Erwin Olaf Talk

Tonight, we will be spending the 1st half of our class at Aperture Gallery for a talk by Erwin Olaf, a Dutch photographer. Meet there at 6:30pm.

For his website, click here.

He is represented by Bernstein & Andriulli.

To see a video interview with Olaf, click here.

For a press release on Hasted Hunt's website, click here.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, between 10th and 11th Aves. 4th Floor.
http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=444

The 2nd half of class (beginning at about 8pm) will be held in our normal room, C306, and we'll be looking at the midterm projects then.

See you all tonight!

Erin
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Excerpt from an interview with Olaf:
F STOP: What inspired your move from black and white to color?

OLAF: Photoshop.

F STOP: Photoshop?

OLAF: Absolutely. I hated color photography till the early nineties… When Photoshop came along I could control the colors like I could control black and white in the dark room. This was really an eye opener for me. In the beginning I was aggressively against Photoshop. The first series I did with color was called Mind of Their Own, which was portraits of mentally disabled people. I burned the negatives to create a dream world. It was the first time I gave in to color photography. The strange thing is that I burned the negative because I was a little bit against Photoshop because I though “why, spend $1000 on Photoshop when I can burn the negatives in ten seconds for $1?” But after that I really started to embrace Photoshop.

F STOP: Do you have a standard kind of post-production regime?

OLAF: I work with several retouchers for every project. It’s like in the film industry, there’s an editor. I see myself more as a director nowadays than as a pure photographer.