Lucia Fischer’s photographs are just so beautiful they make me want to weep in to my burrito. I’m shit with a holga and can’t seem to really get it happening for me at all, but Lucia’s photographs are a perfect example of how to make analogue cameras really work for you. They’re traditional, black and white, and seem to capture an empty and nostalgic landscape, only slightly interrupted by some birds or a pretty girl every now and then. That said, they’re not twee – I’d buy one and put it right on this here wall. Her latest series of works are from travels through Europe, armed with her camera and her perfect photographer’s point of view. I spoke to her about photography generally, travel photography, she drops a Roland Barthes reference, we talk about her work and do all that art interview stuff.

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+ I prefer to shoot on analogue because, for me, it makes the image more meaningful and it also makes me take more care when I choose to take a photo. How about you?

> I definitely agree that analogue is a different way of shooting. The instantaneous element of digital photography doesn’t allow ideas to develop in the same way as analogue. I also believe that there are a lot of creative analogue effects that can’t be created as effectively in digital.

Click Read more for the whole interview…

Posted by amelia in Art, Features

Tags: Lucia Fischer, photography, roland barthes

We were basically 85% sure that no-one was going to come to our party. We figured that everyone had said yes just to be polite but were actually going to go do more important things, like knit a tiny jumper for the tiny cat they knitted for their real cat. So when we got numbers the next day of the ridiculously large amount of people who came, we were pretty surprised. And hugely delighted…

Posted by amelia and steph in Reviews, Your Face

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids

We’re having a party this Wednesday night to launch this here blog. It’s another Ears Vs Eyes shindig – the first was a fundraiser art auction last year, where we nabbed $3000+ for Heaps Decent by selling art from people like EAMO, Beastman, We Buy Your Kids, Greedy Hen, and Simon Degroot. This one is a digital techy audiovisual extravaganza, because blogs are for nerds. That’s right, we’re calling you names already.

Anyway, the party is being held at our BFF’s house. Our BFF is The Wall, every Wednesday at the World Bar. For all you arty farty party types, the Wall let you exhibit your work for free in a delightful room upstairs, while a party happens around you and below you. They don’t take commission, they help you promote it, and goddamn do they know how to party.

But this Wednesday it’s all about us, because It’s Our Birthday – and you’re invited too. More info, and an uncharacteristically oversized image, after the jump.

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: Danimals, Ears Vs Eyes, Greedy Hen, Informal Dialogue, James Brown, Lucia Fischer, Luke Tipene, Matt Huynh, Megastick Fanfare, Mel Bligh, Rebecca Murphy, Sonya Gee, SPOD, Stephenie Kanhukamwe, Tony Curran, Watch This Space, We Buy Your Kids, You Are All Nerds