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Sonrya Sanjaraya

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Sonrya Sanjaraya
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…..When asked recently what was the inspiration by this art work: Just a woman always used by men for her beauty. A woman who would have been loved, but also a woman who loved playing this seduction game with her body, her sexiness, her feminine desires. I created a magic witch – which made men come to her but who didn’t find the way to keep one with her forever.

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Self-Portrait 2012

The link between the drawing and this recent self-portrait represents this ongoing search, the cool balance to use the females power over man, and find how to capture more than desires and smiles: find how to be the magic one.
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Susanna Burrows

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Susanna Burrows

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PARQUE del BUEN RETIRO

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“Park of the Pleasant Retreat”

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……….Parque del Buen Retiro, in the heart of the old city of Madrid, is a place where anyone can go to engage in the natural environment of the city. The park is a historic icon for the city, belonging to the Spanish Monarchy for over 3 centuries before it was open to the public in the early 1800’s. My photographs depict the people in this park, as they engage with the historic monuments and inhabit the landscape as a place to relax, work, learn, exercise, socialize, and love.

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My role as the photographer of this “People in a Park” series is that of an observer, or in Susan Sontag’s words from On Photography, I am a surveyor, my photos provide “incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened”. I have created a record of nameless characters doing specific things at specific moments in time. Who these people are is unimportant, yet what they are doing and the environment in which they reside produces the story.

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Susanna Burrows

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The photos that I chose depict the reality of the moments in raw form. They are my interpretation of the world as it existed at very specific moments in time in Parque del Buen Retiro. Sontag also wrote, “There is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture.” A park is a place of public gathering. Whatever time of day or time of year, the people who occupy a park are there only for a finite period of time. In this sense, photographing the users of a park is a means of depicting movement, emotion, light, shadow and nature, all of a transient nature. The images capture the ephemeral, freezing moments in time as creatures pass through this public place of recreation.

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Susanna Burrows

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A public place of gathering is a unique place in a city. While every city has a public realm, a successful, safe, and beautiful public space is special. How people engage with public places is a very personal experience. Like photography, the relationship that we have with parks is one’s own. Most people go to public parks for recreation – but what does this mean? Is it sitting, thinking, doing what you love? Is it observing? Watching the wind blow through trees, listening to music? A park is a place where people go to play – people of all ages engage with monuments – capturing their own photographs to document time. Everything is in motion.

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Susanna Burrows

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About The Author: Susanna Burrows is a Master of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Candidate, University of Pennsylvania – School of Design, Class of 2013.

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Posted on March 31, 2012 by Bennett Lee

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clarke

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……….Beyond the glass is the world as I see it. From a small room, the city in all of its modern accomplishments is laid out before me. Everything from the buildings that graze the sky to the cars driving about, technology flourishes on the other side of the glass.

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It’s humbling to think about how the many innovations that I take for granted could compare to that of a god to people in a different era. In ancient Greek mythology, humanity was grateful when Prometheus brought back the gift of fire. Today, I can press a button and make my own fire. For few, a press of a button could set the whole world on fire.

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Technology is a force that changes our world profoundly. Only 60 years ago was the Internet invented and since then our world has radically changed. The world has so many problems and science, I believe, has every solution. Poverty, hunger, disease, every obstacle mankind has to overcome, can be conquered if the power is put in the hands of the right people.

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“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven….

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Image 5

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The same key holds the gates of hell.

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Image 6

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And so it is with science.”
-Richard P. Feynman

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Self-Portraits by Bennett Lee – Copyright 2012

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About The Author: Bennett Lee is enrolled in The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology – The Wharton School | School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Class of 2013 – Copyright 2012
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Cartier

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Luciano Ruiz

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……….When I first began thinking about the object I would photograph, only a few things came to mind. Intimate objects, for me: are those objects that have a personal meaning which is far more important than its physical one. I soon realized how much I wanted to capture my passion for timepieces.

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Watches keep time. They help quantify and sequence our events as well as our emotions. Some philosophers argue that time is not a reality, but merely a concept. Regardless of this debate, watches help us keep track of this reality we live in.
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4:55

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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once said “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” This has always led me to believe that I am the controller of my own destiny. Watches ultimately represent the tangible aspects of time, which we use to forge our own fate. This is how I’ve come to appreciate watches – not for their physical capabilities, but for their abstract meaning.

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Tissot

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Therefore, the popular expression “time on your hands” does not come as a surprise to me. Being able to make our own proper decisions about time is exactly why they have such an important meaning to me. Controlling our actions and owning up to them is ultimately a feature of time.

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Tissot 1853

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In conclusion, watches not only appeal to me because of their innate physical beauty, but also because of their abstract significance. Being able to quantify time while reinforcing the notion that we are the architects of our own future is what makes this simple mechanical object my personal favorite.

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Rolex

About The Author: Luciano Ruiz is a Candidate for Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania – Class of 2013
Photographs by Luciano Ruiz – Copyright 2012

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My Bedroom Door

Photographed on March 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM – Copyright 2012

Fendi

Copyright 2012

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www.Bunker-Media.com

Posted on February 24, 2012 – Directed by Willy Vanderperre – Bunker Media: Copyright 2012