Author: Arnaud De Grave

Arnaud De Grave (a.k.a. mostly Hern42) came rather late to photography, like everything he does nowadays. Before that he was busy being good at school, or rather he was not enough of a rebel not to be... But the times, they are a-changing, as one says. He became interested in photography because he was not good enough in skateboarding, starting both around 2000 at the age of 25, which is, he knows, rather very late. So that kills the usual myth of having been given an ancient camera by one's father at age five and never looking back again. However he was indeed offered his first "real" camera by his father, albeit at a later time. Then started a long progression of travelling and shooting and collecting older and weirder cameras, buying more and more films and exposing them. Getting more and more addicted to producing images which would fit within whatever fancy he got inside his ever oh-so fastly (ghastly?) changing mood. He created many things in order to have more opportunities to perform photography: the French association BOP, the Copenhagen based group CCCP (which stood for "Color Climax Copenhagen Photographers"), etc. He prefers rather long projects based on travelling and social behaviour in the gonzo way (in reference to Hunter Thompson but without too much of the drug intake, not the Muppet Show...) "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." - Tuco / The good, the bad and the ugly (1967)

Some work done by Arnaud Thurel for the “Pince Sans Rire” theater company is available to see online…

2014/02/082014/04/09 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsTags: Arnaud ThurelLeave a comment

Arnaud Thurel was working to help a theatre company with their visuals for their website and press releases… Not only Arnaud’s pictures are very original and (as always) nice but the whole concept is interesting. One should check the group’s website, their name is Pince sans rire (which very badly translate to “dry humour” and lose the pun with biking I am afraid…) and the press release pdf with Arnaud’s pictures all over is here.

New guest exhibition: Thomas Lehne’s “Black, No Sugar.”

2013/08/052013/08/10 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsTags: guest photographers · newsLeave a comment

BOP is very proud to have a new guest exhibition to celebrate the release of our new website. Thomas is a photographer from Hamburg, Germany who is experimenting a lot with alternative ways of developing films, namely with coffee! It is called Cafénol, of all things… Needless to say BOP members are pretty excited about that! His set of pictures shows a personal view of Hamburg via wandering and the description (a bit idiosyncratic but this is certainly something we can related to) muses about photography, collecting things and, well, life in general. Click here to get to the exhibition….

BOP v3.0 is out!

2013/08/052013/08/07 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsTags: BOP v3.0 · new website · newsLeave a comment

We are very proud to announce the release of our new website. Yes, this very one you are seeing right now… We believe it is a bit more modern that the previous one and that content is made accessible in a better way. In addition to the exhibitions and travelogues, etc. we now have an e-shop where you can buy our magazine BOP Photo Analogies (issue #1 has been published last year in December), our retrospective book, members’ private publications and other goodies… To celebrate the new verssion we have a new guest exhibition by Thomas Lehne, an exhibition with…