We have been hinting at it for a while and sometimes showed some sneak previews, but today is the happy day where we finally launch Hannelore Commers’ first solo publication ‘Hiraeth’ (try pronouncing that really quickly six times in a row). Because of this joyous fact, we sat down with our favourite Belgian girl and talked about photography, about growing up and about the meaning of that Welsh word she picked as the title of her latest body of work. This girl keeps amazing us, not only with her pictures but with her words as well.
Tag: roadtrip
A moving room of my own by Cindy Ruch
It was quiet out here, too. Dead kangaroos on the side of the street. The woman at the only roadhouse between Mildura and Broken Hill only said “Yay” and nothing else. It was getting hotter and hotter, red dirt roads branched off from the main street. I got used to driving straight, taking photos out of the car, changing CDs and started to like them now, tried to practise the Spanish rolling R. There was nothing else to do than driving and waiting for something.
It always takes some time to get used to yourself again. I had spent the last two months surrounded by other travellers, started similar small talks every day with different people, and found out new things about faraway countries every other day. Now I was on my own, driving out of Melbourne, and I had forgotten how quiet and lonely it can be behind the rental car’s doors. I had forgotten what I looked like on my own. The outside rushed past without a noise like a movie on a screen with a volume turned down to silence: the trees, the houses, the heat. I had a moving room of my own, my Canon A-1 and a notebook on the passenger seat.
Jeff Luker on burning bridges, driving across the country for girls and printing photobooks
“When you are young and you have no husband or wife, or kids, or house, or job you can just get out and go. You can sleep on couches, shower in truckstops, eat all your meals out of cans, because you are resilient and you are more open to the experience.”
Jeff Luker has been with us since issue #1 rolled out of De Resolutie’s printer and we thought it was about time to have a chat with the thirty year old photographer from Plympton, Massachusetts. Jeff does what we dream about, using his travel bug to create a beautiful, free spirited body of work that he was able to translate into something Urban Outfitters and Levi’s got just as excited about as we are.
Emmanual Rosario, a flask of Bourbon and a pack of smokes
“Never let the fear of failure determine any of your decisions in life.”
Emmanuel Rosario is a 26 years old photographer from Harlem, New York. His photographs really push us to work harder to be on the road more often. His work is what we imagined Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ to look like. His photographs show his friends and him adventuring on the highways across America, drinking bourbon and smoking the night away. Curious about his lifestyle and his photography, we had a little chat with this talented rolling stone.
Getting lost in the West with Hannelore Commers
When she was feverish, she spoke slowly, cautiously; a fight against negative thoughts that tried to overrun her words. “America,” she said, chewing on her words like they were chunks of tough jerky. “America,” I repeated. It seemed an innocent enough idea; flying across time barriers in order to get a second chance and relive the day.
Hannah Platt on You’re in America Now Honey
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.” ― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
How do we see the world through our cameras? How do we meet a city behind the lenses? How do we really learn to connect to a place and be a part of it while chasing adventure?
We’re sitting down with Hannah Platt, a 23 years old travel photographer based in Leeds, UK. Her photographs focus on the conjunction of human imbedded interventions within the urban landscape, italicizing the colors, shapes and patterns formed by urban architecture, telling stories of the city and people who inhabit it. Hanna’s project “You’re in America Now Honey” is the result of a six weeks human safari of capturing beauty in the overlooked and enjoying every second of it. Following her in the American journey like a genuine voyeur, I discovered that some of her images are replicating the feeling of emptiness one gets when driving through a city that is most often experienced from a car. There’s a great amount of added value to not over-researching a place and to go there and just getting to know it along the way. The same as one would try to meet a certain person. I also perceive that the places recorded in her fantastic journey tell stories but also keep secrets. And maybe this is what fascinated me to trace Hanna’s wandering steps into a journey of freedom and discovery.
Sebastian Dahl and the White Rabbit to Wonderland
“On a sunny day in September 2012 I left my hometown of Oslo, Norway and walked down to the motorway. I put my thumb in the air, and 112 vehicles, 10,000 km and 3 months later I arrived at my destination: Beirut, Lebanon.”
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. And there are other times when the inner freedom instinctively takes you to those epic journeys bound to challenge the others cultural identities. Sébastian Dahl is one of those light wanderers. He packed one small bag and a camera with two lenses and took the decision to travel 10.000 kilometers, hitchhiking his way from Oslo to Beirut in a fascinating journey of nearly three months. He kept a travel diary along the way, taking 112 pictures from 112 vehicles, documenting and memorizing the facts leading to the state of pure freedom. His ‘Right Side Window’ project is meant to highlight the landscape changes along the road from Oslo to Beirut as well as the limitations of being on the road, proving that without people the roadtrips lack substance and cultural diversity: the main spice of any inner and outer journey.
Drifting across the globe with Gabe Scalise
Gabe Scalise is a 26 year old film photographer and explorer from America. Born in the Northeast and having spent the last 6 years living and exploring out West, Gabe captures still images of American landscapes and in them, seeks to define a life lived.
Theo Gosselin on the road, with the heart and without limits
Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both “at one with” and “separate from” the outside world. These discoveries are as fundamental to the soul as “learning to survive” is fundamental to the body. These discoveries are essential to realizing what it means to be human. To wander is to be alive.
― Roman Payne, Europa: Limited Time Edition
Natural elements, encounters, freedom and intimacy are smoothly melting together in Theo Gosselin’s newest photo project „Sans limites”, created along his inspirational recent roadtrips across France, Spain, Scotland and US. He is telling a story about leaving aside all the limitations – physical, geographical, social or relationship based – in a spontaneous life-changing inner and outer roadtrip. It’s a bohemian adventure on how to live, body and soul, in a chameleonic exterior background, far away from a conformist lifestyle that one can easily control. It’s the story of his own life experience.
Sea You Soon by Leire Galarza & Monica Bedmar
A friendship, two girls, one month, seven islands, two analog cameras and absolute freedom. Leire Galarza and Mònica Bedmar were looking for wilderness when they set out on their adventure together. The one month trip resulted in a zine filled with daydreams, mountains and empty roads.
Sunday Mornings at the River 