Street Art Photographer Martha Cooper Takes On Pow! Wow! Hawaii
It’s always moving to see travel art by a lens of legendary photojournalist Martha CooperPow! Wow! Hawaii
Cooper, 71, trafficked to Honolulu final year to try and sketch the work of 100 artists
“There were some-more artists during that eventuality than any other eventuality that we have been to,” she told HuffPost. “It was a crazy volume of artists.”
While there, videographer Michael Inouye and a organisation of photographers including travel artist Ron English, followed Cooper as she wandered by a industrial area of Kakaako, where a festival takes place. They recently expelled a above video to foster this year’s event, that kicks off in Honolulu on Feb. 7, 2015.
“It was unusual,” Cooper told HuffPost. “I was staying in a hotel in Waikiki, and in a morning we would go out and travel along a beach. It was what we competence consider Hawaii was like, only so many people on a beach. And afterwards we went over to Kakaako, that was so opposite from a beach. It was only engaging to see there was a place in Hawaii that didn’t have to do with tourism.”
Cooper photographed murals from artists such as Justin Park, Alina Kawai, Zhi Hao Situ, and a Pow! Wow! School of Music. She told HuffPost that, when she’s shooting, she’s some-more meddlesome in a artist’s routine than a finished painting.
“I’m meddlesome in how a artists work and what their collection are. Are they regulating a projection? Are they regulating brushes, or are they regulating poles with rollers on them? In some cases they’ve invented processes that make it easier to paint these walls.”
Cooper is credited with bringing graffiti art to a universe with her work in a 1970s and ’80s, though her passion for a middle is still alive — as good as contagious.
“Street art is like a quest. It’s like a value hunt,” Cooper says in a video. “That’s one of a things that creates it so beguiling to me. It creates we maybe take a opposite track than you’ve already taken.â€
Watch a video above, and check out some of a photographs she done while in Honolulu, below:
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