Blog | photography by Angus R Shamal | Page 2

Subscribe to RSS feed

Blog

Blog categories

New York Style Stories by Maaike Holvast

Posted on December 11th, 2010

Add your comment

—

Zelda

Zelda from the self titled movie. © Maaike Holvast

Visited today the presentation of Maaike Holvast’s “New York Style Stories” @ Mediamatic. Along side the nice 5 films portraing different New York characters, there where also lovely still portraits of the characters hanging there shot by my buddy Stephen Elledge.

Go watch the films online (and soon the photos) @ limboland.

This Summer and Fall I have been filming 6 different New Yorkers for my web-series, New York Style Stories which has been programmed at Limboland.tv The 5th Episode of the series is up this weekend and the 6th one is programmed for Sunday the 19th.

Besides the movie portraits, photographer Stephen Elledge has also taken great still portraits of all 6 characters.

kim jong-il looking at things

Posted on December 7th, 2010

Add your comment

—

kji1

looking at the wall

Very entertaining website adequately called “kim jong-il looking at things”. Some faves of mine — and I’d say GoGoGoThere!

Bik van der Pol for D-magazine

Posted on November 12th, 2010

Add your comment

—

bikvanderpol-portrait1-angus-r-shamal

Bik van der Pol, Rotterdam 2010. © Angus R. Shamal

New editorial work for D-magazine added to my portfolio site.
This time about the Dutch duo artists Bik van der Pol.

See all the photos here.

A Silver Cat named Maria

Posted on October 15th, 2010

—

Maria (van Heijningen) Heidemann AKA Silver_Cat is a wonderfully creative Set-designer. She’s also an über fun girl to hang out with and obviously very photogenic.
If all photo shoots were as easy and fun as this one was! These are some of the “outtakes”.

Canon’s “Wonder Camera” concept

Posted on July 25th, 2010

Add your comment

—

An interesting article by Mike Hanlon @ Gizmag, discussing the introduction of Canon’s “Wonder Camera” concept at the recent World Expo 2010 in China.

Inez & Vinoodh @ FOAM

Posted on July 22nd, 2010

Add your comment

—

Just visited this show today. Very very extensive selection of work from this highly talented duo Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, showing their development since the early days till the sub-iconic status they have right now. Highly recommended!

inezvinoodh2

© Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

The show runs till September 15th.

more info here.

Holland vs Spain 2010

Posted on July 12th, 2010

Add your comment

—

wk2010_4199

© 2010 Angus R Shamal

Yesterday, as you probably know, was the Worldcup final between Holland and Spain. A very important game for Holland and the first WK final since 32 years! Museumplein (Museum Square) is the central place in Amsterdam if you want to watch the game in the outdoors among oh couple of thousands of football supporters. A bit intimidating for me, but I went to check it out and this is my impression of the day.
Quite a lot of photos for this rather “tight edit”, so enjoy.

Edit:
All images from this Story can now be viewed here.

Fusco’s “Funeral Train” first time in Amsterdam

Posted on June 26th, 2010

Add your comment

—

rkf-funeral-train-paul-fusco1

1968 © Paul Fusco / Magnum

I’ve blogged about this compelling series some time ago, but since it’s the first time in The Netherlands that we are able to admire the prints on the wall, it’s certainly worth mentioning it again.

For “Funeral Train”, Paul Fusco of Magnum photo agency, traveled in June 8th 1968 on a special train from New York to Washington. On that train was the body of Robert F Kennedy, the Presidential candidate and the 2nd son to the Kennedy’s, who was shot 3 days earlier in Los Angeles. Fusco portrayed the thousands of mourners who gathered along the tracks to wave goodbye to their assassinated Presidential candidate.

These photos by Fusco remained hidden to the public in the US for a long time,

Fun at the LAB

Posted on June 12th, 2010

Add your comment

—

MariaLAB_3718

The Lab set by Maria Heidemann. © Angus R Shamal

It was great fun yesterday during “PLAY” – an event arranged by Foam_Lab @ Foam. The public was encouraged to interact and participate in the different activities taking place through the building. From firing paint-balls at the wall to curating their own artwork on the walls of the museum or even following a masterclass runway photography (the public were the models). I joined the masterclass, but more about it soon.

Cemetery-London

Posted on May 25th, 2010

Add your comment

—

cemetery1-angus-r-shamal

© 2008 Angus R. Shamal

Know your classics

Posted on May 20th, 2010

Add your comment

—

ArtKane-VivaJanuary1975-1

© 1975 Art Kane

Some inspirational work from Art Kane. Shot for Viva magazine (equally inspirational), January 1975 issue.
Art Kane? That’s the guy half much of the stuff today steals from on regular basis.

Zombieland opening title sequence

Posted on May 10th, 2010

Add your comment

—

I’m almost positive all of you who already watched Zombieland know all this to be true. I gave it another watch this weekend and realized yet again just how brilliant the opening title sequence really is! Being a zombie comedy flick, the opening sequence is as gruesome as it is hilarious, showing people being hunted by blood-crazed zombies. Each mini-scenario is carefully constructed

recently

Posted on April 22nd, 2010

Add your comment

—

Not your typical Band shoot

Posted on March 23rd, 2010

Add your comment

—

For awhile now we were discussing the possibility of a cool shoot for the Amsterdam based Mod-Jazz band, West Hell 5. Finally, last December we decided to go for it! Not the ideal time to have a fun band shoot on location, in the middle of a hard freezing winter in Amsterdam! But, a great opportunity for a location came up; a Coal transport and storage bulk terminal called OBA, located at the western docs not far from Amsterdam. So we picked a day a week before Christmas, cleared the permissions to shoot there and now were hoping for some snow/rain-free hours. It seemed we were in luck for not only a dry day, but sunny as well! Freezing -15°c non the less.

New website

Posted on March 17th, 2010

—

I’m very proud to announce the launch of my new website! The website contains now a more complete selection of my work and better organized. Besides having a stronger fresher look, this new design enables a direct access too all galleries per category or just straight to your specific destination. With a clearer navigation through the content, it lets the work speak for itself. You might have noticed the look-refreshment to this blog as well… I’m happy! So have a look!

Aurel Schmidt

Posted on February 26th, 2010

Add your comment

—

aurel schmidt

The Fall. © 2010 Aurel Schmidt / Courtesy of The Whitney Museum.
(Pencil, colored pencil, acrylic, beer, dirt, and blood on paper)

Really like her work!
Read more about Aurel Schmidt at the Whitney Biennial.

Martine sequence

Posted on December 20th, 2009

Add your comment

—

Martine_seq_c

© 2008 Angus R. Shamal

Photographer Larry Sultan dies at 63

Posted on December 14th, 2009

Add your comment

—

larrysultan_by_kellysultan

Larry Sultan by Kelly Sultan

One of the leading names in contemporary photography died yesterday at age of 63. RIP.

From the NY Times:

Page 2 of 6123 4 5...