Altered States of Agoraphobia

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Truth, Issue 4

I was pleased to find out today that I have had a selection of images from my 'Cage' series published in the really excellent 'TRUTH' magazine, issue 4.

Many thanks to Richard Payne, it's editor for his dedication, faith and wonderful layout and design - it's a beautiful thing.

“WE ALL KNOW THAT ART IS NOT TRUTH. ART IS A LIE THAT MAKES US REALISE TRUTH, AT LEAST THE TRUTH THAT IS GIVEN US TO UNDERSTAND. THE ARTIST MUST KNOW THE MANNER WHEREBY TO CONVINCE OTHERS OF THE TURTHFULNESS OF HIS LIES.” PICASSO , 1923

Photographers featured in this issue are:

CHRIS DORLEY-BROWN
CHARALAMPOS KYDONAKIS
JACK HUBBELL
KIMCHI JIN
PHILL KALANTZIS-COPE
WILLIAM RUGEN
MATTHAIS FRANKE
SIMON KOSSOFF
RICHARD PAYNE
TOM KONDRAT

Normal price has gone up to $9.60 as there are more pages then usual. But there is currently a 25% discount until the end of September so its $7.20

To see a preview of this issue or to buy one please follow this link:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/113390

A slide show of my still in progress Cage series can be seen here:

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Cage (II)

Cages. I have been working on this now finished series for just over a year now. The collected images can be seen at my agency website "Get the Picture' here:

http://getthepicture.fr/Photographes/Kossoff/index_Kossoff.html

Monday, August 9, 2010

Truth Managzine Volume.3

I was really happy to discover today that I have a handful of images from my recent Utah Road Trip published in 'Truth' magazine, Volume three.

Follow the link below to see a preview or buy this excellent photo journal. Many thanks to Richard Payne for his dedication to this magazine - it's wonderful design and layout and brilliant edit. I am in great company there. Truth Vol 3 includes the work of these photographers:

Richard Payne

Michael Cinque

Albert Ruso

Christopher Turner

James Morris

James Guppy

William Rugen

David Blumenkrantz

David Weekes

Jack Hubbell

Jonathan Allen

Paul Russell

Lucia Fische

'Jenny' By Simon Kossoff

Follow this link to preview or order a copy: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/103623

Welcome

About the photographs: These images are a search for a personal orientation between the dream or idea of a place and my actual experience of it in reality. They can be described as a collection of psychic coordinate points which I have plotted between the imagined America I brought with me from England and the real America I found on my arrival in 2008. These images are half truth and half fiction. They are a psychogeography, filled with personal symbolism and tangled with influences so old they were already part of me long before this journey ever began.

A note about the title:  The compulsion to travel, to move from one place to another, has been with me my whole life. Whether it be local, national or international, I have always found myself either in motion or, if not, I have been dreaming about it. Paradoxically, it has been in the periods of dreaming that Agoraphobia, (which Google defines as “Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult”) has gripped me and, at times, crippled me. These photographs are my continued (once secret) revolt against it in the United States of America today, despite recent quarantines.