Category: photography
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Cross-Cultural Anxieties
Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads.…
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Gaga-esque
Madame Peripetie explores the boundaries between fashion, sculpture and the human body, experimenting with various fabrics and patterns; whilst infusing high-fashion elements with abstract and conceptual ideas, creating an eccentric escapade of color and texture. Behind this gaga-esque and burlesque pseudonym one finds the artist Sylwana Zybura who is based in Germany and UK working…
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Tradition vs. Modernity in Shanghai: Maleonn
Ma Liang, also known as Maleonn (1972 Shanghai), is a talented Chinese photographer who has gained a kind of cult following because of his fable like photographs. His images, in color and black and white, are often created with props, actors and a strange mix of hues, colors and theatrical sets. A graduate of the…
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Photographic Baroque by Alexia Sinclair
Alexia Sinclair is an award-winning Australian photographer and digital artist. Skillfully walking the tightrope that divides the worlds of fine art and commercial art, she is dedicated to presenting contemporary notions of fashion and beauty. Her distinct style is easily recognisable and highly original. Using a visual narrative to seduce her audience with each photographic…
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Typo at its best: Yomar Augusto
This guy is just one of my type 🙂 Yomar Augusto is a multi-disciplined graphic designer and artist from Brazil based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Born in Brasilia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Yomar initially trained as a graphic designer before going on to study photography at the…