internships and periods of training with professional photographers (like Morad Bouchakour) would suit his personal development and career much better than continued study at the Academie. Now, Daniel works on his own projects and as a freelance photographer for print media and advertising agencies.
His work mainly consists of portraits and series.One of his own projects is the series ‘We Want More’. For musicians the world over, the encore is a ritual. It is a chance to give the crowd what they want, and to bask in the limelight some more. But happens in the short space of time after the stars have left the stage and before they return?
Daniel Cohen has created a unique collection of images taken between last song and encore at Amsterdam’s legendary concert venues, the Paradiso and the Melkweg.Cohen captures these private moments, a moment of rest in the eye of the storm, while the crowd on the other side screams for more. His photographs throb with energy and vulnerability, perfectly documenting the atmosphere of the backstage area.
Gogol Bordello, The Roots, Chaka Khan, Animal Collective, Blondie, Erykah Baddu, The Ting Tings, Method Man amongst others. Cohen’s collection is an eclectic mix of artists all caught in the raw: some exhausted, some exhilarated, but all captured masterfully. Cohen was offered all areas access to some of the biggest stars. They didn’t have time to pose or project their public image, they were photographed exactly as he found them. When shooting pictures of Chaka Khan, he was warned by her management “your flash goes off twice and you’ve got a big problem”. His flash went off only once and the result is to be seen at the Image Festival.
Michel Linssen (Den Haag, 1960) began, after his tenure of press photographer, during the mid eighties as pop photographer for magazines as the Muziekkrant, Oor, Popfoto/Muziekexpress and the Hitkrant. He worked more then fifteen years for the Telegraaf, photgraphing hundreds of concerts en for the Dutch Playboy he was responsible for the section “De wereld volgens…”. His photo’s appeared on the sleeve of Jan Douwe Kroeske’s “2 Meter sessiesies” and for the cultgroup Hallo Venray from Den Hague he shot all their sleeves, one of them the famous sleeve with the four belly buttons.
During a 2 Meter radiosession in 1992, Linssen photgraphed Curt Cobain. It were these photo’s that gained world wide acknowledgment and where published in international magazines for many years.
Michel Linssen lives and works in Rotterdam and will celebrate this year qat October 14 his 50th birthday. His birthday will be celebrated in galery V!P’s at friday October 15 together with the opening of his exhition FIFTY the same night.
In this exhibition fifty black and white photo’s will be showed which are shot between 1990 and 2000. Linssen shot during this period Madonna, the Red Hot Chilipeppers, Johnny Cash, Herman Brood, Bruce Springsteen, Kurt Cobain, Anouk and Johnny Rotten.
The FIFTY! Exhibition is programmed by our partner V!Ps International Art Galleries.
www.vipsart.nl
twitter: #.IMG #michellinssen – more information? Call V!P’s gallery: 010-2251120
At the Velvet, Oude Binnenweg 121, one of the best record stores in Rotterdam, we will show a selection of tribute record sleeves made by numerous artists as homage to their favorite song or album. Later this year the prestigious book project ‘140 Hits in Art’ of Klaas Wijnberg will be published. As a prequel to this book of 140 artists who pictured their favored music piece we selected our darlings and will be displaying them at the Velvet.
As you might know the record sleeve is on its way back, who wants a cd sleeve if you can have the full size version? Artists like Zeptonn, Wouter Tulp, Hedof, Shamrock, Ottograph, Sauerkids and Johan Weggis have contributed to this coffee table book of 31×31 cm, the real size of the original record sleeve. So check out our website these coming months for the release date. But in the meantime go and see the window display at the Velvet music store.
(image by sauerkids)