I am a very emotional human, lol, so all these emotions trigger a lot of stuff in my mind, With time I learned to convert them into art instead of more feelings that were causing me an emotional crisis.
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Born in Rio, Carolina Mizrahi is a photographer and art director based in London. One of the main themes in her work is color. “I think you can say a lot through colors. It's a powerful communication tool specially when aligned with other visual signs. I like to play with the different meanings associated with each color.”
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Italian photographer Cristina Coral’s images are not so much a reflection of a reality outside of us, but “come from the depths and mystery that is within each of us". The art of photography is about feeling, not seeing. Her view and way of working has already caught the eye of Vogue Italy and Maison Martin Margiela, and produced two gold medals at the 2014 Prix de la Photographie Paris.
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What started as a hobby during her archeology studies six years ago is now a full-time profession complete with a contract for American Vogue. A 100% self-taught photographer and self-proclaimed workaholic, Slovakian artist Maria Svarbova says she does not like complicated things. She is inspired “by normal people in normal life”.
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Born in 1981, Australian artist Ben Thomas IS fascinated by cities and urban spaces. He first shot to fame with his miniature railway-like images of Tokyo. His more recent series change our perspectives on city life by using color, light and flatness, thus making the real look very surreal indeed. A winner of the 2016 LensCulture Emerging Talents award, THOMAS recently completed assignments for The New Yorker, Sony and Penguin Books.
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Australian photographer and costume maker Gerwyn Davies stretches the boundaries of camp and fashion to explore the concept of identity. In his latest series Subtropics, he turns his eye to the hundreds of “Big Thing” monuments that lie scattered around Australia to mark tourist spots and entertainment parks: giant shrimps, pineapples, pies and koala bears. Here, in the all too realness of the absurd, his costume creatures suddenly seem a natural fit …
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Australian photographer Alice Hutchison was born and raised in one of Melbourne’s most diverse working-class neighborhoods; an inner city enclave of European and Middle Eastern migrants. Weekend walks presented a smorgasbord of sights and sounds that inspired her young, creative mind. For her latest collection, she drew inspiration from the neighborhood’s kitsch, industrial past, and borrowed props from shops and friends across the city to create “a suspended reality”.
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Under the title ICONS, LA-based photographer Parker Day portrays members of America’s modern day tribes. Urban freaks shown in bold colors, as if in an ad or a cartoon. Mind you, all is not what it seems. Partly staged, these portraits are often a combined effort between artist and model, celebrating originality and individuality, yet reminding us that a mask, any mask, is always but a mask.
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Born in a house of artists, Hugh Kretschmer did not waste any time in mastering his craft as a visual artist. From a very young age he harnessed his handiwork skills to create art, and consequently developed a very peculiar aesthetic. Never shying away from building his own sets and crafting his props, Kretschmer is one of those rare artists who has the freedom to recreate his vision with his very own bare hands, and the results are stunning. His imagery is surreal and yet grounded in thought-provoking social commentary, and his aesthetic is stunningly modern, despite its minimal digital enhancements.
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Reine Paradis burst onto the art scene with her “Jungle” photo series: a fascinating showcase of a chromatic world that blurs the line between reality and construct. From its conceptual stage, to its multi-disciplinary execution, the project’s roll-out is captivating from start to finish, and promises a very bright future for this visionary artist.
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It deals with a lot of stuff. Thing is, I get bored super fast, that’s why I am searching for new ideas all day. I don’t want to get bored with the same images that the advertising industry offers us every day. Same for the music business, art and media. I hate that people think we’re just some stupid idiots that can get fed with the same shit all over again. I try to give a new input to people and to open their minds for creativity and a life that is more than just daily routine.
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The award-winning Austrian photographer Clemens Ascher creates a reality that is so calm, clean and picture perfect it almost feels oppressive. His, is a deceiving sense of beauty, as it is injected with a subtle and surreal touch of irony. In his series on pleasure grounds, for example, we see seemingly happy tourists admiring wild animals and deadly weapons in what must be the world’s weirdest entertainment park.
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Minimalism and candy colors are the only criteria guiding my artwork. However, certain themes have arisen over the past year, including architecture, signage, theme parks, palm trees, landscapes and seascapes.
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WITH HER PERFECT GOLDEN LOCKS, LONG TANNED LIMBS, AND A BOYFRIEND THAT GIVES CHRIS HEMSWORTH A RUN FOR HIS BICEPS, BARBIE MIGHT SEEM LIKE SHE STRUCK GOLD. BUT CANADIAN PHOTOGRAPHER DINA GOLDSTEIN HAS DEFIED THE COMMON NOTION OF PERFECTION AND CHALLENGED THE TRUE MEANING OF “HAPPILY EVER AFTER.” IN HER PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES IN THE DOLLHOUSE, SHE REENACTS BARBIE’S LIFE WITH KEN IN HUMAN SIZED-PROPORTIONS AND DRAWS A PERFECT IMAGE OF WHAT WE DON’T SEE BEYOND THE PANTONE PINK WALLS, PROVING THAT LIFE IN PLASTIC MAY BE – AFTER ALL – NOT SO FANTASTIC.
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He is regarded as one of the most influential photographers of our time, has been compared with all-time greats as Man Ray and Helmut Newton, while anyone who is someone in “celebrity-land” has to wait in line to be portrayed by him. Still, David LaChapelle stood at the point of becoming a gardener in Hawaii. At the time, he had spent some two decades working as a fashion and celebrity photographer, and was fed up. He still is.
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