This photo is by Predrag Pajdic, a London-based photographer and artist originally from Croatia. He is also an art historian and curator and the founder and editor of the art photography blog “The Pandorian.” His work has been shown internationally and at solo and group exhibitions worldwide. He also writes about and lectures on contemporary art, photography and fashion. Tumblr saw fit to label this photo as mature content, which I appealed. This is a beautiful photo of a man with a butterfly and has no explicit sexual content. Go figure. Did some AI robot think this was porn? That’s one stupid robot.
Pajdic’s artwork can be found at the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He was also one of the judges for the prestigious South African contemporary art award Spier Contemporary 2007. His work has been shown internationally in various solo and group exhibitions, including: 'Delay', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2004); 'To whom it may Concern', nn Foundation for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2004); 'The Presidency', Exit Art, New York (2004); 'Memory', Salina Art Center, Salina (2004); 'Garden' Castle Vault, Southampton (2004); 'Terrorvision', Exit Art, New York (2004), 'Blackout', Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2003). In 2010, Pajdic curated Lingering Whispers, a London exhibition of 40 international artists hunting for alternative ways of expression during a worldwide economic crisis. In 2011, About 20 Victorian glass plates were discovered in an attic of a home in Texas, United States. Once cleaned from 100 years of dust, they revealed images of children from a portrait studio. Pajdic partnered with Santa Fe artist Alexandra Eldridge on a project called "There Is No Such Thing As The End," which re-imagined those images on vintage Chinese scrolls through a palimpsest of painting, printing, collage and drawing. Eldridge and Pajdic described the project as a way to bridge the world of the living with that of the dead.
His curatorial projects include Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, 2006, an exhibition of 40 international artists; Recognise, Contemporary Art Platform, London 2007, with more than 40 international artists whose work relates to the Middle East; Paranoia, The Freud Museum London, 2007; This Day, Tate Modern, London, 2007, an eight-part film program about the Middle East; and Dogma, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009, a group exhibition with international artists. In 2010 and 2011 Pajdic was The Artistic Director of The International Festival of Contemporary Arts, City of Women, which takes place every October in Ljubljana, Slovenia each year representing works of 60 influential female artists in fields of performance and visual art.
