MIRAPROSPEKT » Jonathan van Smit http://miraprospekt.com A Showcase for independent photographers Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:03:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 MIRAPROSPEKT at tête http://miraprospekt.com/mp_2014_tete/ http://miraprospekt.com/mp_2014_tete/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:30:22 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=4213 MIRAPROSPEKT at tête, Berlin. Dec 2014
Frames and prints by Patrick Becker, Roger Minick, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Alisa Resnik, Shinji Abe, Ingeborg Gerdes, Christian Reister, Jan Zappner, Jiri Makovec, Hannah Goldstein, Jetmir Idrizi, Andreas Pein, Holger Biermann and Sebastián Laraia

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MIRAPROSPEKT at TÊTE // gallery view http://miraprospekt.com/miraprospekt-group-exhibition-tete-berlin-march-2013/ http://miraprospekt.com/miraprospekt-group-exhibition-tete-berlin-march-2013/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:10:08 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=3498 MIRAPROSPEKT group exhibition

Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

at TÊTE art space in Berlin 15 march 2013

artist talks 20 march 2013 – Jan Zappner, Corinna Sauer and Holger Biermann

 

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group exhibition : MIRAPROSPEKT at TÊTE in Berlin http://miraprospekt.com/upcoming-group-exhibition-miraprospekt-at-tete-in-berlin/ http://miraprospekt.com/upcoming-group-exhibition-miraprospekt-at-tete-in-berlin/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:24:29 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=3276 MP is part of the programm
„Fotografischer Frühling“
organized by hannah goldstein

infos at http://www.tete.nu

opening: 15 march 2013
gallery weekend: 16 / 17 march
artist talks: 20 march

TÊTE
Schönhauser Allee 161A
10435 Berlin / Germany

 

hannah goldstein
http://www.hannahgoldstein.net

 

MIRAPROSPEKT group exhibition
Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

 

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MR. NUMBER TWO http://miraprospekt.com/mr-number-two-by-jonathan-van-smit/ http://miraprospekt.com/mr-number-two-by-jonathan-van-smit/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:26:49 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=2984 Photographs from Hong Kong and mainland China
by Jonathan van Smit

I wasn’t able to do much street photography back in New Zealand as I was living next to a beach and there simply weren’t many streets or people!

…I like getting up really close so I use 15mm and 21mm mostly. I need to feel something when taking photos and I don’t get that if I’m standing several metres away with a longer lens. I’m not sure that I’m especially ‘discreet’ when I’m taking pics … after all I’m standing right next to my subjects. A head-to-toe photo taken with a 15mm means that I’m less than 1.5 metres away. I don’t use the viewfinder very much and often just guess the focus and exposure. The actual moment of taking the photo is quite important to me. People can move quite a lot in a second or two and there’s rarely enough time to compose and focus so I’ve taught myself to estimate all that on the run and can change shutter speed or aperture without looking down at the camera…

…We can’t really control how people interpret our photos, can we? They bring their own point of view and life experience into any interpretation, and that’s fine with me. We’re all so saturated with images that I don’t think mine make any meaningful difference anyway…

…I frequently have frustrating periods when I experience blocks, when I can’t seem to get the photos I want without repeating myself.

…I’ve been walking around West Kowloon for nearly four years now, and know quite a few people there. I like listening to their stories. For example, hostesses in karaoke bars, Mr. Number 2 who spent 18 years in jail, Connie who lives on the streets but speaks perfect English, a few drug users who come and go, a couple of social workers, and so on. I sometimes do some community work in Sham Shui Po so I also get to know people through that…

…I had my M8 stolen in a mugging a couple of years ago, a drug user once pulled a knife on me in an alleyway behind Chungking Mansions, and three pimps chased me down the road once, and another drug user punched me last year, but Hong Kong is generally very law abiding and people are very friendly too…

To read the whole interview, click here

 

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