{"id":754,"date":"2008-06-06T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=754"},"modified":"2008-06-06T06:30:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:30:35","slug":"from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Romantic painterly influence of Caspar David Friedrich illuminates each glorious image, which although taken with a large format analogue camera, are then manipulated digitally, forcing the viewer to question what\u2019s real (a recurring theme at Photo Espana). A stormy seascape has echoes of Paul Strand\u2019s Hebrides work, while his red-earthed landscapes move beyond the scope of pure documentary. <\/p>\n

In pursuit of more yellow signs (the Photo Espana logo), we chanced upon CaixaForum Madrid, an extraordinary building with a vertical garden adorning one vertiginous wall. An Alphonse Mucha exhibition within was not strictly part of the festival, but as fans of the Czech art-nouveaux painter, we had a look, only to find Mucha used photography both as a basis for his studies but also as a language of its own. <\/p>\n

A walk through the labyrinthine Retiro \u2013 Madrid\u2019s huge park \u2013 lead us in a (very) roundabout way to Compromised Places Topography and Actuality, a collective exhibition of 11 artists. The over-all effect of the show was one of extreme elegance due to the muted palette of shades of grey \u2013 in particular the works of Simon Starling, Beate G\u00fctschow and An-My L\u00ea, yet such elegance belied the thought-provoking subject matters. Each of the artists appeared to be asking the viewer to engage in a dialogue about our relationship with not just the \u2018natural\u2019 landscape, but the landscape of war, politics and urbanity. In relation the festival\u2019s grand theme Place, this show surpassed the brief. L\u00ea\u2019s desertscapes, populated by US soldiers performing rehearsal operations (with some playing the role of Iraqi soldiers) infused the space with an eerie apocalyptic calm before the (desert) storm, while G\u00fctschow\u2019s digitally manipulated images gave the sense of a post-apocalypse everycity, its few survivors surveying the destruction.<\/p>\n

\"garden_wall.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Photo Espana has put together its 100 best photo-books of the year, in a small space in the city\u2019s library. We dutifully looked through every single book (including Photo Espana\u2019s own catalogue!) and then shared notes: the only book Lauren and I both studied page by page was Richard Misrach\u2019s On the Beach. Read Guy Lane\u2019s blog and interview with Misrach elsewhere on this site (here<\/a>) to get a feel for his intentions. And then consider the last page of the book. It\u2019s not a photograph, but a quote from On the Beach, a novel by Nevil Shute, with its own epigraph by T S Eliot:<\/p>\n

In this last of meeting places
We grope together and avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river<\/p>\n

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper<\/p>\n

Chilling. Prescient. Brilliant. Should be Number One!<\/p>\n

Other strong contenders were Larry Towell\u2019s squishy-covered The World From My Front Porch, Anders Petersen and Christian Caujolle\u2019s visceral French Kiss, and The Descendants by Janne Zehtinen, in which the photographer returns to her ancestral home in south Finland to investigate the so-called curse of the village, which dictates that all men are afflicted by a predestined fate of destruction. Three books dealt with the supremely personal or familial: The day-to-day life of Albert Hastings by KayLynn Deveney, The Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon and In Almost Every Picture by Christian Bunyan. It was the latter \u2013 an Erik Kessels production \u2013 that had the edge, focusing on the passport photographs of a single woman throughout her life. Haunting. Award for the fattest, heaviest book of the year (beyond Magnum\u2019s Magnum Magnum) goes to Philip-Lorca di Corcia. Too heavy to carry home to London.<\/p>\n

\"exhibitions\"<\/p>\n

Next stop was Roni Horn\u2019s show at the Ciculo de Bellas Artes. Her work is so familiar now, the show failed to show a more revealing aspect. One of her Icelandic series, Becoming a Landscape, in which she follows a young woman around the country (which she thinks of as her studio) is disturbing in its exploration of the landscape as orifice. Pooling You also ripples with a visceral sexuality, while Her, Her, Her and Her is again a study of holes.<\/p>\n

Downstairs in the same building was a video installation by David Claerbout, in which a Chinese family are observed from every possible angle, surveillance-style, as they enjoy a ballgame. They are surrounded by lifeless concrete on all sides, and it seemed possible that this work is a comment on the rigid structure of external life. The viewer is being asked to question the true happiness of the family, but, despite the melancholic music that accompanies Sections of a Happy Moment, they all looked pretty content to us (maybe we are just superficial).<\/p>\n

Our penultimate artistic endeavour was the opening of Thomas Demand\u2019s sculpture-meets-photography exhibition. The process behind the finished results is fascinating \u2013 Demand uses existing images of (often politically-) interesting places, with which he fashions a model of the building which he then photographs, before destroying the model. The place in question may be the scene of a brutal child murder or a foreign embassy \u2013 here it is the Niger Embassy, where the documents on enriched uranium used by George Bush to justify his invasion of Iraq were found \u2013 but it is up to the viewer to make these connections. Without detailed explanation (as just proved) this is impossible, and renders his work merely pleasing to the eye.<\/p>\n

\"vu<\/p>\n

We rounded off the day with outsized G&Ts at the launch of the first edition of the Vu agency\u2019s eponymously titled magazine. We love Vu photographers Anders Petersen, Olivier Pin-Fat, J H Engstrom and Vanessa Winship, but we haven\u2019t read the bi-lingual mag yet, so will reserve comment \u2026<\/p>\n

Max Houghton<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"exhibitions\"
First show of the day yesterday found us at another impressive location, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, to see German photographer Florian Maier-Aichen\u2019s mostly sin titulo<\/em> work…  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nFrom the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2. - FOTO8<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2. - FOTO8\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First show of the day yesterday found us at another impressive location, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, to see German photographer Florian Maier-Aichen\u2019s mostly sin titulo work... \" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FOTO8\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Foto8\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/exhibitions.jpg?fit=470%2C313&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"470\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"313\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jon\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/person\/52655249f7e3f6eff4e0fe2540d65137\"},\"headline\":\"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2.\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/\"},\"wordCount\":962,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Blogs\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/\",\"name\":\"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2. - FOTO8\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/\",\"name\":\"FOTO8\",\"description\":\"The home of photojournalism.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#organization\",\"name\":\"FOTO8\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/foto8logo_blk.gif?fit=124%2C51&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/foto8logo_blk.gif?fit=124%2C51&ssl=1\",\"width\":124,\"height\":51,\"caption\":\"FOTO8\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Foto8\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foto8\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/person\/52655249f7e3f6eff4e0fe2540d65137\",\"name\":\"Jon\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6993c5976717725ffe3a4e678a401748?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6993c5976717725ffe3a4e678a401748?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jon\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/author\/wpadmin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2. - FOTO8","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2. - FOTO8","og_description":"First show of the day yesterday found us at another impressive location, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, to see German photographer Florian Maier-Aichen\u2019s mostly sin titulo work... ","og_url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/","og_site_name":"FOTO8","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Foto8\/","article_published_time":"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":470,"height":313,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/exhibitions.jpg?fit=470%2C313&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jon","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jon","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/"},"author":{"name":"Jon","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/person\/52655249f7e3f6eff4e0fe2540d65137"},"headline":"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2.","datePublished":"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00","dateModified":"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/"},"wordCount":962,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Blogs"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/","url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/","name":"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2. - FOTO8","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00","dateModified":"2008-06-06T06:30:35+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/from-the-thyssen-bornemisza-to-the-retiro-photo-espaay-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"From the Thyssen-Bornemisza to the Retiro. Photo Espa\u00f1a day 2."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/","name":"FOTO8","description":"The home of photojournalism.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#organization","name":"FOTO8","url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/foto8logo_blk.gif?fit=124%2C51&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/foto8logo_blk.gif?fit=124%2C51&ssl=1","width":124,"height":51,"caption":"FOTO8"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Foto8\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/foto8"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/person\/52655249f7e3f6eff4e0fe2540d65137","name":"Jon","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6993c5976717725ffe3a4e678a401748?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6993c5976717725ffe3a4e678a401748?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jon"},"url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/author\/wpadmin\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/exhibitions.jpg?fit=470%2C313&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ejRI-ca","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":748,"url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/2-down-67-to-go-foto8-at-photo-espan-madrid\/","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":0},"title":"2 down 67 to go…: Foto8 at Photo Espa\u00f1a in Madrid","author":"Jon","date":"05 Jun 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Apart from the Eugene Smith show, we managed to make it to one other yesterday. Turns out that a lot of the shows have not even opened yet and we were turned away from a few gallery doors.","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/category\/online\/blogs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":746,"url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/eugene-smiths-spanish-village\/","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":1},"title":"Eugene Smith’s Spanish Village","author":"Jon","date":"05 Jun 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Eugene Smith\u2019s seminal photo essay Spanish Village was the setting for our first Photo Espana experience.","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/category\/online\/blogs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Eugene Smith","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/m_wes_5427.jpg?fit=470%2C555&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":766,"url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/photo-espaay-3-from-abattoirs-to-goya\/","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":2},"title":"Photo Espa\u00f1a Day 3: From Abattoirs to Goya","author":"Jon","date":"07 Jun 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Day three dawned sunny at last (did we mention the rain?) and we set off to see Robert Smithson...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/category\/online\/blogs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"abatoir1.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/abatoir1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":688,"url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/goodbye-ny-hola-espa\/","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":3},"title":"Goodbye NY – Hola Espa\u00f1a","author":"Jon","date":"19 May 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A hearty thanks and farewell to our guest bloggers, Andrew Hetherington (www.whatsthe jackanory.com ) and Michael David Murphy (2point8.whileseated.org ) for their insightful and enthralling posts from the New York Festival over the past four days.","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/category\/online\/blogs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":622,"url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/ah-looking-forward-to-the-shindig\/","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":4},"title":"Looking Forward to the Shindig","author":"Jon","date":"11 May 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I have never been to any of the big photo festivals like Recontres d\u2019Arles, Visa Pour L\u2019Image Perpignan, Contact Toronto or Photo Espana. Actually I have never been to a photo festival but as luck would have it I now have one in my own back yard...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/category\/online\/blogs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/andrew_200.jpg?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":772,"url":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/photo-espa-the-last-day-so-soon\/","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":5},"title":"PHoto Espa\u00f1a – The last day so soon…","author":"Jon","date":"08 Jun 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Our first stop of our final day, Saturday, was Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, to see Buried Memories: The Photographs of Henryk Ross....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogs"","block_context":{"text":"Blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/category\/online\/blogs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"p6070803.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p6070803.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}