The Beautiful and the Broken

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Sigmar Polke: Eine Winterreise at David Zwirner.

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#mattcorbymusic adelaide show. Amazing! Celestial!

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Isobel Álvarez

“My work is mainly portraits with natural light. What influences me the most is Film, night scenery and neon lights wich draw my attention most of the time.”

Keep up with Isobel on her Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr.

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Jake Wood-Evans | See more of his work

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Isn’t that right

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Combining nature, love & technology to make jewelry

Kasia Wisniewski’s love for nature, love and technology is apparent in the design of her beautiful and durable line of metal jewelry products produced using 3D printing technology. Kasia continues to forge a path for her innovative brand into the hearts and minds of consumers by utilizing leading production technology combined with an eye trained in couture methods and bespoke design, proving there is a such thing as being made by hand and machine. Collected Edition is on Etsy. Posted by Chaz Mc.

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Sam Droege is Official Photographer of US Bees

Sam Droege tracks bees for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).  This work has become vital as bee populations have declined due to colony collapse.   The work of Sam Droege and his colleagues has produced these extraordinary pictures of bees and other insects.   Far from being fearsome these bees and insects become magical when viewed so close.  They shine and shimmer, revealing delicate limbs and antennae.   Sam Droege explains that, 

Once you blow [the bees] up to the size of a German shepherd and they have good hair, people start paying attention,” he says. “They’re like aliens from another world.VIA

Don’t Forget our Facebook Page -full of Aliens.  Posted by Lisa.

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Richard Stainthorp Creates Magic with Wire

Creating movement from metal wire, English Sculptor Richard Stainthorp’s creations move and live in ways that seem impossible.   His angels soar, while mere mortals fall, and mythical creatures straight from  Shakespeare’s  A Midsummer Night’s Dream flaunt their wire forms.   Why buy art?  To have a little piece of this magic.  Thanks to weezbo.com!

There’s more magic at our Facebook Page.  Posted by Lisa.

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London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation using 12,000 cut steel botanical specimens modeled from old textbook illustrations, each embedded in a thin layer of sand. On first encountering the sprawling array of plants they appear completely black, thus the installation’s title: Blackfield. However when viewed from the opposite side, a field of black turns into a wall of color.

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Charles Roussel is a french photographer living and working in NYC since 2007. His photo journal, The New York Chronicles, provides us with an intimate and compelling visual journey into The Big Apple, documenting the inhabitants of this global power and entertainment city.

I believe my “mission” as a photographer is to “report”, show different realities, put things in perspective; and the streets of NYC are the best playground I could hope for. The symptoms of our modern civilization are all here: social isolation, inequalities, hopelessness… All this in the gritty, urban environment that makes NYC so unique. That sure sounds heavy, but if you’ve ever lived in NYC, you might know what comes after the incredible energy, the parties, and the cool.

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Portraiture by Toronto-based photographer Genevieve Caron

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Amazing surreal photography by Alastair Magnaldo, contemporary photographer based in France. 

I was ten when I first discovered photography and was even then fascinated by the light that B & W prints suffused. Armed with a Voigtländer and a handheld lightmeter, I made my first steps on the long and winding road of B & W photography. Ever since, I’ve kept a vision of photography filled with light and I’ve been trying to express it in most of my compositions, occasionally using colour to improve a setting. After these inconclusive beginnings, I gave up any pretention in the art of photography and did scientific studies. I’m now a qualified physics and chemistry scientist with a PhD. I strongly favour therefore, the experimental approach to science.

Around the year 2000, I bought a scanner for negatives followed by a printer, almost a compulsive buy. By then I had understood that having perfectly mastered the technical tools during my formative years had really allowed me to become emancipated.

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JONATHAN CHERRY: What did you want to be growing up?

ROSALINE SHAHNAVAZ: For the vast majority of my childhood, I was certain that I wanted to be the 5th member of ‘No Doubt’. At school I was really into Maths. It was only when I was about fifteen that I really picked up the camera got into photography.

JC: Who or what is inspiring you at the moment?

RS: I generally find picking up the camera inspiring. The more I shoot, the more I want to make.

JC: What are you up to right now?

RS: I have a few projects under the wraps at the moment, and I’m working on a few fashion collaborations which should be coming out in the next few months. I’ve also started teaching photography part time which is going well. It’s great to work with and inspire the future generations of photographers.

JC: Have you had mentors along the way?

RS: I worked closely with Tom Hunter on my graduate work ‘Far Near Distance’. The series is a personal documentary about my cousin Sahar in Iran, which comments on the Iranian government and representation of Iranian women. The piece won two awards and was featured on HotShoe International, so I guess we did something right there. He was my tutor at LCC and I was his assistant so we had a good working relationship.

JC: Where are you based right now and how is it shaping you?

RS: I’m still based in my hometown of South London. It works well for me. It’s where my boyfriend, friends, family, uni, work, clients, favourite galleries and everything are based. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love travelling and would maybe like to live elsewhere for a year or so but I’ll always come back home.

JC: One piece of advice to photography graduates?

RS: Keep working and keep shooting.

JC: If all else fails - what is your plan B?

RS: There’s no plan B.

JC: Is it important to you to be a part of a creative community?

RS: Definitely. I miss spending my life in the LCC darkrooms. We had such a good time working together. We’re still all in touch and always supporting each others work.

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Art or Photography ? High Fashion Fantasy from the great Patrizio Di Renzo

At the beginning of the nineties, Di Renzo leaves Italy to have first experiences in the field of fashion photography. Amongst others, he works in Istanbul for fashion magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and Elle. In 2001, Di Renzo returns to Switzerland for a short time to work as an advertising and fashion photographer. A few years later, his work draws the attention of fashion designer Tsumori Chisato who commissions him for an international campaign as well as a store concept. During this period, Di Renzo – who in the meantime has moved to New York/Los Angeles – takes up work on his first book of photographs, „Portraits of Illusions“. The photo book tells short stories with pictures taken, amongst others, in Ireland, New York, and the Seychelles. The photos intentionally drift away from reality - Di Renzo’s motto being: Move away from Realism. The book is published by Assouline in 2006, with a preface by critic Gabriel Bauret. During this time, Di Renzo works with, amongst others, Devon Aoki, Chloë Sevigny, Natalia Vodianova, Dean&Dan (DSQUARED).

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This week on our Design and Violence blog, singer/songwriter and activist Angélique Kidjo writes about Amnesty International’s female genital mutilation awareness campaign. 

[Volontaire (est. 2009) for Amnesty International (est. 1961). Creatives: Malin Åkersten Triumf (Swedish, b. 1976), Yasin Lekorchi (Swedish, b. 1973). Photo: Niklas Alm (Swedish, b. 1986)/Vostro. FGM rose poster. 2009. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy of Volontaire. This poster was created for Amnesty International to use for free, worldwide, in campaigning against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)]