Misaki kawai

Posted by Fabio 12 April 2011

The Japanese artist Misaki Kawai is inspired by traveling through foreign countries and by foreign cultures. She traveled to China, Tibet, Nepal, India and Thailand. Kawai’s pictures quote popular culture, the urban, consumer-oriented everyday culture, as well as nature, primal cultures and customs. She is able to bind her fragmented oeuvre together with an infallible feeling for color, material, cuteness and quirky humor.

www.misakikawai.com

ANNA KRACHEY

Posted by Fabio 8 April 2011

Anna Krachey has always been a collector and connoisseur of all sorts of objects and the online marketplace eBay has become an important source and inspiration to her work. She’s interested in Pop Culture and what the masses like, but her images always transcend their commercial sources, re-conceiving them as otherworldly and occasionally unsettling musings on matter.
www.annakrachey.com

Moby – Destroyed

Posted by Fabio 5 April 2011

Destroyed, Moby’s forthcoming new album and accompanying book of photography is set for release on May 16th, alongside an exhibition, which will take place at Proud Galleries from 18 May – 19 June. Published by Damiani, the hardback edition of Destroyed is 128 pages and features 55 photographs taken by Moby. All photographs from the book will be on display in the exhibition and are for sale. read more

Madonna and Child

Posted by Fabio 4 April 2011

A London music studio has re-created the heart-stopping moment Michael Jackson dangled his nine-month-old son from a fifth-floor Berlin hotel balcony. Madonna and Child, a life-sized sculpture of the late king of pop with baby Prince Michael II, has been installed at Premises in Hackney. Los Angeles-based artist Maria von Köhler was commissioned to create the piece, made of polyester resin, finished in acrylic and wax. It is on display until May 1 then moves to LA.

lise sarfati

Posted by Fabio 1 April 2011

Though undeniably photodocumentary in nature, Sarfati’s work is defined through an opposition to the editorial urge to fix narratives to her subjects. Her images create a loose, layered and intensely rich visual project that allows us, the viewers, to consider the complexities of any place or time, triggering emotions and thoughts that move well beyond the ostensible subjects of her photographs.
www.lisesarfati.com

Stephan Tillmans

Posted by Fabio 30 March 2011

The Luminant Point Arrays by photographer Stephan Tillmans, show tube televisions in the moment they are swithed off. The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. The breakdown of the television picture discribes the breakdown of the reference. The product is self-referential photography. read more

Vivian Maier

Posted by Fabio 29 March 2011

Vivian Maier was an American amateur street photographer who was born in New York but grew up in France, and after returning to the U.S., worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago. Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by a local historian, John Maloof, in 2007.

ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI

Posted by Fabio 28 March 2011

In 1999, Alessandra Sanguinetti began working on a series of photographs documenting the lives of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda on their family’s farm outside Buenos Aires. Cultivating an intimate relationship with the pair, Ms. Sanguinetti collaborated with the girls for the next nine years, constructing images inspired by the dreams, fantasies, and fears that accompany the psychological and physical transition from childhood to adulthood.

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