Born in Hilversum in the Netherlands in 1959, Erwin Olaf lives and works in Amsterdam since the early 80′s. His current studio is situated in a former church hall. Continue reading »
Michel Comte was born 1954 in Zurich, Switzerland. The professionally trained art restorer approached photography autodidactically. 1979 Comte received his first international advertising assignment from Karl Lagerfeld for the fashion house of Chloe and moved to Paris. Continue reading »
Based in Paris, Sofia & Mauro met in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Sofia was studying cinema while Mauro was playing music in a rock band. After moving to Paris they won the Picto prize for young fashion photographers in 2002 and held their first exhibition at “Le Palais de Tokyo” in Paris. Since then Sofia & Mauro’s imagery has been published in a number of international publications amongst them Numéro, Flair, Ten, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue… Continue reading »
Guy Aroch is a New York-based fashion and celebrity photographer, who immigrated from Israel in 1990. In 1993, Guy graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York and began working professionally. Specializing in Beauty, Fashion and Celebrity portraits, his images are considered strong, sharp and beautifully lit. Continue reading »
The thing about Hollywood stars is that they never do anything, well, remotely normal. Newlyweds Bruce Willis and wife Emma Willis pose for a set of honeymoon pics shot by Steven Klein. Like we said, they’re nothing like the usual cocktail by the Seychelles pool pics. Continue reading »
M.A.P. is a London, New York and Sydney based agency representing some of the world’s leading talent in the world of photography, styling, illustration and art direction, specialising in high quality fashion, advertising, editorial and fine art images worldwide. Continue reading »
Elene Usdin is a paris based artist who works primarily in photography. She is part of the creative collective Heartland Villa that also includes art directors Lionel Avignon and Stefan de Vivies. Usdin’s work is very diverse and includes work for commercial clients, fashion publications and herself. Many of her pieces are seemingly candid often featuring the artist herself as the subject. She also integrates lots of props and masks into her works giving them a surreal touch. Continue reading »
Growing up seeing and dancing on the stage, Maki Kawakita’s work has been inspired by Kabuki (Japanese traditional opera) theatre aesthetics, possesses it’s striking color and/or contrast, dynamic composition and the dramatic stories within the imagery. Kawakita refers to her art as “Kabuki Pop”. It’s what happens, she says, when traditional Japanese art collides with Western pop culture, forming a rich stew of styles and themes. Continue reading »
Yu Tsai has found inspiration in his multi-cultural background and his travels to Africa, Europe, Mexico, and the United States. He lives in Los Angeles and New York. His clients include V magazine, Flaunt, GQ, Harper’s, Arena, GUESS and many more. Continue reading »
Descending from a heritage of pioneering creative know-how, Miles Aldridge (born 1964 in London, son of Alan Aldridge) was bound from birth to make his own unique mark on the artistic scene.
Aldridge junior’s searing photographic vision has been long celebrated for it’s vast cinematic perspective and super-slick, gloss-licked surrealist overtones. Continue reading »
New York based fashion photographer Rony Shram knows how to make beautiful women look even more beautiful. Using shadows and light he knows exactly how to bring out the sparkle in a woman’s eye, the shine in her hair and the sheen of her skin. He has the talent to focus his lens to reveal only the qualities in a woman that as a whole give pleasure to the senses – in other words, gorgeousness. Continue reading »
A timeless softness fills those young women portraits a bit out of focus, in homes with rich colors, overburden by the tapestries omnipresence, where light itself becomes gluey in an almost palpable breathlessness, and we might better understand that weariness that seems to drive them, a form of boredom like set in a waiting stase, plunged in greenish tints like those we could find at the bottom of ponds, a liquid atmosphere dragging us along in its wake, where everything is laying down when life settles.
Photographer: Aneta Bartos. Continue reading »
Tom Hines was born and raised in Brandon, Mississippi. In an interview by Julia Vangsnes, he said fashion “must be the best thing in the world…I want it to be like the workings of the mind, different modules working, shifting, competing and harmonizing. I want to be able to jump around in motive, to leap from mode to mode. I want to do dreams, colors, myths, textures, philosophies, stories, critiques, high ideas, low ideas, however I want, the best way it feels best, or the best way I deduce it is best… Fashion is abstract.” Continue reading »
LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess from The Netherlands described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement. Continue reading »
David Jay has been shooting fashion and beauty professionally for over 10 years. His rich, sensuous images have appeared in numerous international magazines and advertising campaigns including: British Vogue, British Elle, Self, GQ, Black and White… Continue reading »
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