m a g a z i n e N 13 July 2016 INTERVIEW reportage NUNAVUT Nathan WIRTH A LAND OF TURMOIL BY MICHEL THIBERT

Size: px

Start display at page:

Download "m a g a z i n e N 13 July 2016 INTERVIEW reportage NUNAVUT Nathan WIRTH A LAND OF TURMOIL BY MICHEL THIBERT"

Silas Garrison
6 years ago
Views:

1 PENTAPRISM N 13 July 2016 m a g a z i n e INTERVIEW Nathan WIRTH reportage NUNAVUT A LAND OF TURMOIL BY

2 Pentaprism-showcase PENTAPRISM MAGAZINE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TEXT AND PHOTOS PUBLISHED BECAUSE THEY ARE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. ANY COPY IS FORBIDDEN BY THE LAW. Welcome to Pentaprism, an online photo-sharing community. We are an international team of passionate photographers and artists that gathered in order to achieve common goals: show to the world great, high quality photographs, present amazing artists, allow new and talented photographers to be seen and recognized. The Pentaprism website is a user-friendly platform that guarantees easy navigation and worry-free photo uploads. We constantly work on the improvements of its interface and content. In order to ensure a high quality of photos presented on our website as well as in the Pentaprism Magazine, our curators carefully screen and assess all photos prior to their publication in our gallery. The Pentaprism Magazine is an extension to our website. We prepare it periodically in order to highlight specific works and to give a deeper insight of the photographers visions. The content of the Pentaprism Magazine includes special topic articles, interviews with our featured artists, photo reportages with travel stories and lots of great photographs. We believe that art has a catharsis-like quality and should be available to the masses. Therefore our website and magazine are accessible to everybody free of charge. In addition we do not allow any kind of commercial advertising on our platforms. The Pentaprism team of curators works voluntarily on a non-profit basis. If you wish to support the maintenance and development of the Pentaprism website and magazine, please feel free to make a donation. Your greatly appreciated support will be used exclusively to improve Pentaprism online visibility. Thank you for your visit and support. We hope that you enjoyed our photos and stories! We invite you to visit us again. The Pentaprism Staff

BY 90 HIGHLIGHTS COVER PHOTO/INDEX PAGE PHOTO: NATHAN WIRTH 144

3 N 13 July 2016 index EDITORS: PENTAPRISM STAFF GRAPHIC DESIGN: ELENA BOVO 6 INTERVIEW WITH NATHAN WIRTH 36 FOCUS ON 54 REPORTAGE: NUNAVUT BY 90 HIGHLIGHTS COVER PHOTO/INDEX PAGE PHOTO: NATHAN WIRTH 144 SIGNALS FROM THE UNIVERSE OF COLOR BY MARCO OLIVOTTO 154 MEET THE PENTAPRISM STAFF

reportage nunavut A LAND OF TURMOIL BY michel THIBERT Through his photographic signature, Michel Thibert invites the viewer to experience, with him, areas that one may otherwise never see.

Michel s work will carry you in a tumult of: impressions, fields, mountains, rivers and clouds. He strives to find, feel and capture the essence of the products of creation.

4 reportage nunavut A LAND OF TURMOIL BY michel THIBERT Through his photographic signature, Michel Thibert invites the viewer to experience, with him, areas that one may otherwise never see. His use of vanishing points allows us to enter nature, not physically but emotionally. This pushes us to go further in a shared perspective. Michel s work will carry you in a tumult of: impressions, fields, mountains, rivers and clouds. He strives to find, feel and capture the essence of the products of creation. Also, motivating us as the viewers to recreate our own paths of discovery. Perhaps Michel s images will help your journey and fill your environments with some of The Beauty Rediscovered. Michel started taking photos at the age of 15, perfecting the techniques while developing an eye for framing and the management of light. By 1973, he had already worked professionally for over five years in the field of communications and video production (commercial and series). Thereafter, for the following thirty-five years, he worked in business development. Now at 58 years old, he works as a pilot in command between Quebec City and the Canadian Arctic. Photography has always captured Michel s attention and is becoming his preferred way to communicate his vision of the world. This is a shared experience with the people Michel meets and the landscape that inspires his art. He first perfected the techniques and personal style directly from the cockpit, sometimes using panoramic views in relation to the magnitude of the scene. One of his intentions is to take the standard aerial view people are accustomed and give it an aesthetic created with intent, something more, that moves it away from being just a documentation of the area. In the last two years, Michel s perspective has been transformed from a descriptive one to an evocation of his feeling that help him to understand his reality. Michel s preferred routes and shooting locations bring alive the last few remote areas on our planet, feeding off the sense that few of us have ever been there. From the rainforests of Costa Rica to the small villages of the Canadian Arctic, Michel choses angles with social issues that are currently having impacts on people and nature. From the 2012 season, He has shown a greater number of land scenes. Sometimes the images may reflect positions of the white colonizers from the south. It is, however, in discussions with his brothers from Nunavut that he connects and understands more on the planet and himself. Even though portrait is a minority part of his body of work, the human presence is not completely absent. Michel s photographs reflect a story, to capture a given moment. The image of these beings, living in very harsh conditions generates perpetual recognition. Finally, some of the images can be viewed as critical of certain policies and positions of society and to serve those who suffer history (Albert Camus). As master of inter-ethnic exchanges and understanding, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, is a guide and inspiration to Michel as he illuminates many others with his implications and imaginative projects. He improve his techniques by studying the concepts and teachings of master photographers: Ansel Adams for the zoning system, Michael Freeman for his philosophy on the art of photography and finally, the relevance of the lines and the use of contrasts in photography so called Fine Art with Michael Levin. Michel s team is composed of two digital image retouching certified experts and one part time field assistant. We hope the sharing of his art through pictures will bring you the light that accompanies Michel Thibert s shooting PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 55

5 LIVING SCHIST Whale Cove has a unique costal shape caught between two hamlets in the Hudson Bay. Even the strongest structures have faults. 56 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 57

6 MUTUAL HAPPINESS & ENJOYMENTS. Arctic Bay s musher. Enjoyments of: land, snow, efforts, & deep horizons. A unique period that is renew each year in the race season that is for a few generations of dogs and mushers! 58 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 59

7 SCAR FOR THE INHABITANTS AND ITS LAND James Bay west coast close to Coral Harbour in full march winter. Wind, climate, rocks. white colonisation, promises, humans weakness have ALL produce scars. 60 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 61

8 BIRD OF PEACE Close to Arviat when going for Whale Cove, the two communities share between families peace for centuries. A constant flux of emotions that has to be intentional within the community and with visiting spirits.

9 I SEE YOU South of Eureka weather station, are those two eyes. Geomorphology or spirits of the North. More than a point of view. 64 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 65

10 NO MERCY Only the strongest ones survives. And its NOT about True North geography. Was the dog dead before he froze or the opposite? Ruthless environment, fascination of a Lifetime. 66 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 67

11 NEXT FOUR MONTHS Captured between Grise Fiord, in the back of the airplane, and Pond Inlet due south in the front. Southern populations just can t live their way in total darkness for a few months. The 130 inhabitants of Grise Fiord hamlet will be living In the dark for the next four months. Just try a day or two. 68 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 69

12 COMMA ISLAND South of the town of Arviat, we can feel that the sun is full of hope for our skin and soul. It all began with water and deep horizons. Between clouds, the sun made us a promise. 70 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 71

13 FOUR BROTHERS May has brought back those four brothers / icebergs in Qikiqtarjuaq. Family support within the proximity of living together in this boundless environment. 72 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 73

14 TIME RIPPLES This Icelandic construction is also observed in Pond Inlet Nunavut Km apart in two continents. Only time will reveal the new physical shelters of True North. 74 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 75

15 ISLAND IN THE SKY Eureka weather station is located in 80 degrees North. It s a unique micro-climate with this unique moment of calm. Some will express that they feel like an island in the sky. KHMU lady in Vang Vanh Village, carries the biggest coconut I have ever seen up a rickety old staircase. 76 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 77

16 SHARING THE ESSENCE OF OUR DNA In one of the many falls of Iceland the Goðafoss fall have been calling humans for centuries. Sharing the essentials. 78 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 79

17 BORN TO BE WILD, BORN TO BE ICELANDIC HORSES Iceland in the vast region of the south west of Akureyri. REAL Friendship is vastly non-human pack. 80 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 81

18 CYAN QUEST In Pond Inlet, for the last 5 years, the Community is enjoying a different iceberg. More than a piece of frozen ice, this Majesty represents a statement of True North and a reason for a Sunday family s trip around the Village. 82 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 83

19 EQUILIBRIUM Personally, this capture is a living statement about all the elements of my True North. An objective that is granted to the passive observer and not attain by their passiveness. 84 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 85

20 TOWERING In the sring 2013, Pond Inlet was having a Sun Festival. Just before the Midnight Sun. 86 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 87

21 EMBRACING RIPPLES Also called Repulse Bay, Naujaat. The True North s environment transformed our being human. 88 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 89

22 HIGHLIGHTS 90 PENTAPRISM PENTAPRISM 91

23 MEET THE Pentaprism STAFF

UNDERSTANDING METERING MODES

Photzy UNDERSTANDING METERING MODES Written by Kent DuFault János Csongor Kerekes https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjcs/14362470179/ CONTENTS 01 What are the metering modes? p.4 04 Average p.9 02 Spot p.5