摄影作品：荒芜传奇，荷兰 / Hooft Graafland

一幅幅令人赞叹的优秀摄影作品

2014-08-22

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这位33岁的荷兰女摄影师Hooft Graafland深入地球最荒凉的区域创造了一幅幅令人赞叹的优秀摄影作品，流露出与《国家地理》不一样的风情。她的作品并不是简单的图像组合，而是充满了超现实主义的美学色彩。Hooft Graafland利用超现实主义的语言，通过视觉错觉效果机智地表达了对人类利益及环境问题的思考，如黑色帽子从峡谷中喷发而出，神奇地悬浮在空中，但细细观察就能看到有一根长线将这些帽子串联起来；而另一张照片中，白色的气球螺旋状地漂浮在湖面上。Hooft Graafland 还喜欢使用色彩明丽的道具，如在山间弹跳的红黄色气球、开裂土地上红黄相间的地毯、妇人手中的粉色棉花糖……

Hooft Graafland, this 33-year-old Dutch photographer creates work in some of the most inhospitable spots on Earth. Her works are different from those published in National Geographic. Her photographs are not simply exercises in composition: they are also saturated with a distinctly Surrealist aesthetic. Using a surrealist language of intriguing visual jokes, she wittily alludes to her anthropological interests and environmental concerns.
In one, black hats erupt from a ravine and hover mysteriously in the air (in fact, they are held in place by wires). In another, white balloons spiral across the surface of a lake. Very often the photographer’s intervention involves introducing brightly coloured elements: red and yellow balloons in a mountain landscape, yellow and red carpet on the cracked land, women with pink cotton candy…

▼丢掉心爱之物 Drop Your Darlings

在Hooft Graafland 的作品中你可以发现直接的摄影方式与表演艺术及雕塑形象的结合，其中蕴含了更为深层的文化语境，是摄影家与当地文化碰撞产生的结果。

为了拍摄“柔美地平线”系列作品，Hooft Graafland在11年间多次前往玻利维亚的高原地区。她与玻利维亚的表演艺术家Gastón Ugalde及其助手一起工作。有时他们会花上好几个星期在盐土荒漠Uyuni及周围设置拍摄装置进行拍摄。

In Hooft Graafland’s work you find a combination of straight photographic practice with performance and sculpture in which she constantly refers to a more profound cultural discourse of her surroundings. It’s a result of her encounter with the local culture.

For the series ‘Soft Horizons’ Scarlett Hooft Graafland made extensive travels to the highlands of Bolivia during the last 11 years. During these trips she worked together with Bolivian performance artist Gastón Ugalde and some of his assistants. They would make long travels for weeks to work on the installations in the salt desert Uyuni and its surroundings.

▼收集气球，玻利维亚盐土沙漠 Collecting Balloons, Salt Desert, Bolivia

在Salar沙漠拍摄的作品“我的白衣骑士”（2011）中，炸药使得白色卡车装载的盐四散开来。玻利维亚有发达的采矿工业，甚至可以在市场上买到炸药。Hooft Graafland花了很长时间掌握炸药的使用方法，多次试验后最终诞生了这张照片。

One of the works made in the Salar desert is‘My White Knight’(2011), a big white truck carrying a pile of salt that was exploded by dynamite. In Bolivia there is a big mining industry and dynamite you can buy even on the markets. It took a long time to figure out how to use the dynamite, after many try-outs Hooft Graafland was able to make the photo.

▼我的白衣骑士 My White Knight

Hooft Graafland用中画幅相机进行摄影，然后直接打印负片。她对这种传统的摄影方法情有独钟，即使相对于数码技术来说会耗费更长的时间。她说：“事实上，我并不想用数码方式来处理照片。我对这些工具从来都不感兴趣。也许是因为新技术提供的无限选择会让我不知所措。我更喜欢在固定的框架内工作。简单的方式决定了简单的工作，也决定了特有的限定范围。”

Hooft Graafland photographs with an analogue medium format camera. Afterwards she prints directly from the negative. She prefers this old way of producing the work, even though it is much more time consuming then the digital process. “Actually I do not feel the urge to manipulate my images in a digital way. I never felt attracted to those tools. Maybe because then the options would feel like infinite. I like to work in a framework with the possibilities that are on the site. That also defines the work, and limits as well.”

▼在红湖布景，玻利维亚 Working in Red Lake, Bolivia