Goodbye, Mr. Armstrong, see you wherever it is that we disappear to...
25.8.12
MAN WALKS ON THE MOON, AND THEN INTO THE AFTERLIFE.
Goodbye, Mr. Armstrong, see you wherever it is that we disappear to...
24.8.12
18.8.12
SUCH SMALL HANDS.
This photograph marks the end of Matador
Torero Alvaro Munera’s career. He collapsed in remorse mid-fight when he
realized he was having to prompt this otherwise gentle beast to fight.
He went on to become an avid opponent of bullfights. Even grievously
wounded by picadors, he did not attack this man.
Torrero Munera is quoted as saying of this moment: “And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer - because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth.”
Torrero Munera is quoted as saying of this moment: “And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer - because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth.”
17.8.12
8.8.12
EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION.
ARTIST: MOHAMMED EZZ
" '…we tried them in Tunis until their bombs became useless … God be with you, Egyptians'.
Those messages spread after the first night of the Egyptian
revolution when the police forces successfully put an end to the
demonstrations. The teargas bombs and the lack of the protesters’
experience in facing them were the weapons that ended the
demonstrations. On the next day, the messages were sent by the Tunisian
protesters explaining how to face the gas.
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On Anger Friday, Egyptians had the bottles of vinegar and
coke.They could finally stand up to the soldiers and started the
protests beating the 30-years old regime." - MOHAMMED EZZ
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Coke, milk or vinegar – household comestibles that overnight became
key materials of resistance to the onslaught of tear gas used in Egygt
for crowd control. The labels of vinegar and coke bottles have been
modified with the instructions of use to be produced as “revolutionary
products”.
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This work has been part of Shift Delete 30 (January 2012), an exhibition featuring thirteen Egyptian artists all born between the late 1970s and mid 1980s.
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