TOM CLARK: By the Dead Sea / Nonverbal Space

February 2017 #Israel Women sit on chairs in the Dead Sea in Ein Bokeq. By Ammar Awad @reuterspictures: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 20 March 2017

GAZA STRIP - A young boy walks amidst wild mustard flowers which grow in fields in Beit Hanun. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 March 2017

SOMALIA - A malnourished child is processed by an aid worker for a UNICEF at a facility in Baidoa. Photo @tkarumba #famine: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 March 2017

SOMALIA - A malnourished child is fed a special formula by her mother at a regional hospital in Baidoa town. Photo @tkarumba #famine: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 March 2017

'Intense' strikes pound east Damascus after rebel assault #AFP Yesterday at a make-shift hospital in #Douma Photo @AbdDoumany: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 20 March 2017

SYRIA - A Syrian rebel walks past graves in a cemetery in a rebel-held area in the southern city of Daraa. Photo @AbazidMohamad #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 March 2017

SYRIA - An opposition fighter from the Failaq al-Rahman brigade fires a heavy machine gun in Jobar near Damascus. Photo @amer_almohibany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 March 2017

PERU - The El Nino climate phenomenon is causing muddy rivers to overflow along the entire Peruvian coast. Photo Ernesto Benavides: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 March 2017

PERU - The El Nino climate phenomenon is causing muddy rivers to overflow along the entire Peruvian coast. Photo Julio Reaño #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 20 March 2017

IRAQ - Displaced Iraqis from Mosul arrive at the Hamam al-Alil camp during #MosulOffensive Photo Ahmad al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 March 2017

IRAQ - Displaced residents evacuate a neighbourhood in West Mosul during #MosulOffensive Photo @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 March 2017

IRAQ - Iraq forces advance in Mosul, search for militants and bombs. Photo @ArisMessinis #AFP #MosulOffensive: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 March 2017

IRAQ - After fleeing homes, Iraqis near Mosul wait for tents. Photo @ArisMessinis #AFP #MosulOffensive: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 March 2017

PHILIPPINES - A man creates a makeshift robot costume from a cardboard box for two boys in Manila. Photo @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 March 2017

GREECE - Children play with electronic devices at a former industrial warehouse in the Oinofyta refugee camp. Photo @lgouliam #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 March 2017

NKOREA / SKOREA - Ribbons featuring messages are displayed on a fence near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju. Photo @edwardesjones #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Dante Sisofo, 4 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Dante Sisofo, 7 February 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Dante Sisofo, 17 March 2017

[Ramallah, West Bank]: photo by Dante Sisofo, 18 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Dante Sisofo, 18 March 2017

Galaxidi, Greece: photo by Andreas Katsakos, 27 February 2012

[Western Wall, Old City, Jerusalem]: photo by Dante Sisofo, 22 January 2017

Dancing, Hong Kong: photo by Edas Wong, 11 March 2017

DSC_1669: photo by ilan Ben Yehuda, 13 March 2017

Stamford Hill [London]: photo by Dave Mason, 11 March 2017

Purim [Stamford Hill, London]: photo by Becky Frances, 8 March 2017

IMG_9161-3: photo by Marina Koryakin, 10 October 2016

IMG_9195: photo by Marina Koryakin, 10 October 2016

IMG_9262: photo by Marina Koryakin, 10 October 2016

[Tokyo]: photo by Danichrome, 12 March 2017

[Tokyo]: photo by Danichrome, 13 July 2016

angels [Napoli]: photo by Michele Libert, 28 February 2017

Dhaka: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 8 March 2017

Tree and mirror in colour. | by noppadol.maitreechit

Tree and mirror in colour: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 26 November 2016

Ginza, Tokyo, Apr 2014 | by Shin Noguchi

Ginza, Tokyo: photo by Shin Noguchi, : photo by Shin Noguchi, April 2014, posted 3 February 2017

Shibakoen, Tokyo, Apr 2014 | by Shin Noguchi

Shibakoen, Tokyo: photo by Shin Noguchi, April 2014, posted 14 February 2017

Ginza, Tokyo, Mar 2017 | by Shin Noguchi

Nonverbal Space. Ginza, Tokyo.: photo by Shin Noguchi, 5 March 2017

Nonverbal Space

"Nonverbal Space" is unstable, distorted, and contradicts what we have created. And [Ma], exists in there. The characteristic of the Japanese [Ma] is very beautiful, also delicate, and if you are not always aware of the very small amount of undulation of [Ma], it loses balance immediately.

I tried to listen to a lump of invisible voice (or the voice that was confined) of [Ma] existing in nonverbal/unstable spaces of our daily lives, and I aimed to visualize the two invisible elements, [Ma] and human [Gou] (karma/conduct) that underlies in [Ma]. Also, in this project, I dared to express the human being as the existence (visualization of [Gou]), not as an individual but by making the whole nonverbal space the subject without including people in the frame. This way, I am managing the awareness of the relationship between individuals, society and the surrounding environment for the viewers.

Danshi Tatekawa said that "Rakugo is an affirmation of human [Gou] (karma/conduct), that is, inconsistency", and Alexander Pope also said that "To err is human, to forgive divine". As they talked towards "people", could their words really be said in front of the "Nonverbal Space" which is more closer to the "society"? and could that "forgiveness" recreate another type of hope or a new possibility in this land where everything had changed to something that looks irreversible? I shoot the "Nonverbal Space" (it is unstable, distorted, and something contradicts what we have created) while being aware of their words which were created by human beings as well.

(via Shin Noguchi Photography)

Komachi, Kamakura, Apr 2014 | by Shin Noguchi

A walking pet dog balloon is flying... from Nonverbal Space. Komachi, Kamakura: photo by Shin Noguchi, April 2014, posted 1 February 2017

Ueno, Tokyo: photo by Shin Noguchi, August 2014, posted 27 February 2017

JGSDF Camp Takigahara, Gotemba, Apr 2014 | by Shin Noguchi

JGSDF Camp Takigahara, Gotembe: photo by Shin Noguchi, April 2014, posted 31 January 2017

Double Rainbow, Kamitsuruma, Sagamihara, July 2015 | by Shin Noguchi

Double Rainbow, Kamitsurama, Sagamihara: photo by Shin Noguchi, July 2015, posted 13 March 2017

Atami, Shizuoka, Aug 2015 | by Shin Noguchi

Atami, Shizuoka: photo by Shin Noguchi, August 2015, posted 15 March 2017

Shibakoen, Tokyo, Sep 2014 | by Shin Noguchi

Something Here/Sorry, You'll Never Walk Alone. Shibakoen, Tokyo.: photo by Shin Noguchi, September 2014, posted 5 March 2017

Something Here

People are living life desperately. Sometimes lonely, sometimes helping each other, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing. I capture people going about daily life because there are moments that they themselves do not realize are more beautiful and full of human touch than the carefully choreographed movies of Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini or Shakespeare's plays.

I attempt to visualize Mark Twain's words "Truth is stranger than fiction", and prove that it is true as a visual language in photography that: fantasy moments where children show, and hope and possibilities for the future; adults are running on the society time semi-forcibly, but still, they show individual strength sometimes painful, and sometimes fun; and the moments can see their footprint they lived in.

I want to share these beautiful moments with other people and, at the same time, I want them to understand that extraordinary moments exist in our daily lives and that they can happen anywhere and at anytime.

"I'm here, just here. You're here, just here. There is something here, something beautiful something special. It may last but a moment, but we are always connected to each other. I want you to feel that, when you see my work. You are not alone. There is always someone in the world keeping an eye on your struggle."

Sorry, You'll Never Walk Alone

Being aware of their own lonely existence, people do not even have time to look at the real figure of themselves through mirror, while they are not able to afford to see the appearance of others that can be comparable either. In order to adapt themselves into the society as well as to become a cog, people are leading their daily lives frantically.

The photographer is trying through this project to send a message of "you are not alone at all. There must be someone in the society keeping an eye on your struggle for living", in addition to which, it is attempted to express both sides of a socially ironic message as "There is no time for being lonely in this constantly vigorous society. It is even impossible to walk streets with nothing in your hands".

I wish you could feel the "contradiction" between the nature of human being and the essence of the society created by human beings, not through the aforementioned commentary, but from the appearance of people in the photo who are living frantically in the realistic world.

(via Shin Noguchi Photography)

Tokyo Tower, Shibakoen, Tokyo, Feb 2017 | by Shin Noguchi

Tokyo Tower, Shibakoen, Tokyo: photo by Shin Noguchi, 12 February 2017

Shioiri, Yokosuka, May 2014 | by Shin Noguchi

Shiori, Yokosuka: photo by Shin Noguchi, May 2014, posted 15 February 2017

Oimatsucho, Yokohama, May 2014 | by Shin Noguchi

Oimatsucho, Yokohama: photo by Shin Noguchi, May 2014, posted 5 February 2017

Yumeji, Zushi Beach, Zushi, Feb 2015 | by Shin Noguchi

Yumeji, Zushi Beach, Zushi: photo by Shin Noguchi, 1 February 2015

Down The Rabbit Hole #01 | by Jeffrey De Keyser

Down the Rabbit Hole #01 "All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream" (Edgar Allen Poe) This quote actually reflects my perception of reality. Or did I just dream that? (Denderleeuw, Belgium): photo by Jeffrey De Keyser, 12 March 2017

[Untitled]): photo by nilesh mazumdar, 18 March 2017

South Korean government officials wearing gas masks attend a civil defense drill against a possible North Korea's chemical attack at their office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. A nationwide civil defense drill took place Wednesday preparing for possible terror, natural disaster or sudden air attack by North Korea.: photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP, 15 March 2017

A North Korean soldier, right, tries to take a photograph through a window while U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission meeting room Friday, March 17, 2017, in the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated South and North Korea since the Korean War. Tillerson on Friday visited the world's most heavily armed border, greeting U.S. soldiers on guard near the tense buffer zone between rivals North and South Korea.: photo by Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP, 17 March 2017

Intoxicated ultra-Orthodox Jewish men celebrate the holiday of Purim in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, Monday, March 13, 2017. Purim celebrates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 13 March 2017

2 comments:

Hilton22 March 2017 at 11:02
Life is a grand costume party. Note the Hassid wearing the fur hat, called a shtummel, and knickers with white stockings. The Hassidic outfit is a throwback to the 17th century.
TC22 March 2017 at 21:46
Hilton,

Thanks for the word. V. interesting subject, obviously, for me, given the visual language of the last few posts here.

I do get (sort of) that "historic" part of the action, though the details of the ceremonial aspect, the dressing up of the sad (Sad!) kids in the Emmett Kelly outfits, and the chicken plucking, and the showing off of the plucked chicken by the pubescent boys, and the interest of the pubescent girls in the boy who chickenplucks the best... (oh well, boys will be boys)... and then (above all!) the "compulsory" ritual drinking-into-a-stupor registered as inability to discriminate simple words, the sheer silly alcoholic dumbness of said event, "trumping" the alleged sacredness of the ritual (or wait, is the upchuck moment itself sacred?), and then beyond the stupor into... the hangover, the remorse, the headache... and the general nescience of the whole deal finally, all in the name or on the (slim!) pretext of... what was it again? some kind of "necessary" commemoration (but necessary for what? for 21st century tribal bonding, immunization against Iranians, or...?)... I mean, there are ceremonies and there are ceremonies... what is it again that's being commemorated with this one, the victimization at the hands of some bad-hombre Persians way back when, is it?... well, all that aspect of the ritual, I mean, you know... give us a break.

This appears to our eyes a materially advanced capitalist society, with a constellation of weird atavistic black holes deeply embeddded in its matrix.

But it makes for some good pictures. The Israeli street photographers capture the disgust very well, I reckon. My disgust, that is (easy to achieve); but too, their close observation, their truthful witnessing, their exacting aesthetics (not easy, any of those); and then too, in the end, our appreciation. Of not the dumb ritual but the discipline of the photographers, I mean.

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

By the Dead Sea / Nonverbal Space

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