Kale JF Photography: photography

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Photographer Joel Fraser

Friday night in Greenwood in Seattle photographer and good friend Joel Fraser showed some prints in his show titled "Born of Roma Blood, Sometimes I go places". The show, a little tickling of images from Joel's extensive travels around the globe, contained images from Europe and Asia that showcased Joel's sensitive eye for composition and character.

Joel was the one person who inspired me to pick up a camera and introduced me to the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Magnum Agency, for that I'm for ever in dudes debt.

Go check out Joel's work at www.joelfraser.com

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Forgotten spaces France/Belgium

Below you will find photos from my portfolios of abandoned spaces taken in France and Belgium between the spring of 2008 and the spring of 2009. As a photographer who likes to take his time these places were a nirvana of sorts, sometimes waiting for an hour for the right light and shadow to coalesce. In many ways I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to visit some of these forgotten gems, these places which have left their mark on the environment and now they are left to rot and decay, each one with a bizarre tale to tell.

I would say that I take a cinematic approach to my work, I constantly attempt to bring the viewer with me to the space, to transport the viewer into my world and try to convey the emotion that I experience in these places, you can't help but be overwhelmed standing on cautiously on rotting beams looking out a window onto the picturesque Belgian countryside with 4 floors below you, these places are charged with an ethereal energy, like a mist in the air, you taste, feel, hear and see the ghosts of what once was.